Pipelines

What’s Next For The Struggle To Stop The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

April 27, 2024 Phil Wilmot, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Africa, East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines

In 2006, oil speculators finally stumbled upon a long-sought reserve under Lake Albert in midwestern Uganda. President Yoweri Museveni, who had already been in power for 20 years, eagerly declared that production would commence in 2009. He argued that oil drilling would spare Ugandans from biting poverty — despite the government projecting zero revenue from the project for decades to come. Still clinging to his despotic throne today, Museveni and his bankrollers and business partners — namely TOTAL, China National Offshore Oil Corporation and the neoliberal regimes of Uganda and Tanzania — have been unable to commence production.

Married Couple Block Mountain Valley Pipeline In Large Wooden Possum

April 11, 2024 Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. Resist! climate crisis, Direct Action, Elders, Fossil Fuels, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Pipelines, Virginia

Roanoke County, VA - Early Wednesday morning, married couple Ted Glick (74) and Jane Califf (83), locked themselves inside a large wooden possum on Honeysuckle Rd in Roanoke County, VA, blocking Mountain Valley Pipeline construction in the area. Ted and Jane prevented MVP's access to the pipeline easement, a work yard, and 2 access roads, for 6.5 hours, before they were extracted from their blockade and arrested. They were each charged with 3 misdemeanors, given bail of $3,000, and bailed out the same day.

Activists Launch Own Investigation Of Mud Spill Near Gas Pipeline

March 25, 2024 Diane Bernard, DeSmog. Resist! Community activism, Environment, Pennsylvania, Pipelines, pollution

On February 15, Pennsylvania’s environmental regulator received an anonymous complaint that a mysterious white material was covering the bottom of a creek in Chester County — a tributary of nearby Marsh Creek Lake located about a thousand feet from the underground Mariner East pipeline. A day later, an inspector from the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation confirmed that the clay-like material was flowing from a nearby sinkhole into the stream and nearby wetlands.

Sweden Closing Nordsteam Investigation Is A Shocking Coverup

March 19, 2024 Max Blumenthal, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Accountability, Nordstream pipeline, Pipelines, Sweden

The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Swedish engineer Erik Andersson, who led the first independent investigation to the site of the Nordstream pipelines blast sites, on the Swedish government’s sudden closing of the investigation into the terror attack on the eve of joining NATO. Andersson also addresses US meddling in Swedish politics, and the potential consequences of Stockholm surrendering its traditional neutrality to the anti-Russian alliance.

Report Exposes The Oil Giants ‘Fueling Israel’s War Machine’

March 15, 2024 Jake Johnson, Common Dreams. Educate! Big Oil, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Israel, Oil and Gas, Palestine, Pipelines, Report

A report published Thursday shows that major fossil fuel companies such as Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP are playing a key role in propelling Israel's devastating military assault on Gaza, facilitating the country's supply of energy that powers Israeli jets and tanks as they bomb and shell civilians. The new research, conducted by Data Desk and commissioned by the advocacy group Oil Change International, examines the sources of Israeli jet fuel and crude imports in an effort to shine light on the web of countries and corporations implicated in the war on the Gaza Strip.

What’s At Stake If The US OK’s Building This Gas Pipeline To Mexico

February 15, 2024 Sara Sneath, DeSmog. Educate! Environment, LNG, Mexico, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

In a rural area of West Texas, near the Mexico border, a cluster of geothermal springs once served as an oasis to the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. Carpeted in grasses and shrubs, the land is home to rare aoudad sheep, deer, wild cats, and bobwhite quail. The muted tans and greens in the small valley and surrounding exposed rock mountains quiet the mind. The pristine site is in the proposed pathway of the 48-inch-diameter Saguaro Connector Pipeline, which would send natural gas produced in Texas’s Permian Basin 155 miles west, across the U.S.-Mexico border, to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Puerto Libertad, Mexico. “Our concern is that the pipeline is going to go through the hot springs,” said Christa Mancias-Zapata, the executive director of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. “Anywhere you go in that area is a sacred site to our people.”

‘Hard-Won Movement Victory’: MVP Extension In North Carolina Halved

January 1, 2024 Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. Resist! Mountain Valley Pipeline, North Carolina, Pipelines, Victory

Frontline critics of the Mountain Valley Pipeline celebrated after Equitrans Midstream revealed Friday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that the distance of the proposed Southgate extension project has been cut in half. The partially completed MVP project—long delayed by legal battles until congressional Republicans and President Joe Biden included language to fast-track it in a debt limit deal earlier this year—is set to cross 303 miles of Virginia and West Virginia. The MVP Southgate extension into North Carolina was supposed to be 75 miles, but the filing details plans for a redesigned 31-mile gas project that "would include substantially fewer water crossings and would not require a new compressor station."

Why More Than 60 Indigenous Nations Oppose The Line 5 Oil Pipeline

December 30, 2023 Anita Hofschneider, Scheer Post. Educate! Indigenous Rights, Line 5 Pipeline, Michigan, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Wisconsin

The Line 5 oil pipeline that snakes through Wisconsin and Michigan won a key permit this month: pending federal studies and approvals, Canada-based Enbridge Energy will build a new section of pipeline and tunnel underneath the Great Lakes despite widespread Indigenous opposition. You may not have heard of Line 5, but over the next few years, the controversy surrounding the 645-mile pipeline is expected to intensify. The 70-year-old pipeline stretches from Superior, Wisconsin, through Michigan to Sarnia, Ontario, transporting up to 540,000 gallons of oil and natural gas liquids per day. It’s part of a network of more than 3,000 miles of pipelines that the company operates throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Calgary-Based Subsidiary Partners In Building US’ Mountain Valley Pipeline

December 20, 2023 Brent Patterson, Peace Brigades International-Canada. Resist! Canada, Fossil Fuels, International Solidarity, Mountain Valley Pipeline, Palestine, Pipelines

The Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is a 482 kilometre (300 mile) pipeline being built across West Virigina and Virginia to transport fracked gas. WGL Midstream, a subsidiary of Calgary-based AltaGas, owns 10 per cent of this USD $6.6 billion pipeline. The Natural Resources Defense Council says: “It has been estimated that the full life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (excluding construction emissions) generated by the MVP mainline alone would be almost 90 million metric tons annually. This is equivalent to the emissions from 23 average U.S. coal plants.”

Breaking Into TMX: Secwépemc Allies Try To Stop Construction Of Pipeline

December 16, 2023 Brandi Morin, The Real News Network. Resist! Canada, Direct Action, Indigenous Rights, Land defenders, Pipelines

It’s 4 a.m on Sunday, December 10, and Khursten Bullock and Crissy Fox (an alias she prefers to use) are ready for their mission. The mist of their breath trails hangs in the moonlight that dimly lights the rolling grasslands near Kamloops, B.C. They’ve been tasked with dropping tobacco into one of the bore holes inside the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion’s construction site. A Secwépemc prophecy holds that the tides will shift in their favour once the ceremonial medicine touches the bottom. They move silently in the darkness ahead, and barely a word is spoken on the short trek from the site of a sacred fire lit by the Secwépemc to the open pit construction site.

The Nord Stream Lies Just Keep Coming

November 30, 2023 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. Educate! Nord Stream Pipelines, Pipelines, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Want to understand why the media we consume is either owned by billionaires or under the thumb of governments? The latest developments in the reporting of who was behind the explosions that destroyed the Nord Stream pipelines that brought Russian gas to Europe provide the answer. Although largely forgotten now, the blasts in the Baltic Sea in September 2022 had huge and lasting repercussions. The explosion was an act both of unprecedented industrial sabotage and of unparalleled environmental terrorism, releasing untold quantities of the most potent of the greenhouse gasses, methane, into the atmosphere.

Local Governments And Grassroots Activists Stop Carbon Capture Pipelines

November 15, 2023 Taylor Noakes, DeSmog. Resist! Carbon Capture, climate crisis, Joe Biden, Pipelines

Players in the carbon dioxide pipeline industry canceled major pipeline projects in recent weeks, marking an inauspicious start to President Biden’s ambitious plans to develop carbon capture infrastructure as a key emissions mitigation tool. It is welcome news to CO2 pipeline opponents, however, which have included a wide spectrum of interest groups united in their concerns over pipeline safety. “I think what the cancellation shows is that people have had enough of fossil fuel infrastructure being forced upon them,” said Lorne Stockman, research co-director with Oil Change International. “It doesn’t surprise me that communities are standing up to these projects and occasionally winning.”

Protests Against Line 5 Continue In Wisconsin And The Courtrooms

October 25, 2023 Niko Georgiades and Akičita Šuŋka-Wakaŋ Ska, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Flotilla, Fossil Fuels, Line 5 Pipeline, Pipelines, Wisconsin

“We need to avert an oil disaster in Lake Superior. We need to save our water and our future.” That was water protector Gina Peltier’s message this summer. Peltier is one of many water protectors in the Midwest organizing against Line 5 tar sands oil pipeline in a growing movement against Canadian energy corporation Enbridge, which runs the largest oil export pipeline network in the world. On August 5, 2023, water protectors coordinated a rally and flotilla at the Fish Creek Landing in Ashland, Wisconsin at the site of one of the original Anishinaabe camps on Lake Superior.

Hersh Reveals US Motive For Destruction Of Nord Stream Pipelines

September 26, 2023 Moon Of Alabama. Educate! Fossil Fuels, Germany, Joe Biden, Nord Stream Pipelines, Pipelines, US Imperialism

It was no surprise to the agency’s secret planning group when on January 27, 2022, the assured and confident Nuland, then undersecretary of state for political affairs, stridently warned Putin that if he invaded Ukraine, as he clearly was planning to, that “one way or another Nord Stream 2 will not move forward.” The line attracted enormous attention, but the words preceding the threat did not. The official State Department transcript shows that she preceded her threat by saying that with regard to the pipeline: “We continue to have very strong and clear conversations with our German allies.”

They Halted A Pipeline; Now Can They Get Clean Drinking Water?

September 24, 2023 Ashli Blow, Next City. Resist! Clean Water, Fossil Fuels, Memphis, Pipelines

In 2019, energy companies announced a plan to route a major crude oil pipeline through Boxtown and other mostly Black communities in southwest Memphis. The location had been chosen, a company representative stated then, because it was the “point of least resistance.” But residents came together, proving the company wrong. In 2021, a powerful grassroots movement shut down the pipeline, which would have been built through a historic neighborhood founded by emancipated people and atop the world-famous Memphis Sand Aquifer. Now, two years later, the same activists are working to get reliable, safe drinking water for their communities.

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