Pipelines

Oil Leak From Keystone Pipeline 89 Times Worse Than Originally Thought

April 13, 2016 Alejandro Davila Fragoso, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Keystone XL, Pipelines, South Dakota

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 Resist! FERC, Fossil Fuels, Fracking, Pipelines

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 Resist! FERC, Pipelines

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 Resist! Arrest, Pennsylvania, Pipelines

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 Resist! FERC, Gas, Pipelines

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 Resist! Georgia, Pipelines

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...

Sunoco Gets Assist From Sheriff, Judge In Clear-Cut For Pipeline

April 1, 2016 Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Pennsylvania, Pipelines

By Anne Meador for DC Media Group - Born in Budapest, 85-year-old Steven Gerhart fled to the United States in 1957 after surviving Europe’s most brutal regimes. His adopted country was undoubtedly a refuge from injustices and cruelties suffered under the Nazi occupation of Hungary, the Communist takeover and the Soviet crackdown on rebellion. In turn, Gerhart with his wife Ellen created a sanctuary for wildlife with the purchase of land in Pennsylvania in 1982. Now their property—a heavily forested hillside of century-old trees—is in the way of a gas company’s profitable enterprise.

Gas Export Decision Stirs Debate Over Mass. Pipeline Need

April 1, 2016 Bruce Gellerman, www.wbur.org Resist! Gas export, Pipelines

By Bruce Gellerman for WBUR - Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Energy approved plans permitting companies to export gas from Massachusetts to Canada and beyond. Opponents of the construction of two new natural gas pipelines in Massachusetts claim the DOE’s decision demonstrates that the state already has enough natural gas and doesn’t need new pipelines. But proponents say building the new pipelines — costing $8 billion — will actually save ratepayers money and secure the region’s energy future.

Three Arrested As Sunoco Logistics Clears Forest In Huntingdon

April 1, 2016 Coryn Wolk, www.facebook.com Resist! Arrest, Pennsylvania, Pipelines

By Coryn Wolk for Clean Air - Huntingdon, PA - Backed by Huntingdon County sheriff’s deputies, Sunoco Logistics Partners’ chainsaws cut a swath through forest that the Gerhart family had protected for decades, clearing the way for the Mariner East 2 pipeline. By March 30 the 3-acre right-of-way was almost entirely cleared, aside from two trees occupied by protesters on platforms high above the ground and some adjacent trees. One of the tree-sitters is Elise Gerhart, whose mother, property owner Ellen Gerhart, was arrested along with two others.

Protestors Takes To Trees As Pipeline’s Chainsaws Approach

March 31, 2016 Reid Frazier, www.alleghenyfront.org Resist! eminent domain, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Protests

By Reid Frazier for The Allegheny Front - As the chain saws revved nearby, Elise Gerhart was literally up a tree Tuesday protesting a pipeline slated to course through her family’s wooded property. Gerhart, 29, of Huntingdon, and about 20 protesters coalesced around the Gerhart property as a work crew—chaperoned by local sheriff’s officers—took down trees along the property. Two protesters were arrested as the work crews cleared land for Sunoco Logistics’ Mariner East 2 pipeline, which will carry natural gas liquids from Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania to the Philadelphia area.

Sabal Pipeline Project Files 160 Eminent Domain Lawsuits

March 26, 2016 Paul Brinkmann, www.orlandosentinel.com Resist! Pipelines

By Paul Brinkmann for Orlando Sentinal - The project, called the Sabal Trail Transmission pipeline, is targeting 25 properties in Central Florida, mostly in Osceola County. The pipeline company began filing the suits in federal court last week. Wealthy and famous landowners are among the targets, including fitness celebrity Brenda Dykgraaf, who owns vacant land in the path of the pipeline near Reunion. Another suit seeks to slice through the middle of the proposed Greenpointe Communities plan for 2,400 homes near Intercession City in Osceola County.

Pipeline Lawsuit Called ‘Aggressive,’ Precedent-Setting

March 20, 2016 Richie Davis, www.recorder.com Resist! FERC, Gas, Pipelines

By Richie Davis for the Recorder. Pointing to Tennessee Gas. Pipeline Co.’s suit against the state over a proposed natural gas pipeline through state-protected forest in Sandisfield, state Rep. Stephen Kulik said Friday he plans to call for the Massachusetts House to file a “friend of the court” brief in the case. He said the constitutional provision, called Article 97, will also likely come into play in the controversial Northeast Energy Direct pipeline through eight Franklin County towns. The pipeline company asserts that its Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval for its Berkshire County route supercedes the state’s constitutional protection of conservation land there. Kulik called TGP’s plans to override state constitutional protections of open space “probably the greatest overstepping of FERC’s bounds that I can imagine."

Carbon Infrastructure Protests Grow Too Big To Ignore

March 20, 2016 John Schwartz, www.nytimes.com Resist! BXE, Carbon infrastructure, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By John Schwartz for the NY Times. The demonstration was part of a wave of actions across the nation that combines traditional not-in-my-backyard protests against fossil-fuel projects with an overarching concern about climate change. Bound together through social media, networks of far-flung activists are opposing virtually all new oil, gas and coal infrastructure projects. The protests are having some impact. The engineering consultants Black and Veatch recently published a report that said the most significant barrier to building new pipeline capacity was “delay from opposition groups.” Activists regularly protest at the headquarters of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Washington, but there have also been sizable protests in places like St. Paul and across the Northeast.

Anti-Pipeline March Draws All Ages

March 19, 2016 Diane Broncaccio, www.recorder.com Resist! March, Pipelines

By Diane Broncaccio for The Recorder - ASHFIELD — At least 100 people walked through fog, rain, a bit of hail, and sunshine Thursday during the first leg of what is to be a 46-mile, four-day journey from the site of a proposed Tennessee Gas Pipeline compressor station in Windsor to another compressor station slated for Northfield, should the proposed Northeast Energy Direct gas pipeline become a reality. Carrying backpacks and “Stop the Pipeline” signs, marchers piled into the Ashfield Congregational Church for a hot meal prepared by the community.

ResistAIM Pipeline Group Interrupts FERC Meeting

March 18, 2016 Resist AIM Pipeline, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! FERC, Pipelines

By ResistAIM Pipeline. On Thursday March, 17, 2016 at 11:05 AM, ResistAIM Pipeline, a group of concerned New York State (NYS) residents, led by Nancy Vann - a Peekskill landowner whose property was taken by Spectra for pipeline construction - stood up in the monthly public meeting of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to ask the commissioners why they have ignored NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo’s urgent request to immediately halt construction on Spectra Energy's Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project. Governor Cuomo directed four NYS agencies to conduct an independent safety assessment of the AIM Pipeline and its proximity to Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. The Governor told the New York Times, “The safety of New Yorkers is the first responsibility of state government when making any decision.”

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