Pipelines

New Gas Pipelines Would Make U.S. Miss Climate Target: Report

July 23, 2016 Valerie Volcovici, www.reuters.com Educate! Climate Change, Pipelines

By Valerie Volcovici for Reuters - The United States will miss its emission-reduction targets under the Paris climate agreement if 19 pending natural gas pipelines are built across eastern states, a report published on Friday by environmental groups said. Oil Change International and 11 other organizations found that 19 proposed pipelines due to move natural gas from the shale fields of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to states from Louisiana to New York would unlock at least 15.2 billion cubic feet per day of new natural gas production.

Protesters Call For Halt To Three Massachusetts Pipeline Projects

July 21, 2016 Phil Mckenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Massachusetts, Pipelines, Protests

By Phil Mckenna for Inside Climate News - Hundreds of environmental activists protested at the Massachusetts Statehouse this week against natural gas pipeline projects that would significantly increase the amount of fracked gas delivered to the eastern part of the state. Pipeline opponents said the added capacity isn't needed, would rely on increases in consumer utility rates, and would lock the state into future dependence on fossil fuels and their related emissions for decades.

Enbridge’s Kalamazoo Spill Saga Ends In $177 Million Settlement

July 21, 2016 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Canada, Oil Spill, Pipelines

By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - The Canadian pipeline company Enbridge has been fined $61 million as part of an overall $177 million settlement for a massive 2010 oil spill into Michigan's Kalamazoo River. The spill required years and more than a billion dollars to clean up and highlighted the hazard of pumping heavy tar sands oil through pipelines. The settlement was announced Wednesday between Enbridge and the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice. It ends nearly two years of negotiations and levies one of the largest penalties ever for an inland oil spill.

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.

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