Oil & Gas

Climate Change: UN Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign

March 17, 2015 Damian Carrington, www.theguardian.com Resist! Divesment, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Oil & Gas

The UN organisation in charge of global climate change negotiations is backing the fast-growing campaign persuading investors to sell off their fossil fuel assets. It said it was lending its “moral authority” to the divestment campaign because it shared the ambition to get a strong deal to tackle global warming at a crunch UN summit in Paris in December. “We support divestment as it sends a signal to companies, especially coal companies, that the age of ‘burn what you like, when you like’ cannot continue,” said Nick Nuttall, the spokesman for the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC). The move is likely to be controversial as the economies of many nations at the negotiating table heavily rely on coal, oil and gas.

Professor Called By RCMP: Took Photos Near Kinder Morgan Site

March 16, 2015 On The Coast, www.cbc.ca Resist! Climate Change, Law, Oil & Gas, Police

A B.C. climate change scientist says he got an "intimidating" call from RCMP because he had taken pictures on Burnaby Mountain near the site of a proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. Tim Takaro, a health sciences professor at SFU, says he was having lunch in Tofino with his family on Wednesday when his daughter's cellphone rang. When she answered it, she was told it was the Burnaby RCMP calling and they were looking for her father. "I was very upset that he had called my daughter and that he was basically threatening, intimidating on the phone," says Takaro. He says the officer asked him if he had recently had been taking photos near a Trans Mountain pipeline work site on Burnaby Mountain.

14 Arrested In Citizens’ Protest Against Climate Change Denial

March 14, 2015 Blue Skies Campaign, www.blueskiesmt.com Resist! Climate Change, Keystone XL, Oil & Gas

This morning members of 350-Missoula, Blue Skies Campaign, and CAJA3 (Community Action for Justice in the Americas, Africa, and Asia) held a sit-in at the Missoula office of Senator Steve Daines to protest the senator’s denial of climate change science and his support for fossil fuel projects like coal exports, the Otter Creek Coal Mine, and the Keystone XL pipeline. Fourteen people were arrested for refusing to leave Daines’ office in a peaceful act of civil disobedience, while around seventy supporters stood outside holding protest signs. “We are here today because we want our elected representatives to stop greenlighting harmful industries such as coal exports and the Keystone XL pipeline, and to support renewable energy and a clean, sustainable economy,” said Meaghan Browne from Butte.

Environmental Groups Align To Challenge FERC Pipeline Projects

March 13, 2015 Michael M. Barrick, www.appalachianchronicle.com Resist! Environmental Justice, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania, Pipeline, Water

The Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition (OVEC) and three other environmental groups based in other Appalachian states have joined forces to challenge the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for not properly informing the public regarding the construction of proposed natural gas pipelines throughout the region. The alliance includes: Huntington-based OVEC; the Allegheny Defense Project in Pennsylvania; the FreshWater Accountability Project in Ohio; and, Virginia-based Wild Virginia. In a news release, the alliance stated, “The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is not informing the public about the big picture when it comes to natural gas infrastructure projects related to increased gas drilling in the Marcellus and Utica shale formations.”

North Carolina Fines Duke Energy For Coal Ash Water Contamination

March 12, 2015 Bruce Henderson, www.charlotteobserver.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Law, Oil & Gas

The state-record $25 million fine North Carolina’s environmental agency filed Tuesday penalized Duke Energy for years of groundwater contamination. Ash elements found in test wells around the Sutton power plant in Wilmington had broken state standards for as many as five years, state documents say. Duke acknowledged contamination problems at Sutton in late 2013, when it agreed to pay up to $1.8 million for a water line to a low-income community near the plant. The fine is the state’s largest for environmental damage, quadrupling the $5.7 million levied as part of a 1986 air-quality case.

Citizen Journalist Operating Frack Tours Bullied Yet Undaunted

March 12, 2015 Maura Stephens, www.truth-out.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Fracking, Oil & Gas

Many people have claimed to have played a pivotal role in getting New York governor Andrew Cuomo to "ban" fracking, and although the "ban" is more of an extension of a temporary moratorium, it took the hard work of many thousands of activists, both sung and unsung. One person who can rightly claim to have done more than her fair share is Vera Scroggins, retiree, citizen journalist and dedicated "Northeast Pennsylvania frack tour" operator. As a member of Shaleshock Media Alliance, she has posted countless hours of videotaped interviews, fracking operations footage, hearings, meetings, rallies and protests, often accompanied by her own sometimes-amusing commentary.

Oil Train Derails, Leaks Into Waterway

March 10, 2015 Jeffrey Hodgson, www.dispatch.com Educate! Canada, Environment, Oil & Gas, Oil Train

A Canadian National Railway train carrying crude oil derailed near the northern Ontario community of Gogama, with multiple cars on fire and some oil leaking into a waterway, the company said yesterday. There were no injuries reported from the derailment, Canadian National’s second in the region in just three days and third in less than a month. The railway said a bridge over a waterway had been damaged and five tank cars had landed in the water, with some on fire. “CN emergency responders are acquiring booms to contain crude-oil movements in the waterway,” CN spokesman Mark Hallman said in an email, adding that initial indications were that the waterway does not supply drinking water to Gogama.

Exploding Trains And Crude Oil

March 10, 2015 John Flanders, www.counterpunch.org Educate! Environment, Oil & Gas, Oil Trains, Safety

On the eve of the first conference bringing together rail workers and environmentalists in Richmond, California, we’ve had one oil train after another go off the tracks and explode. The latest was in Ontario, Canada. According to a news report, “Ontario Provincial Police said the derailment happened near Gogama, Ont., around 2:45 a.m. Saturday morning, with some of the cars catching fire and others falling into the Mattagami River.” Environmentalists around the country have been protesting the “bomb trains” for several years now, but the 100 car unit trains are continuing to roll through hill and dale, towns and cities. Over a hundred years of the rail carriers influence in the halls of government make sure of this, up to now.

Rally Against Oil Trains’ Threat To Water

March 9, 2015 John Seasly, www.northjersey.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas, Oil Trains, Safety

In the wake of a spate of derailments nationwide, more than 100 protesters rallied near the Oradell Reservoir on Saturday, speaking out against the oil trains that pass across that mainstay of the region’s water supply. Every week, an estimated 15 to 30 trains carry as much as 3.6 million gallons of volatile crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota through eastern Bergen County. The line, which is owned by the transportation company CSX, passes through 11 Bergen County municipalities and across a neck of the reservoir, which is the water supply for 750,000 people in Bergen and Hudson counties. Coincidentally, a train carrying crude oil derailed in northern Ontario early Saturday, causing numerous tank cars to catch fire and spill into a river system, authorities in the Canadian province said.

Utilities Wage Campaign Against Rooftop Solar

March 9, 2015 JoWarrick, www.washingtonpost.com Educate! Environment, Oil & Gas, Solar Energy

Three years ago, the nation’s top utility executives gathered at a Colorado resort to hear warnings about a grave new threat to operators of America’s electric grid: not superstorms or cyberattacks, but rooftop solar panels. Three years ago, the nation’s top utility executives gathered at a Colorado resort to hear warnings about a grave new threat to operators of America’s electric grid: not superstorms or cyberattacks, but rooftop solar panels. SolarCraft workers install solar panels on the roof of a home in San Rafael, Calif. According to a report by the Solar Foundation, the solar industry employs more workers than the coal-mining industry.

College Town Cuts Ties With TransCanada Over Keystone XL

March 7, 2015 Anastasia Pantsios, www.ecowatch.com Create! Climate Change, Environment, Keystone XL, Oil & Gas

The battle over building the Keystone XL pipeline is having an impact far from its proposed route. One of those places is the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, home to Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a city of 100,000 known for its educated and engaged citizens. The city currently purchases the electricity that powers its municipal buildings from TransCanada, Keystone XL’s parent company. But now its city council has passed a unanimous resolution advising city manager Richard Rossi not to do business with the company once its current contract expires at the end of 2015 and to look at acquiring the city’s electricity from clean, renewable sources. The measure was sponsored by councillor Dennis Carlone.

Refinery Strike Is Not Just About Safety – It’s About Pollution

March 7, 2015 Mike Ludwig, www.truth-out.org Educate! Environment, Labor Unions, Oil & Gas, Safety

"Our focus is on health and safety; it's not wages at all," said USW spokeswoman Lynne Hancock. Thousands of accidents are reported at refineries across the country every year, but typically only make headlines when workers die or when plumes of pollution spew across neighboring communities. Such disasters have been occurring on a yearly basis. The USW, which bargains on behalf of 30,000 workers at 65 refineries and hundreds of petrochemical facilities, blames working conditions and employment policies at refineries for the industry's alarming safety record. The union wants to put an end to unsafe staffing levels, long shifts that lead to fatigue, and the industry's habit of replacing union workers with inexperienced contractors, among other injurious practices. When the industry balked at initial proposals in mid-February, the USW accused employers of being more interested in profits than safety.

Indigenous Leaders Speak Out Against Maritime ‘Energy East’

March 3, 2015 Miles Howe, www.halifax.mediacoop.ca Resist! Indigenous Rights, Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Pipelines

If Indigenous voices in the Maritimes had up until now been relatively silent in publicly opposing TransCanada's 'Energy East' pipeline, on Monday, February 23rd, a cross-sectional panel of Indigenous grassroots leaders spoke collectively, and firmly, against TransCanada's latest and largest proposed pipeline to date. Their message was simple and clear: The pipeline will not pass through the Maritimes, and they are prepared to name and out Indigenous collaborators with TransCanada. Ron Tremblay, a member of Negutkuk (Tobique) First Nation and a member of the Wolustuk (Malicete) Grand Council, likened the process in front of Indigenous grassroots leaders to turning over a large rock on a sunny day and watching the insects scatter from the sunlight.

Fracking Opponents Feel Police Pressure In Some Drilling Hotspots

March 2, 2015 Marie Cusick, www.npr.org Resist! Fracking, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania

Wendy Lee, an anti-fracking activist and philosophy professor at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, has always protested peacefully. So she was stunned last winter when a state trooper came to her home to ask her about eco-terrorism and pipe bombs. The trooper was investigating an alleged trespassing incident that involved Lee and two other activists visiting a gas compressor in Pennsylvania's Lycoming County in June 2013. Lee says they stayed on a public road and left when security guards told them to go away. Lee was never charged with anything and believes the trooper's visit was intended simply to intimidate her. "They're clearly there to send the message that they protect the industry," she says. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been controversial in the U.S. since the business began to boom.

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