Pipelines

Texas State Bill Would Make Protesting Pipelines A Felony On Par With Attempted Murder

May 20, 2019 By Eoin Higgins, Commondreams.org Educate! Pipelines, Reform, Repression, Texas

A bill making its way through the Texas legislature would make protesting pipelines a third-degree felony, the same as attempted murder. "It's an anti-protest bill, favoring the fossil fuel industry, favoring corporations over people." — Frankie Orona, executive director of the Society of Native Nations H.B. 3557, which is under consideration in the state Senate after passing the state House earlier this month, ups penalties for interfering in energy infrastructure construction by making the protests a felony. Sentences would range from two to 10 years.

Midwest Flooding Exposes Another Oil Pipeline Risk — On Keystone XL’s Route

May 17, 2019 Neela Banerjee, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Keystone XL, Nebraska, Pipelines

NAPER, Nebraska — Standing on the banks of the Keya Paha River where it cuts through his farm, Bob Allpress points across a flat expanse of sand to where a critical shut-off valve is supposed to rise from the Keystone XL pipeline once it's buried in his land. The Keya Paha flooded several weeks ago, and when it did, the rush of newly melted water drove debris, sand and huge chunks of ice deep inland, mowing down trees and depositing a long wall of ice 6 feet high and 30 feet wide across Allpress's property.

New York Rejects Keystone-Like Pipeline In Fierce Battle Over The State’s Energy Future

May 16, 2019 By Vivian Wang and Michael Adno, Nytimes.com Resist! Energy, New York (NY), Pipelines

In a major victory for environmental activists, New York regulators on Wednesday rejected the construction of a heavily disputed, nearly $1 billion natural gas pipeline, even as business leaders and energy companies warned that the decision could devastate the state’s economy and bring a gas moratorium to New York City and Long Island. The pipeline was planned to run 37 miles, connecting natural gas fields in Pennsylvania to New Jersey and New York. Its operator, the Oklahoma-based Williams Companies, pitched it as a crucial addition to the region’s energy infrastructure...

Why Now Is The Time To Connect The Pipeline Fights

May 7, 2019 George Lakey and Judy Wicks, Wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Climate Change, Green New Deal, Pipelines, Reform

A remarkable chance exists right now to accelerate the climate justice movement. President Trump is moving to speed up pipeline construction just as the public is waking up to the need to keep fossil fuels in the ground. This is exactly the moment to move pipeline fights to a new level, by meeting the need for networking. One of the authors of this article, George Lakey, encountered this need while touring the country for his new book “How We Win.” He found people active in their local fight to stop an oil or gas pipeline and asked how they connect with other campaigns.

Pipeline Protester Charged With “Threat of Terrorism” For Locking Down Against The MVP

April 26, 2019 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Repression

Lindside, WV — Early Thursday morning, 22-year-old pipeline fighter Holden Dometrius locked himself to welding equipment at a Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) construction site, stopping work. The work site in question is located above the town of Lindside, WV on Little Mountain. Banners on site read “TO HELL WITH YOUR PERMITS” and “NO BORDERS, NO PRISONS, NO PIPELINES ON STOLEN LAND.” The Mountain Valley Pipeline is a 303-mile, 42-inch diameter fracked gas pipeline that runs from northern West Virginia to southern Virginia...

“Our Voices Won’t Be Silenced”: Fighting The SD ‘Riot-Boosting’ Act And The Keystone XL Pipeline

April 22, 2019 Nick Tilsen, Ndncollective.org Resist! Pipelines, Reform, Repression

We believe in and act upon the notion that people, nature, society and all living things are interconnected, in relation to one another, and operate as a system. Our Indigenous cultures have taught us through our languages, stories and life ways that our identity and very existence is directly connected to the land. First proposed in 2008, the 1,200-mile Keystone XL Pipeline would carry as much as 830,000 barrels of heavy crude oil per day from the Alberta, Canada, oil sands through South Dakota to Steele City, Neb., en route to Gulf Coast refineries. Though the proposed pipeline route does not go through federally recognized reservations in South Dakota, should there be an oil spill, it has the potential to seriously affect our land, our water, our environment and future generations.

Rockwool Pipeline Construction May Disturb African-American Cemetery

April 20, 2019 By John Zangas and Anne Meador, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Black History, Pipelines, West Virginia

Ranson, W.Va.–Granny Smith Lane was until recently riddled with almost impassable potholes. If you navigated them successfully and wound your way to the end of the narrow, tree-lined roadway, you would reach a secluded corner of what used to be an apple orchard. Hardly noticeable, a few gravestones sit atop a small grassy knoll. More grave markers are jumbled among trees, vines and thorny bushes. Little effort has been made to clean up the trash strewn about or curb the groundhogs, who have constructed an elaborate burrow. A giant sinkhole warps the ground, and many graves are sunken depressions in the earth.

After 212 Days, Tree-Sitters Are Still Standing Against The Mountain Valley Pipeline

April 8, 2019 Laurence Hammack, Roanoke.com Resist! Pipelines, Tree Sitting

ELLISTON — The 212th day was a lot like the first, which for foes of the Mountain Valley Pipeline was a good thing. Since Sept. 5, 2018, two people have occupied tree stands in a white pine and a chestnut oak, perched about 50 feet off the ground while supporters camped on the ground sent up food and water in plastic buckets and kept watch over the peaceful protest. On Thursday, they celebrated another day of blocking tree-cutting for the controversial natural gas pipeline, which is destined to run across this wooded slope in eastern Montgomery County on its way from northern West Virginia to Chatham.

Unist’ot’en Camp Preparing For Spring Work And Resistance

April 8, 2019 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Occupation, Pipelines

With spring coming early to the north, plans are underway for new projects across WET’SUWET’EN TERRITORY, including cabin construction for WET’SUWET’EN PEOPLE. Following the invasion of our territories by RCMP and industry, we are continuing to reoccupy our lands – helping our people reconnect with, reclaim, and protect our homelands. We need people with CARPENTRY, COOKING, AND CAMPING SKILLS, or a good attitude and a willingness to learn. “Many hands make quick work!”

ACLU Files First Amendment Challenge To South Dakota Anti-Protest Laws

April 8, 2019 Staff, Aclusd.org Resist! ACLU, Lawsuit, Pipelines

The American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of South Dakota filed a federal lawsuit challenging three South Dakota laws threaten criminal penalties of up to 25 years in prison and $50,000 fines and/or civil liabilities for protesters and social justice organizations that encourage or organize protests, particularly protests against the Keystone XL pipeline. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of four organizations: the Sierra Club, NDN Collective, Dakota Rural Action, and the Indigenous Environmental Network; and two individuals: Nick Tilsen with NDN Collective and Dallas Goldtooth with Indigenous Environmental Network. All are planning to protest the pipeline and/or encourage others to do so.

WVDEP Approval Of Rockwool Gas Pipeline Permit Made In ‘Bad Faith,’ Opponents Say

April 3, 2019 By Anne Meador, Dcmediagroup.us Educate! Pipelines, West Virginia

The West Virginia Department of Environment (WVDEP) on Friday issued the final permit necessary for Mountaineer Gas to build a gas pipeline to service the Rockwool factory in Jefferson County, ignoring repeated requests to reschedule a public hearing on the matter. The decision was reportedly made at the highest levels of the agency. The pipeline is a 4.85-mile extension of the Mountaineer Gas trunk line, which is nearly finished with construction. The extension would run from the Martinsburg area to the Rockwool plant site.

The South Dakota Legislature Has Invented A New Legal Term To Target Pipeline Protesters

April 3, 2019 Staff, Aclu.org Resist! Legislation, Pipelines, Protests, South Dakota

The government of South Dakota has made it very clear that it does not like people who protest the Keystone XL pipeline. The state’s governor has dismissed them as “out-of-staters who come in to disrupt.” And other officials have similarly leveraged long-debunked and harmful tropes, mischaracterizing those speaking out as “paid protesters.” In this atmosphere, South Dakota enacted a new law last week, the Riot Boosting Act. The law seeks to suppress protests before they even start and prohibits people from engaging in full-throated advocacy. It does so by creating a new, ambiguous term: “riot boosting.”

Marking 200 Day Of Active Resistance To The Mountain Valley Pipeline

April 2, 2019 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Pipelines

These sits have now been up for an incredible 200 days. In those 200 days the Tarpington Municipal Library has expanded from a half dozen books at the bottom of a tote to a motley assortment of books sprawled across a bookshelf, several crates, both tree sits, and at least one car. If I remember one thing from my time here it will certainly be the books I read. The most recent book I finished was “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee,” and I consider it one of the most important books I’ve read here or anywhere. The book is about the history of the so-called United States, specifically the West, and how its indigenous people were exterminated.

More States Crack Down On Pipeline Protesters, Including Supporters Who Aren’t Even On The Scene

March 29, 2019 Nicholas Kusnetz, Insideclimatenews.org Resist! Class Struggle, Pipelines, Repression

Bills to clamp down on pipeline protests have spread to at least nine new states this year, part of an industry-backed push that began two years ago to heighten penalties for activists who try to block fossil fuel infrastructure projects. Several of the bills also allow prosecutors to go after people or organizations as "conspirators" or "riot boosters" for merely supporting or coordinating with others who violate the law. Civil liberties advocates argue that these vague and far-reaching provisions risk violating free speech protections under the First Amendment, and they have already started launching legal challenges.

Student Reporters In West Virginia Find Atlantic Coast Pipeline Offers Only Two Dozen Permanent Jobs

March 27, 2019 By Sharon Kelly, Desmogblog.com Educate! Pipelines, West Virginia

It’s hard for anyone to miss a “help wanted” sign like this: “13,000 Union Workers Needed for Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project.” That’s how the website Oilfield Job Shop described the opportunities created by the $7 billion Atlantic Coast pipeline, planned to carry shale gas 605 miles from West Virginia into Virginia and North Carolina. Its builders, a group led by Dominion Energy, say all told, the project will support 17,000 jobs — no small amount of work anywhere, but especially in parts of West Virginia where the economy has long relied on coal mining.

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