Pipelines

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.

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

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