Pipelines

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

Newsletter – This Is What Austerity Looks Like

March 5, 2017 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Austerity, Drones, health, National Improved Medicare for All, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Wars and Militarism

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. George Lakey of Waging Nonviolence wrote about the root cause of the recent protests in Sweden - increasing wealth inequality from austerity measures imposed over the past few decades. The media reported that the protests were a response to the police murder of a 69 year-old man, but they were actually due to a growing division between classes that is also fueling racism. Even though the wealth divide is much smaller in Sweden than it is in the United States, it is obvious to Swedes when compared to surrounding countries. In the United States, austerity measures in the form of cuts to social programs, lower wages and tax cuts for the wealthy have also fueled tremendous wealth inequality and economic insecurity. Similar to Sweden, this is the root of civil unrest. Lakey urges people in the US to fight back via nonviolent revolution.

Pipeline Protestors Shut Down Citizens Bank

March 4, 2017 The Fang Collective, www.thefangcollective.org Resist! Big Banks, Divestment, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By The Fang Collective. Providence, RI – On Thursday morning three people with The FANG Collective blockaded the main entrance to the Citizens Bank global headquarters building in downtown Providence, RI to protest the Bank’s financing of Sunoco Logistics. Two people used a series of bike locks to lock their necks to two sets of doors, while another person used their body and several door stoppers to block a revolving door. The action follows the February launch of the “Shame On Citizens” campaign which calls attention to Citizens Bank’s role in a $2.5 billion line of credit to Sunoco Logistics, a pipeline company behind several controversial projects, including the Dakota Access Pipeline. Citizens contributed $72.5 million to this line of credit. Sunoco Logistics is in the process of fully merging with Energy Transfer Partners.

Sabal Trail Pipeline Protester Killed By Police

March 3, 2017 Sabal Trail Resistance, www.itsgoingdown.org Resist! killed by police, Pipelines, Police, Protests

By Sabal Trail Resistance for It's Going Down. The story is still unfolding about a man, 66 year old James Leroy Marker, who lost his life to police bullets after an act of sabotage that disabled a section of Sabal Trail pipeline construction in Marion County last week, on February 26, 2017. We know that there will be more to say in the coming days or weeks, as family and friends come forward with stories of James’ life. But we felt a need to acknowledge what has happened while the incident is fresh on peoples’ minds and questions are surfacing around his motivations, the value of the actions he took and the response of law enforcement. First off, it must be noted that his action effectively disabled recent construction activity in a highly controversial area, mere miles from the crossing of preserves including Pruitt, Halpata Tastanaki and the Marjorie Carr Greenway, with sensitive wetlands and endangered species being impacted.

Standing Rocks Is Burning – Our Resistance Isn’t Over

February 26, 2017 Julian Brave NoiseCat, www.theguardian.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Poverty

By Julian Brave NoiseCat for The Guardian. North Dakota - Just north of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, water protectors set their makeshift and traditional structures ablaze in a final act of prayer and defiance against Energy Transfer Partner’s Dakota Access Pipeline, sending columns of black smoke billowing into the winter sky above the Oceti Sakowin protest camp. The majority of the few hundred remaining protesters marched out, arm in arm ahead of the North Dakota authorities’ Wednesday eviction deadline. An estimated one hundred others refused the state’s order, choosing to remain in camp and face certain arrest in order to defend land and water promised to the Oceti Sakowin, or Great Sioux Nation, in the long-broken Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851.

DAPL: Twenty-first Century Replay Of Manifest Destiny

February 26, 2017 Billy J. Stratton, wwww.historynewsnetwork.org Educate! #NoDAPL, Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines

By Billy J. Stratton for History News Network. Resistance to colonial oppression has long been a way of life for Lakota and Dakota peoples living at Standing Rock. Their interactions have been defined to a large extent by conflict over land and resources, and through resistance to systematic efforts aimed at the destruction of their cultures and sense of identity through government policies such as allotment, termination, and relocation, along with their forced assimilation in boarding schools and the repression of Native spirituality and religion. Native peoples’ claims to the lands of the Northern Plains, expressed in the very names of North Dakota and South Dakota, have been systematically eroded over the past century and a half through the instruments of war, broken treaties, theft, and corruption.

‘Any Of The Journalists Present Could Have Been Arrested’

February 24, 2017 Reed Lindsay, www.fair.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Arrest, Journalism, Pipelines

By Reed Lindsay for FAIR - As residents were evicted from the Oceti Sakowin Camp where they had gathered to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline, filmmaker and journalist Reed Lindsay posted this update on the continued assault on the First Amendment faced by independent journalists covering the #NODAPL struggle. Filmmaker Jahnny Lee working with the Sundance Institute was arrested yesterday by North Dakota police while filming a stand-off between police and water protectors. He was charged with “obstruction of a government function.” I can only surmise that the charge of “criminal trespass,” leveled at Jihan Hafiz and many other journalists while covering events of the Standing Rock resistance against the DAPL pipeline, could not be used against Jahnny because he was on State Highway 1806. (How can one trespass on a highway?)

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