Pipelines

Opponents Slam Atlantic Coat Pipeline Plans

September 25, 2016 Lindell John Kay, www.rockymounttelegram.com Resist! Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Pipelines

By Lindell John Kay for Rocky Mountain News. In the same week utility companies selected a project contractor, local residents gathered to oppose the proposed natural gas pipeline that will run through Nash County. Around two dozen opponents of the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline gathered Thursday night at the Red Oak Community Buildingt to hold a people's hearing, calling on officials with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reject the pipeline proposal. While local opposition is building, Duke Progress Energy, Dominion Transmission and other utilities are moving forward with their plans. Spring Ridge Constructors have been tapped to lead construction. The firm is a joint venture of four leading U.S. natural gas pipeline construction companies. Thousands of workers are expected to be hired to build the pipeline running from West Virginia to North Carolina, utility representatives said. The interstate pipeline has struck a nerve with local landowners.

With Attention on Dakota, Obama Quietly Approves Two New Pipelines

September 25, 2016 Tom Cahill , www.usuncut.com Resist! Pipelines

By Tom Cahill for US Uncut. While the U.S. Department of Justice temporarily halted construction of a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline, two other pipelines are moving forward. In May, the Obama administration granted the permits for both the Trans-Pecos and Comanche Trail pipelines, and while construction has not yet begun on the pipelines, implementation plans for the building of the pipelines is well underway. Earlier this week, DeSmogBlog investigative reporter Steve Horn highlighted the approval and pending construction of both pipelines, as well as their significant impact on local water supplies and indigenous territory. As Horn wrote, the Trans-Pecos pipeline will carry natural gas extracted from the Permian Basin in West Texas, and transport it across international borders to Mexico.

Dakota Access Blackout Continues On ABC, NBC News

September 24, 2016 Jim Naureckas, www.fair.org Educate! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Mass Media, Pipelines, Protests

By Jim Naureckas for FAIR - The Sacred Stone Camp established by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota has brought together thousands of demonstrators in opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 1,172-mile conduit designed to carry some 200 million barrels of crude oil per year from fracking fields in North Dakota to Southern Illinois. An unprecedented coalition of hundreds of Native American tribes has faced down attack dogs and pepper spray in defense of sacred and historic sites, irreplaceable water resources and the planet’s climate.

Industry Blames ‘Mob Politics’ For Roadblocks To Pipeline Success

September 23, 2016 Mark Hand, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Fracking, Pipelines

By Mark Hand for DC Media Group - Former Chesapeake Energy Corp. CEO Aubrey McClendon may no longer be with us, but his old message about anti-fracking activists continues to echo in the meeting rooms of industry conferences. Five years ago, McClendon, who died in a car crash in March, told the audience at the Shale Gas Insight conference in Philadelphia that life would be cold, dark and hungry if the protesters outside the Philadelphia Convention Center succeeded in stopping shale gas drilling.

Activists Eye Battles Beyond Dakota Access

September 22, 2016 Hannah Northey, www.eenews.net Resist! Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines

By Hannah Northey for E&E - Emboldened by the Obama administration freezing construction on part of the Dakota Access pipeline, activists opposing oil and gas projects are now girding for new battles in the Mid-Atlantic region. "I think the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley [pipelines] are cued up to be the next hot spots. They have river crossings, and there are such historic grounds of American history — literally land given by George Washington to families during the wars," Bold Alliance President Jane Kleeb declared in an interview last week.

Government Delays Pipeline Settlement Following Tribe Complaint

September 21, 2016 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Pipelines, Settlements

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - The federal government has agreed to postpone final approval of a multi-million-dollar settlement with Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge, Inc., a move that will allow time for a Native American tribe from the northeast shore of Lake Michigan to protest terms of the agreement. In the wake of objections to the settlement by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and a pledge by the Obama administration to be more sensitive to Native American concerns

Dakota Access Foes Call On AFL-CIO To Retract Support Of Pipeline

September 21, 2016 Mark Hand, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! AFL-CIO, Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines

By Mark Hand for DC Media Group - The AFL-CIO is coming under attack from labor groups and their supporters angry about the organization’s support of the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline through Native American land in North Dakota. Demonstrators stood outside the AFL-CIO’s headquarters in Washington, DC, on Sept. 19 calling on the union federation to renounce its support for the oil pipeline project.

Appeals Court Halts Dakota Access Pipeline Work Pending Hearing

September 18, 2016 Staff, www.indianz.com Resist! Courts, Dakota Access Pipeline, indigenous, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Staff for Indianz. A federal appeals court has handed a temporary victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe as the #NoDAPL fight continues. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order on Friday that preventsDakota Access Pipeline from doing construction within 20 miles on both sides of Lake Oahe. That's exactly what the tribes and the #NoDAPL resisters have been seeking as they work to protect sacred sites and burial grounds near the Missouri River. But the court cautioned that it was not making a decision on the merits of the underlying lawsuit. Instead, the order was described as an "administrative" one that will give the court more time to consider the tribes' request for an injunction. "The purpose of this administrative injunction is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for injunction pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion," the clerk of the court wrote.

Inside Camp That’s Fighting To Stop The Dakota Access Pipeline

September 17, 2016 Xian Chiang-Waren, www.grist.org Resist! #NoDAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines

By Xian Chiang-Waren for Grist - At sundown, Montgomery Brown meets me by the information tent. He has a paper plate piled with brownies in one hand and a toothbrush in the other. The 25-year-old youth organizer and Navy-trained combat medic from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe has been up since daybreak. Brown and I walk past hand-painted “NO MEDIA” signs. We wander through a kitchen, where volunteers are chopping vegetables and boiling pots of soup over an open fire, past kids chasing each other in a game of tag.

Assad’s Death Warrant

September 16, 2016 Mike Whitney, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Pipelines, Syria

By Mike Whitney for Counter Punch - The conflict in Syria is not a war in the conventional sense of the word. It is a regime change operation, just like Libya and Iraq were regime change operations. The main driver of the conflict is the country that’s toppled more than 50 sovereign governments since the end of World War 2. (See: Bill Blum here.) We’re talking about the United States of course. Washington is the hands-down regime change champion, no one else even comes close.

Did Industry Front Group Create Fake Twitter Accounts Promoting Dakota Access Pipeline?

September 16, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Pipelines, Twitter

By Steve Horn for Desmog - DeSmog investigation has revealed the possibility that a front group supporting the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) — the Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now (MAIN) — may have created fake Twitter profiles, known by some as “sock puppets,” to convey a pro-pipeline message over social media. And MAIN may be employing the PRservices of the firm DCI Group, which has connections to the Republican Party, in order to do so.

Gas Pipelines Threaten EU Climate Goals, Critics Contend

September 15, 2016 Terry Macalister, www.truthdig.com Resist! Climate Change, European Union (EU), Pipelines

By Terry Macalister for Truth Dig - LONDON—Civil society campaigners have accused the European Union of pouring unprecedented amounts of state aid into a huge energy project that runs counter to its own climate change objectives. Critics say funding the construction of new gas pipelines from the Caspian region is also causing misery to communities living along the 3,500 kilometre route, while helping to prop up an autocratic regime in Azerbaijan. The concerns about the Southern Gas Corridor project come amid expectations that the European Investment Bank (EIB), which is owned by European Union member states

Security Firm Guarding Dakota Access Pipeline Used Psychological Warfare Tactics

September 14, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! BP, Dakota Access Pipeline, Pipelines, Security

By Steve Horn for Desmog - G4S, a company hiring security staff to guard the hotly contested Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), also works to guard oil and gas industry assets in war-torn Iraq, and has come under fire by the United Nations for human rights abuses allegedly committed while overseeing a BP pipeline in Colombia and elsewhere while on other assignments. Recently, the UK-based G4S placed job advertisements on its website, announcing it would be hiring security teams to work out of offices in Mandan and Bismarck, North Dakota.

Maine Students Sit-In Solidarity With DAPL & Protest Maine Pipeline

September 14, 2016 Staff, www.bit.ly/2cqMLVs Resist! #NoDAPL, Maine, Pipelines, Sit-In

By Staff of MSCJ - Maine Students for Climate Justice (MSCJ) -- along with a number of allies (including 350 Maine supporters) staged a sit-in at the Public Utilties Commission in Hallowell, Maine on Tuesday, 9/13/16. The action was intended as opposition to the PUC commissioners support of the development of un-natural gas infrastructure on the backs of ratepayers -- negation of their own staff recommendations. Further, the event was developed in solidarity with global actions in support of the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native Americans, in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.

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