Pipelines

Pipeline Protesters Arrested In Dallas Are ‘Making Sacrifices For All Of Us,’ Local Leader Says

October 20, 2018 Sara Coello, Dallasnews.com Resist! Dallas, Pipelines, Protests

Two protesters were arrested at a North Dallas hotel Thursday morning after interrupting a shareholders meeting to denounce the final phase of construction on Energy Transfer Partners' latest pipeline. Indigenous rights activists Waniya Locke, 36, and Cherri Foytlin, 46, were booked into the Dallas County jail just after noon and face charges of disorderly conduct. They were detained by two off-duty officers working at the meeting, police spokesman Carlos Almeida said. "These are two beautiful, strong, resilient indigenous women ... the way they uphold themselves is something to be admired," Society of Native Nations representative Yolanda Blue Horse said. "They're making sacrifices for all of us." Dozens of protesters gathered in and around the Hilton Dallas/Park Cities in the 5900 block of Luther Lane with signs reading "Caution...

Energy Transfer Partners’ Security Team Sinks Water Protectors’ Boats

October 20, 2018 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout.org Resist! Bayou Bridge Pipeline, Pipelines, Repression, Water Protectors

Monday morning, an Energy Transfer Partners security team sank two boats carrying approximately 15 water protectors and members of the media at a Bayou Bridge Pipeline construction site. A press release from the L’eau Est La Vie Camp of water protectors about the incident stated that the security boat “passed by at an aggressive speed” and “intentionally” caused a large wake that “swamped and eventually sunk the boats” carrying media and water protectors. While people could have easily drowned in the incident, they luckily managed to swim to shore, where they were assisted by a local fisherman. The water protectors and media members who were with them, including a documentary film crew...

Disrupt And Protest These Bank Recruitment Events

October 12, 2018 Staff, Nobayoubridge.global Resist! Banks, Higher Education, Pipelines, Protests

In the next few months several of the banks that are financing the Bayou Bridge Pipeline and Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) are hosting recruitment events at college campuses. The banks use these events to recruit students to internship programs and for jobs in the finance industry. They speak glowingly about what it means to work for their bank, but leave out the part about how they are financing violent companies like ETP and destructive projects like the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Water Protectors resisting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline have been beaten, tased and charged with felonies. Stand in solidarity with the frontlines by disrupting and demonstrating at these campus recruitment events and telling students the truth about the banks that are bankrolling the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.

Judge Tosses Case Against Pipeline Valve Turners

October 10, 2018 By Jordan Shearer, Bemidjipioneer.com Resist! Courts, Minnesota, Pipelines

BAGLEY -- The environmental movement chose a small Minnesota town as the battleground for its latest fight. A judge in Clearwater County dismissed the case Tuesday against three people who were charged with damaging a pipeline in 2016. And while they have made their point, they all traveled a long way to do it. Among the seven people sitting in front of the judge, only two were from Minnesota, and only one was from Clearwater County. The defendants, who have referred to themselves as “valve turners,” shut off the valves of two Enbridge Energy Co. pipelines near Leonard, Minn., in October 2016 as a way to protest the oil industry’s contribution to climate change.

Wave Of Renewable Energy Resistance Puts Solar Panels In Path Of Tar Sands Pipeline

October 4, 2018 Staff, Gofossilfree.org Resist! Pipelines, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

Keystone XL is a proposed tar sands pipeline that would connect Alberta, Canada with Gulf Coast refineries carrying around 800,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil across the United States. President Obama rejected the federal permit for this project in 2015 because of the impact Keystone XL would have on our climate. One of Trump’s first moves in office was to reverse Obama’s decision and give TransCanada the federal permit for construction. In November 2017, the Nebraska Public Service Commission voted to give a “conditional” approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, mandating TransCanada use a different route. TransCanada is now scrambling to buy out politicians to move the project forward.

Montana Law Enforcement Gearing-Up For Mass Anti-Pipeline Protests

October 1, 2018 Hunter Pauli, Havreherald.com Educate! Law Enforcement, Montana, Pipelines, Protests

State and federal agencies are training Montana law enforcement officers to surveil anti-Keystone XL pipeline activists’ social media and arrest protesters en masse, according to correspondence obtained by the ACLU of Montana and provided to Montana Free Press. Agencies coordinating to train law enforcement officers in eastern Montana include police and sheriff’s departments, the Montana Highway Patrol, the Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, Montana Disaster and Emergency Services, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana’s Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council.

Line 3 Protesters Block Clearwater County Roadwork

September 20, 2018 By Joe Bowen, Bemidjipioneer.com Resist! Mississippi, Pipelines, Protests

CLEARWATER COUNTY -- Roadwork that crosses the early stages of the Mississippi River was halted briefly on Tuesday morning by protesters who object to a plan to install an oil pipeline nearby and a similar plan in Louisiana, where the river drains into the Gulf of Mexico. About 15 people set up a tipi and performed a water ceremony where the Mississippi meets County Road 40, pausing a mill and overlay project across the bridge there. The protesters were about 100 yards away from the spot where the county road intersects with the proposed route for Enbridge Energy Co.’s replacement Line 3 oil pipeline, which would pump 760,000 barrels of oil daily through northern Minnesota and has prompted fears of a spill or similar disaster.

St. Louis: Rally And Bank Shutdown In Solidarity With L’eau Est La Vie Camp

September 20, 2018 Staff, Earth Defense Coalition Resist! Bank of America, Banks, Pipelines, Protests, St. Louis

ST. LOUIS: In response to a call from a camp in Louisiana resisting the #BayouBridgePipeline, L’eau Est La Vie Camp, for a day of global solidarity, St. Louis residents who have been to the resistance encampment organized a local action to bring attention to the struggle and put pressure on local targets in St. Louis. The action started at the Bank of America Plaza Downton with a rally that hosted a variety of speakers, after that a march proceeded which ended at a U.S. Bank branch, where 10 activists took over the lobby and shut it down, while the rest of the march remained outside as auxiliary support. The activists inside shutdown the branch for the last hour it was open and left the space without arrest at the end of the day.

Pipeline Spills More Than 8,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel Into Indiana River

September 17, 2018 By Olivia Rosane, Ecowatch.com Educate! Indiana, Oil Spill, Pipelines

A pipeline spilled more than 8,000 gallons of jet fuel into an Indiana river, The Associated Press reported Sunday. The affected river was St. Marys River in Decatur, which is a town of 9,500 people about 100 miles from Indianapolis. Cleaning the spill could take weeks, Decatur Mayor Kenneth L. Meyer told the Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Journal Gazette. The spill was first reported Friday night in a safety warning issued by the Decatur Police Department urging residents to avoid the area around the spill, local news outlet WANE reported Saturday. Houston-based Buckeye Pipe Line Company, L.P., which owns the pipeline, confirmed the spill to WANE Saturday. Company officials said there had been a failure Friday evening that had caused the spill.

Landowners Oppose Oil Pipeline Before Iowa Supreme Court

September 15, 2018 David Pitt, Apnews.com Resist! Iowa, Land, Pipelines, Supreme Court

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A group of Iowa landowners and an environmental group asked the Iowa Supreme Court Wednesday to declare a crude oil pipeline permit illegal under the Iowa Constitution, a decision that could force the pipeline in operation for more than a year to be turned off. The attorney for a group of landowners who opposed construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline through their property told the court since the pipeline provides no direct use to Iowans the decision of the Iowa Utilities Board to grant a permit should be reversed. “The pipeline crosses the state with no oil wells, no refineries, this pipeline has no onramps and no offramps,” said Bill Hannigan. “Iowans have no direct use.”

States Allow For-Profit Pipeline Companies To Seize Private Property

September 13, 2018 Mike Ludwig, Truthout.org Educate! Capitalism, Pipelines, Property

According to Misha Mitchell, an attorney for a conservation group in Louisiana’s ecologically sensitive Atchafalaya Basin, Energy Transfer Partners and other private oil interests broke the law when they began building a section of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline on a parcel of private land in the iconic river swamp without permission from the landowners. Mitchell filed a lawsuit against the pipeline project on behalf of landowner Peter Aaslestad and his family after construction began on their property in late July, but work continued on the property until Monday, when Energy Transfer Partners struck a deal in a local court with the plaintiffs to temporarily halt construction. The company must now wait until at least November to finish, when a court will decide whether Energy Transfer Partners has the legal right to “expropriate” the property under state law.

State Regulators Postpone Enbridge Meetings After Protests Erupt

September 13, 2018 By Mike Hughlett, Startribune.com Resist! Minneapolis, Pipelines, Protests

The Minneapolis Public Utilities commissioners, meeting in June. The PUC on Tuesday postponed a meeting disrupted by protesters as the panel was to consider the Enbridge 3 new pipeline proposal. State regulators on Tuesday postponed a meeting on Enbridge's controversial new $2.6 billion oil pipeline project after protests erupted in the hearing room. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) was evaluating whether Enbridge met conditions imposed by the panel in June in regard to the pipeline project, which would replace the company's current Line 3. The conditions, which must be met for the company to receive its permit, include details of Enbridge's corporate guarantee and insurance coverage in case of an oil spill.

‘Major Victory’: Legal Challenge Halts Construction Of Bayou Bridge Pipeline

September 12, 2018 By Jessica Corbett, Mintpressnews.com Resist! Louisiana, Pipelines

While celebrating the win, activists noted that “construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline continues in other parts of the Atchafalaya Basin” and vowed to keep fighting to completely shut down the project. In a “major victory” for local landowners and pipeline activists who are fighting to block the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana, the company behind the project agreed to halt construction on a patch of private property just ahead of a court hearing that was scheduled for Monday morning. The path of the 163-mile pipeline runs through Atchafalaya Basin, the nation’s largest wetland and swamp. Local landowners and activists have raised alarm about the threat the pipeline poses to regional water resources, wildlife, and communities.

Indigenous Sue Over Violations Of Law In Permit Process For KXL Pipeline

September 11, 2018 Staff, Narf.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Lawsuit, Pipelines

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) and the Fort Belknap Indian Community (Assiniboine (Nakoda) and Gros Ventre (Aaniiih) Tribes) in coordination with their counsel, the Native American Rights Fund, on September 10, 2018, sued the Trump Administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana, Great Falls Division, for numerous violations of the law in the Keystone XL pipeline permitting process. The Tribes are asking the court to declare the review process in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and to rescind the illegal issuance of the Keystone XL pipeline presidential permit. On March 23, 2017, the U.S. Department of State granted TransCanada’s permit application and issued it a presidential permit to construct and operate the Keystone XL Pipeline.

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