Pipelines

Standing Rock: Veterans And Storms

December 8, 2016 Crystal Zevon and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Crystal Zevon and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. NOTE: The report below is compiled from posts made by Popular Resistance reporter Crystal Zevon (also of Searching for Occupy). Crystal was on the ground in the Oceti Sakowin Camp of Standing Rock in November and returned last week. Thousands of veterans and allies arrived over the weekend to be present for the possible eviction of the camp. On Monday, the light snowfall that was forecast turned into a dangerous blizzard. Temperatures dropped and many people sought refuge in Cannon Ball. Many people have gone home, but a solid group of people remain. We were there yesterday. They have a good supply of food. What are needed most are firewood, cold weather gear to protect skin from exposure, and winterization supplies. The camp will remain and the resistance to DAPL continues.

Energy Transfer Partners Pipeline Targeted In West Texas Protests

December 8, 2016 Liz Hampton, www.reuters.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Texas

By Liz Hampton for Reuters - Two people were arrested Tuesday at a pipeline protest in West Texas, bringing an intensifying political battle against oil and gas infrastructure to a state where the energy industry typically enjoys wide support. About 40 protesters gathered outside the construction site of Energy Transfer Partners' Trans-Pecos pipeline near Alpine, Texas on Tuesday morning, and three locked themselves to the gate surrounding the site, according to Lori Glover, a member of the Big Bend Defense Coalition, which organized the event. The group intended to slow down construction, said Glover, who said she was arrested, along with one other protestor, for criminal trespassing.

The Dakota Access Pipeline And Doctrine Of Native Genocide

December 7, 2016 Tim Scott, www.truth-out.org Educate! Dakota Access Pipeline, Genocide, Indigenous Peoples, Native Indians, Pipelines

By Tim Scott for Truthout - The peaceful Native Water Protectors who have been resisting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) on sacred land belonging to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have succeeded in winning federal accommodations to temporarily halt DAPL construction, but the energy company behind DAPL has pledged to proceed (with state support). Knowing the enduring historic and structural nature of this modern struggle -- a struggle in which the Water Protectors have courageously confronted violent local, state and private militarized forces, inspiring support from thousands of US military veterans -- is vital to understanding its significance.

Water Protectors Arrested In West Texas After Blocking Construction

December 7, 2016 Staff, www.facebook.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Texas

By Staff of Austin Environmental Justice Team - ALPINE, TEXAS - A mourning vigil at 4 AM Tuesday organized by the Big Bend Defense Coalition (BBDC) in front of Energy Transfer Partners’ Pumpco/Trans-Pecos Pipeline laydown yard in Alpine, Texas netted three arrests. Energy Transfer Partners is constructing the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota. The three water protectors arrested are Lori Glover, mother of four and founder of the BBDC; Arajoe Battista, a former oil field worker; and Roger Siglin, a veteran, were jailed on unknown charges by the Brewster County Sheriff's office. “The fight in Standing Rock extends down here to Texas. The Black Snake is not dead. It is alive and well in the Big Bend

Quebec Mohawk Chief Vows Civil Unrest If B.C. Pipeline Moves Forward

December 7, 2016 Christopher Curtis, www.montrealgazette.com Resist! Canada, Indigenous Peoples, Native Indians, Pipelines

By Christopher Curtis for Montreal Gazette - A Quebec Mohawk chief is promising a coordinated campaign of civil disobedience if recently approved pipeline construction encroaches on aboriginal territory in British Columbia. The actions could range from demonstrations and rail blockades to people occupying government offices across Canada, according to Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Simon. “I’ve always said my favourite form of action is civil disobedience,” said Simon, in an interview with the Montreal Gazette. “If the government insists on ignoring its commitment to First Nations, we’re looking at unrest in many areas of the country, not just in British Columbia.”

Standing Rock: The Fight Continues

December 6, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Standing Rock, White Supremacy

By Margaret Flowers an Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Bismarck, ND - Monday, December 5 was the date the the US Army Corps Of Engineers' eviction notice took effect. Tens of thousands of people converged on the Oceti Sakowin Camp over the weekend to be in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux in case the eviction was acted upon. On Sunday afternoon, the US Army Corps of Engineers announced that they were denying the final permit for Energy Transfer Partners to drill under Lake Oahe and that they would do an Environmental Impact Statement to assess other sites. The news was celebrated in the camp that night as a victory, although there was a healthy distrust of the US army Corps of Engineers and a sense that the struggle was not over.

Actions In Solidarity With Standing Rock

December 5, 2016 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Standing Rock

Asheville, NC by Steve Norris - On Sunday afternoon, December 4, in a cold drizzling rain, over 100 people gathered in Asheville at Vance Monument for a Rally, Prayer Service and March in Solidarity with Standing Rock. Statements from NC Lumbee activists and leaders were read, with prayers, song and drumming. People who had been to Standing Rock spoke. Many became aware that the 550 mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which will cut through some of the poorest east coast counties of NC with the largest minority and indigenous populations, will be the east coast's DAPL. After the rally, we marched to four of the biggest banks which have branches in Asheville: TD Bank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and PNC.

Kinder Morgan Pipeline Might Be Canada’s DAPL

December 5, 2016 Andy Rowell, www.priceofoil.org Resist! Canada, Pipelines

By Andy Rowell for Oil Change International - In the end, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, for all his suave talk of being a new progressive politician, who would era in a new type of politics, turned out disappointingly to be like all the rest. His suit is cut from the same old cloth. And like a classic politician he spoke in Orwellian terms of fighting climate change, and promising clean air, water and wilderness whilst approving Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline that we know will exacerbate climate change, will impact air quality and lead to a massive increase in tanker traffic that will harm wildlife.

Newsletter – Standing Rock And American Genocide

December 4, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Nonviolence, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Solidarity, Sovereignty, Standing Rock, Water

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. As we write this newsletter, we are driving to North Dakota to volunteer at Standing Rock. We have been wanting to go for many months but could not because of our commitment to organizing to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and our political work outside of Popular Resistance. We were planning to join a team from Baltimore in late December, but recent events made us decide that it was more important to go ourselves now. For a while, a profound sense of the importance of this moment has been growing within us. There are and have been many fights against fossil fuel infrastructure, but this one is different. Given the history of the country, the crises we all face on many levels and the direction that we are going - growing revolt and an increasingly repressive government - the fight at Standing Rock feels like a major turning point.

Verdict In Montrose 9 Necessity Defense Trial: Guilty!

December 3, 2016 Resist Spectra, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Criminal Justice, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Spectra

By Resist Spectra. Cortlandt, NY — Four months after conclusion of the trial, today Judge Daniel McCarthy found the “Montrose 9” guilty of disorderly conduct for blocking traf c in Cortlandt Town Court. The “Montrose 9,” local residents and environmental advocates who were arrested for blocking access to a ware yard in Montrose to halt construction of Spectra Energy’s AIM pipeline on November 9, 2015, claimed that their actions were necessary to prevent a greater harm. At the Press Conference after Judge McCarthy's verdict, Defense Counsel, Martin Stolar, a prominent social justice attorney, said “I am extremely disappointed with respect to the necessity defense, which seems so obviously true. We will take it up on appeal. They (the defendants) are heroes, not criminals.”

Salem Protesters Rally Against Pacific Connector Pipeline

November 30, 2016 Lisa Balick, www.koin.com Resist! Oregon, Pipelines, Protests

By Lisa Balick for KOIN 6 News - SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — Hundreds of demonstrators marched to the Oregon State Lands building Monday afternoon to demand Gov. Kate Brown stop a pipeline project for the state. The demonstrators are angry and worried about a possible natural gas pipeline, 231 miles long crossing rivers, streams, public land and private land from Klamath Falls to Coos Bay.

Solidarity Protesters Lock Down At TD Head Office Over DAPL

November 26, 2016 Syed Hussan, www.facebook.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Banks, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Syed Hussan. Toronto, Canada, Nov. 25, 4:30pm - EST - Three protesters locked their necks to railings inside TD Head office today as native land protectors and allies rallied and drummed outside the bank. Anglican ministers Maggie Helwig and Andrea Budgey, and activist Taylor Flook asked to speak with Bob Dorrance, Chairman, CEO and President of TD Securities asking why he had not yet made a statement condemning the attacks on peaceful land defenders occupying their treaty territory in North Dakota. Protesters are targeting TD in solidarity with water protectors at Standing Rock in North Dakota, where thousands of land defenders are blocking construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). TD Securities, a subsidiary of TD, has been targeted by protests in recent weeks after the bank was identified as one of the largest funders of the controversial pipeline.

‘Where Evil Resides’

November 25, 2016 Adam Linehan, www.taskandpurpose.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Rights, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Veterans

By Adam Linehan for Task and Purpose. On Dec. 4, if everything goes according to plan, hundreds of veterans will muster at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. The mission: To stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. “Most civilians who’ve never served in a uniform are gutless worms who’ve never been in a fight in their life,” Wes Clark Jr. declares. “So if we don’t stop it, who will?” Clark Jr. is one of the most vociferous opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a controversial 1,170-mile project that, if and when it is completed, will shuttle an estimated 470,000 barrels of crude oil every day from North Dakota to Illinois. “It’s immoral, and wrong, and dangerous to us all,” Clark Jr. adds.

Good News For Standing Rock From Around The World

November 23, 2016 Dr. Shepherd Bliss, www.popularresistance.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Dr. Shepherd Bliss. Sonoma County, California - “Think global and act local. This is the intention behind the actions of the Commission on Human Rights, which passed a resolution on Tuesday night in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline,” according to a Nov. 18 press release from the Sonoma County Commission on Human Rights. “We wanted to support the Standing Rock Sioux, but also the actions of our local tribal leadership from the Coyote Valley Band and Kashia Band of Pomo, Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and Ya-Ka-Ama, as well as the many residents of Sonoma County who have mobilized around this issue,” says Vice Chair Dmitra Smith. “The Commission joins nineteen U.S. city governments and more than 300 tribes who have rallied in support of the Standing Rock Sioux’s stance against the routing of the Dakota Access oil pipeline under the Missouri River near their reservation.

Police Attack Water Protectors At Dakota Access Pipeline Standoff

November 23, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines, Protests

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Standing Rock Reservation, ND — In what will go down as one of the most violent chapters of a nine-month standoff against a company building an oil pipeline at the Standing Rock Reservation in Morton County, ND, police launched a full-frontal attack against Water Protectors trying to clear access across a bridge on Highway 1806. Hundreds were injured, more than two dozen seriously, including an activist from New York who may lose functioning of an arm and is still in the hospital as of publication.

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