Oil & Gas

Summit Brings Together 25 Indigenous Nations For Resistance

June 11, 2015 Fionuala Cregan, www.intercontinentalcry.org Resist! Argentina, Indigenous People, Land Rights, Oil & Gas

By Fionuala Cregan in Intercontinental Cry - From May 27-29, 2014, Indigenous leaders from across Argentina’s 17 provinces met in Buenos Aires and presented dramatic testimonies of human rights violations and dispossession from their ancestral lands. In all corners of the country, these Indigenous Peoples have found themselves at the forefront of the battle against oil and gas exploration, fracking, mining, hydroelectric dams and deforestation for soy cultivation. As they defend the environment and their ancestral territories, many have suffered death threats, judicial harassment and other forms of persecution. Solidarity was expressed in particular with two emblematic cases – the Mapuche community Winkul Newen and the inter-ethnic organization QOPIWINI.

Seattle’s Best From Lawrence Lessig To sHellno

June 11, 2015 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Educate! Internet, Oil & Gas, Seattle, sHellNo!, TPP

By Eleanor Goldfield in Occupy - This week we’re bringing you Seattle’s Best, on land and on sea, starting with the Seattle premiere of the documentary "Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet," where Lawrence Lessig and Marianne Williamson talked money in politics to a packed Town Hall. Next up, #ShellNo continued their fight against the Arctic Destroyer, this time with the help of a seahorse, an Arctic Angel and a solar-powered barge. Finally, this could be the week that the House votes on Fast Track, the fast forward button for corporate trade deals. We’ll give you tools to help stop this train wreck as artist Stephanie McMillan gives you inspiration to keep fighting. @ActOutOnOccupy facebook.com/ActOutOnOccupy occupy.com/actout

Oil Trains Don’t Have To Derail To Be Hazardous, Doctors Warn

June 11, 2015 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org Educate! Oil & Gas, Oil Trains, Public Health, Transportation

By Dahr Jamail in Truthout - In May, hundreds of doctors, nurses and health-care professionals from Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) called on Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to take a stronger position against proposed oil-by-rail shipping terminals in their respective states, in order to insure the health and physical security of families and communities there. Washington PSR describes itself as a group that promotes "peace and health for the human community and the global ecosystem by empowering members, citizens and policy makers to develop and model for the rest of the nation socially just and life-enhancing policies regarding nuclear issues, climate change, environmental toxins, vulnerable populations and other risks to human health." The group has sounded the alarm over what it sees as a direct health threat to the country stemming from the oil-by-rail system.

Destroying This Nation: Magical Tour Of American Austerity Politics

June 10, 2015 Laura Gottesdiener, Eduardo García, www.commondreams.org Educate! Austerity, Michigan, Oil & Gas

By Laura Gottesdiener, Eduardo García in Common Dreams - Something is rotten in the state of Michigan. One city neglected to inform its residents that its water supply was laced with cancerous chemicals. Another dissolved its public school district and replaced it with a charter school system, only to witness the for-profit management company it hired flee the scene after determining it couldn’t turn a profit. Numerous cities and school districts in the state are now run by single, state-appointed technocrats, as permitted under an emergency financial manager law pushed through by Rick Snyder, Michigan’s austerity-promoting governor.

ShellNo! Protestors Locked Down At Port Of Seattle Need You!

June 10, 2015 Back Bone Campaign, www.campaign.r20.constantcontact.com Resist! Oil & Gas, Seattle, sHellNo!

By Back Bone Campaign - Early this morning activists set up and deployed a range of technical blockades outside entrances to the port using U-locks, chains, lockboxes, rocking chairs, and other devices. Every entrance of the port was shut down, effectively stopping work on the rig. To sustain this bold action, we need YOU! Come on down and join us right now for an inspiring blockade. Bring your camera, musical instruments, banners, and passion for justice. As we all know, time is of the essence when it comes to stopping the Polar Polluter and its evil twin, the Noble Destroyer. "Shell only has until the end of June to make it up to the Arctic in time to drill this summer. We want to stop them from leaving," said Blaine Doherty, who is sitting in the road chained to another Seattle resident.

Fracking Returns, But Denton Vows To Keep Fighting

June 6, 2015 Zahra Hirji, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Denton, Environment, Fracking, Law, Oil & Gas

By Zahra Hirji in Inside Climate News - Two weeks after Denton's fracking ban was rendered illegal by a sweeping new state law restricting local control of oil-and-gas activities, residents of the north Texas town are frustrated, upset and conflicted about how best to respond. Emotions were on display at this week's Denton City Council meeting, where more than 30 people weighed in on whether the city should repeal the ban. Following the public's advice, the seven-member council decided against repealing the ban—for now—after more than five hours of testimony and discussion. "Fracking is happening right now in our community, again, and it's pretty clear that in our community, people do not want fracking to happen," said Ron Seifert, a Denton resident and environmental activist, to the council. "So my question is: What is the city prepared to do to follow through with the will of the people here?"

Dept. Of Interior Forced To Reveal Extent Of Fracking In Gulf

June 4, 2015 Mike Ludwig, www.truth-out.org Educate! Animal Rights, Environment, Fracking, Oil & Gas

By Mike Ludwig in Truthout - The US Department of the Interior must reveal records on the use of fracking technology in the Gulf of Mexico under a legal settlement with an environmental group filed in federal court on June 1. The settlement requires the two agencies that regulate offshore oil and gas production in federal waters to release documents on fracking in the Gulf over a nine-month period, beginning in July. The Center for Biological Diversity originally requested the records more than eight months ago under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Once released, the records will also help satisfy a separate FOIA request for Gulf fracking permits filed by Truthout in November 2014. "Offshore fracking has been shrouded in secrecy, but this settlement will finally force the government to tell us where oil companies are using this toxic technique," said Kristen Monsell, a Center attorney.

Great Lakes Citizens Rally For Clean Energy For Wildlife

June 4, 2015 Cathy Collentine, www.tarsandsresistance.org Resist! Animal Rights, Canada, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands, usa

By Cathy Collentine by Tar Sands Resistance - On June 6, thousands will gather in the Twins Cities to express concern over expanded tar sands transportation through the Great Lakes region. Too much toxic and nearly impossible to clean up tar sands oil is already entering our region. The area has seen ill effects like the massive 2010 spill into the Kalamazoo River and piles of dirty, polluting coal-like petroleum coke piling up near refineries. With the U.S. State Department giving backroom approval for a near doubling of the amount of tar sands entering the region primarily along the Alberta Clipper line, it’s time for a clean energy future. People are demanding that no new tar sands enter the region until a transparent, public review process takes place, and cleaner solutions are considered and advanced.

BLM Approves Carbon Bomb Bigger Than KXL: More Wyoming Coal

June 4, 2015 Emerson Urry, www.environews.tv Educate! Energy, Environment, Oil & Gas

By Emerson Urry in EnviroNews - The Obama Administration has finally done it. They have approved an even bigger carbon bomb than what would be created by the bitumen that would flow through the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline should it be ultimately approved. More Powder River Basin coal. Lots more. Although it’s debatable on how much carbon could be ultimately released if Alberta’s tar sands were exploited to the max, it would be hard for them to get 16.9 billion metric tons of that carbon south, down the Keystone XL pipeline and through America. That’s how much carbon-release was just okayed by the Bureau of Land Management in a recent move — 16.9 billion tons — the equivalency of about 1/33 the amount of CO2 released by humans since the dawn of the industrial age.

Protesters Arrested At Denton Drilling Site As Fracking Resumes

June 4, 2015 Max B. Baker, www.star-telegram.com Resist! Law, Oil & Gas, Politics

By Max B. Baker in Star Telegram - Three protesters opposed to the resumption of hydraulic fracturing in Denton were arrested early Monday after blocking the entrance to a natural gas well site. Adam Briggle, Tara Linn Hunter and Nikki Chochrek were arrested without incident shortly before 8 a.m. after staging a sit-in that blocked the entrance of the well site operated by Vantage Energy in northwest Denton. About 20 other protesters had gathered at the site. Vantage became the first company to resume drilling in Denton after Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill last month that outlaws prohibitions against hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” such as the ban passed by Denton voters in November. “It just became obvious that we had exhausted all legal means to block fracking and that this unjust law is being forced on a community that voted it out,” said Hunter, who along with Chochrek is a member of the musical group The Frackettes.

Companies Fight Back Against Protesters With Financial Pressure

June 4, 2015 Sarah Alvarez, www.npr.org Resist! Activism, Civil Disobedience, Money, Oil & Gas

By Sarah Alvarez in NPR - "We were picketing in front of where they parked all their construction vehicles, and then my co-defendant and I stopped a truck and we locked our necks to the truck with U-locks that you use like for a bicycle," he says. Firefighters came and cut the locks. Both the protest and the detaching took about 90 minutes. Tarr and one other young man were arrested and charged with trespass — they expected that. What they didn't expect was that the company, Precision Pipeline, would use Michigan's crime victim restitution laws to assess charges to make up for the value of equipment and workers idled during their protest. Tarr now owes more than $39,000. That's twice as much in restitution as he owes in student loans.

Landowners Form A Pipeline Rebellion In The Deep South

June 4, 2015 Jenny Jarvie, www.latimes.com Resist! Environment, Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Oil Pipeline, Texas

By Jenny Jarvie in LA Times - When the letter arrived from a Texas pipeline company asking permission to enter his land, Alan Zipperer refused to allow surveyors onto his property. But they came anyway, he said, traipsing through his corn fields and pine forests and sticking wooden stakes in the low-country land his family has owned since the 1700s. "I don't want a private company to build a gasoline pipeline in my front yard — or anywhere on my property," he said. Zipperer, 60, is one of many Southern landowners challenging the nation's largest energy infrastructure company, Kinder Morgan, as it plans to run a petroleum pipeline through 360 miles of bottom land, river forests and freshwater coastal wetlands across South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

Confronting Irving Oil & TransCanada In New Brunswick

June 3, 2015 Clayton Thomas-Muller, www.ricochet.media Resist! Environment, First Nations, Oil & Gas, Oil Pipeline

By Clayton Thomas-Muller in Ricochet - Just like Northern Gateway, Trans Mountain, or Keystone XL, Energy East would be a climate disaster. Just like those pipelines, Energy East has provided a direct path for Indigenous rights and climate justice organizers to unite communities in struggle against the ambitions of the Harper government and the tar sands sector. One area of concern is the community of Red Head in Saint John, N.B., located on the traditional territory of the Wolastoq Nation, where the Energy East pipeline would end at the shore of the Bay of Fundy. In partnership with the Peace and Friendship Alliance, a group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous allies formed to oppose the pipeline, the local Red Head - Anthony’s Cove Preservation Association organized a march for May 30 to let the world know that they are not going to stand by and let TransCanada and local oil giant Irving threaten their way of life.

11 Actions In 10 Days To Build People Power & ‘Stop The #FERCus’

June 2, 2015 Ted Glick, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Cove Point, Environment, FERC, Law, Oil & Gas

By Ted Glick in Ecowatch - “Stop the #FERCus” was the theme of the 10 days of action in Washington, DC and Calvert County, Maryland, which ended yesterday, and that was the main focus, no doubt about it, but it was about so much more. These 10 days of action and organizing were all about building community—a community taking action and interacting with one another and with others in a way which builds people power. 45 years ago when I was young and new to progressive activism, “building power” wasn’t a phrase I remember hearing. “Taking power” was, however.

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