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Climate Resistance Breaks Free From Fossil Fuels

May 15, 2016 Rising Tide of North America, risingtidenorthamerica.org , , , , , ,
From Rising Tide of North America. Below is a live blog of tweets reporting on the Break Free protests. For the past week, across the world people have been standing up to power of the fossil fuel industry. Rising Tide North America will be sharing live updates from Break Free actions through the weekend. Tweet from the United States, Canada, Germany and Ecuador. People came on land and on the water. The protested refineries, coal, coal trains and carbon infrastructure. People used banners, processions, sit-ins and tripods -- and more. The global uprising across the world called for humanity to break fee from fossil fuels.

Oil Industry Bankruptcies Rival Tech Bubble Burst

May 5, 2016 Ernest Scheyder and Terry Wade, www.reuters.com ,
By Ernest Scheyder and Terry Wade for Reuters - The rout in crude prices is snowballing into one of the biggest avalanches in the history of corporate America, with 59 oil and gas companies now bankrupt after this week's filings for creditor protection by Midstates Petroleum and Ultra Petroleum. The number of U.S. energy bankruptcies is closing in on the staggering 68 filings seen during the depths of the telecom bust of 2002 and 2003, according to Reuters data, the law firm Haynes & Boone and bankruptcydata.com.

Why The Arabs Don’t Want Us In Syria

April 1, 2016 Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, www.politico.eu , ,
By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr for Politico - In part because my father was murdered by an Arab, I’ve made an effort to understand the impact of U.S. policy in the Mideast and particularly the factors that sometimes motivate bloodthirsty responses from the Islamic world against our country. As we focus on the rise of the Islamic State and search for the source of the savagery that took so many innocent lives in Paris and San Bernardino, we might want to look beyond the convenient explanations of religion and ideology.

Guest Column: Time To Stop New Oil Leases Off Coast

March 23, 2016 Anne Rolfes and Cherri Foytlin, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Anne Rolfes and Cherri Foytlin for The Advocate - On Wednesday, we are going to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome to put forth an idea to help Louisiana and the Gulf region adapt to changes that must be made. On that day, the federal government is auctioning 43 million acres of our Gulf of Mexico to the oil industry for drilling. We will be at the Superdome with hundreds of others from our region and beyond to call on President Barack Obama to cancel this auction and cease issuing new drilling leases in the Gulf of Mexico. It is time.

Correcting Propaganda: Ecuador, China, Indigenous & The Amazon

February 17, 2016 Stansfield Smith, www.counterpunch.org , , ,
By Stansfield Smith for Counter Punch - The end of January a news article appeared, “Ecuador To Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest To Chinese Oil Companies,” and has resurfaced again and again on the internet. Posted on progressive websites such as Reader Supported News, Daily Kos, “The PeoplesVoice.org,” “ThinkGlobalGreen.org,” the story often comes with maps of the affected area, and include pictures of indigenous peoples living peaceably with nature or protesting against oil drilling.

Nationwide Resistance To Crude Oil ‘Bomb Trains’ Gaining Momentum

February 16, 2016 Justin Mikulka, www.desmogblog.com , ,
By Justin Mikulka for Desmog Blog - The speed and scale with which the oil and rail industries created the North American oil-by-rail infrastructure was impressive. And amazingly under the radar for the most part — until the trains started derailing and blowing up — leading to articles with titles like “The Invisible Bomb Trains.” In 2014, Terry Wechsler, an environmental attorney in northwest Washington, summed up why there hadn’t been opposition to the initial oil-by-rail terminals on the west coast, telling Reuters, “There was no opposition to the other three proposals only because we weren't aware they were in formal permitting.”

Portland Pipe Line Corp Sues Over Ban On Crude Exports

January 24, 2016 Kelley Bouchard, www.pressherald.com , , ,
By Kelley Bouchard for Portland Press Herald. Portland, ME - The future of the Portland Pipe Line Corp. will be in jeopardy if it’s not allowed to reverse the flow of its pipeline to bring tar sands oil from Canada to its marine terminal in South Portland, lawyers for the company argued Thursday in U.S. District Court in Portland. The company is challenging South Portland’s controversial Clear Skies ordinance,passed by the City Council in July 2014, which banned the loading of crude oil into tankers on the city’s waterfront and effectively blocked the company from reversing the flow of its South Portland-to-Montreal pipeline. Attorneys for South Portland questioned why the company still hasn’t submitted any plans or sought any of the permits needed to reverse the pipeline’s flow. “They haven’t taken any steps to actually do what they claim they want to do,” said Jonathan Ettinger, a lawyer with Foley Hoag in Boston. “If they’re not taking steps, (the claim of urgency) is hollow.” Ettinger said global market conditions – not the city’s ordinance – are the source of the company’s hardships.

Mother Nature Strikes Back Against The Carbon Economy

January 17, 2016 JP Sottile, www.truth-out.org , ,
By JP Sottile for Truthout. Big Oil is a bad investment fueled by irrational exuberance, chronic cronyism and an increasingly indefensible misallocation of capital. And decades of throwing good money after bad has produced a distorted economic system that socializes risk, privatizes profits, externalizes costs and misallocates capital. This continues because policy makers sustain it with taxpayer-funded subsidies, costly tax breaks and low-overhead access to publicly held resources. By failing to institute much-needed cost internalization mechanisms and by completely avoiding the key problem of government subsidization, the cork-popping cadre of COP21 tacitly admitted what most cynics already knew - policy makers still believe "Big Oil" is far too big to fail. But, like other distorted markets in history, the correction is coming. The growing impact of climate change is exposing the key fallacy at the heart of the hydrocarbon economy: Big Oil cannot simply exempt itself from the natural economy governing all things in this closed system called planet Earth.

There Are Now More Solar Jobs In America Than Oil Jobs

January 13, 2016 Shane Ferro, www.ourpowercampaign.org , ,
By Shane Ferro for The Huffington Post - Solar is the energy employer of the future -- or at least that's how the numbers look today. A new report on the state of the solar industry out Tuesday from the nonprofit Solar Foundation shows that the number of jobs in the United States in the solar industry outpaced those in the oil and gas industries for the first time ever. As of November 2015 there were almost 209,000 people who worked in the solar industry, 90 percent of whom only work on solar-related projects, according to the report. There were only about 185,000 people working in oil and gas in the United States in December 2015, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Co-Conspirators To Crime Of The Century: The Oil Industry Knew

December 28, 2015 Neela Banerjee, www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By Neela Banerjee for Inside Climate News - The American Petroleum Institute together with the nation's largest oil companies ran a task force to monitor and share climate research between 1979 and 1983, indicating that the oil industry, not just Exxon alone, was aware of its possible impact on the world's climate far earlier than previously known. The group's members included senior scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas company, including Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco, Sohio as well as Standard Oil of California and Gulf Oil, the predecessors to Chevron, according to internal documents obtained by InsideClimate News...

Oil Groups Paid $10 Million, For 20-Year Pass To Frack Kern County

December 12, 2015 Samantha Page, www.thinkprogress.org , ,
By Samantha Page for Climate Progress - Kern County, California, where 95 percent of the state’s fracking takes place, is getting sued over a recent decision that did away with public notice and environmental review for oil and gas permits for the next 20 years. A coalition of environmental and social justice groups filed the complaint Thursday, saying that the new zoning ordinance, which went into effect this week, is inconsistent with California’s environmental review laws. “Proposed and paid for by the oil industry, the [new regulations] purport to authorize the development of up to 3,647 new oil and gas wells and extensive associated construction and operational activities...

Art, Oil And Arrests In Paris

December 10, 2015 Jess Worth, www.newint.org , , ,
By Jess Worth for New Internationalist Magazine - Art met protest in the Louvre today, as six performers ritualistically spilled ‘oil’ on the gleaming marble floor. As security guards, police and gun-toting soldiers looked on menacingly, the black-clad figures removed their shoes and socks, and walked ‘oily’ footprints in circles, to symbolise the polluting influence that two oil companies wield through their sponsorship of Paris’s most iconic museum. Singing ‘Total and Eni, out of the Louvre, allez allez allez!’ they held black umbrellas aloft, mirroring a much larger action that was happening outside, simultaneously.

A Different Kind Of CSA: Community Supported Activism

December 2, 2015 Ashley Ahearn, www.kuow.org , ,
By Ashley Ahearn for KUOW - Lynnwood, Wash. -- Carlo Voli moves through the crowd of protesters outside a recent public hearing in Washington. He pauses to talk to a woman holding a cardboard cutout of an oil train and directs her over to where a group holding similar train car posters is lining up to complete the phrase “No More Exploding Oil Trains.” One by one, as the crowd grows, local politicians, tribal members and activists take the microphone to urge opposition to a proposal to bring oil by rail to Shell’s refinery in northern Puget Sound.

Leak: Obama Ordered NSA, CIA Spying On Venezuela’s Oil Company

November 20, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur TV - The U.S. National Security Agency accessed the internal communications of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela and acquired sensitive data it planned to exploit in order to spy on the company’s top officials, according to a highly classified NSA document that reveals the operation was carried out in concert with the U.S. embassy in Caracas. The March 2011 document, labeled, “top secret,” and provided by former NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden, is being reported on in an exclusive partnership between teleSUR and The Intercept.

‘Yes, I Lied’: Vindicating Villagers, Star Chevron Witness Busted For Perjury

November 3, 2015 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - In what is being called "a dramatic turn" in a protracted legal battle, documents publicized Monday reveal that the star witness in a case pitting rainforest villagers against a multinational oil giant has admitted to lying under oath in an effort to help Chevron avoid paying a $9.5 billion judgment for deliberate pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon. "Yes sir, I lied there...I wasn't being truthful," ex-judge Alberto Guerra reportedly told an international arbitration tribunal earlier this year when asked about his claim that the plaintiffs' legal team offered him a $300,000 bribe to ghostwrite the ruling in their favor.
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