Pipelines

Raging Granny Locks Herself To Equipment At Mountain Valley Pipeline Site

September 28, 2019 Appalachians Against Pipelines. Resist! climate crisis, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

Montgomery County, VA — Early this morning, Duff Benjamin, a 75-year-old midwife, grandmother, and self-identified “raging granny” locked herself to Mountain Valley Pipeline construction equipment in Montgomery County, VA. Next to a banner reading “PIPELINES BLOW,” Duff shut down construction adjacent to Cove Hollow Road (nearby the ongoing tree sit blockade). She blocked work for 5 hours before being extracted, arrested, and charged with 5 misdemeanors. She has since been bailed out of jail. Duff stated: “The problem with pipelines is they always leak. What they leak are toxins into the land, water, and air. The other problem with pipelines is that they frequently explode, and when they do, it’s the equivalent of a dirty bomb going off into poor, Black, and Latino neighborhoods — communities that pipelines are purposely routed through and near (never through wealthy white neighborhoods!).

Federal Court Blocks South Dakota Laws Suppressing Pipeline Protests

September 20, 2019 Staff, Aclu.org Resist! Courts, Pipelines, Protests, Reform, South Dakota

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A federal court today blocked enforcement of the unconstitutional provisions of several South Dakota laws, including the recently-enacted “Riot Boosting” Act, that threaten activists who encourage or organize protests, particularly protests of the Keystone XL pipeline, with fines, civil liabilities, and/or criminal penalties of up to 25 years in prison. In granting plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol wrote: “Imagine that if these riot boosting statutes were applied to the protests that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, what might be the result?

Prospects For Gas Pipelines In The Era Of Clean Energy

September 12, 2019 By Mark Dyson, Grant Glazer, and Charles Teplin, Rmi.org Educate! Clean Energy, New Economy, Pipelines

Over the past 20 years, the United States has expanded natural gas use dramatically for electricity generation. With persistent low gas prices, the industry continues to plan new gas infrastructure, including both new power plants and new pipelines. But even as gas use has expanded, wind, solar, and energy storage technologies have improved and dropped precipitously in price. RMI research shows that “clean energy portfolios” (CEPs) comprised of these technologies are now cost-competitive with new natural gas power plants, while providing the same grid reliability services.

Pipeline Permit Scandal Highlights Confusion Amid Push To Build Plastics Plants

September 2, 2019 By Sharon Kelly, Desmogblog.com Educate! Pennsylvania, Pipelines

For the past 42 years, the Beaver County Conservation District in western Pennsylvania has hosted their Maple Syrup Festival, an annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast featuring syrup made from maple trees in a park in Beaver Falls. It’s a huge event in this county, population 164,742; organizers expected up to 40,000 attendees at last year’s festival, which included a Civil War re-enactment, pony rides, and craft demonstrations like bobbin lace making. But with the arrival of Shell and its $6 billion plastics manufacturing plant, currently under construction in Beaver County...

Vancouver Poet Rita Wong Incarcerated For 4 Weeks For Peaceful Anti-Pipeline Protest

August 27, 2019 By Vera DeWaard, Pencanada.ca Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Repression, Vancouver

On August 16, 2019, Rita Wong, an award-winning Vancouver poet and an associate professor in Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, was sentenced to 28 days of incarceration at the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women in Maple Ridge, BC. She had participated in a peaceful protest on behalf of missing and murdered Indigenous women on August 24, 2018 alongside three other women protestors at the Westridge Marine terminal, impeding access to the Trans Mountain facility in breach of a court-ordered injunction.

Bemidji, MN: Water Protectors Lock To Enbridge Office Gates, Work Halted

August 23, 2019 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Minneapolis, Pipelines, Water Protectors

Bemidji, MN — In the early morning, 6 water protectors locked to the gates of a key Enbridge office in Bemidji, MN in protest of proposed tar sands pipeline project Line 3. 2 chained their necks to the gate, risking personal safety for the hundreds of watersheds Enbridge proposes to send nearly 1M barrels of tar sands from Alberta through on its way to the shores of Lake Superior. Enbridge responded by closing its office for the day.

Saving The Planet Means Fighting Bipartisan Corruption

August 23, 2019 By Daphne Wysham, Otherwords.org Strategize! Electoral Politics, Environment, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines

Burning fossil fuels boils our planet — that much is generally well known. But often these fuels do serious damage before they ever get to market. They spill out of pipelines, poison groundwater, or explode on trains. Even when they don’t, building new pipelines and export terminals helps companies sell more fuel — often of the dirtiest variety, like tar sands — which threatens our planet. That’s why strong grassroots movements have cropped up against transporting tar sands oil via the Keystone XL Pipeline and the TransMountain Pipeline.

‘This Illegal And Dangerous Pipeline Must Be Shut Down’: Standing Rock Sioux Renew The Fight Against The DAPL

August 22, 2019 By Ruth Milka, Nationofchange.org Resist! Courts, DAPL, Pipelines, Standing Rock

The media may have forgotten the ferocious battle the Standing Rock water protectors fought against the Dakota Access Pipeline but that doesn’t mean that the fight is over. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe is continuing their battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline – a battle which has been raging since 2016 when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers deemed that the pipeline route would not affect any historic properties without cooperating with Standing Rock tribal leaders.

Columbia Gas Denied Right To Take Public Land For Potomac Pipeline

August 22, 2019 By Anne Meador, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Courts, Maryland, Pipelines

A federal court judge today denied Columbia Gas the right to move forward with construction of a gas pipeline through public land in Washington County, Md. The ruling is a blow both to Columbia Gas and to the pipeline’s main intended customer, the Rockwool insulation factory in West Virginia, now under construction. The TransCanada subsidiary had filed a lawsuit against the state of Maryland in June in U.S. District Court in Baltimore to force access to the Maryland Rail Trail, a necessary piece to construct a 3.7-mile pipeline from Fulton County, Pa., through a thin slice of Maryland.

Standing Rock Asks Court To Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline As Company Plans To Double Capacity

August 21, 2019 Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Courts, Pipelines, Standing Rock

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking a judge to throw out a federal permit for the Dakota Access oil pipeline, arguing that the government shut the tribe out of a court-ordered second environmental review and ignored its concerns. The challenge comes as Energy Transfer, the company behind the pipeline, is now seeking to double how much oil the pipeline can carry. The Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) passes under the Missouri River, the tribe's water supply, just upstream from the Standing Rock Reservation.

Emails Show FBI And Police Are Monitoring Oregon Anti-Pipeline Activists

August 15, 2019 By Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch Resist! FBI, Pipelines, Police abuse, Surveillance

The FBI and several other law enforcement agencies have been keeping tabs on pipeline opponents in southwest Oregon, according to documents obtained by the Guardian. Opponents of the natural gas pipeline project have been monitored for years and information about the activists has been shared between law enforcement agencies and even with non-government firms, including Off The Record Strategies — an anti-environmental public relations agency that helped craft a message against the Standing Rock activists opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline two years ago, according to the Guardian.

EPA Plans To Rewrite Clean Water Act Rules To Fast-Track Pipelines

August 14, 2019 Phil McKenna, Insideclimatenews.org Educate! EPA, Pipelines, Reform

The Trump administration is proposing changes to federal regulations that could fast-track the approval of natural gas pipelines and other energy infrastructure. Environmental advocates say the move will weaken the ability of states and tribes to protect their waters. The proposed changes to Clean Water Act permitting rules, announced Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, would limit the amount of time states and tribes can take to review new project proposals to a "reasonable period" of no more than one year...

Extreme Measures Needed To Tackle Climate Chaos Before It’s Too Late

August 4, 2019 Eleanor Goldfield, Art Killing Apathy. Create! climate crisis, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Tree Sitting

The last week in July saw record-breaking temperatures across the globe. The forecast map for Europe appeared as a giant oppressive red mass with barely any orange or yellow nuance. Not built to withstand temperatures in the triple digits fahrenheit, cities such as Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, and elsewhere boiled beneath an unrelenting summer sun. Here in the US, cities across the country sent out advisories telling residents to stay inside with air conditioning on. And while three-quarters of homes in the US have air conditioning, high-risk, low-income communities sometimes don’t, and even if they do, they don’t always have access to it. For instance, a mere few days after Mayor de Blasio signed an executive order declaring a state of emergency due to extreme temperatures, nearly 50,000 Con Edison customers had their power cut.

Court Tosses Another Crucial Permit For Atlantic Coast Pipeline

July 27, 2019 Staff, Sierraclub.org Resist! Courts, Fracking, Pipelines

RICHMOND, Va. -- Today, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a permit that the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) needs to continue construction. A three-judge panel vacated the United States Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) review of the ACP’s impacts related to the Endangered Species Act (ESA), ruling that the FWS “lost sight of its mandate” when rushing the review for the pipeline instead of protecting threatened wildlife.

Appalachians Against Pipelines Continues Protests Against MVP Pipeline

July 21, 2019 From Appalachians Against Pipelines Resist! Fracking, Pipelines

Over 30 water protectors from around communities around Virginia walked on to the MVP worksite at Cove Hollow just over the hill from the Yellow Finch blockade blocking work while singing and dancing as a community. Dozens of peaceful protesters walked on to a Mountain Valley Pipeline work site on Cove Hollow Road, stopping work for approximately an hour — they rallied, sang, and left around 10:45 am. After that action, the police swarmed to the nearby Yellow Finch tree-sit blockade en masse, immediately arresting 3 pipeline fighters.

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