Pipeline

75th Birthday Party Disrupts Pipeline Construction

August 20, 2015 Capitalism vs Climate, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Spectra

By Capitalism vs Climate. NORTH WINDHAM, CT - In celebration of his 75th birthday today, Middletown resident Vic Lancia locked himself to two giant “birthday cakes”—actually concrete-filled barrels decorated with candles and frosting— on the sole road leading up to a site where Spectra Energy stores construction equipment and materials for use across Connecticut. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reports posted at capitalismvsclimate.org confirm what local residents have seen: Spectra trucks regularly using the facility to expand fracking infrastructure. By blocking Spectra workers from accessing the site, Vic aimed to disrupt Spectra's ongoing construction of it's "AIM Project", a billion dollar fracked-gas pipeline expansion affecting communities across the State.

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.

Massachusetts Selectman Arrested Protesting Pipeline Construction

June 22, 2015 Chris Sweeney, www.bostonmagazine.com Resist! Law, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

By Chris Sweeney in Boston Magazine - Mike Butler plans to get arrested on Thursday morning. The 61-year-old Dedham Selectman says he has run out of options for stopping Spectra Energy from laying down the controversial high-pressured West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline, so he’s heading to a construction site near the corner of Elm Street and Route 1 for a peaceful protest that he hopes lands him in handcuffs. “As a selectman, I must defend and reflect the concerns of my constituents,” he tells Boston. “I’d like to demonstrate my deep concern over the fact that this is a high-pressure gas line that will be going underneath a soccer field and up the middle of a very congested residential street.”

Residents ‘Terrified’: Williams Transco Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture

June 12, 2015 Emerson Urry, www.environews.tv Resist! Environmental Justice, Oil & Gas, Pennsylvania, Pipeline

By Emerson Urry in EnviroNews — A group by the name of Beyond Extreme Energy sent in a fresh-on-the-wire press release to EnviroNews USA on June 11, 2015. The subject: Ongoing outrage and fear, near the Pennsylvania community of Unityville, over a Williams Companies, Inc., natural gas spill on the Transco pipeline two days ago. Local media reported the incident occurred on tuesday night at around 9:40 P.M. and that residents up to a mile away were rocked by an explosion followed by a prolonged “jet engine” type sound and the smell of gas. In turn, the incident resulted in a fearful disorientation throughout the surrounding communities. As many as 130 nearby residents were evacuated from their homes for “several hours,” according to the Lancaster Online.

Ruling Halts Gunpowder Pipeline Construction

June 2, 2015 Rona Kobell, www.bayjournal.com Resist! Baltimore, Maryland, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

By Rona Kobell in Bay Journal - A Baltimore County Circuit judge ruled that the Maryland Department of the Environment improperly issued a permit to a gas company for its 21-mile pipeline along parts of the Gunpowder River in northern Baltimore County. The move temporarily stops the pipe-line construction, which has riled neighbors, environmental groups and the Friends of Oregon Ridge, a county nature park that sits near the gas company right of way. Circuit Judge Justin King found the permit that the MDE issued to Columbia Gas lacking in many respects. The department, he said, did not give the public adequate notice to review and comment on the proposed right of way. When the company changed its route, the department did not inform people. It did not allow for a review of historic properties on the route.

Congress Considers Fast Tracking Pipelines On Federal Lands

May 23, 2015 Augusta Free Press, www.augustafreepress.com Educate! Environment, Land, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

Southern Environmental Law Center Senior Attorney Greg Buppert testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources on Wednesday on the failure of the proposed National Energy Security Corridors Act to account for the significant impacts that natural gas pipelines crossing federal lands would have on the surrounding local communities and private property. The proposed legislation would allow pipelines to be sited through federal lands without providing the general public an opportunity to weigh in. Buppert explained to Congress that the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline have encountered broad opposition from many Virginia communities surrounding the pipelines’ paths.

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.”

Widespread Opposition To Gas Pipeline In Vermont

February 24, 2015 Rebecca Fosterr, www.popularrresistance.org Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipeline

Vermont – Vermonters from 80 towns and cities across the state signed a letter requesting that Governor Shumlin take facts into account as the state re-evaluates the future of the fracked gas pipeline expansion. In the wake of the cancellation of Phase 2 of the pipeline by Vermont Gas Systems, the Governor reaffirmed his support for Phase 1 even though the case is about to be re-opened by the Public Service Board due to uncontrolled escalation of the proposed project’s costs. The letter included a stack of 15 articles, studies, and reports on the safety of gas pipelines, the climate impacts of using fracked natural gas, and the negative economic impacts of gas pipelines. “We’ve found that the Administration just isn’t up on the latest news or science on the oil and gas industry,” said Jane Palmer, an affected landowner from Monkton.

Property Rights Become The Focus Of Pipeline Lawsuit

February 23, 2015 Lauren Berg, www.richmond.com Resist! Dominion, Environment, Law, Pipeline

Following a previous lawsuit just a few weeks ago, a second decision on property rights and how they affect the planned Atlantic Coast Pipeline is in the hands of a federal judge. On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael Urbanski heard arguments in Harrisonburg from both sides in a dispute over whether a utility company’s workers have the right to survey someone’s land. Churchville resident William Little II filed a two-part lawsuit against Dominion Resources, arguing that the gas company would be trespassing on his property if it came to do a survey of his land for the proposed pipeline route. He also argued that a Virginia statute related to natural gas companies should be declared unconstitutional.

Belleville: Trail Guardians Worried About Pipelines

February 23, 2015 Laura Belleville, www.roanoke.com Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, Pipeline, Virginia

For the past 90 years, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy has served as a guardian of the nearly 2,200-mile Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Today, we are faced with one of the most challenging threats ever to the integrity of the trail: a series of proposals to build new petroleum pipeline corridors across the trail to transport natural gas. We want to offer additional points for consideration relevant to the article “Landowner rights vs. public need”. We are specifically concerned about the cumulative impact of the significant number of pipelines being proposed across Appalachian National Scenic Trail landscapes. Some of these landscapes are public lands and others are private. Regardless of land ownership, we need to take a critical look at the overall impacts to these lands from this modern day “gas rush.”

Pipeline Proposal Meets Opposition In Schuylkill County

February 18, 2015 Mark Gilger Jr., www.republicanherald.com Resist! Environment, Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

Jack Zerbe II was about 10 years old when the Sunoco pipeline was built through his family’s farm in Washington Township, but he remembers that it took 15 to 20 years for production on that land to return to where it was before construction. As three generations of Zerbes continue to oppose the proposed construction of The Williams Companies pipeline through their portion of the county, they received a letter Jan. 26 from another company looking to put another pipeline through their property. “We were like, ‘You have got to be kidding me,’ ” Leah Zerbe, Jack’s daughter, who also lives on the farm, said Thursday. The Williams Companies Inc., an energy company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has plans to expand its Transco pipeline to connect the natural gas fields in northern Pennsylvania to markets in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern states by 2017.

81 Year Old Says She Will Fight Pipeline Through Her Farm

February 18, 2015 Duncan Adams, www.roanoke.com Resist! Land Rights, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

An acquaintance told Louise Garman to accept the inevitable — that there’s little she can do to stop a buried natural gas pipeline from traveling through her family’s farm in the Catawba Valley if the powers that be ultimately decide that’s the anointed route. But Garman, 81, said she still has enough fight to object to an alternative route that could bring the 42-inch-diameter interstate pipeline through the property of family members, friends and neighbors. “People can’t be expected to just lie down,” Garman said Monday. Mountain Valley Pipeline confirmed earlier this month that it is considering alternatives to a previously disclosed route for the proposed pipeline but has declined to date to provide more specifics.

Monroe Board Of Health Voices Opposition To Pipeline

February 16, 2015 Tina Alvey, www.bdtonline.com Resist! health, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

Hansbarger writes that the current proposed MVP route passes within a few hundred yards of the headwaters of Rich Creek, threatening the water supply of the Red Sulphur PSD’s 4,000 customers. Those customers include a nursing home, an assisted living facility, two medical clinics, several day care facilities and three public schools, according to Hansbarger. His letter also explores the potential threat of a catastrophic rupture of the pipeline, citing “massive explosions” from failures of similar high-pressure lines in Mississippi, Texas and in Brooke County, W.Va. The proposed route for the MVP will take it closer than a mile to James Monroe High School, a long term care facility and two churches, Hansbarger writes.

Mountain Valley Pipeline Opponents Want Local Say

February 14, 2015 Duncan Adams, www.roanoke.com Organize! Environment, Localism, Pipeline, Protest

The dominant message was that local governments and citizens should have the power to embrace or reject an energy infrastructure project planned by corporations for private gain. As proposed by Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC, a joint venture of EQT Corp. and NextEra Energy, the 42-inch diameter, 300-mile buried pipeline would transport natural gas at high pressure from West Virginia to a delivery point in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Mountain Valley has consistently emphasized that the pipeline could yield economic benefits for communities along its route, as well as the state and nation.

Groups Call To Scrap Entire Vermont Gas Pipeline Project

February 11, 2015 Rising Tide Vermont, www.risingtidevermont.org Resist! Energy, Environment, Pipeline, Vermont

Today a coalition of organizations including Just Power, Rising Tide Vermont, 350Vermont and Toxics Action Center renewed calls to cancel all phases of the Vermont fracked gas pipeline, in the wake of an announcement that Vermont Gas will no longer proceed with Phase II. The coalition is calling on the Vermont Public Service Board to revoke the Certificate of Public Good for Phase I in light of the near doubling of Phase I costs, the stark climate impacts of fracked gas, and impacts on landowners in the path of the pipeline. Yesterday, the PSB was given permission by the Vermont Supreme Court to undertake a review of the Phase I permit with no time or scope constraints.

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