Pipelines

Mass Civil Disobedience To Stop The Suwannee River Crossing

December 23, 2016 Staff, www.facebook.com Resist! Civil Disobedience, Pipelines, Protests

By Staff of Sabal Trail Resistance and Water is Life Camp - Join us in putting a wrench into the gears of the pipeline machine. This will be a mass sit-in to stop the Sabal Trail fracked gas pipeline construction from drilling under the Suwannee River in Live Oak, FL. Exact location for training, parking and protest TBA. There are several options for camping in the area. The night before we will hold a direct action training for all participants (not just people risking arrest.) The night after we will likely hold a vigil at the jail if people are held there. Not everyone who attends needs to risk arrest, but we ask all to consider their role in making this a successful event. It will be a "power in numbers" moment.

Texas Company Eyes Pipeline Through Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin

December 20, 2016 Sue Sturgis, www.facingsouth.org Resist! Louisiana, Pipelines

By Sue Sturgis for Facing South - Energy Transfer Partners, the Dallas-based company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, suffered a setback this week when the Army Corps of Engineers denied permission for the controversial $3.7 billion project to cross under a lake on the Missouri River a half-mile from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, where a protest camp has drawn thousands of self-described "water protectors" from around the world, including hundreds of U.S. military veterans. Announcing the decision on Sunday, the Army said alternative routes should be explored. That would mean environmental reviews that could delay construction for months or even years.

Stop The Suwannee River Crossing!

December 20, 2016 Staff, www.sabaltrailresistance.wordpress.com Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines, Protests

By Staff of Sabal Trail Resistance - As you read this, drilling under is complete under the Santa Fe River, after two months of battle. It has now begun under the Suwannee River. If unopposed, could be done as quick as 4 to 6 weeks. But it will not be unopposed, and the sooner you come to the front lines the longer it will take to be completed. These two waterways are at the heart of a region which contains the highest concentration of fresh water springs in the world. There are currently two full-time encampments in North Florida and the possibility of more to emerge along the route with your support and participation. You are invited to help build opposition on the ground to this fracked gas pipeline.

Not Just Standing Rock: Water Sources Along Pipeline At Risk

December 19, 2016 David Pitt, www.AP.org Educate! Pipelines, Standing Rock, Water

By David Pitt for Associated Press - DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A Native American tribe's fight over its water source has grown into an international cause, with all attention focused on the Dakota Access pipeline's route in southern North Dakota. But contractors on the project, which passes through three other states, have been drilling under and through rivers that are equally critical water sources for hundreds of thousands of people. One city managed to avoid the situation - Bismarck, North Dakota, the center of government in the oil-rich state and home to 67,000 people. Others, including Des Moines, Iowa, didn't, despite protests that led to arrests.

This Proposed Pipeline Would Cut Right Through The Appalachian Trail

December 19, 2016 Hilary Hanson, www.huffingtonpost.com Resist! Appalachia, Pipelines

By Hilary Hanson for The Huffington Post - Environmental groups are voicing opposition to a proposed natural gas pipeline that would cut across the Appalachian Trail in Virginia and require clearing a previously protected corridor of forest. The Mountain Valley Pipeline would transport natural gas from northwest West Virginia to southern Virginia, according to The Wilderness Society, which published an editorial this week saying the pipeline would set a “dangerous precedent.” That’s because construction would involve clearing a 125-foot-wide section that would cross 3.4 miles of forest protected under the Forest Service’s “roadless rule ― litigation meant to protect lands from road construction and logging.

Trump, Putin & The Pipelines To Nowhere

December 18, 2016 Alex Steffen, medium.com Educate! Climate Change, Donald Trump, Gas, Oil, Pipelines, Vladimir Putin

By Alex Steffen for Medium. It is not hyperbole to say that swelling the Carbon Bubble is not only not in the interests of the United States, it increases threats to our economy and national security, puts Americans at risk, undermines our prosperity and weakens our nation. It’s hard to call defending high carbon interests anything but unpatriotic. People who are looking to understand what the Trump gang is up to would do well to consider his gang’s actions through the lens of the Carbon Bubble. Understand that the amounts of money at stake are vast, nearly inconceivable to most of us, and highly concentrated in the hands of the people in Trump’s cabinet and their close friends and business allies. We need to focus: The most serious political fight on the planet — the need to end use of coal, oil and gas — is at the center of America’s current political crisis.

Leaked Audio Energy Transfer Partners: ‘Election Night Changed Everything’

December 17, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Pipelines

By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog - Shaun King, a writer for the New York Daily News, has uploaded what appears to be a recorded audio file of Energy Transfer Partners' Chief Operating Officer saying that “election night changed everything” for the company as it relates to its embattled Dakota Access Pipeline. King stated on social media and on the SoundCloud page on which he posted the file that a source sent him the file on December 13, hours after Matthew Ramsey — COO of Energy Transfer Partners — gave his speech.

Lawyer For Yaqui Tribe Fighting Mexico’s DAPL Kidnapped

December 17, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Educate! Mexico, Pipelines

By Staff of Tele Sur - Yaqui tribe lawyer was kidnapped on her way to a community meeting to plan the next steps in their fight against the U.S.-Mexico Agua Prieta pipeline. On Tuesday a group of masked men kidnapped at gunpoint Anabela Carlon Flores, a lawyer for the Yaqui tribe, who are facing increasingly violent repression in their fight against the cross-border Agua Prieta pipeline in Northern Mexico. Anabela Carlon Flores told reporters she was driving with her husband to a community meeting in the Yaqui community of Bacum on Tuesday at approximately 7 p.m. when their car was stopped by a group of armed masked men.

Property Owners Spoil Dominion’s Party In Richmond

December 16, 2016 Staff, www.notaking.org Resist! Dominion, eminent domain, Pipelines

By Staff of Americans for Personal Property, Energy, & Landowners - Representatives of energy giant Dominion Resources were caught off guard this week by landowners outraged over the company’s threatened use of eminent domain in the construction of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP). Bruce McKay, ‎Senior Energy Policy Director of Dominion, struggled to explain the utility’s position to an increasingly skeptical audience during a panel at the Republican Party of Virginia Advance in Richmond Dec. 10. Dominion thought they had the deck stacked in their favor. They didn’t expect Virginia property owners directly affected by the pipeline to show up, advocating for their rights.

International Implications Of Trudeau’s Kinder Morgan Pipeline Approval

December 14, 2016 Kevin Grandia, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Canada, Oil & Gas, Pipelines

By Kevin Grandia for Desmog Blog - Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau's decision this week to approve a major expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline has negative implications that go well beyond the borders of the Great White North. Canada is currently the largest supplier of oil to the United States. We export more oil to the US than Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Mexico combined. We are a secure, stable and reliable trading partner with the US for a product that can make or break their economy. Right now, Canada has almost zero ability to transport its oil to anywhere other than the United States.

Chronicle Of Veterans At Standing Rock

December 11, 2016 Susan Abulhawa, www.veteranstoday.com Organize! #NoDAPL, Pipelines, Standing Rock, Veterans

By Susan Abulhawa, via Ian Greenhalgh of Veterans Today. North Dakota - At Standing Rock, so much was not what it seemed from the distance of news headlines and reports. Up close, one could see the ideological tension in romanticized groups where some are driven by moral imperatives and others by personal glory. A hidden truth about the rank and file of the U.S. military was also laid bare. There are many untold contradictions behind the drama that unfolded at Standing Rock. Although this remains a people’s struggle against the capitalist interests of a corporate military state, there are moral inconsistencies that bear telling.

Next Standing Rock: Fossil Fuel Battles Loom Across North America

December 9, 2016 Natasha Geiling, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Fossil Fuels, North America, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Natasha Geiling for Think Progress - When news broke Sunday that the Army Corps of Engineers would not grant a permit necessary for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Missouri River, the thousands of water protectors, environmental activists, and concerned citizens who spent months protesting the pipeline’s construction erupted in celebration. “They formed a circle — a human circle all the way around the camp — and people were holding hands and singing and praying,” Kandi Mossett, a leader with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said via a Facebook Live video following Sunday’s announcement.

Lockdown At Spectra AIM Construction Site At Hudson River Crossing

December 9, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! AIM Pipeline, Pipelines, Protests

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - Spectra commenced destruction after the 12 were taken and now is currently hammering IN the pipeline (as opposed to pulling it through) according to video of a neighbor in Verplanck which we think sounds like they are having problems. Please pray their problems continue. The 12 are now being transferred to an arraignment and the District Attorney is asking for $50,000 bail for each person. We will keep you posted after this special nighttime arraignment, which is going to be the same judge that just found the Montrose9 guilty. Please, if you are in the area, meet us at the courthouse at 1 Heady St in Cortlandt Manor, NY.

Pipeline Spill Contaminates Local Water Just 200 Miles From Standing Rock

December 9, 2016 Alexandra Jacobo, www.nationofchange.org Educate! Oil Spill, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Alexandra Jacobo for Nation of Change - Just 200 miles from Cannon Ball, North Dakota, where water protectors have been preventing the completion of the Dakota Access pipeline, a different North Dakota pipeline has leaked, poisoning nearby water. The pipeline, a six-inch crude oil pipeline operated by the Belle Fourche Pipeline Company, was shut down after the leak was discovered on Monday, but the threat to local drinking water and the surrounding environment remain. The spill caused oil to leak into the Ash Coulee Creek in Billings County. The amount of oil that was spilled is currently unknown, but is “significant” according to Bill Suess...

North Dakota’s Oil Spill Record: 85 Pipeline Accidents In 20 Years

December 9, 2016 David Kirby, www.takepart.com Educate! North Dakota, Oil Spill, Pipelines

By David Kirby for Take Part - Environmentalists who oppose the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline have a message for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the incoming Trump administration: When it comes to pumping oil across North Dakota, past is prologue, and that’s bad news for human health and the environment. An analysis released Wednesday by the Center for Biological Diversity found that pipelines in North Dakota have spilled crude oil and other hazardous liquids at least 85 times since 1996. Those spills—an average of four a year—caused more than $40 million in property damage, the center said, citing data from the United States Department of Transportation.

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