Pipelines

Red Lake Votes To Remove Pipelines

March 16, 2018 By Grace Pastoor, Bemidjipioneer.com Resist! Indigenous People, Minnesota, Pipelines

RED LAKE -- The Red Lake Tribal Council voted Tuesday to remove Enbridge-owned oil pipelines from its land. The unanimous vote came two months after the council agreed to rescind a resolution accepting a land swap agreement with the Canadian energy company. That Jan. 9 vote paved the way for Tuesday’s action, according to Red Lake Representative Robert Smith. The pipelines in question are located on a 24-acre parcel of land about 30 miles northwest of Bemidji. They were installed by Lakehead Pipeline Co. Inc. sometime before the 1980s, when the reservation realized it owned the land. Enbridge Energy now owns the pipelines, but does not own the land under which they are installed. So in December 2015 the tribal council voted to accept $18.5 million -- meant to be spent on other land -- in exchange for the parcel.

WV DEP Orders Rover Pipeline To Stop Construction, Citing Multiple Violations

March 16, 2018 Kate Mishkin, Wvgazettemail.com Educate! Pipelines, Water Pollution, West Virginia

State regulators have slapped a cease-and-desist order on a natural gas pipeline, citing multiple water pollution violations, according to a letter made public by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. The 713-mile-long Rover Pipeline, which would transport 3.25 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day from processing plants in West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania, received the order on March 5 from Scott Mandirola, director of the Division of Water and Waste Management, documents show. According to the order, DEP officials conducted inspections on four days in February, during which they said they found 14 violations in Doddridge, Tyler and Wetzel counties. The alleged offenses include leaving trash and construction debris partially buried on site, improperly installing perimeter control and failing to inspect or clean public and private roads around the construction site.

Bayou Bridge Pipeline Opponents Say Louisiana Governor’s Office Is Surveilling Them

March 16, 2018 By Julie Dermansky, Desmogblog.com Resist! Louisiana, Pipelines, Surveillance

Opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline accused Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards of meeting with representative of the oil and gas industry while refusing to meet with activists and communities affected by the pipeline’s construction. They further allege that the administration has instead placed them under surveillance, pointing to similar treatment of Dakota Access pipeline opponents in North Dakota in 2016. Their claims are based in part on emails and other public records released by the state. The activists brought their grievances to the Democratic governor’s home and office on March 1, holding a press conference in front of the Governor’s Mansion in Baton Rouge and then occupying the foyer to his office in the State Capitol for over an hour. “The Bayou Bridge pipeline should be called the John Bel pipeline,” Louisiana Bucket Brigade founder and director Anne Rolfes declared at the press conference.

5 Mothers Arrested At Maryland Statehouse Demanding Governor Take Action On Potomac Pipeline

March 15, 2018 Anne Meador, Dcmediagroup.us Resist! Maryland, Mothers, Pipelines, Protesters Arrested

Five women blocked the doors of the Maryland Statehouse in Annapolis on Wednesday, demanding that Gov. Larry Hogan take immediate action to prevent construction of a gas pipeline and drilling under the Potomac River. Holding enlarged photos of their children and grandchildren, all five were arrested for trespassing after refusing to the vacate the entryway for nearly two hours. Organizers called the civil disobedience action an “escalation” of their efforts to stop TransCanada’s Potomac Pipeline, formally called the Eastern Panhandle Expansion. If built, it would originate in Fulton County, Pa., cross a small slice of Maryland, then pass under the Potomac River and link to the Mountaineer Gas Pipeline, not yet under construction, in West Virginia...

Kitchen-Table Nonprofit Rallies Community To Defeat Energy Giant

March 14, 2018 Kelly Canavan, AMP Creeks Council. Resist! compressor station, Dominion Energy, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

In what feels like a miraculous victory, the Charles County Board of Appeals voted 4 - 1 to deny the zoning special exception that Dominion needs to build Charles Station -- the fracked gas compressor station it wants to put on New Marshall Hall/Barry's Hill Rd. in Charles County, Maryland, on the Cove Point pipeline. Board members, fully aware that this case will move into the circuit court when Dominion appeals their decision, took great pains to lay out the reasons that they voted as they did, citing legal documents, ordinances, and codes to support their positions.

Activists Say ‘Frack No’ To Proposed Pipeline As Cuomo Makes Renewable Energy Investment

March 13, 2018 By Ben Brandstein, Bedfordandbowery.com Resist! Activists, Environment, Fracking, Pipelines

Environmental and community groups gathered outside New York University’s Kimmel Center this morning, rallying against a natural gas pipeline proposed by the Williams energy company. Meanwhile, inside, Governor Cuomo announced a $1.4 billion commitment to renewable energy programs. It’s said to be the biggest by any state in US history, but some protesters continue to say that Cuomo isn’t doing enough to stop fracking off the coast of New York City and elsewhere. Armed with signs and illustrations depicting the various projects they disapprove of and the organizations they stand with, protestors condemned the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline as unnecessary, expensive, and harmful, chanting, “When New York harbor is under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!”

Anti-Pipeline Tree Sitters In Second Week, Need Support

March 12, 2018 Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance. Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Tree Sitting, West Virginia

Peters Mountain, WV - Tree sitters with Appalachians Against Pipelines are now in the second week of their action to stop tree cutting for the Mountain Valley Pipeline on the border of Virginia and West Virginia. The pipeline company has to complete the tree cutting by March 31, 2018 or violate federal wildlife protections for bats. The tree sitters need your support.

We Are Lancaster County Invades Pipeline Company

March 12, 2018 Lancaster Against Pipelines, We Are Lancaster County. Resist! Environment, Oil and Gas, Pennsylvania, Pipelines

Pennsylvania - A busload of fifty local residents took over the field offices of Williams/Transco at 805 Estelle Drive, Suite 101, in Lancaster. We dropped a 12-ft stretch of pipeline in Williams’s meeting room, sang songs through the hallways, and slapped a Condemnation Notice on the door before leaving. When a Williams employee complained about our visit, one of our residents deadpanned: “Sucks to be invaded, doesn’t it?”

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.

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