Pipelines

New Yorkers Erect Giant Tripod In Front Of AIM Pipeline Site

June 14, 2016 www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! AIM Pipeline, New York (NY), Pipelines

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 Resist! Pennsylvania, Pipelines, Protests

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 Resist! Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

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 Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

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 Resist! Environment, First Nations, Pipelines

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 Educate! FERC, Pipelines, Spectra

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 Resist! Indigenous Peoples, North Dakota, Pipelines

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 Educate! Canada, Pipelines, Wildfires

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 Resist! New York (NY), Pipelines, Protesters Arrested, Protests

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 Educate! FERC, Gas, Pipelines

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 Resist! Carbon infrastructure, Pipelines, Student Activism

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 Newsletter Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Climate Change, Climate Justice, Democracy, Donald Trump, Fight for 15, Hillary Clinton, Pipelines, Student Debt, TPP, Trade

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."

A Growing And WINNING Climate Movement

May 4, 2016 Lena Moffitt, www.sierraclub.org Resist! Climate Change, FERC, Fracking, Pipelines

By Lena Moffitt for Sierra Club - The growing rallying cry of the climate movement, to keep fossil fuels in the ground, is taking hold, and not just in the form of chants and headlines, but in the form of cancelled gas pipelines, rejected LNG terminals, shelved lease sales – all of which would’ve perpetuated the fossil fuel status quo, but which faced mounting and unprecedented public opposition. Emboldened by the successful campaign against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and motivated by the growing scientific consensus that we must keep at least 80% of fossil fuel reserves in the ground

Lakota Lead The Fight Against The Dakota Access Pipeline

May 4, 2016 Jason Coppola, www.truth-out.org Resist! Indigenous Peoples, North Dakota, Pipelines, South Dakota

By Jason Coppola for Truthout - As the start of 2016 shatters last year's record as the hottest year on record, the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires of the Great Sioux Nation) once again find themselves on the front lines of the battle against the fossil fuel industry. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have established a Spirit Camp at the mouth of the Cannonball River in North Dakota as a means of bringing attention and awareness to a proposed pipeline and act as an enduring symbol of resistance against its construction.

‘Keystone Killer’ Rallies Opponents To Mountain Valley Pipeline

April 27, 2016 Staff, www.richmond.com Resist! Keystone, Pipelines, Protests

By Staff of The Richmond Times Dispatch - BOONES MILL — Nebraskan Jane Kleeb, dubbed the "Keystone killer" by Rolling Stone magazine and described elsewhere as a pipeline road warrior, met Friday morning in Boones Mill with foes of the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline to share her take on grassroots activism. She told a crowd of about 40 people, gathered in an apartment complex's community hall, that to beat the Mountain Valley Pipeline they must remain united and believe they can win.

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