Pipelines

Taking Steps To A Renewable Future

February 19, 2016 The Sugar Shack Alliance, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Democracy, FERC, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

The Sugar Shack Alliance. Windsor, MA - The 4-day, 53-mile intergenerational walk will follow roads near the proposed route of the Kinder Morgan Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, from one proposed compressor station location in Windsor to a proposed compressor station in Northfield. Food and lodging will be provided. There will be evening events for the walkers and general public. We walk to increase public awareness of the negative impact of this pipeline and fracked gas everywhere. We walk to highlight the consequences of continued fossil fuel use and global climate change. We walk to build an unstoppable movement aiming towards a renewable future. Join with friends, family, and neighbors as we walk through ten towns in Western Massachusetts!

FERC Valentines Require Special Delivery

February 19, 2016 Anne Meador and John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! FERC, LNG, Pipelines

By Anne Meador and John Zangas for DC Media Group - “Clean energy policy means never having to say you’re sorry.” A twist on the catchphrase from the movieLove Story was the message delivered on Wednesday by anti-fracking activists to heads of a federal energy agency. Hoping that the four current voting members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) would get into the spirit of Valentine’s Day, they made special in-person deliveries of cards, flowers and balloons to their homes in Washington, DC, Massachusetts, Arkansas and Virginia.

Massive Gas Pipeline Project Endures In Texas

February 17, 2016 Dahr Jamail, www.truth-out.org Educate! Gas, Pipelines, Texas

By Dahr Jamail for Truthout - The oil and gas industry is in a state of free fall. With prices for both commodities lower then they have been in years, oil companies are cutting jobs and many major drilling projects across the United States have ground to a virtual standstill. Unlike the US, countries around the globe whose political apparatuses are not heavily funded by the fossil fuel industry are actively moving away from fossil fuels.

Environmentalists And Indigenous People Flex New Muscle

February 15, 2016 Derek Royden, www.occupy.com Resist! Canada, Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

By Derek Royden for Occupy - 2015 was one of the worst years on record for oil and gas producers in Canada. First, the Keystone XL pipeline project was stopped through the tireless efforts of activists on both sides of the border. Then, unrelated to this, the price of oil dropped so much that the industry’s products, especially bitumen from tar sands, became increasingly unprofitable. The low price of crude brought at least 40,000 direct job losses to the Canadian oil industry and as many as 100,000 overall last year. This is a trend that industry insiders predict will continue through 2016.

Farm Defended Against Pipeline Tree Cutters

February 12, 2016 John Zangas, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Pennsylvania, Pipelines

By John Zangas for DC Media Group - Clear-cutting of trees on a Pennsylvania family farm for the Constitution Pipeline was held off another day by successful negotiations between property owners and pipeline company representatives. The discussion was backed up by a large group of pipeline opponents, who stood ready to block the incursion of tree cutters. Dozens of people have traveled long distances to join hands on the Zeffer-Holleran property near New Milford, PA and defend five acres of old-growth trees in the path of the 125-mile-long Constitution Pipeline. The conflict escalated early on Wednesday when twenty loggers attempted to begin cutting trees.

Fracked Gas Pipeline Protest, Feb 9th, Montpelier VT

February 11, 2016 Todd Boyle, www.youtube.com Resist! Fracking, Pipelines, Protests, Vermont

By Todd Boyle for Rising Tide Vermont - Dozens of community members just shut down ANOTHER eminent domain hearing for Vermont Gas Systems fracked gas pipeline. We packed the hearing room, made them let EVERYONE in, and used our voices to defend the home of our friend Claire Broughton. The hearing was adjourned within ten minutes, further delaying the eminent domain process and the construction of the largest fossil fuel project Vermont has seen in the past 50 years. It's getting pretty clear - It's time to leave the gas inside the ground. We're singing out for climate justice NOW!

Newsletter: Global Solidarity Is Rising

February 7, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Newsletter Banking and Finance, Blockades, Climate Change, Extraction, Exxon, FERC, Flint, Fracking, Groundwater, Indigenous Peoples, Lead, Leonard Peltier, Pipelines, Police violence, Uranium

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. A key ingredient of previous successful campaigns to stop 'free trade' agreements is cross-border solidarity. Uniting struggles globally, as well as locally, is critical for other issues as well. Via Campesina, a movement started by peasants in 1993, has grown to become a global movement that recognizes the intersectionality between food security, land rights, the climate crisis and transnational corporate power. They work together to both resist harmful policies and to create necessary alternatives by organizing seed exchanges and impacting public policy. Similarly, global solidarity is increasing around the climate crisis.

Kinder Morgan’s Request To Police Backfires

February 7, 2016 Domenic Poli, www.gazettenet.com Resist! Corporatism, Kinder Morgan, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Domenic Poli for the Gazette. Kinder Morgan wants state authority to enter onto more than 400 private properties to conduct surveys for the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline project. Deerfield residents who choose to grant Kinder Morgan access to their private property do so at their own risk, according to the Select Board. Cristobal Bonifaz, an attorney working for Deerfield in its opposition to the pipeline, helped draft the nine-page document and said Thursday the risk in this case refers to any consequence of surveyors “fiddling around” on one’s land. Bonifaz said Deerfield is prepared to supersede any state authority and have police officers arrest anyone who enters onto private property as part of the pipeline project.

Climate Advocates Prevent Eminent Domain Proceedings For Pipeline

February 3, 2016 Staff, www.risingtidevermont.org Resist! Pipelines, Protests, Vermont

By Staff of Rising Tide Vermont - Monkton, VT, Thursday, Jan. 28th, 2016 -- Over 70 Addison County residents and climate advocates from across the state prevented a land appraisal by the Department of Public Service and Vermont Gas Systems today. The appraisal was intended to facilitate the condemnation of Claire Broughton’s land in order to construct the proposed fracked gas pipeline. Supporters of Broughton formed a human chain across the property and refused to let state and company officials through.

If Paris Changed Everything, Why Are We Still Talking Pipelines?

January 29, 2016 David Sukuzi, www.rabble.ca Resist! Climate Change, Pipelines

By David Sukuzi for Rabble - With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent. In light of this, I don't get the current brouhaha over Kinder Morgan, Keystone XL, Northern Gateway or the Energy East pipelines. Why are politicians contemplating spending billions on pipelines when the Paris commitment means 75 to 80 percent of known fossil fuel deposits must be left in the ground?

Enbridge Fails To Show For Open House, Protests Continue

January 28, 2016 Michael Toledano, www.vice.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests

By Michael Toledano for Vice News - A "public awareness open house" in Aamjiwnaang First Nation (AFN) became a venue for residents to vent their frustration with industry after representatives from Enbridge Pipelines, Inc. failed to show up to their own event. In the company's absence, activists unfurled banners and gave presentations on Enbridge's operations while residents took the floor to voice their concerns. A letter was circulated and endorsed by 27 community members rejecting a "free starter emergency kit" paid for by Enbridge, Suncor, Shell, Styrolutions, Lanxess, and other corporations with a local presence.

Three Arrested Protesting Controversial BC Pipeline

January 25, 2016 Hilary Beaumont, www.news.vice.com Resist! Canada, Pipelines, Protesters Arrested

By Hilary Beaumont for Vice News - Canadian police arrested three protesters who staged a sit-in on Saturday that drew attention to restricted public access to hearings for a controversial oil pipeline in British Columbia. "Let us in! Let us in!" the women chanted as they were pinned against the wall and handcuffed outside the ballroom of a Burnaby, BC hotel, where Canada's National Energy Board (NEB) is considering Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline proposal. The hearings began on Tuesday, sparking protests throughout the week in the lead up to the largest rally on Saturday, which drew 200 people outside the hotel.

Pipeline Perambulations

January 24, 2016 Melinda Tuhus, www.melindatuhus.net Resist! Massachusetts, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Melinda Tuhus for MelindaTuhus.net. I just got back from a transformative three-day walk to Stop the Pipeline in northwest Mass., through several “hill towns,” as the locals call them. It was organized almost single-handedly by a feisty septuagenarian named Hattie Nestel. For over a year, abutting property owners, local officials, the president of the state senate, the state attorney general and major environmental groups have all been saying the Tennessee Pipe Line Company's Northeast Energy Direct pipeline is not needed nor wanted. It would bring fracked gas from Pennsylvania through New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which they say will be exported to Eastern Canada. The love, commitment and generosity of spirit were almost overwhelming. As Hattie said at the end of our conversation, “People are really upset about this, so there’s a lot of activism in Massachusetts to stop this pipeline, and we might do it, we just might do it.”

Portland Pipe Line Corp Sues Over Ban On Crude Exports

January 24, 2016 Kelley Bouchard, www.pressherald.com Resist! Oil, Oil Export, Pipelines, Portland

By Kelley Bouchard for Portland Press Herald. Portland, ME - The future of the Portland Pipe Line Corp. will be in jeopardy if it’s not allowed to reverse the flow of its pipeline to bring tar sands oil from Canada to its marine terminal in South Portland, lawyers for the company argued Thursday in U.S. District Court in Portland. The company is challenging South Portland’s controversial Clear Skies ordinance,passed by the City Council in July 2014, which banned the loading of crude oil into tankers on the city’s waterfront and effectively blocked the company from reversing the flow of its South Portland-to-Montreal pipeline. Attorneys for South Portland questioned why the company still hasn’t submitted any plans or sought any of the permits needed to reverse the pipeline’s flow. “They haven’t taken any steps to actually do what they claim they want to do,” said Jonathan Ettinger, a lawyer with Foley Hoag in Boston. “If they’re not taking steps, (the claim of urgency) is hollow.” Ettinger said global market conditions – not the city’s ordinance – are the source of the company’s hardships.

Montreal Region Rejects Energy East Pipeline

January 22, 2016 Mike De Souza and Charles Mandel, www.nationalobserver.com Resist! Montreal, Pipelines, TransCanada

By Mike De Souza and Charles Mandel for National Observer - The city of Montreal and surrounding communities have come out swinging against TransCanada Corporation’s Energy East pipeline project. “Call a spade a spade,” Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said at a news conference on Thursday. “It’s a bad project.” Leaders from the 82 communities, which represent nearly four million people, released a report concluding that the pipeline wouldn’t respect their urban development plan since it would go through forests, wetlands and agricultural land.

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