Pipelines

The South’s Pipe Dreams

March 12, 2018 By Seth Cline, Usnews.com Educate! Appalachia, Gas, Pipelines

The largest gas field in the world lies deep below the shimmering Persian Gulf, surrounded on all sides by wealthy OPEC nations. The second-largest sits largely beneath rural Appalachia. And as political opposition to fracking and pipelines builds in the Northeast, that gas glut is increasingly heading one direction: south. Once fueled by the nearby mountain coal mines, the South is set to become one of the biggest benefactors of America's natural gas boom. But first, the region will have to build the pipelines to transport it. "If you look at the numbers this whole (Appalachian) region would be the second-largest gas producing country in the world," says Akos Losz, a research analyst at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy. "One way or another, gas has to find a way out of this region and the Southeast is one of the natural destination markets."

Kinder Morgan Files Injunction Against Pipeline Protesters

March 10, 2018 Staff, Nationalobserver.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests

Energy giant Kinder Morgan has filed an injunction against anti-pipeline activists protesting the company's pipeline construction work in Burnaby, B.C. The hearing is at 10 a.m. Friday at the British Columbia Supreme Court. According to Earle Peach, one of the individuals named in the injunction, there are 15 people specifically named by the injunction. They are protesting Kinder Morgan's $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, which has faced years-long opposition from certain First Nations groups, the City of Burnaby, the City of Vancouver, and the B.C. government. The lawsuit also lists “John Doe” and “Jane Doe”, which according to environmental group Stand, would imply that any member of the public now risks arrest by coming within 50 metres of Kinder Morgan facilities.

Tree-Sitting To Stop The Mountain Valley Pipeline

March 9, 2018 The Final Straw Radio, Earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Social Movements, Virginia, West Virginia

This week, Bursts spoke with Birch and Judy, two folks involved in the Tree Sits on Peter Mountain along the Appalachian Trail on the border of Virginia and West Virginia. The tree sits are operating in order to block the Mountain Valley Pipeline or MVP. Before all of the permits have been ok’d, contractors with the help of local law enforcement have been clearing the path for the pipeline. This preparation would include 3,800 feet blasted through the mountains or if that didn’t work the blasting of a trench that length through the mountains. We also talk about the ACP, or Atlantic Coast Pipeline, in this conversation and the connections between the two projects and their resistance.

The Lives Destroyed By The Mountain Valley Pipeline

March 9, 2018 Madelyne Ashworth, Rvamag.com Educate! Pipelines, Virginia

It’s a frightening thing to realize that despite spending years in one place, despite working hard over decades to make your house a home, despite being dutifully on time with property taxes and mortgage payments, someone could rip your home away to build a pipeline. RVA Mag traveled to Giles County, Virginia to document the lives and stories of some of the people most affected by the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP). David and Karen Yolton have spent the last 50 years turning a little pony barn into the loving home of a teacher and a retired land surveyor. Georgia Haverty, a single mother, has spent 40 years converting her 400 acres of farmland into four lucrative businesses with her daughter, including selling beef cattle and creating a wedding venue. Don Jones and his family have worked and tilled the same farmland in Giles County for ten generations.

Woman Arrested At Kinder Morgan Protest In Burnaby

March 8, 2018 Staff, Bc.ctvnews.ca Resist! Pipelines, Protests

An anti-pipeline protest outside the Kinder Morgan terminal in Burnaby, B.C. ended with the arrest of a self-described "middle-class, middle-aged mom" Tuesday morning. Lini Hutchings was among a group of demonstrators who blocked access to the terminal to delay work on the controversial Trans Mountain expansion, and she refused to leave when RCMP officers arrived. "The twinning of the Kinder Morgan pipeline threatens not just the land and the sea, it threatens First Nations sovereignty," Hutchings told CTV News before her arrest. Police carry a protester away from a demonstration at Kinder Morgan's Burnaby, B.C. terminal on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. "If the opposition to the pipeline has reached someone like me, it's very significant. I'm not a radical." Hers was the second arrest of a Kinder Morgan protester this week, and pipeline opponents have vowed to continue their efforts to peacefully disrupt the project.

Goldman Sachs Event At Harvard Disrupted Today

March 6, 2018 No Bayou Bridge Pipeline Solidarity Campaign, Popular Resistance. Resist! No BBP, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Water Protectors

A Goldman Sachs recruitment event at Harvard University was just disrupted over Goldman's investments in Energy Transfer Partners (ETP). Goldman Sachs is the top shareholder of ETP and the second largest shareholder of ETP's parent company, Energy Transfer Equity, holding nearly $2 billion in shares in these companies. Goldman Sachs has also loaned ETP tens of millions of dollars. ETP is the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline and hired armed mercenaries to brutalize peaceful water protectors at Standing Rock. Construction on the Bayou Bridge Pipeline is happening now but communities are resisting. Support the frontlines by finding a target and taking action: www.NoBayouBridge.global

FANG Collective Declares Victory In The Shame On Citizens Campaign

March 6, 2018 By Steve Ahlquist, Upriseri.com Resist! Banks, Investment, Pipelines

On Thursday activists and organizers with The FANG Collective, the Shame On Citizens campaign and other groups celebrated after learning that Citizens Bank had ended their financing of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP). Citizens Bank faced waves of demonstrations last year over their dealings with ETP and their sister company Sunoco Logistics. This included a lock-down action at the Citizens Bank headquarter building in Providence on March 2, 2017 carried out by the FANG Collective. Three people were arrested as part of the action. ETP is one of the most reckless corporations on the planet. Across the continent they have desecrated waterways and used violence and intimidation to try and silence opposition. ETP must be held accountable for their actions. We need more financial institutions to do what Citizens Bank has done and cut their ties with ETP.

Lumbees Tell Their Side In Atlantic Coast Pipeline Documentary

March 5, 2018 John Murawski, Newsobserver.com Resist! Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Film, Pipelines

Opponents of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline are deploying an increasingly common weapon in advocacy campaigns: a documentary film. Their 19-minute production, “Robeson Rises,” features Lumbee Indians and an African American who live near the route of the planned 600-mile natural gas pipeline that is set to run through eight North Carolina counties. At times resolute and tearful, the local residents are shown organizing against the interstate energy project that they say threatens their ancestral land and their cultural identity. The film’s organizers say their project is unusual even by the standards of the political documentary, which takes sides by design. They agreed to cede artistic indepenence to empower the subjects of the film to make editorial decisions to tell their own story in their own way.

Federal Judge Halts Bayou Bridge Pipeline Installation

February 28, 2018 By Julie Dermansky, Desmogblog.com Educate! Courts, Louisiana, Pipelines

The Bayou Bridge pipeline will be the last leg of the Dakota Access, carrying oil fracked in North Dakota to Louisiana. The final stretch of the project, if built as proposed, will span 162.5 miles from Lake Charles to St. James, cutting through the Atchafalaya Basin, a national heritage area and the country’s largest swamp. The lawsuit Earthjustice filed in federal court on January 11 against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, Gulf Restoration Network, the Waterkeeper Alliance, and the Sierra Club, alleges that the Corps acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” when it issued a permit for the pipeline. The plaintiffs were relieved by the judge’s ruling, and look forward to presenting their case in court, which they are confident will show cause to stop any new pipeline from being built until non-complaint companies fix existing problems.

Indigenous Wisdom Provides Path For Positive Change

February 28, 2018 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Clearing the FOG Radio. Podcast Indigenous Activist, Pipelines, Spirituality, Water Protectors

Sherri Mitchell, Penobscot, an Indigenous lawyer, writer and activist, has a new book, "Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change," which explains her personal journey to activism and both how our societies have arrived at this time of grave threats and what we can do to create change. Some of our tasks are to recognize that colonization has not ended, the ways it manifests itself and how to begin the process of decolonization. We can do that, in part, by working to protect water sovereignty. Sherri talks about the mobilization at Standing Rock and the rise of Water Protectors. Then we speak with RaeLynn Cazelot, United Houmi and Pointe-au-Chien, who is a Water Protector working to stop the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP).

Trump Administration Must Release Documents On KXL

February 25, 2018 By Georgina Gustin , Inside Climate News Resist! Donald Trump, KXL pipeline, Pipelines

A federal judge in Montana has ordered the Trump administration to release documents it relied on to approve construction of the Keystone XLpipeline last year, a development that pipeline opponents believe could stymie the controversial project. Last March, the State Department approved construction of the nearly 1,200-mile pipeline, which would carry crude oil from the tar sands region of Alberta, Canada, to Nebraska and ultimately to refineries on the Gulf Coast. The approval reversed a 2015 decision by the Obama administration, which had blocked the project by refusing to issue a permit for the pipeline to cross the Canadian border. Environmental groups sued the Trump administration, saying its reversal broke three laws and that it failed to conduct additional, updated environmental reviews before granting approval.

Federal Judge Blocks Construction Of Bayou Bridge Pipeline

February 24, 2018 Staff, Earthjustice.org Resist! Courts, Pipelines

The Atchafalaya Basin is located in southern Louisiana. The proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline would connect the Dakota Access Pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico. Judge Dick found that the lawsuit filed by several groups—Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association (West), Gulf Restoration Network, Waterkeeper Alliance and Sierra Club, represented by lawyers with Earthjustice—raises serious concerns and that the 162-mile pipeline would irreparably harm the Atchafalaya Basin. The groups recently presented live testimony during a hearing showing that the ancient cypress and tupelo trees slated to be turned into mulch while the pipeline right-of-way is being cleared would never return, including evidence that these old-growth trees are the Noah's Ark of the swamp—providing habitat for migratory birds, bears, bats and numerous other wildlife.

Warning: Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Will Make It Harder To Fight Pipelines

February 22, 2018 By Jessica Corbett, Commondreams.org Educate! Infrastructure, Pipelines, Trump Administration

As green groups continue to denounce the Trump administration's recently unveiled infrastructure plan as a "scam" that's designed to keep the nation trapped in its "dirty and destructive past," analysts are also warning the proposal will "make it harder for the next big anti-pipeline movement" to launch successful legal challenges to new fossil fuel projects. The plan aims to not only fast-track the construction of more pipelines across the U.S., but also to limit "the legal options available to lawyers at environmental groups opposed to new fossil fuel infrastructure" in part by changing "the standard under which a pipeline project could be temporarily halted by a judge," as Dino Gradoni explains in a Washington Post piece published Friday.

Your Pipeline Fights; Polluting Along Race Lines & Invading White Spaces

February 22, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Pipelines, pollution, Race, Racism

This week on Act Out! big oil and gas pay a small fine so they can keep on polluting. Next up, YOUR solidarity is needed in an upcoming week of action against the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Not in the bayous? Well, you don't need to be. This affects us all. Finally, the impact of dirty energy on black and brown communities plus community organizer Maurice Cook joins us to talk white supremacy, the importance of battling racism, of recognizing black history and how to organize TOGETHER in our place and time.

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