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A Growing And WINNING Climate Movement

May 4, 2016 Lena Moffitt, www.sierraclub.org , , ,
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 , , ,
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 , ,
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.

We Are Changing The World

April 26, 2016 Michael Magee ,
By Michael Magee - We have achieved a great victory over the tyranny of huge multi-national corporations and a system that is rigged to create more and more wealth and more and more power for the already wealthy and powerful. The individual citizens, the people of Western Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire, working together, in a just cause, have won a stunning victory. We said NO PIPELINE and we meant it. Government only works, if we participate at the most basic level: each person doing their part, no matter how large or small, to bring about change.

A Pipeline Defeated: How A Small Town Saved Itself

April 25, 2016 William Rivers Pitt, www.truth-out.org , ,
By William Rivers Pitt for Truthout - In the dungeon that was the winter of 2014 here in my New Hampshire home, a pair of representatives from the natural gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan/Tennessee Gas arrived in the town of Rindge, just down the road. They were there to meet with the town administrator about a proposed natural gas pipeline route that would cut the town in half, along with several other towns, as it made its way to the sea.

Gov. Cuomo Rejects Constitution Pipeline, Huge Win For Anti-Fracking Movement

April 23, 2016 Staff, www.ecowatch.com ,
By Staff of Eco Watch - The Constitution Pipeline Project—a joint venture between four oil and gas companies—was proposed to transport fracked natural gas from Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania through Broome, Chenango, Delaware and Schoharie counties in New York to existing interstate pipelines. The pipeline route would have crossed hundreds of streams and wetlands, including those supplying drinking water to families along the proposed route. Using the power granted under the Clean Water Act, DEC officials rejected the companies’ permit application, citing damage the project would do to water supplies along the pipeline route.

FANG Escalates Protest In New England

April 21, 2016 FANG, www.PopularResistance.org ,
By FANG. The past three days, FANG has been nonviolently escalating our efforts to stop the fracked-gas power plant proposed for Burrillville and to confront other forms of injustice. It's all part of an unannounced Week of Action, that FANG is simply calling #theWOA. Check out this quick recap about what's happened so far. Wednesday - A group of Boston area residents delivered an "Annual Report" to National Grid at their North American headquarter building. The Report detailed how National Grid is failing our communities via their support of the LNG facility proposed for Providence, their support of the fracked-gas industry as a whole and their immoral utility shutoffs. Four people were arrested after refusing to leave. . .

Minisink, A Cautionary Tale Every Community Can Learn From

April 21, 2016 Elaine Ulman, www.recorder.com , ,
By Elaine Ulman for The Recorder - Once upon a time back in 2011, Minisink, a small New York town about an hour northwest of Manhattan, faced a big problem. That may sound like the start of a fable, but rest assured: All names, dates, and events in this commentary are real, as is “the Monster.” That summer the Millennium Pipeline Company LLC proposed to run a 30-inch fracked gas pipeline through town and install a 12,000-horsepower compressor station.

Spirit Camp Set To Block Construction Of Dakota Access Pipeline

April 16, 2016 Wakíƞyaƞ Waánataƞ (Matt Remle), www.lastrealindians.com , ,
By Wakíƞyaƞ Waánataƞ (Matt Remle) for Last Real Indians - On April 1st, hundreds gathered in Ft. Yates on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation to show opposition to the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, also known as the Bakken pipeline. “the Dakota Access Pipeline threatens public health and welfare on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe relies on the waters of the life-giving Missouri River for our continued existence, and the Dakota Access Pipeline poses a serious risk to Mni Sose and to the very survival of our Tribe.” Standing Rock Sioux Tribe resolution opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline

Oil Leak From Keystone Pipeline 89 Times Worse Than Originally Thought

April 13, 2016 Alejandro Davila Fragoso, www.thinkprogress.org , ,
By Alejandro Davila Fragoso for Climate Progress - Nearly a week after pipeline operator TransCanada shut down a section of its Keystone line over an oil leak, the company reported Thursday thousands of gallons of oil were spilled, not less than 200 as it first said. Based on soil excavations, TransCanada said about 16,800 gallons of oil leaked onto a field in South Dakota, the Associated Press reported. After the leak was discovered Saturday and the line was shut, TransCanada said about 187 gallons of crude oil had spilled, an accident that environmental groups said shows the dangers of shipping oil by pipeline.

Rubber Stamp Rebellion To Be Fossil Fuel Free

April 7, 2016 Staff, www.beyondextremeenergy.org , , ,
By Beyond Extreme Energy. Washington, DC - The winds of change are gaining speed, and Beyond Extreme Energy is working hard to make them even stronger. From May 15 – 22, in Washington, DC, and elsewhere where people are fighting fracking and fracking infrastructure, BXE and our allies will take coordinated action for the Rubber Stamp Rebellion (May 15 will be a day for training and art-building). We will say to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC): Stop rubber-stamping gas industry permit applications and change the way you operate. Prioritize the emergence of wind, solar and other renewables above fossil fuels. We say: No New Permits!

Hundreds Rally Asking Gov. Cuomo To Deny Constitution Pipeline

April 6, 2016 Stefanie Spear, www.ecowatch.com ,
By Stefanie Spear for Eco Watch - Nearly 400 people from across the state of New York and beyond rallied in Albany today asking Gov. Cuomo to stand up to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and use the state’s authority under the Clean Water Act to deny the 401 water quality certificate for theConstitution Pipeline. The Constitution Pipeline, a joint venture between Williams Pipeline Companies and Cabot Oil & Gas, would run approximately 124 miles from Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania to Schoharie County, New York.

Did $200,000 Bail Keep Pipeline Activist Out Of Sunoco’s Way?

April 6, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us , ,
By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - The Sheriff, District Attorney and a judge in Huntingdon County, PA may have stretched the law and infringed on individual civil rights in assisting a gas transmission company to get a wildlife sanctuary cleared for pipeline construction. Sunoco Logistics Partners is in the midst of eminent domain proceedings in Central Pennsylvania to construct the Mariner East 2 pipeline. A court order favorable to the company, punitive bail set for activists resisting the clear-cut for the pipeline, plus allegations of endangerment and arbitrary arrests

FERC Postpones Decisions On Two Gas Pipeline Projects

April 2, 2016 Elizabeth Skrapits, www.citizensvoice.com , ,
By Elizabeth Skrapits for Citizens Voice - Two natural gas pipeline companies will have to wait longer than they wanted for potential approval by the federal agency that authorizes and regulates pipeline projects. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission postponed a decision on the PennEast pipeline to January 2017, seven months later than the company requested. FERC’s decision on another proposed project, Williams Companies’ Transcontinental Pipeline Co., LLC’s $2.59 billion Atlantic Sunrise expansion of the Transco interstate pipeline, is also delayed, by 10 months.

Victory: Kinder Morgan Stops Georgia Pipeline

April 1, 2016 Phil Mckenna, www.insideclimatenews.org ,
By Phil Mckenna for Inside Climate News - Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, announced this week that it has suspended construction of a $1 billion pipeline project that would pump gasoline and diesel fuel across the Southeastern United States. The decision is being hailed as a victory by an unlikely coalition of Republican legislators, private property owners and environmental organizations. The announcement came the same day Georgia state lawmakers sent a bill to the state's governor that would place a moratorium on the 360-mile pipeline's construction until 2017...
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