Pipelines

Actions To Stop The Atlantic Coast Pipeline

February 18, 2017 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! climate crisis, Dominion, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Popular Resistance. This week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission held a 'public input session' on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline in Suffolk, VA. According to Ryan Murphy in The Virginian-Pilot, the ACP is "a proposed 550-mile natural gas pipeline that would carry as much as 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas each day from West Virginia’s shale fields to North Carolina and Virginia." The public input sessions were designed to prevent the public from hearing each other. The FERC has moved to a new format for their public events. Rather than allowing people to be together and hear each other's testimony, people have to speak with FERC officials one-on-one. In North Carolina, Sierra Club helped promote parallel "people's hearings" to provide a forum for people to air their views, network, and strategize. In Fayetteville, Wilson, and Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, neighbors and concerned community members people clustered in the hall, in hotel event rooms, and around school cafeteria tables to swap information, share stories, talk to the press, get organized and encourage each other. More hearings are planned.

February 22 At Standing Rock: A Last Beginning

February 18, 2017 Four Arrows, www.truth-out.org Resist! Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Four Arrows for Truthout - Maybe something positive will result from the dangerously brazen antics of the Trump administration. Perhaps an awakening of consciousness is occuring that would not have happened without the obviousness of Trump's inadequacies. We may be realizing just how wrong we are in how we are treating our planet and its creatures, including ourselves. It is no coincidence that the first showdown is going to be at Standing Rock. Indigenous people are on the front lines around the world, standing against those corporations coming into the last pristine places on Earth to mine or drill. Standing Rock, however, has captured public attention. What happens there might define the kind of resistance that will continue against the Trump administration's wrong-headed policies. If the Corp, the BIA, DAPL security and the state militia do as they say on Feb 22, whatever happens, this could be our last beginning for a movement that can stop the destruction of Mother Earth.

Two Fracked Gas Pipelines Equal Greenhouse Gas Of 45 Coal Plants

February 16, 2017 Staff, www.priceofoil.org Educate! Coal, Fracking, Pipelines, pollution

By Staff of Oil Change International - Two studies released today find that if built, the controversial Mountain Valley and Atlantic Coast pipelines would together contribute as much greenhouse gas pollution as 45 coal-fired power plants — some 158 million metric tons a year. The studies, released by Oil Change International, build upon a new methodology, also released today, for calculating the climate impacts of natural gas pipelines in the Appalachian Basin based on the evolving science of methane leakage and its impact on our climate. The studies show that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is out of date on measuring climate impacts, and is failing to protect communities and citizens around the country. “Our analysis shows that both the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Mountain Valley Pipeline are climate disasters.

Bill To Allow Pipeline Companies To Survey Without Permission

February 16, 2017 Staff, www.morgancountyusa.org Resist! Land, Legislation, Pipelines, Senate

By Staff of Morgan County USA - Mountaineer Gas wants to send its pipeline right through David Kerns’ family farm in Morgan County just east of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Kerns has made it clear that he doesn’t want Mountaineer Gas coming onto his property. Now, the natural gas industry is going over the heads of David Kerns and other property owners who don’t want anything to do with this or other pipelines. And they are going straight to Charleston where Senator Craig Blair (R-Berkeley) has introduced legislation — SB 245 — that permits natural gas companies “to enter private property without prior consent from the owner” to survey land for proposed pipelines. Last year, Senator Charles Trump (R-Morgan), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, help shepherd a similar bill through his committee and onto the Senate floor, where Blair and Trump voted for it — but the bill was voted down 23 to 11.

Left With No Other Choice, Local Pipeline Opponents Must Protest

February 15, 2017 Mark Clatterbuck, www.lancasteronline.com Resist! FERC, Pipelines, Protests

By Mark Clatterbuck for Lancaster Online - For three years, residents of Lancaster County have demonstrated unprecedented opposition to the proposed Atlantic Sunrise pipeline. Yet when Williams gas company sent a brief letter to FERC asking that a decision be made seven weeks early —for no other stated reason than the company’s own convenience — FERC eagerly obliged. The decision was so premature that the commissioners themselves had to include a 100-page addendum of issues that had yet to be resolved before permission could legally be granted. The LNP Editorial Board last week opined that “protests and arrests aren’t going to change the reality” of this situation. To the contrary, history has shown that large-scale, nonviolent civil disobedience is one of the few, and arguably most effective...

Federal Judge Denies Request To Block DAPL Pipeline Construction

February 14, 2017 Staff, www.AP.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Resistance, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Staff of Associated Press. A U.S. federal judge on Monday denied a request by Native American tribes seeking to halt construction of the final link in the Dakota Access Pipeline, the controversial project that has sparked months of protests by activists aimed at stopping the 1,170-mile line. At a hearing, Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., rejected the request from the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes, who argued that the project would prevent them from practicing religious ceremonies at a lake they contend is surrounded by sacred ground. With this decision, legal options for the tribes continue to narrow, as construction on the final uncompleted stretch is currently proceeding. Another hearing is scheduled for Feb. 27, as the tribes seek an injunction ordering the Army Corps to withdraw the easement. Lawyers for the Cheyenne River Sioux and the Standing Rock Sioux wanted Judge Boasberg to block construction with a temporary restraining order on the grounds that the pipeline would obstruct the free exercise of their religious practices. “We’re disappointed with today’s ruling denying a temporary restraining order against the Dakota Access Pipeline, but we are not surprised,” said Chase Iron Eye.

Activists Turn FERC Fake ‘Public’ Meetings Into People’s Hearings

February 14, 2017 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Atlantic Coast Pipeline, FERC, Pipelines

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. FERC scheduled one-on-one isolating and dis empowering listening sessions in doubletree hotel in Fayetteville, home of Fort Bragg a huge military base. So APPPL and CWFNC and others organized public hearings next door in a Rodeway Inn. A multiracial multigenerational group of native Americans, Afro Americans, Latinos, whites, veterans, farmers, long term and recently inspired activists came together to challenge Duke and dominion's $5 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline. There will be other people's hearings on Tuesday in Wilson,NC and Wednesday in Roanoke Rapids, NC TO challenge FERCs plutocratic attempt to bully the people and ram this monster through.

New Data Undermine Oil And Gas Industry’s Pipeline Safety Claims

February 13, 2017 Sue Sturgis, www..facingsouth.org Educate! Oil & Gas, Pipelines

By Sue Sturgis for Facing South - In the debate over construction of new oil and gas pipelines, industry representatives have long argued that pipelines are safer than other methods for moving fossil fuels over long distances. Take for example the recent statement a spokesperson for the proposed Bayou Bridge Pipeline in Louisiana — a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners, the same Dallas-based company behind the highly contentious Dakota Access Pipeline — made to The Advocate of Baton Rouge. The Bayou Bridge Pipeline would carry oil from a terminal in Nederland, Texas, across South Louisiana to refineries and export terminals near New Orleans.

TransCanada’s Proposed Potomac River Pipeline Protested

February 10, 2017 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Eastern Panhandle Pipeline, Mountaineer Gas Pipeline, Pipelines, TransCanada

By Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. The protest was a powerful show of community opposition, see Facebook Live video below. People stood silently to show their opposition. Organizers instructed them to stand in a corner silently, but they still took up most of the room. The group than started to sing "Down to the River to Pray," a Christian folk hymn written by an African American slave describing studying 'the old fashioned way' when going down to the river to pay. After singing the group went back to silent protest, standing silently for more than 10 minutes.

Trump Team Has Ties To Atlantic Coast Pipeline Being Pushed By White House

February 8, 2017 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Donald Trump, Pipelines

By Steve Horn for Desmog - On January 25, President Donald Trump’s team listed the Atlantic Coast pipeline among the White House’s top priorities for infrastructure projects, an attempt to deliver on his campaign promise to invest in U.S infrastructure programs. Of the 50 on the list, Atlantic Coast is surprisingly the only pipeline project named. Some had suspected Trump’s infrastructure promise would serve as a massive pipeline giveaway. So, why prioritize this one? A possible answer: Several members of Trump’s transition team, landing team, and current White House operation have connections to companies behind the project or to firms lobbying for it.

Corruption Of Keystone: Congressional Permits To Drill Don’t Change Public Opinion

February 6, 2017 Rebecca Adamson, www.truth-out.org Educate! Congress, Keystone XL, Pipelines

By Rebecca Adamson for Truthout - When TransCanada Corporation announced its plans for a Keystone XL pipeline expansion project in 2008, the company projected capital costs to be $4.3 billion for the entire project. After 6 years of waiting for US executive approval, including countless congressional votes, a Nebraska Supreme Court case and a president who has yet to budge, TransCanada increased estimated capital investments for the pipeline another $2.5 billion. The reason? "Lengthy delays," undoubtedly exacerbated by community protests and opposition from environmental and social interest groups. One of the loudest proponents of pipeline opposition, and arguably the most vulnerable, are North America's Indigenous Peoples

Update From Front Lines Of Standing Rock

February 4, 2017 Deborah MacKay, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Militarized police, Pipelines

By Deborah MacKay for the Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers. Without the eyes of a free press these attacks and trespasses continue, with the human rights and sovereignty of indigenous peoples denied. The UN Committee on Transnational Corporations and Human Right Abuses was in Standing Rock this week to take testimony of the many transgressions against people: crop dusters spraying poison pesticides and fertilizers on the camps; hair samples indicating the presence of these chemicals; people who have been injured, beat up, arrested, strip searched; media and medics being targeted by snipers; (one medic told me he stopped wearing his Red Cross vest due to medics being targeted); praying people being attacked and the refusal of DAPL and our government to abide by the Rule of Law.

Super Bowl 51 Action – Punt the Pipelines For People And Planet

February 1, 2017 Gina Magana, www.generosity.com Resist! Climate Change, Donald Trump, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Super Bowl

By Gina Magana, Organizer for Punt the Pipelines. Super Bowl 51 is HERE, in Houston, Texas and we have an opportunity to convey a critical message to millions of people. We must demand an end to a Carbon Based Economy, switch to a Clean Energy Economy, and end all new pipelines to protect our sacred water people, and planet. We need your help. In the air above the stadium we will fly an airplane with an urgent message to divest. On the ground, we will be at the gates of the Super Bowl drawing attention with banners, signs, while we march, drum, dance, sing, and pray to protect our sacred water, people, and planet. Please, donate $1, $10, $100 or whatever you can to help fund this Super Bowl LI Action to Punt the Pipelines for People and Planet. The airplane will reach tens of thousands of people at the game and millions on television and through social media.

Two North Dakota Senators Say Army Corp Has Approved DAPL Permits

February 1, 2017 John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer, www.cramer.house.govwww.hoeven.senate.gov Resist! #NoDAPL, North Dakota, Pipelines, Senate

By John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer for Senate and Congress - WASHINGTON – Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after speaking today with Vice President Pence and Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer: “Today, the Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer informed us that he has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with the easement needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline. This will enable the company to complete the project, which can and will be built with the necessary safety features to protect the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others downstream. “Building new energy infrastructure with the latest safeguards and technology is the safest and most environmentally sound way to move energy from where it is produced to where people need it.

Mobile Avenger Missile Launcher Appears At Standing Rock

January 26, 2017 Ray Cook, www.indiancountrymedianetwork.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Standing Rock

By Ray Cook for Indian Country Media Network - On Monday morning I was visiting a friend who is on the Standing Stone Camp security force. We were in my truck rolling around looking at things in and around the camp. The night before I had been patrolling near the Turtle Island where the Morton County Sheriff deployed some of his soldiers. Bright lights, concertina wire was all in check. Nothing moved or changed. The scene had remained the same for weeks. Nothing to see here, so I decided to cruise around near the Cannon Ball ice river and on fields well suited for pasture, no rocks or obstructions. l was charging around testing the limits of my 4-wheel drive truck and its traction.

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