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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.

Human Shield Of Prayer Interferes Dakota Access Pipeline Construction!

May 27, 2016 Staff, www.indigenousrising.org , ,
By Staff of Indigenous Rising - Today, in opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline and the illegal start of its construction in North Dakota, a human shield of prayer has moved in front of the construction site northeast of Cannon Ball, ND on the east bank of the Missouri River. The human shield of prayer is on United States Army Corp of Engineer property. [The Dakota Access Pipeline is a proposed 1,168-mile, 30-inch diameter pipeline that will connect the Bakken and Three Forks production areas in North Dakota to Patoka, Illinois, transporting over 450,000 barrels of oil per day.]

Fires In Canada And PUC Pipeline Dishonesty

May 24, 2016 Winona LaDuke, www.inforum.com , ,
By Winona LaDuke for Inforum - The firestorm in Alberta's Fort McMurray grew eight times as large in a couple of days—engulfing more than 600,000 acres. Not just one fire, it was series of fires, and as the fire enlarged, it created its own storm systems. The fire has not yet been put out, although it moved away from the city, ravaging the Wood Buffalo National Park and forests in the north.

‘Everyday There’s Resistance’: Peaceful Protesters Arrested

May 23, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org , , ,
By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - The Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) pipeline is being constructed by Spectra, a company that was on Friday the subject of a damning DeSmog Blog exposé unveiling deep ties between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) head Cheryl LaFleur and Spectra executives. "We are stopping the [...] pipeline construction today, to make everyone aware of our environmental and safety concerns about this project, and to show that our voices and opinions matter,” said Tina Volz-Bongar, a local Peekskill resident who took part in the peaceful demonstration, in a statement from the rally's organizers.

Spectra-Funded Group Pushed Commissioner’s Reappointment

May 23, 2016 Itai Vardi, www.desmogblog.com , ,
By Itai Vardi for Desmog - A business advocacy group lobbied for the reappointment of a federal energy commissioner while one of its own members sought approval for several projects from the same federal regulator, a DeSmog investigation has found. In the past three years, natural gas infrastructure giant Spectra Energy has asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) approval for a number of projects in the US Northeast.

Virginia Students Resist Pipeline, Engage With Communities

May 17, 2016 Madison Roberts, www.PopularResistance.org , ,
By Madison Roberts for the Virginia Student Environmental Coalition. This week, 20 college students from all across Virginia will be touring the route of the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline, a natural gas pipeline running from West Virginia to Virginia. The Virginia Student Environmental Coalition has planned the trip since Fall of 2015. The purpose of the trip is to raise awareness of the new natural gas infrastructure and to engage with the communities impacted. Students will begin their journey on Sunday May 15, 2016 when they depart from Blacksburg, Virginia to travel to Wetzel County, West Virginia. The trip will be highly impactful for the parties involved, both students and community members. The various regions have welcomed the students’ involvement, offering their sincerest generosity to the trip by providing meals and places to stay along the way.

Newsletter: Living In A Post-2011 World

May 7, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org , , , , , , , , , , ,
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. The 2016 election has deepened the understanding of how out of step the establishment political parties are with the people of the United States. The parties have reinforced the rationale for the Occupy uprising, and the uprisings on racism, inequality, poverty wages, mistreatment of students and more that have occurred since 2011; and they have increased national consensus on the dysfunction and corruption of government, the unfairness and inequity of the economy and the lack of concern for the environment and climate change.Don't Represent US In order to understand the election's relationship to the movement for economic, racial and environmental justice, we need to understand that the roots of this election come from the uprising of 2011. As Paolo Gerbaudo wrote in ROAR Magazine: "The 2011 protest wave will forever be associated with the slogan 'they don’t represent us' — a clear indictment of the present form of representative politics and the existing political class."
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