Pipelines

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.

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.

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