Pipelines

Pipeline Owned By Company Behind Dakota Access Leaks 55K Gallons Of Gasoline

October 25, 2016 Alexandra Jacobo, www.nationofchange.org Educate! Oil Spill, Pennsylvania, Pipelines

By Alexandra Jacobo for Nation of Change - A different, completed pipeline owned by Sunoco Logistics, the same company behind the construction of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline, leaked 55,000 gallons, or 1,300 barrels, of gasoline into a major river on Friday. The pipeline leaked into the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This river is already the third most endangered river in the United States, mostly due to the development of the natural gas industry.

83 People Arrested, Maced in North Dakota

October 23, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Indigenous Activist, Indigenous Rights, Pipelines

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams. More than 80 people were arrested in North Dakota on Saturday, as police armed with pepper spray descended on a protest near the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) construction site. The 83 water protectors were hit with charges ranging from rioting to criminal trespass, according to the Morton County sheriff's department. Saturday's arrests follow reports of escalating police abuse at the protest sites, including beatings and unnecessary strip-searches of those arrested. On Twitter, Ojibwe activist and attorney Tara Houska wrote: Journalists, attorneys, indigenous protectors arrested & maced while demonstrating today. Whose interest is North Dakota protecting? Construction on the pipeline is continuing despite a request from the federal government to put a halt on activity so that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can properly consider objections.

Environmentalists: Make Your Stand Like Standing Rock

October 19, 2016 Billy Talen, www.revbilly.com Strategize! Environment, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Billy Talen for The Stop Shopping Choir - The First Nations peoples in North Dakota are showing us the future of direct action. In the path of the Enbridge pipeline, the “black snake,” they’re making something that traditional environmentalists don’t have words for. A friend of mine who is there put it this way: “It’s not like a protest. It’s a ceremony.” There is a crucial lesson here that we environmentalists must learn. At Standing Rock, the cops and courts, helicopters and drones and Dobermans

How To Fight Big Oil: Join Your Neighbors

October 18, 2016 Sarah van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org Strategize! Export Terminals, Oil & Gas, Oil Trains, Pipelines, Protests

By Sarah van Gelder for Yes Magazine - The last few weeks and months have seen major victories for communities resisting oil trains, coal terminals, pipelines, and strip mines. This is big news at a time of an out-of-control climate crisis—this July and August tied as the hottest months ever recorded. Could these stories represent our best shot at taking on the giant corporations and banks that are trying to build new fossil fuel projects at a time when we need to be phasing out carbon-based fuels?

North Dakota Prosecutors Charge Amy Goodman With Riot For DAPL Reporting

October 16, 2016 Trevor Timm, freedom.press Resist! #NoDAPL, Freedom of the Press, North Dakota, Pipelines

By Trevor Timm for Freedom of the Press Foundation. North Dakota prosecutors have indicated they have dropped the trespassing charges against Amy Goodman, and instead will charge her with participating in a "riot." “I came back to North Dakota to fight a trespass charge. They saw that they could never make that charge stick, so now they want to charge me with rioting," Goodman said on Saturday. "I wasn’t trespassing, I wasn’t engaging in a riot, I was doing my job as a journalist by covering a violent attack on Native American protesters." It couldn’t be more obvious that Ms. Goodman is being charged solely for her journalism and the impact it had on the oil pipeline debate. Here’s howDemocracy Now described its news coverage that led to the charges against Ms. Goodman: "On Saturday, September 3, Democracy Now! filmed security guards working for the pipeline company attacking protesters. The report showed guards unleashing dogs and using pepper spray and featured people with bite injuries and a dog with blood on its mouth and nose. Democracy Now!’s report went viral online . . ."

Corn Protesting Atlantic Coast Pipeline Harvested

October 15, 2016 Bob Stuart, www.dailyprogress.com Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Land Rights, Pipelines, Protests

By Bob Stuart for The News Virginian - STUARTS DRAFT — Corn planted on Stuarts Draft land in June to show opposition to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline was harvested Friday. The sacred corn -- called "seeds of resistance" -- rests on land that is part of the proposed path of the 600-mile natural gas pipeline. The pipeline path includes about 55 miles of Augusta County. Joining area groups opposed to the pipeline were Jane Kleeb, president of Bold Alliance, and Wes Mekasi Horinek of Bold Alliance.

Supporting Standing Rock And Confronting What It Means Living On Stolen Land

October 14, 2016 Berkley Carmine and Liza Minno, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Land Rights, Pipelines, Sioux, Standing Rock

By Berkley Carmine and Liza Minno for Waging Nonviolence - A month after President Obama told the Army Corps of Engineers to pause construction on the Dakota Access oil pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux and those supporting them still find themselves in a dire struggle to protect their water and land. With winter approaching, the 300 tribes that are now represented at the Camp of the Sacred Stone in North Dakota are preparing for a lengthy battle.

5 Climate Activists Shut Down 5 Tar Sands Pipelines

October 12, 2016 Dan Zukowski, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Tar Sands

By Dan Zukowski for Eco Watch - "This morning, by 7:30 PST, 5 activists have successfully shut down 5 pipelines across the United States delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock. Activists employed manual safety valves, calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe."

Protesters Inside Pipeline Stop Spectra For 16 Hours

October 11, 2016 Resist Spectra Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! AIM Pipeline, Pipelines, Spectra

By Staff for Resist Spectra. At about 7 AM on October 10th, Indigenous People's Day, four water protectors crawled inside lengths of pipeline along the Hudson River to stop Spectra Energy from dragging its 42-inch diameter, high pressure, fracked-methane gas pipeline under the Hudson River alongside the aging and failing Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The protectors stayed inside the pipeline for more 16 hours. They continued to sustain the occupation until after 11:00 PM when they were threatened by police with the use of tactical force to be removed and promised only minimal charges for the protest if they voluntarily left. Two support people were also arrested on site and charged with criminal trespass; a third support person was arrested on public property merely on suspicion of illegal activity by association

North Dakota Seeks More Felonies For Water Protectors

October 10, 2016 Staff, www.lastrealindians.com Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, North Dakota, Pipelines, Repression, Water

By Staff of Last Real Indians - North Dakota continues to escalate repression of the people protecting sacred sites and waters from the Dakota Access Pipeline. On Tuesday, two more felony charges were sought for water protectors, bringing the total to seven. One of the we charges is against Dale “Happi” American Horse, the first person to lock to lock his body to active Dakota Access Pipeline construction equipment.

Black Snakes And Grizzly Bears: The Tribes’ Fight For Nature

October 10, 2016 Louisa Willcox, www.grizzlytimes.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

By Louisa Willcox for Grizzly Times - In an unprecedented series of events, Tribes from across North America are rising up to protect land, water, and wildlife such as the sacred grizzly bear from degradation by greedy corporations. Last week, in one of the latest developments, Chief Stanley Grier of the Piikani Nation of the Blackfeet Confederacy submitted a declaration to Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell reaffirming their opposition to removal of federal protections for the Yellowstone grizzly bear...

23 Arrested Outside Gov. McAuliffe’s Mansion During Protest

October 8, 2016 Ali Rockett, www.richmond.com Resist! Maryland, Pipelines, Protests

By Ali Rockett for Richmond Times-Dispatch - Twenty-three people were arrested Wednesday for trespassing in front of the Executive Mansion following a peaceful, three-day protest urging Gov. Terry McAuliffe to reject a pair of proposed fracked-gas pipelines, require power companies to clean up or move coal ash ponds before closing them and pass measures to prevent rising sea levels.

Appeals Court Takes Up #NoDAPL Case As Pipeline Remains In Limbo

October 7, 2016 Staff, www.indianz.com Organize! #NoDAPL, Courts, Pipelines

By Staff of Indianz - The leader of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe continued to call for prayers as a federal appeals court heard arguments in the closely-watched #NoDAPL lawsuit. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals did not issue a decision after more than 90 minutes of arguments on Wednesday morning. But Chairman Dave Archambault II said it was "clear" that the Dakota Access Pipeline poses a significant threat to his people.

Texas Activists Who Lost One Pipeline Fight Set Sights On New Battle

October 3, 2016 Tom Dart, www.theguardian.com Resist! Activists, Pipelines, Protests

By Tom Dart for The Guardian - It looks to Lori Glover “like a long snake going across the whole desert”. For David Keller, it is “like having a very beautiful historic home and having someone run a bulldozer through the kitchen”. And in Yolonda Blue Horse’s view, it is another example of disrespect from an industry that does not care about native people. Before the Dakota Access pipeline sparked continuing protests that led to national attention and an Obama administration intervention, a feisty group of activists in remote west Texas waged a long battle against the same company

Company Behind Dakota Access Pipeline Spills More Oil Than Any Other

September 27, 2016 Liz Hampton, www.Reuters.com Educate! Dakota Access Pipeline, Oil Spill, Pipelines

By Liz Hampton for Reuters - Sunoco Logistics (SXL.N), the future operator of the oil pipeline delayed this month after Native American protests in North Dakota, spills crude more often than any of its competitors with more than 200 leaks since 2010, according to a Reuters analysis of government data. The lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sit a half mile south of the proposed route of the Dakota Access pipeline. The tribe fears the line could destroy sacred sites during construction and that a future oil spill might pollute its drinking water.

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