Pipelines

Virginia Activists Inspired by Recent Victories Over Pipelines

July 13, 2016 Mark Hand, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Activists, Pipelines, Virginia

By Mark Hand for DC Media Group - Facing long odds, residents of southwest and central Virginia remain confident their organizing efforts will lead to victories over pipeline companies that want to seize their land through eminent domain to build major natural gas transmission lines. Virginia has a reputation as a business-friendly state where politicians do the bidding of major corporate players with little resistance from its citizenry. But residents who live along proposed pipeline routes have grown tired of their voices being ignored.

Fate Of KXL Pipeline Could Be Decided In Texas Court

July 9, 2016 Julie Dermansky, www.desmogblog.com Resist! KXL pipeline, Pipelines, Texas

By Julie Dermansky for Desmog - Texas landowner Michael Bishop continues to challenge TransCanada’s right to build the southern route of the Keystone XL pipeline, renamed the Gulf Coast pipeline when the project was divided into segments. Meanwhile,TransCanada is suing the United States for not being granted the presidential permit needed in order to build the Keystone XL's northern route. A win for Bishop in his suit against TransCanada Keystone Pipeline L.P. in Nacogdoches County District Court could complicate TransCanada’s North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) challenge.

MI CATS Respond To AG Schuette’s ‘Attack’ Claim

July 9, 2016 MI CATS, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Enbridge, Media, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By MI CATS. Midland, Michigan - Statements made by Attorney General (AG) Schuette’s Spokeswoman Bitely stating that Earth First! And MICATS were trying to “break down” the AG’s residence door, and “attacking” the home is not true. It is obvious that these statements were made to deliberately mislead the public in an attempt to make the Attorney General look like the victim when in reality the victims are those living along Line 5 who are living under constant danger by Schuette’s inaction. The police arrived at Attorney General Schuette’s home within minutes of our arrival and stayed with the demonstrators the entire time. We knocked on the AG’s door as we arrived, which nobody answered and carried out our demonstration on the sidewalk. A trumpet was played, accordions and danced on his lawn.

MI-CATS Take Their Demands Directly To Attorney General’s Door

July 7, 2016 MI-CATS Media, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Climate Change, Enbridge, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By MI CATS Media. Midland, MI – Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 1:30pm – Over 60 demonstrators arrived at the home of Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette earlier this afternoon to demand that Schuette take immediate action to shut down the Enbridge oil pipeline Line 5. Demonstrators from Earth First! hung a massive banner between two trees in Schuette’s front lawn that read “No Line 5: Pipelines Equal Ecocide.” Others in the crowd chanted, held banners, and held a mock funeral for Enbridge. Down the street another group hung a massive banner that completely covered two billboards which read “No Line 5 Pipeline”. By the end of the action over 20 police cars had assembled to harass the protesters into ending the actions. The protesters are demanding that Schuette use his authority under the Public Trust Doctrine, Article 10, and shut down Line 5 immediately in order to protect the Great Lakes.

Federal Court Overturns Northern Gateway Pipeline Approval

July 2, 2016 Sophia Reuss, www.socialism.com Resist! Courts, Pipelines

By Sophia Reuss for Rabble - The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned approval of Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline after finding that the federal government failed to consult with First Nations communities whose rights would have been affected by the proposed pipeline. "Canada failed to make reasonable efforts to inform and consult. It fell well short of the mark," the ruling said. The Court ruled in favour of the eight First Nations, four environmental organizations and one union, Unifor.

Transcanada’s $15 Billion Suit Against US Corporate Nationhood At Its Worst

July 2, 2016 Michael Levitin, www.occupy.com Educate! Corporations, NAFTA, Pipelines, TPP, TransCanada

By Michael Levitin for Occupy - When the NAFTA nations – United States, Canada and Mexico – meet Wednesday for the annual Three Amigos Summit in Ottawa, climate change and clean energy are expected to dominate the agenda. However, a curiously timed $15 billion lawsuit launched last Friday by TransCanada, which is using NAFTA to sue the U.S. government for its rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, has undercut the very same climate ideals professed by the North American nations.

Al Gore’s Daughter Among 23 Arrested In Protest

July 1, 2016 Staff, www.bostonherald.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests

By Staff of The Associated Press - BOSTON — Former Vice President Al Gore's daughter was among 23 people arrested during a protest of a pipeline under construction. The arrests happened Wednesday at the site of Spectra Energy's West Roxbury Lateral pipeline. Karenna Gore was among demonstrators who tried to block construction activity on the site by lying in a trench dug for the pipeline and refusing to move until firefighters removed them, protest group Resist the Pipeline & Stop the West Roxbury Lateral said.

Business Owners Arrested; Dozens Halt Pipeline Construction

June 30, 2016 Nancy Wilson, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Pipelines, Protests

By Nancy Wilson of Resist the Pipeline & Stop the West Roxbury Lateral - West Roxbury, MA - Two business owners, Aravinda Ananda and Joseph Rotella of Spencer Organ Company, were arrested for disrupting construction on Spectra Energy’s West Roxbury Lateral pipeline. They were arrested Tuesday morning and arraigned that afternoon at West Roxbury District Court. Their charges were lowered from misdemeanors to civil infractions. “I risked arrest because I’m gravely concerned about climate change and new fossil fuel infrastructure is the last thing we need” said Ananda.

26 Pipeline Fighters Arrested In West Roxbury

June 26, 2016 Nancy Wilson, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Fracking, Gas, Pipelines

By Nancy Wilson for Resist the Pipeline & Stop the West Roxbury Lateral. Twenty-six people were arrested for disrupting cement pouring at the construction site of the controversial West Roxbury Lateral pipeline. The West Roxbury Lateral is part of Spectra Energy’s massive pipeline expansion project, which aims to transport gas from the shalefields of Pennsylvania through the Northeastern United States to Canada, where several large Liquefied Natural Gas export terminals are being built. This project has been met with massive public dissidence from local residents of West Roxbury and their many allies. In addition to the 26 arrestees, at least 100 sang, chanted, held banners and stood in solidarity with them as they were handcuffed and driven away in police wagons. Organizers are expecting upwards of 125 people to risk arrest over the course of the week and hundreds more to rally in support of this week of actions, which they are calling, “Escalation Summer”.

Montrose 9 Assert The “Necessity Defense” At Trial In Cortlandt, NY

June 25, 2016 Nancy Vann, www.beyondextremeenergy.org Resist! New York (NY), Pipelines

By Nancy Vann for Beyond Extreme Energy - Cortlandt, NY — The “Montrose 9” are nine community members arrested for disorderly conduct for allegedly blocking traffic near the access to a Spectra Energy construction yard used for the expansion of a high-pressure fracked-gas pipeline known as the AIM pipeline. Their trial, which resumed in Cortlandt, NY at 8:30 yesterday morning, has the potential to become a landmark case with national implications involving the “necessity defense.” Defense counsel Martin R. Stolar is a prominent social justice attorney who argues that the defendants’ actions were justified since they were undertaken to stop a greater harm...

Join Pipeline Fighters And Climate Warriors To Fight Spectra Energy

June 25, 2016 Staff, www.resistthepipeline.org Resist! Pipelines, Protests

By Staff of Resist The Pipeline - Spectra Energy is building a pipeline carrying fracked gas in West Roxbury, Boston, Massachusetts. This is a densely populated residential area.There are many reasons to oppose this project, the larger pipeline (the Algonquin), and fracked gas in general. Opposition to the WRLP falls mainly into two categories: Local Concerns and Climate Change.

Get Your Pipeline Out Of My Yard

June 25, 2016 Matthew Philips, www.bloomberg.com Resist! Pipelines

By Matthew Philips for Bloomberg - Thanks to the shale drilling revolution, the U.S. has gone in less than a decade from being woefully short of natural gas to having almost a century’s worth of supplies. But the pipelines that were going to transform American energy use are getting harder to build. To take full advantage of the windfall, the country must fundamentally change the way natural gas flows through the U.S. Yet what used to be seen as a rubber-stamp approval process has turned into a slow-motion headache for pipeline companies, brought on by ecological concerns and the changing economics of natural gas.

Anti-Pipeline Activists, Eminent Domain Experts Gather In Atlanta

June 21, 2016 Mark Hand, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Atlanta, eminent domain, Pipelines

By Mark Hand for DC Media Group - Private property rights activists and environmentalists met in Georgia June 14-15 to discuss strategies for fighting energy companies’ growing use of eminent domain to build natural gas, oil and petroleum products pipelines on private property across the United States. Many of the approximately 70 people who gathered in downtown Atlanta at the invitation-only conference came away hopeful that philanthropic organizations and other donors will choose to invest in a national organization as well as grassroots groups seeking to slow down or stop pipeline companies’ growing reliance on eminent domain.

TransCanada Wins Bid For Underwater Gas Pipeline Across Gulf Of Mexico

June 17, 2016 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Pipelines, TransCanada

By Steve Horn for Desmog - TransCanada, owner of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline currently being contested in federal court and in front of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) legal panel, has won a $2.1 billion joint venture bid with Sempra Energy for a pipeline to shuttle gas obtained from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in Texas' Eagle Ford Shale basin across the Gulf of Mexico and into Mexico. The 500-mile long Sur de Texas-Tuxpan pipeline, as reported on previously by DeSmog, is part of an extensive pipeline empire TransCanada is building from the U.S. to Mexico.

Six-Day Tree Sit Against Fracked Gas Pipeline Ends

June 14, 2016 Rising Tide Vermont, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Fracking, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Rising Tide Vermont. Monkton, Vt. - A six day aerial blockade of Vermont Gas Systems' fracked gas pipeline has ended with one arrest and significant delays at a construction site along the proposed route. Sam Jessup, who occupied a platform in a tree since last Tuesday to halt construction activity, came down voluntarily after police disconnected the cell phone he was using to communicate with supporters on the ground. "As we continue to effectively halt pipeline construction, we are seeing an escalation in tactics from the police in their response," said Will Bennington, a spokesperson with the climate justice group Rising Tide Vermont. "AT&T has reported to us that Sam's phone was disconnected from nearby cell towers, and state troopers confirmed that they had 'other tricks up our sleeves' to disrupt the action, including interfering with the cell phone."

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