Oil & Gas

FANG Locks Themselves To Gate Of Fracked Gas Facility

August 20, 2015 Bill Rappleye, www.turnto10.com Resist! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas, Oil Pipeline

By Bill Rappleye in Turn To 10 - Two protesters were cut from a gate in Burrillville early Thursday morning and charged with trespass and disorderly conduct. The two environmentalists were trying to disrupt construction on the Algonquin pipeline, owned by Spectra Energy. One is a physics professor at the University of Rhode Island, Peter Nightingale. He said there has to be more of a commitment to alternative energy and that burning natural gas is dooming our planet. "We are destroying the environment, for our generation and for future generations," Nightingale said. He was arrested before protesting outside the office of U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. His fellow protester is Dr. Curtis Nordgaard.

Shell Oil Faces Long Odds With Arctic Drilling

August 18, 2015 Tony Doukupil, www.msnbc.com Resist! Arctic drilling, Environment, Oil & Gas, shell

By Tony Doukupil in MSNBC - President Obama is days away from championing his climate change agenda during a landmark visit to Alaska, a region he’s called “the front lines” of climate change. But on Monday his administration seemed to move in a starkly different direction, giving Shell permission to drill for actual oil beneath the Arctic Ocean — a move that activists and many scientists say will only hasten the region’s slow burn. A newly modified permit, issued by an obscure division of the Interior Department, gives the company a chance to drill a well before the mandatory end of its drilling season on September 28. It’s a major milestone, which has taken more than 10 years and $7 billion to achieve.

Anti-fracking Activists Discuss Their Arrest

August 17, 2015 Steve Ahlquist, www.rifuture.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, Environment, Fracking, Oil & Gas

By Steve Ahlquist in RI Future - The two activists who chained themselves to a gate at theSpectra pipeline project site Thursday morning were released that afternoon from District Court on $1000 personal recognizance pending an August 25th court date. Peter Nightingale, a physics professor from the University of Rhode Island and Dr. Curtis Nordgaard, a pediatrician from Massachusetts left the courthouse in good spirits. Those tasked with disentangling the activists from the gate they had locked themselves to were for the most part respectful and took care not to harm them, said Nightingale. The point of the action is to call attention to the dangers of fracked gas, and the terrible effect such extraction has on the planet’s climate. Nordgaard reflected on his privilege, which kept him from facing the worst aspects of his short time in jail and guaranteed his good treatment at the hands of the police.

Activists Arrested In Burrillville, Protesting Gas Expansion Project

August 17, 2015 Bob Plain, www.rifuture.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, Oil & Gas

By Bob Plain in RI Future - Police arrested two environmental activists arrested this morning who were protesting a methane gas pipeline project in Burrillville, Rhode Island, by chaining themselves to a gate at the project site. Peter Nightingale, a University of Rhode Island physics professor and occasional RI Future contributor, and Curt Nordgaard, a pediatrician from Massachusetts, were both arrested according to Fighting Against Natural Gas, of FANG, the grassroots group of activists who have been calling attention to the Algonquin pipeline project that would cut through northern Rhode Island. “I’m taking action today because as a parent and a being pediatrician compels me to use any and all nonviolent means to stop this project,” said Nordgaard in a prepared statement.

Protesters Storm Open-Pit Coal Mine In Western Germany

August 17, 2015 CT Post, www.AP.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, Germany, Mining, Oil & Gas

By Associated Press - Environmental activists have stormed a lignite mine in western Germany to protest the use of coal, a major source of greenhouse gases. The German news agency dpa reports that several hundred people from a group calling itself EndeGelaende — which loosely translates as "it's finished now" — broke through a police line in Garzweiler, west of Cologne. Police spokesman Anton Hamacher says officers used pepper spray to stop the crowd and are removing protesters from the site. A spokesman for German energy company RWE says several huge bucket-wheel excavators used at the open-pit mine had to be shut down for safety reasons. Spokesman Lothar Lambertzsays RWE has canceled plans to bring employees onto the site to rally in favor of coal mining.

Fireball Explodes In Man’s Face, Sues Nearby Fracking Companies

August 14, 2015 Samantha Page, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! health, Methane, Oil & Gas

By Samantha Page in Think Progress - A Texas man is suing a group of fracking companies after burns from a methane explosion near his house allegedly hospitalized him for a week, burned his family, and caused permanent damage. Cody Murray, 38, and his father, wife, and four-year-old daughter were all burned by a “fireball” after methane built up in his pump house and exploded when Murray entered the shed to check on a water issue. The lawsuit, filed last week against EOG Resources, Fairway Resources LLC, and three subsidiaries of Fairway, alleges the methane was from the defendants’ fracking wells just 1,000 feet from Murray’s house, which sits 35 miles outside Fort Worth.

New Clinton Emails Reveal Revolving Door Corruption

August 14, 2015 Educate! Corruption, Hillary Clinton, Mexico, Oil & Gas, Wars and Militarism

Emails released on July 31 by the U.S. State Department reveal more about the origins of energy reform efforts in Mexico. The State Department released them as part of the once-a-month rolling release schedule for emails generated by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, now a Democratic presidential candidate. Originally stored on a private server, with Clinton and her closest advisors using the server and private accounts, the emails confirm Clinton's State Department helped to break state-owned company Pemex's (Petroleos Mexicanos) oil and gas industry monopoly in Mexico, opening up the country to international oil and gas companies. And two of the Coordinators helping to make it happen, both of whom worked for Clinton, now work in the private sector and stand to gain financially from the energy reforms they helped create.

The Big Reason Why America Is Turning To Renewable Energy

August 13, 2015 Tara Lohan, www.alternet.org Educate! Energy, Finance and the Economy, Oil & Gas, Renewable Energy

By Tara Lohan in Alternet - Deborah Lawrence had been watching a once-empty parking lot near Midland-Odessa, Texas, fill up with idled drilling rigs usually at work plumbing for oil in the nearby Permian Basin. In January she noticed 10 rigs, then 17 a few weeks later. As winter turned to spring, the number climbed to 35. That trend has continued across the country. By the end of July, the nationwide rig count had slipped 54 percent since the same time a year ago, indicating distress in the oil and gas industry. The most obvious culprit is the precipitous drop in crude prices. But the trouble goes deeper, as Lawrence knows — and she isn’t just a casual observer. Lawrence is a former Wall Street financial consultant who now runs the Energy Policy Forum, helping to identify and analyze trends in the industry. Right now, our fossil-fueled energy path has us on a roller-coaster ride and we are plunging, white knuckled.

U.S. Wind Energy Boom Coming At A Perfect Time

August 12, 2015 Chris Mooney, www.washingtonpost.com Create! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas, Wind

By Chris Mooney in The Washington Post - The Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, released last week, requires the country to use a lot more renewable energy by the year 2030 — and a lot less coal. And right on time, two new reports published Monday by the Department of Energy find that one key renewable sector — wind — is booming, a development that can only help matters when it comes to reducing carbon emissions. The reports being released — including the 2014 Wind Technologies Market Report, published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — suggest that wind is being installed at a rapid rate, that its costs are plummeting, that its technologies are advancing, and that it is creating a growing number of jobs to boot. Wind energy in the U.S. is now at 66 gigawatts of installed capacity, according to the report — providing roughly 5 percent of total U.S. electricity demand. 66 gigawatts is enough electricity to power 17.5 million homes (a gigawatt is a billion watts).

Tar Sands Protesters On Tripods Arrested In Uintah County

August 12, 2015 Jennifer Dobner, www.sltrib.com Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands, Utah

By Jennifer Dobner in The Salt Lake Tribune - Four activists reportedly were arrested in Utah's Book Cliffs on Monday during a protest against the planned expansion of a tar sands mine, which the group argues could do significant damage to regional water resources in the Colorado River watershed area. Peaceful Uprising announced the arrests on its website and through Twitter on Monday and said police officers from two state agencies and sheriff's offices in Grand and Uintah counties were involved in the arrests. It wasn't immediately clear if the individuals were taken into custody or cited and released by police. On Monday, protesters suspended themselves from metal tripods to block site-clearing work underway at PR Spring, where the East Tavaputs Plateau straddles the Grand and Uintah county lines. Officers reportedly used a cherry picker to remove them.

Coal, Oil, Gas: None Shall Pass

August 6, 2015 Daphne Wysham, www.otherwords.org Resist! Arctic drilling, Oil & Gas

By Daphne Wysham in Other Words - According to the Department of Interior, there’s a 75 percent chance of a spill once Arctic drilling commences. Though Shell claims otherwise, a spill there could be impossible to contain. Moreover, drilling in the virgin Arctic means tapping into oil reserves that scientists say we must leave in the ground to avoid irreversible climate change. Rappaport did pull it together. His spectacular photos ended up on the Rachel Maddow Show and elsewhere. But he was a changed man. The Fennica fight was only the latest in a growing movement across the Northwest. With little to no activist experience, people like Rappaport are stepping forward to block new gas pipelines, along with coal, oil, and gas export terminals. They’re even attempting to stop theaccident-prone trains hauling thousands of barrels of fracked crude oil across vast distances in their tracks. We call this emerging people-powered resistance movement “Blockadia.” A well-known banner hung from another Portland bridge sums it up: “Coal, Oil, Gas: None shall pass.”

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Not The Transformation We Need

August 5, 2015 Michael Grunwald, www.politico.com Educate! Environment, Obama, Oil & Gas

By Michael Grunwald in Politico - Just about everyone seems to agree that President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan is an “ambitious” effort to rein in the electric sector’s carbon emissions. There’s intense debate whether it’s good-ambitious, a “sweeping” and “groundbreaking” effort to fight pollution and climate change, or bad-ambitious, a “draconian” and “job-killing” assault on the coal industry that will jack up America’s utility bills. But it’s been taken for granted on both sides that the Environmental Protection Agency’s draft regulations, expected to be finalized this summer, would smash the status quo. Actually, they’re pretty weak. This is partly because the Obama administration, understandably, wants the first-ever U.S. carbon limits to survive legal challenges, and to maintain enough political support to prevent Congress from shredding them.

International Fracktivists Converge In Basque Country

August 3, 2015 Steve Rushton, www.occupy.com Resist! Basque Country, Fracking, Oil & Gas

By Steve Rushton in Occupy - “This is the first time fracking activists have got together on this scale internationally – it has been incredible to meet people from struggles across the world, activists from Kurdistan to Brazil, from Ukraine to Portugal and Algeria," says Catriona, from Ireland, who attended Frackanpada held earlier this month in the Basque Country of Spain. Communities across both the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland are actively resisting efforts to frack for oil, Catriona said. But what this event showed her is that "it is a truly international [fight], united in our common struggle.” At Frackanpada, the world's first international anti-fracking camp that took place in mid-July, hundreds of activists from across the globe joined skill shares, attended panel discussions and watched documentaries dedicated to strategies and campaigns in resistance to fracking.

‘Bold, Cultural Revolution’ Comes To Portland

August 3, 2015 Patrick Mazza, www.cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com Resist! Arctic, Environment, Oil & Gas, sHellNo!

By Patrick Mazza in Cascadia Planet - The climbers and kayaktavists in both Portland and Seattle actions exhibited in the most profound way possible the meaning of “a bold, cultural revolution” against “the dominant technocratic paradigm.” They put their bodies and lives in the path of massive machines that could not more acutely represent that paradigm and its global insanity – The third largest corporation in the world, whose own projections show catastrophic global warming of 4°C, furthering that scenario by continuing to expand the fossil fuel frontier and doing it in a region where warming-driven ice melt makes it more possible, the Arctic. To even have a chance of holding warming below the standard safety barrier of 2°C, most fossil reserves must be kept in the ground including all Arctic gas and oil, a new study in Nature concludes.

Anishinaabe Water Walk To United Treaty 3 Against Pipeline

August 3, 2015 Idle No More, www.idlenomore.ca Resist! Community, Environment, Indigenous People, Oil & Gas, Pipeline, Resistance

By Idle No More - On August 2, 2015, nearly two dozen (or more) Anishinaabe Women and Men, Youth and Elders will be joined by supporters in a week-long walk against the Energy East Pipeline. The walk will cover more than 125 km of TransCanada’s proposed pipeline route where it crosses and threatens more than a dozen waterways in Treaty 3 Territory. The Anishinaabe Water Walk is organized by Grassroots Indigenous Water Defence (GIWD). What: The Anishinaabe Water Walk is a week-long walk along the route of the proposed TransCanada Energy East Pipeline project, to protect the waters of Treaty 3 Territories. When: Sunday August 2 to Saturday August 8, 2015. Where: Highway 17, Eagle Lake to Shoal Lake, Ontario, Treaty 3.

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