Pipelines

Politicians Take Large Contributions From Pipeline Companies

April 18, 2017 Lorne Stockman, www.priceofoil.org Educate! Money in Politics, Pipelines

By Lorne Stockman for Oil Change International - Legislators in Virginia got 75% of the money as the state has lax campaign finance rules, with unlimited contributions from corporations and individuals. But every signatory has received something from one of these two companies over their electoral career; even those in West Virginia where contribution limits are the tightest. The proposed 600-mile pipeline, which would carry fracked gas from West Virginia over the Allegheny highlands through Virginia to North Carolina, has become a hotly contested project. Opposition along the pipeline route has flared up around the threat to mountains, rivers, local water sources, public safety, environmental justice, climate change and use of eminent domain for private gain. It’s even become an issue in Virginia’s upcoming gubernatorial race. Tom Perriello, who emerged earlier this year as a challenger to Democratic establishment favorite Ralph Northam, has distinguished himself in large part by his opposition to both the ACP and the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP).

Another One Bites The Dust: Northern Access Pipeline Defeated In NY

April 12, 2017 Skyler Simmons, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! New York (NY), Pipelines, Protests

By Skyler Simmons for Earth First! News Wire - Communities in upstate New York are celebrating the recent announcement from the Department of Environmental Conservation that the Northern Access Pipeline will not receive the necessary permits for construction. The $500 million pipeline, proposed by National Fuel Gas, would have brought fracked gas from Pennsylvania to upstate NY. An announcement from the DEC on April 7 stated, “After an in-depth review of the proposed Northern Access Pipeline project and following three public hearings and the consideration of over 5,700 comments, DEC has denied the permit due to the project’s failure to avoid adverse impacts to wetlands, streams and fish and other wildlife habitat.

Senators’ Bombshell: DAPL Pipeline Did Not Have Key Permits

April 9, 2017 Rob Capriccioso, www.indiancountrymedianetwork.com Educate! #NoDAPL, indigenous, Pipelines

By Rob Capriccioso for Indian Country Today. Top Senate Democrats are questioning whether the builder and manager of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) had a permit to construct a controversial stretch of the project near tribal land and water sources. In a letter dated April 3, Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Tom Carper (D-DE), the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, took the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which on February 8 granted an easement to Energy Transfer Partners to build the pipeline under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, to task on several fronts. They argued that the Corps has provided “virtually no information to Congress regarding its oversight of the project” and that the Corps’ actions have left real questions over whether it made “efforts to make sure that Energy Transfer Partners complies with even the most fundamental environmental, safety and mitigation conditions of its easement and permits.”

Beyond Extreme Energy Call In Days To Stop FERC Appointments

April 4, 2017 Staff, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! Export Terminals, Fracking, LNG, Pipelines

By Staff of Beyond Extreme Energy - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is a proven rubber stamp for fracked gas pipelines. In 30 years the FERC Commissioners have only rejected one pipeline project. Right now, FERC is operating without a Quorum – it only has 2 Commissioners, not the needed 3. Until a new FERC Commissioner is approved by the Senate, the agency cannot issue the Certificates needed to approve fracked gas pipelines, compressors or LNG exports subject to its jurisdiction. This means communities are in a rare moment of protection. We need Congress to keep FERC in this power vacuum until steps are taken to replace it with an agency that’s about a just transition off fossil fuels. Any time now, President Trump will nominate new commissioners for Senate consideration and confirmation. Help us call on Congress to stop or delay Trump’s nominations, and to push for what we really need—a new agency dedicated to facilitating a just transition to an exploitation-free energy system based on locally controlled and distributed renewable sources.

Keystone XL: Environmental & Native Groups Sue to Halt Pipeline

April 2, 2017 Phil McKenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Indigenous Resistance, KXL pipeline, Pipelines

By Phil McKenna for Inside Climate News. Several environmental and Native American advocacy groups have filed two separate lawsuits against the State Department over its approval of the Keystone XL pipeline. The Sierra Club, Northern Plains Resource Council, Bold Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a federal lawsuit in Montana on Thursday, challenging the State Department's border-crossing permit and related environmental reviews and approvals. The suit came on the heels of a related suit against the State Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service filed by the Indigenous Environmental Network and North Coast Rivers Alliance in the same court on Monday.

FERC and LaFleur Confronted At Duke University Over Pipelines

March 30, 2017 Steve Norris, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! BXE, Dominion, FERC, Pipelines

By Steve Norris for Beyond Extreme Energy. Beyond Extreme Energy and the Alliance for the Protection of Our People and the Places We Live combined forces at Duke University in Durham North Carolina to challenge FERC's ongoing Rubber Stamp permitting of fracked gas infrastructure, and to let acting head FERC Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur (above photo on far right) know that North Carolina demands the rejection of Dominion and Duke's permitting of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. In contrast with the some in the audience who were upset with the protest, one person from Fayetteville whose home is located in the pipeline's blast zone commented: "Cheryl LaFleur apparently could not stand the heat, so like a child picked up her marbles and went home." Steve, Lee and Emma were briefly detained by Duke University police, who after some discussion, cited them for trespass. Their penalty is limited to being exiled from Duke University grounds forever.

As Permit Deadline Looms, New Yorkers Urge Cuomo To Block Northern Access Export Pipeline

March 29, 2017 Diana Strawblow et al, www.niagarasierraclub.com Resist! New York (NY), Pipelines

By Diana Strawblow, Joseph Gibson, and Lia Oprea for Sierra Club - LAlbany, NY — With less than two weeks left before the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) must grant or deny critical permits for National Fuel’s proposed Northern Access Pipeline, New Yorkers and allies from neighboring states gathered in the state capital to protest the controversial project. Landowners facing eminent domain, conservationists and concerned residents marched from DEC headquarters to the capitol building, where they spoke of the threat the pipeline would pose to their health, safety, air, water and livelihoods. The group also delivered copies of a letter signed by more than 140 organizations, businesses and faith communities calling on the DEC and Governor Andrew Cuomo to deny air and water permits for the 99-mile pipeline.

Dakota Access Pipeline Sabotaged In Several States

March 25, 2017 Staff, www.unicornriot.ninja Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines, Protests, Sabotage

By Staff of Unicorn Riot - Authorities in South Dakota and Iowa confirmed Tuesday that someone apparently used a torch to burn a hole through empty sections of the pipeline at aboveground shut-off valve sites. Mahaska County Sheriff Russell Van Renterghem said the culprit in Iowa appeared to have gotten under a fence around the facility, but Lincoln County Sheriff’s Deputy Chad Brown said the site in South Dakota wasn’t fenced. The Iowa incident was discovered March 13 and the South Dakota incident Friday [March 17]. Pipeline operators are asked to report security breaches to the National Response Center. Data on the center’s website show no reports from ETP this month.

Green Groups Restart Fight Against Keystone XL Pipeline

March 25, 2017 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Environment, Keystone XL, Pipelines

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Environmental groups rallied at the White House Friday afternoon in a new commitment to do whatever it takes to stop the Keystone XL pipeline. The call to action came as the Trump administration issued permission to restart the pipeline, a project which was considered defeated in November 2015, when Obama rejected final approval of the State Department permits. The project was previously the focus of an epic six-year battle between TransCanada Corporation and hundreds of environmental groups, between 2010-2015, which grew out of grassroots organizing and into a major environmental movement. The battle was waged with a broad range of groups, including Indigenous people, students, clergy, green groups and involved legal challenges.

Keystone XL Pipeline Foes Rev Up Fight Again After Trump’s Rubber Stamp

March 25, 2017 Marianne Lavelle, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Climate Change, Keystone XL, Pipelines

By Marianne Lavelle for Inside Climate News - This story was updated at 10:45 am ET on March 24 to include comments from President Donald Trump, TransCanada. The White House's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline Friday opens a fierce, new battle over a project that has become a front in the fight against climate change. President Donald Trump made reviving the 1,200-mile pipeline, which will transport heavy crude oil from tar sands mines in Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast, a key plank of his fossil fuel-focused energy plan. He promised in January to reverse President Barack Obama's rejection of the TransCanada project, one of Obama's signature environmental decisions, within 60 days.

Memorial Events In Honor Of Military Veteran And Water Protector Killed By Police Last Month

March 21, 2017 Staff, www.sabaltrailresistance.wordpress.com Resist! Activists, Pipelines, Protests, Veterans

By Staff of Sabal Trail Resistance - Please join Sabal Trail Resistance (STR), Vets For Peace and other activists in honoring James “Jim” L. Marker by continuing to stand against the oil and gas pipelines that he lost his life fighting on Feb 26, 2017. Community Remembering on Sunday, March 26, 1pm at the Pruitt Memorial site in Halpata Tastanaki Preserve, on mile north of the Withlacoochee River. Enter at Pruitt Trailhead, off of SR 484. Park in picnic area, hike 0.5 miles to memorial site.(Please bring a song, story or poem to share, along with food or beverage to share.) Demonstration at Dunnellon Compressor Station construction site on Monday, March 27, 10 a.m. Located along SR 200. Click here for map image. Parking will be on the shoulder of the road. (Please bring signs, banners, drums, etc. with the message “Kill Pipelines NOT People”)

Action Called For On FERC’s Rubber Stamping Of Pipelines

March 14, 2017 Stephanie Roker, www.worldpipelines.com Resist! FERC, Pipelines

By Stephanie Roker for World Pipelines - Over 130 organisations across the country recently announced that they will oppose nominees made by the Trump Administration to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The move reflects the growing resistance nationwide from residents, farmers, business owners, physicians and environmentalists to FERC's practice of recklessly permitting pipelines that put hundreds of communities and the drinking water of millions of Americans at risk, in addition to the global climate. The 135 groups range from dozens of local community organisations and activists to national nonprofit organisations (Beyond Extreme Energy, Center for Biological Diversity, Food and Water Watch and Green America)...

200 Mile March To Stop Atlantic Coast Pipeline

March 14, 2017 Monica Vendituoli, www.fayobserver.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests

By Monica Vendituoli for The Fayetteville Observer - The farmland in Wade belonging to Tom Clark’s grandfather is in the path of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, but not if he can help it. Clark was one of more than 50 people who attended a rally protesting the pipeline Sunday afternoon in Fayetteville. “We live in the sacrifice zone,” Clark said. “I’m not here to fight the pipeline. I’m here to stop it.” The proposed 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline is a natural gas transmission pipeline that would be used to generate electricity at power plants in Virginia and North Carolina, according to a fact book by Dominion, an energy production and transportation company.

As Trial Begins, Climate Protectors Say Action Was A Necessity

March 12, 2017 Jeremy Brecher, www.commondreams.org Resist! climate crisis, Criminal Justice System, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Jeremy Brecher for Common Dreams. Is there anything people can do about climate change in the Trump era? The new American president has asserted that global warming is a fraud perpetrated by the Chinese to steal American jobs; threatened to ignore or even withdraw from the Paris climate agreement; and pledged unlimited burning of fossil fuels. Whatever the details, Trump’s agenda will escalate global warming far beyond its already catastrophic trajectory. As we learn that 2016 was the hottest year on record, it sounds like a formula for doom. On October 11 2016, with the presidential campaign still raging, five climate protectors traveled to five secluded locations in North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, and Washington state and turned the shut-off valves on the five pipelines that carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada into the United States. Their action – dubbed “Shut It Down” – blocked 15% of US crude oil imports for nearly a day.

Memos Reveal Army Corps Knows Dakota Access Pipeline Violates Law

March 9, 2017 Michael J. Sainato, www.counterpunch.org Educate! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines

By Michael J. Sainato for Counter Punch - On March 3, MinnPost reported that four memos were pulled from the Department of the Interior website on the Army Corps of Engineers after Donald Trump took office, citing their removal signifies, “an attempt to make opaque some serious shortcomings in the Corps’ performance on DAPL that are little known and less understood.” The Dakota Access Pipeline, enabled by Barack Obama signing a bill in 2015 to lift a ban on U.S. Oil exports creating the demand for domestic pipelines to be built for oil export, emerged as a movement for indigenous rights and environmentalism

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