Pipelines

As Tree-Cutting Continues For The Mountain Valley Pipeline, So Do The Protests

April 17, 2018 Laurence Hammack, Roanoke.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, West Virginia

Coffey knew, as soon as she read an urgent text from a neighbor and left work in a rush, that it was the day she had been dreading — the day that tree-cutting for the Mountain Valley Pipeline would invade her family farm on Bent Mountain. For three years, Coffey had fought the natural gas pipeline. She spoke against it at a public hearing. She marched against it at a rally on Capitol Square in Richmond. She argued against it when Mountain Valley took her to federal court, where the company obtained an easement through her property by eminent domain. On the day the tree-cutters arrived unannounced, Coffey did the only thing left within her power. She stood as close as she could to the pipeline’s right of way, marked by blue-and-white flagged stakes, and dared the men with chainsaws to keep coming.

Protests Against Pipelines In Canada Hurting Oil & Gas Industry

April 15, 2018 By Nicholas Kusnetz, Inside Climate News Resist! Canada, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

When the pipeline company Kinder Morgan announced it was suspending work on a major Canadian project that has been delayed by protests and court challenges, it sparked talk of a crisis north of the border and fears that investors may flee the nation's tar sands industry. It was the clearest sign yet of how difficult it's become for energy companies to find new routes to export the country's landlocked oil, among the most expensive and damaging to the climate to produce. Over the past several years, climate activists and indigenous groups—in particular many of Canada's First Nations governments—have built a sustained campaign that has succeeded in delaying, and in some cases canceling, almost every attempt to send more Canadian oil to foreign markets. Canada's tar sands hold one of the world's largest deposits of oil, but as the industry has expanded production over the past decade, it's been unable to complete new pipelines fast enough to ship it out.

Kinder Morgan Issues Ultimatum, Suspends ‘Non-Essential’ Spending On Trans Mountain Pipeline

April 11, 2018 Kelly Cryderman And Ian Bailey, Theglobeandmail.com Resist! Canada, Pipelines

Kinder Morgan has suspended all “non-essential” spending on its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion due to opposition from the British Columbia government, issuing an ultimatum that it won’t commit any more dollars to the $7.4-billion project unless it can get agreement from the province to stand aside by the end of May. The fate of the project — which has become the focal point of a larger Canadian debate over environment protection versus energy development, and federal authority versus local interests — could be decided in the weeks ahead. The pipeline company said in a news release Sunday it will consult with stakeholders in an effort to reach agreements by May 31 that could allow the project to still go ahead. “If we cannot reach agreement by May 31st, it is difficult to conceive of any scenario in which we would proceed with the project,” Kinder Morgan chief executive officer Steve Kean said in a news release.

Why WNC Should Be Worried About The Atlantic Coast Pipeline

April 11, 2018 By Steve Norris, Citizen-times.com Resist! Climate Change, Corruption, Pipelines

Regulators have recently given Duke Energy and Dominion Resources permits to construct the 600-mile, $6.5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) from West Virginia, and Virginia, into North Carolina. In N.C., the pipeline will be 36 inches in diameter and will cross 1,300 parcels of land. It will carry at least 1.5 billion cubic feet of fracked gas per day. Some gas may possibly be available to North Carolina customers. Much, though will be headed to S.C. and beyond for export to China and Europe. Since the ACP is being built in eastern North Carolina, 200 miles from Asheville, many think that it is not our problem, and will not impact us. Nothing could be further from the truth. The ACP will hugely impact all residents in N.C., including Asheville. Cost of pipeline: Since planning started, the cost of the pipeline has risen fast. Duke’s commitment is now about $3 billion.

Bayou Bridge Protesters Arrested As Louisiana Advances Bill Toughening Penalties For Pipeline Protests

April 10, 2018 By Julie Dermansky, Desmogblog.com Resist! Louisiana, Pipelines, Protesters Arrested, Protests, Repression

On Thursday, April 5, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline attempted to shut down its construction by blocking an industrial supply company’s facility in Iowa, Louisiana, just outside of Lake Charles on the same day a bill spelling out harsher penalties for pipeline protesters was advanced to committee during the Louisiana legislative session. For about two hours starting at 6:30 a.m., roughly 20 protesters blocked the entrance to Yak Mat, an industrial yard that supplies access mats used to create temporary roadways at pipeline construction sites and enable trucks to pass through muddy areas. The site is close to the starting point of the Bayou Bridge pipeline, which spans south Louisiana from Lake Charles, near the Texas border, to St. James, along the Mississippi River.

Tree Sitters In West Virginia Aren’t Leaving; They’re Expanding

April 5, 2018 Staff, Itsgoingdown.org Resist! Pipelines, Protests, West Virginia

It’s now been one week since the monopod tree-sit was erected on a mountain road, in an attempt to stop pipeline construction. This move itself came about a month after an earlier tree-sit was made public. As the tree sits continue, residents in the surrounding area, many of which are in the middle of legal battles with MVP to keep their homes, began to rally in support of the resistance and also send up supplies. In response, police have set up a “free speech” area far away from the monopod in an attempt to cut off supplies and support, but have so far been unsuccessful in stopping the tree sit and people from mobilizing in solidarity.

Landowner Launches New Pipeline Protest In Roanoke County Tree

April 4, 2018 By Bianca Holman, Wdbj7.com Resist! Land, Pipelines, Protests, Virginia

A woman who lives on Bent Mountain says pipeline surveyors called police to her property Monday afternoon, after she climbed in a tree and refused to come down. The landowner, who goes by the name "Red," told WDBJ7 that she climbed into a tree around Monday and plans to stay put in an effort to prevent pipeline crews from tearing down trees on her property. "Red" said she observed surveyors, believed to be employed by the company intending to build the Mountain Valley Pipeline, planting blue ribbons to mark an access road and orange ribbons to mark the path of the pipeline on her Roanoke County property.. "Red" had already constructed a treehouse on her property, anticipating a standoff between herself and pipeline crews. When she saw them moving toward her treehouse, she climbed the ladder and launched her protest.

Louisiana And Minnesota Introduce Anti-Protest Bills Amid Fights Over Bayou Bridge And Enbridge Pipelines

April 3, 2018 Alleen Brown and Will Parrish, Theintercept.com Resist! Legislation, Louisiana, Minnesota, Pipelines

THIS WEEK, THE Louisiana House of Representatives introduced new legislation aimed at criminalizing the activities of groups protesting the extraction, burning, and transport of oil and gas. The bill is similar to a model created by the right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council. Indeed, in the wake of the massive protest movement at Standing Rock, which attempted to prevent completion of the Dakota Access pipeline, at least seven states have introduced or passed “critical infrastructure” legislation. Louisiana’s version comes as opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline have ramped up protest activities in the state, staging occupations and blockades aimed at halting construction of the project. The legislation creates new crimes that would punish groups for “conspiring” to trespass on critical infrastructure sites and prescribes particularly harsh penalties for those whose ideas...

West Virginia Trees Speak Out, US Climate Refugees & Media Tricks You

April 1, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com. Resistance Report climate crisis, Media, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

On Peters Mountain in West Virginia, people are resisting in building. Entering the 5th week of a tree-sit, Appalachians Against Pipelines are engaging in direct action against the Mountain Valley Pipeline and for People and Planet. Two folks on the front lines join us to talk backstory, updates and inspiration. Headlines this week: A look at one of corporate media's favorite techniques. PLUS what you'll never hear covered on nightly news – i.e. Uncle Sam's very own climate refugees, how much of the planet's forests we have left & pipeline battles from the front lines.

Agency Denies Pipeline’s Request For More Time To Cut Trees

March 30, 2018 Sarah Rankin, AP.org Resist! Dominion Energy, FERC, Pipelines

A federal commission denied a request Wednesday from developers of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline to continue cutting down trees along the project's route beyond an initial deadline designed to protect birds and bats. Dominion Energy, leading percentage owner of the natural gas pipeline, told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission earlier this month that it appeared workers couldn't complete tree felling in West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina on time and asked for an extension. Despite the denial Wednesday, a spokesman for the project said it will remain on track for completion by the end of 2019. Dominion agreed to the tree-felling restrictions as part of the project's environmental review process. The windows vary from state to state but generally prohibit tree cutting from mid-March or early April through mid-September or mid-November. Virginia's restriction began March 15.

Resistance Born On The Bayou

March 30, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Artkillingapathy.com Resist! Louisiana, Pipelines

That morning, three of us woke up early – earlier than most people visiting New Orleans – and drove to a rural area not far from Rayne, LA. A local woman there had asked Cherri to come and monitor the pipeline work being done. We came to assist. The property is long – long enough that it is already home to five pipelines. Yellow marker poles run nearly the entire length, and now mud pits and excavators mark the placement for a sixth pipeline: the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. “I brought a book,” Cherri says, digging through her bag. She pulls out James Baldwin and flips through a few pages before getting pulled back into conversation. She jokes about a recent phone call where a man appeared shocked by her eloquence and depth of knowledge. “What was he expecting?” she says laughing, and adopting a caricatured Native accent.

Kinder Morgan Pipeline Protests Continue In B.C. With 172 Arrests Over Past Week

March 27, 2018 Staff, Thestar.com Resist! Pipelines, Protesters Arrested, Protests

BURNABY, B.C.—Dozens of Indigenous youth and other demonstrators gathered at Kinder Morgan’s Burnaby Terminal on Saturday, in the latest in a string of protests this past week against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Protect the Inlet spokesperson Virginia Cleaveland said 57 protesters had been arrested by early Saturday evening, bringing the week’s total to 172 arrests. Cedar George-Parker, who was among the young Indigenous leaders who led a march to the site on Saturday, said the project poses too great a risk to Tsleil-Waututh First Nation lands. “We’re taking a stand against the Kinder Morgan pipeline, we’re standing up against bullies. Justin Trudeau can’t do his job by securing the safety of our future, so we’ll do it for him,” George-Parker said in an interview at the site.

“Environmental Extremism” Or Necessary Response To Climate Emergency? Pipeline Shutdown Trials Pit Activists Against The Oil Industry

March 24, 2018 Alleen Brown, Theintercept.com Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Pipelines

On October 11, 2016, while the Dakota Access pipeline protests were in full force, climate activists approached above-ground valve sites on five tar sands pipelines in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Washington state. After calling the pipeline companies to give warning, they turned the valve wheels in a coordinated attempt to stop the flow of tar sands oil. Tuesday’s sentencing hearing tested a Montana court’s willingness to apply the severe penalties already available for use against pipeline protesters. For halting the flow of oil through Enbridge’s Express pipeline for several hours, Leonard Higgins, a 66-year-old retired information technology manager for the state of Oregon, faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine for charges of misdemeanor trespass and felony criminal mischief.

North Carolina Tribes Fear Impact Of Atlantic Coast Pipeline Construction

March 24, 2018 Elizabeth Outz, Energynews.us Resist! Indigenous Peoples, North Carolina, Pipelines

American Indian tribes in the path of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are making an eleventh-hour plea to stop construction until regulators can ensure ancient artifacts and their ancestral lands won’t be damaged. The largest tribe east of the Mississippi, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina has rarely weighed in on environmental permits. But its recent resolution, along with one from the state’s Commission of Indian Affairs, reflects growing concern among tribes that the pipeline could destroy swamps and forests that have long sustained their culture. With nearly all the required permits in hand, the project’s developers have already begun felling trees along a 600-mile corridor from West Virginia to North Carolina’s Robeson County. Pipeline foes have mounted an array of legal challenges, and this week showcase the plight of the Lumbee in a new documentary, Robeson Rises.

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