Pipeline

Tree Sitters Risk Lives On The Front Line

May 27, 2018 Drew Philip, The Guardian. Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Tree Sitting

Way out in the Appalachian hills, on the line between Virginia and West Virginia, after an hour-long backwoods hike up Peters Mountain, an orderly clutch of tents were surrounded by a plastic yellow ribbon that read, “police line do not cross”. Past that, a woman sat on top of a 50 ft pole. Opposite the knot of tents where the woman’s supporters kept 24-hour vigil lay an encampment of police, pipeline workers, and private security bearing floodlights, generators and hard, binocular-bespectacled stares.

Inside the Growing Appalachian Anti-Pipeline Movement

April 29, 2018 ByStaff for It's Going Down Resist! Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Blockade, Pipeline

In this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we spoke with several people involved at the Three Sisters encampment in Virginia fighting the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, the tree-sit at the Little Teel Crossing in Virginia fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and someone that has been an on the ground supporter of the various encampments and tree-sits in both Virginia and West Virginia. Wanting to know more about how the movement has grown to feature now up to 7 people in the trees, including various home and landowners that are threatened with eminent domain, we discuss how various relationships were made and certain tactics popularized. In our discussions, we talk about everything from ongoing police repression, to how people go to the bathroom while up in a tree, but also political education, and also not putting radical politics, messaging, and ideas on the back burner.

Resistance Against The Mountain Valley Pipeline Grows

April 20, 2018 Carolyn Reilly, Little Teel Crossing. Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Tree Sitting

Franklin County, VA - In the farmlands of Franklin County, a new stand against the Mountain Valley Pipeline has begun. Three tree sits loom directly in the path of the pipeline’s destruction, making it impossible to clear the way without severely injuring the inhabitants of those trees. The sits tower over 75 feet off the ground of a small family farm’s livestock pasture, overlooking Little and Teel creeks, home to the endangered Roanoke Log Perch. The tree sits build upon two other blockades to construction- a stand one hundred miles West, on Peters Mountain, and twenty miles West, in Bent Mountain, VA.

Lockdown To Stop The Bayou Bridge Pipeline

April 19, 2018 L'eau est la vie, Facebook. Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Water Protectors

MAURICE, LA - On the morning of April 18th a water protector locked herself into a cement filled barrel placed in the trench of a horizontal directional drill on a construction site of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Over a dozen more water protectors from L'eau est La Vie resistance camp rallied alongside her blasting loud music and dancing under banners strung from the drill and excavators that stated "Water is Critical Infrastructure. Stop HB727" and "Stop ETP". The group was soon detained and ID'ed but were eventually let go and allowed to move to a public road nearby where they continued to shout words of support to their locked down comrade.

Resistance Is Necessary To Overcome The Climate Crisis

April 2, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. Podcast Climate Change, Criminal Justice System, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

The science is clear that we must no longer build new fossil fuel infrastructure and we must invest in clean sources of energy, yet oil and gas companies continue to receive permits to build more pipelines, compressor stations and refineries. in response, communities are organizing to stop these projects. We speak with Tim DeChristopher about how communities are using the necessity defense to defend their actions to stop the projects. And we discuss the state of the climate justice movement, how Big Greens are failing on climate justice and strategies for action.

Tree-Sit Protest Of Mountain Valley Pipeline Escalates

March 29, 2018 Laurence Hammack, Roanoke.com. Resist! Environment, Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Tree Sitting

Peter's Mountain — She didn’t want to state her name, the woman who was sitting near the top of a 50-foot pole planted in the middle of a gravel road. She did state her purpose: “I hope to make it a lot harder for MVP to do any work on this road,” she said, speaking from inside a tarp that covered a wooden platform attached to the pole. Opponents of the Mountain Valley Pipeline erected their latest roadblock to the company’s plans to build a natural gas pipeline through the Jefferson National Forest on Wednesday. It was the 30th day that fellow protesters have been sitting in two trees along the pipeline’s proposed route...

Direct Action Ramps Up Resistance To Line 3

October 7, 2017 Staff, www.unicornriot.ninja Resist! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

By Unicorn Riot. Superior, WI – Resistance against Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline expansion is ramping up. Near the Fon du Lac Reservation, at the front line camp, Makwa, water protectors, land defenders, warriors, and others have participated in a wave of civil disobedience that has resulted in 16 arrests in multiple actions that have delayed construction work on the pipeline in the last month. On the morning of September 18, Unicorn Riot covered another direct action to stop construction on the Wisconsin side of the Minnesota-Wisconsin border.

‘Montrose 9’ Found Guilty, Necessity Defense Denied

January 8, 2017 Resist AIM, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Spectra

By Resist AIM. Cortlandt, NY — On Friday morning - in front of a packed courtroom of over 100 New York residents, activists, sympathizers and supporters opposed to Spectra’s “AIM” Pipeline - Cortlandt Town Court Judge Daniel McCarthy issued sentences for nine New York residents (known as the “Montrose 9”) that were arrested for blocking access to a Spectra Energy construction yard in November 2015. Each of the nine of the defendants were fined and sentenced to community service. The defendants had pled the “Necessity Defense,” arguing that their activity was justified because it was done to stop a danger more harmful than the violation of the law, and only after all other legal and regulatory options had been exhausted. The danger they oppose is Spectra’s “AIM” Pipeline, a high-pressure 42-inch gas pipeline that runs within 105 feet of critical Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant safety facilities.

Trudeau Will Have Hell To Pay If He Approves Kinder Morgan

November 25, 2016 Rafe Mair, www.commonsensecanadian Resist! Canada, Kinder Morgan, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

By Rafe Mair for The Common Sense Canadian. Canada - None should be in the slightest surprised at the anti-British Columbia stance of Justin Trudeau and the Liberals. As Talleyrand famously noted when, after the fall of Napoleon the Bourbons were restored, “they learned nothing and forgot nothing”. Thus it is with the Liberals who, once safely back in power, turn their attention to repaying supporters, namely Ontario financiers and the oil industry, often the same people. This ancient Liberal policy never fails. This time Justin Trudeau has overstepped the mark and as Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson warns, if he approves the Kinder Morgan pipeline, “…you’ll see protests like you’ve never seen before …” His Worship is right. British Columbians know that the standard Ottawa patter that something is “in the interests of Canada” is ill-concealed code for “in the interests of Bay Street and whatever they’ve invested in or covet.”

Pipeline Protest Reporter Shot With Rubber Bullet Mid-Interview

November 5, 2016 Hilary Hanson, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Journalism, Pipeline, Protests

By Hilary Hanson for The Huffington Post - Footage taken during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in North Dakota Wednesday appears to show a rubber bullet hitting a journalist in the back as she conducted an interview. Erin Schrode, an activist and congressional candidate in California, posted a video on Facebook Thursday that shows her interviewing a Native American man, then suddenly falling to the ground as people rush to surround her in concern. She wrote that law enforcement shot her in the lower back with a rubber bullet, though neither the act nor the bullet can be seen on camera.

#NoDAPL: What You Can Do To Help

October 30, 2016 NoDAPL Solidarity, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Water

By NoDAPL Solidarity. The Red Warrior Camp calls on all People from around the world to take action and join the Global Solidarity Campaign. If you live on this land, breathe the air and drink water, this is your fight too. Our Brothers, Sisters and Protectors are putting their bodies and lives on the line everyday on the front lines in Standing Rock. FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE CALL UPON ALL PROTECTORS TO COME STAND WITH US ON THE FRONTLINES. If you cannot be physically present, you can still take escalated action to stop the pipeline and support our struggle. The projected in service date for the Dakota Access Pipeline is January 1st, 2017. With that date quickly approaching, we are calling for two months of sustained waves of action targeting the Army Corp of Engineers, investors, pipeline companies, security firms and elected officials who are behind this project.

New Occupation At Mississippi Entrance To Dakota Access Pipeline

September 6, 2016 Frank Cordaro, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Nonviolence, Pipeline

By Frank Cordaro of the Des Moines Catholic Worker. Jessica Reznicek out of jail and is now starting a “24/7” occupation of the Dakota Access pipeline Mississippi entrance just north of Keokuk IA. DM Catholic Worker Jess Reznicek was arrested twice earlier this week for blocking traffic at this Dakota Access pipeline entrance on the Mississippi. In hopes to get more people to join her, Jess changed her presence from blocking traffic in and out of the site to setting up her tent and starting a 24 hr / 7 days a week occupation of the entrance. Jess got permission from the property owner to set her tent up and welcomes others to join her in the same nonviolent spirit.

FERC Will Not Conduct Virginia Pipeline Study

August 14, 2016 Staff, www.nbc29.com Educate! Climate Change, FERC, health, Pipeline

By NBC 29 News. NELSON COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) will not conduct a study on three pipelines projects, including the hotly contested Atlantic Coast Pipeline, slated to cut through Virginia. FERC’s study would have analyzed potential environmental, social, and economic impacts associated with these natural gas pipelines. Many groups, including the Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club, are unhappy the study is off the table. The chapter's director, Kate Addleson, released a response to FERC's choice to not move forward with an environmental impact statement. Addleson believes the study was, “necessary to assess the need and consequences of the proposed pipeline projects in Virginia.” Addleson also says the choice is in direct opposition to the requests of landowners, concerned citizens, and even elected officials.

Tree-Sit Stops Pipeline Construction For Second Time In 3 Days

June 8, 2016 Rising Tide Vermont, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

By Rising Tide Vermont. Monkton, Vt.- In a new wave of public opposition to the project, participants in the campaign to stop the fracked gas pipeline have stopped construction for the second time this week. Early this morning, Samuel Jessup scaled a tree on an active work site to begin yet another indefinite delay, this time by tying the support line of his platform to machinery meant to blast open the hillside where Vermont Gas Systems plans to build the pipeline. "The climate crisis is already deadly, and it's getting worse" Jessup said. "Each passing month there are new records set for heat and drought across the planet, and with each passing year, fossil fuels kill five million more people. We simply can't afford to let this pipeline get built."

Vermont: Lockdowns Prevent Pipeline Construction

June 6, 2016 Vermont Rising Tide, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipeline

By Vermont Rising Tide. Williston, Vt. - Members of the Stop the Fracked Gas Pipeline Campaign are blocking pipeline construction, enforcing what they call a "keep fossil fuels in the ground" strategy to avert the worst impacts of global warming. Several people are locked to equipment, and others are blocking an access road to stop construction. Participants say they need to take direct action to stop the pipeline because state regulators and Governor Shumlin have refused to cancel permits, despite a groundswell of opposition to the project over the past three years. The work disruption comes in the beginning stages of the 2016 construction season. Vermont Gas hopes to finish construction in the fall, and has stated the significant delays in construction and easement acquisition could threaten the viability of the project.

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