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Al Gore’s Daughter Among 23 Arrested In Protest

July 1, 2016 Staff, www.bostonherald.com ,
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 ,
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 , ,
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 ,
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 ,
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
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 , ,
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 , , ,
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 , , ,
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."

New Yorkers Erect Giant Tripod In Front Of AIM Pipeline Site

June 14, 2016 www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By Nancy Vann for Resist AIM - New Yorkers engage in a daring, peaceful, civil disobedience to stop Spectra’s continuing pipeline construction Peekskill, NY—As part of an escalating peaceful resistance campaign, concerned New Yorkers engineered a dramatic and elaborate protest against pipeline construction early this morning. A team erected a 20- foot-tripod in the path of construction equipment, and then a woman who grew up in Croton climbed up and sat at the top, thereby effectively halting construction. Additionally, two people locked to the base of the tripod. A total of six people have been arrested and taken to the Peekskill Police Station.

Pa. Residents Intensify Campaign Against Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline

June 14, 2016 Mark Hand, www.dcmediagroup.us , ,
By Mark Hand for DC Media Group - Residents of Lancaster County, Pa., are ratcheting up their efforts to prevent Williams Partners LP from building a 42-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline through their community. Approximately 150 people walked more than three miles on June 12 to protest the company’s proposed Atlantic Sunrise natural gas pipeline project. The large turnout at the walk in the township of Conestoga, Pa., where 80% of the landowners have not accepted easement offers from Williams, served as another example of the well-developed campaign that residents of Lancaster County are waging against the pipeline project.

Activists Plant Ceremonial Corn Against Pipeline

June 8, 2016 Laura Peters, www.newsleader.com , ,
By Laura Peters for New Leaders - STUARTS DRAFT - Dozens of people gathered at a Stuarts Draft farm, dug into the earth and planted their resistance. To take a stand against the Atlantic Coast pipeline, area activists held a ceremony Monday morning where they planted "Seeds of Resistance" of corn sacred to the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma on land that lies in the proposed path.

Planting Seeds Of Resistance Along Pipeline Route

June 8, 2016 Staff, www.boldnebraska.org , ,
By Bold Nebraska. Ponca Nation member and Bold Oklahoma coordinator Mekasi Horinek Camp, Nebraska farmer Art Tanderup, and Bold Nebraska’s Jane Kleeb will visit Virginia and West Virginia from June 6-8 to plant “Seeds of Resistance” on land that lies in the paths of the Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley fracked gas pipelines. The first “Seeds of Resistance” were planted in 2014 by the Cowboy & Indian Alliance, when sacred Ponca corn was returned to the tribe’s ancestral homeland in Nebraska for the first time in 137 years — since the tribe was forcibly removed from Nebraska. The corn was planted on land that lies both in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline, and on the historic Ponca Trail of Tears.

Vowed Summer Of Action Against Trans Mountain Pipeline

May 30, 2016 Ron Johnson, www.dominionofnewyork.com , ,
By Ron Johnson for Earth Island Journal - Environment and Indigenous rights organizations are indicating it’s going to be a long, hot summer of civil disobedience in British Columbia following a National Energy Board report released last week recommending conditional approval of Kinder Morgan’s $5.4 billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project that allow for the transport of nearly a million barrels of bitumen per day from Alberta’s tar sands oil mines...

Contractors Hired By FERC To Review New Spectra Energy Pipeline…

May 28, 2016 Itai Vardi, www.desmogblog.com , ,
By Itai Vardi for Desmog - A contractor hired last year by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to review a proposed gas pipeline by Spectra Energy, had already been working for the company on a related project, a DeSmog investigation has found. Such an alleged conflict of interest suggests that the contractor had a financial stake in approving the project it was hired to review.
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