Pipelines

Group Plans Encampments, Protests Against Pipeline Project

January 19, 2017 Andrew Forgotch, www.abc27.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests

By Andrew Forgotch for ABC News - CONESTOGA, Pa. (WHTM) – Mark Clatterbuck hopes a 10-foot wooden stand in a field near Safe Harbor Park in Conestoga Township serves as a focal point. “We expect there to be a pretty large scale encampment of folks camping out here to stop the pipeline,” he said. Clatterbuck is part of the group Lancaster Against Pipelines and views the stand as a last effort to oppose the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline. The pipeline, which is essentially one step away from being built, would transport 1.7 billion cubic feet of gas from shale fields across Pennsylvania. Part of the proposed route for the pipeline runs through Lebanon and Lancaster counties.

Indigenous-Led Direct Action Campaign Continues In West Texas

January 18, 2017 Candice Bernd, www.truth-out.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines, Protests, Texas

By Candice Bernd for Truthout - Marfa, Texas—A new Indigenous-led direct action campaign is gaining momentum with two more lockdown actions targeting Energy Transfer Partners' (ETP) twin pipeline projects in far West Texas. An Indigenous Water Protector and an Alpine resident were arrested Saturday, January 14, after locking themselves to pipe-laying equipment at an ETP easement and work site in Presidio County, Texas. The lockdown disrupted construction on the company's 148-mile Trans-Pecos pipeline that, if completed, would carry 1.4 billion cubic feet of fracked gas from West Texas to Mexico every day.

Pipeline Protesters Have Message For Cuomo

January 18, 2017 Mia Summerson, www.niagara-gazette.com Resist! Andrew Cuomo, New York (NY), Pipelines, Protests

By Mia Summerson for Niagara Gazette - AMHERST — Locals who have been vocally opposed to the construction of a natural gas pipeline and related structures in Niagara Country attempted to get their message to Gov. Andrew Cuomo during his State of the State address on Monday. Despite frigid temperatures, protestors stood outside the University at Buffalo's Center for the Arts to request that the governor take action by denying the state Department of Environmental Conservation's water permit for the project. The Northern Access Pipeline, proposed by National Fuel, includes constructing a pipeline between Wheatfield and Pendleton...

Texas Water Protector Locks Herself To Construction Equipment

January 17, 2017 Yessenia Funes, www.colorlines.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Texas

By Yessenia Funes for Colorlines - Her action was in direct opposition to the Comanche Trail Pipeline, a 195-mile long natural gas pipeline in the Texas town of San Elizario. Local opponents to the Comanche Trail Pipeline in San Elizario, Texas, took direct action against the 195-mile long natural gas pipeline today (January 12). The pipeline is a project of Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. One water protector who has chosen to go unnamed locked herself to an excavator around 7 a.m. MST on a construction site for the pipeline, a tactic also used during the #NoDAPL battle in Standing Rock, North Dakota.

Lockdown At Trans-Pecos Pipeline Site In West Texas

January 14, 2017 Candice Bernd, www.truth-out.org Resist! Indigenous Resistance, Pipelines, Texas

By Candice Bernd for Truth Out - An Indigenous Water Protector and an Alpine, Texas, resident were arrested Saturday morning after locking themselves to pipe-laying equipment at an Energy Transfer Partner (ETP) easement and work site in Presidio County, Texas. The lockdown temporarily halted construction on the company's 143-mile Trans-Pecos pipeline that, if completed, would carry 1.4 billion cubic feet of fracked gas from West Texas to Mexico every day. The action was the first to be organized by a new Indigenous-led prayer and resistance camp on private land in far west Texas' pristine Big Bend region.

2017: Pipeline Resistance Gathers Steam From Successes

January 4, 2017 Lisa Song, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, Keystone XL, Pipelines, Protests

By Lisa Song for Inside Climate News - When President-elect Donald Trump takes office next month, his pro-drilling, anti-climate action energy policy will buoy the oil industry. But it will also face staunch resistance from a pipeline opposition movement that gathered momentum, particularly with this year's successful showdown over the Dakota Access pipeline, and shows no signs of slowing. Local grassroots action, governments' environmental concerns and market forces have stopped or delayed dozens of fossil fuel projects since the high-profile Keystone XL pipeline was cancelled in November 2015, and activists are continuing to oppose at least a dozen oil and gas pipelines around the country.

Two Rivers Camp Will Fight Trans-Pecos Pipeline

January 2, 2017 Society of Native Nations, www.societyofnativenations.org Resist! Fracking, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines, Water Protectors

By the Society of Native Nations. The Society of Native Nations (SNN) has been asked by the Big Bend Defense Coalition of Alpine, TX and the surrounding communities in West Texas to help stop the Trans Pecos Pipeline. SNN has committed to help by starting a camp, which will be open on Dec 30, 2016 to receive Water Protectors. The camp has been named "Two Rivers Camp", known as "La Junta de los Rios" by the local native communities such as the Jumano, Apache and Conchos People. The Trans Pecos Pipeline (TPPL) is owned by Kelcy Warren, billionaire and CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, the same company that owns the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. The TPPL is a fracked gas pipeline that is being built through west Texas. It will go under The Rio Grande River into Mexico where the gas will be exported to various foreign countries.

Historic Injustice Against Water Defenders In ND Courts

January 1, 2017 Barbara With and Rebecca Kemble, www.wcmcoop.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Courts, Due Proecess, Human Rights, Pipelines, Police abuse, Prosecutorial Abuse, Right to counsel, Water Protectors

By Barbara With and Rebecca Kemble for Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative. According to Angela Bibens, an attorney from Colorado and a member of the Water Protector Legal Collective (WPLC), the conditions of North Dakota’s legal system at present are making it impossible for fair trials to take place due to several factors. The Morton County Sheriff’s department made the decision to take a hard-line, militarized position in its response to the nonviolent activities of unarmed water protectors. This includes the use of water cannons, flash bang canisters, rubber bullets, and mace, which resulted in hundreds of water protectors being injured at the front lines. As of August 19, 2016, there were just 28 DAPL-related arrests. By mid-December, 500 more people have been arrested and charged. This was a crisis of their own making, which has cost the state over $17 million in law enforcement fees.

Is The Pilgrim Pipeline Protest The Next #NoDAPL?

December 31, 2016 Lorraine Chow, www.ecowatch.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Pipelines, Protests

By Lorraine Chow for Eco Watch - Is this the next #NoDAPL? The Ramapough Lunaape tribe in the township of Mahwah, New Jersey are protesting the interstate Pilgrim Pipeline, a proposed 178-mile dual pipeline that would carry fracked Bakken shale oil from Albany, New York to the Bayway Refinery in Linden, New Jersey. While it is not yet finalized, the preliminary route crosses five counties and 30 municipalities in New Jersey and five counties and 25 municipalities in New York, as well as the Highlands region, where the groundwater and surface water are the direct source of water for more than 4.5 million people in both states, according to the Coalition Against Pilgrim Pipeline.

Not Just N. Dakota: 10 States Where Activists Are Fighting Pipeline Projects

December 30, 2016 Alexandra Rosenmann, www.scoop.co.nz Resist! #NoDAPL, Pipelines, Protests

By Alexandra Rosenmann for AlterNet - With the Dakota Access Pipeline nearly 90% complete, developers are focusing their attention elsewhere. Meanwhile, protests against additional pipelines throughout the country have yet to receive a tenth of the airtime. “If you draw a line from Chicago to the Gulf Coast — Houston, Port Arthur, Baton Rouge — that line goes through Patoka, Illinois,” John Moody, a spokesman for the Association of Oil Pipelines told the Chicago Sun Times. “Then start in Cushing, Oklahoma, and draw a line across to Cleveland and Detroit and central Ohio, and that line goes through Patoka. Patoka is a crossroads for energy delivery.”

Shootings On Backwater Bridge

December 29, 2016 Four Arrows, www.truth-out.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

By Four Arrows for Truth Out - Late afternoon on December 27, "Lunatic Outpost" released a video showing a group of about "20 to 50" Water Protectors who, while returning from a prayer walk along the Cannonball River, were chased down by armed security from DAPL and Morton County Sheriff's Department. A helicopter and tracked vehicles were involved in the pursuit. Behind the images of the large number of police and security dotting the snow-covered terrain played, background radios from the Standing Rock medics could be heard. "We need a medic team. We need a team ready to roll now." Then the narrator says "Four women were taken away in a red paddy wagon of some sort."

The Real Radicals Are Running The Fossil Fuel Companies

December 28, 2016 Emily Johnston, www.alternet.org Resist! Corporations, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines

By Emily Johnston for AlterNet - I’ve been thinking a lot about risk lately—what we’re willing to risk, and why. I was one of five activists who turned off the major tar sands pipelines coming into the United States on Oct. 11, 2016. As a result, I’m risking prison time, ostensibly for property damage (we cut a few chains to access the valves), but really for being disobedient to business as usual. It's also possible they'll file a restitution suit, for temporarily disrupting a pipeline that’s highly profitable for some, at the expense of all others. I took part in the action in full awareness of these risks—in dread of them, to some degree—because of the risk that Enbridge and the other companies engaged in the extraction...

Black Snake Bleeding Out: How DAPL Is Duping Investors

December 25, 2016 Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, www.theleapblog.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines

By Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright for The Leap. The Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) is yet another violent variable in the equation of environmental racism that plagues the United States, and the world—to the peril of Indigenous and low-wealth communities of color everywhere. Native lands, water, sacred sites, and sovereignty have been sacrificed to “spare” majority white areas north of Bismarck, North Dakota from the myriad risks of this pipeline. Now, in what can only be characterized as abject avarice, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP)—the principal corporation behind DAPL—is pushing for expedited completion of the project, despite the fact that their major investors and stockholders inevitably stand to lose a significant amount of money. That’s because the Army Corps of Engineers, the key federal agency responsible for DAPL, announced on December 4th that they are denying a critical easement and associated permit required for the pipeline to cross Lake Oahe, pending further environmental analysis. The financial implications of this decision are both far reaching and profound, and may signal the death knell of DAPL.

Canada’s Trudeau Says Trump Very Supportive Of Keystone XL Pipeline

December 23, 2016 Nia Williams and Ethan Lou, www.reuters.com Resist! Canada, Donald Trump, Keystone XL, Pipelines

By Nia Williams and Ethan Lou for Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was "very supportive" of TransCanada Corp's proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline in their first conversation after the U.S. election. "He actually brought up Keystone XL and indicated that he was very supportive of it," Trudeau told an event in Calgary, Canada's oil capital. "I’m confident that the right decisions will be taken." Trudeau, who too supports Keystone XL, said also he saw "extraordinary opportunities" for his country if the United States under Trump steps back from tackling climate change...

How To Demand That Your Bank Stop Funding DAPL

December 23, 2016 Collin Ruffino, www.theleapblog.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Banks, Pipelines

By Collin Ruffino for The Leap - I recently became aware that Citibank has provided a significant portion of the financing to Energy Transfer Partners for the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. I am writing to urge you to divest from this destructive and unethical project and to cease the financing of all other current and future projects that do not respect native sovereignty or that require the continued extraction and burning of fossil fuels. I have been a Citibank customer for X years and will be closing my accounts with your bank and urging others to do so until there is positive action on the part of Citigroup.

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