Pipelines

Another TransCanada Pipeline To Protest

November 13, 2015 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Resist! Mexico, Pipelines

By Steve Horn for Desmog - TransCanada, the owner of the recently-nixed northern leg of the KeystoneXL tar sands pipeline, has won a bid from Mexico's government to build a 155-mile pipeline carrying gas from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in the United States to Mexico's electricity grid. The company has benefited from Mexico's energy sector privatization promoted by the U.S. State Department, the same agency that denied a permit to the U.S.-Canada border-crossing Keystone XL. TransCanada said in a press release that construction on the $500 million line will begin in 2016 and it will be called the Tuxpan-Tula Pipeline. This is not the first pipeline system TransCanada will oversee in Mexico. The company already owns four other systems, with two operational and two under construction.

Boston Pipeline Protesters Renew West Roxbury Site Fight

November 11, 2015 Jordan Graham, www.bostonherald.com Resist! Pipelines, Protests

By Jordan Graham for Boston Herald - More than 100 protesters emboldened by the Keystone XL pipeline decision took to the streets yesterday, vowing to continue to fight a natural gas pipeline under construction in West Roxbury. “This is something we care passionately about,” Rachel Wyon said. “We’re not just going to be here for one day.” Construction on the West Roxbury Lateral natural gas pipeline began in September after Spectra Energy and its subsidiary Algonquin Gas Transmission were awarded the rights to parts of Washington, Grove and Centre streets in West Roxbury by a federal judge.

Keystone Off The Table, But Back East, Pipeline Fight Builds

November 10, 2015 The Associated Press, www.mobile.nytimes.com Resist! Pipelines

By The Associated Press for The New York Times - ROCKY MOUNT, Va. — Carolyn and Ian Reilly and their four children left Florida's sprawl in 2010 to farm 58 acres in rural Virginia, raising beef cattle, chicken and hogs. Then a year ago, they learned a natural gas pipeline would slice through part of their farm and their lives took another dramatic turn. They've shooed pipeline surveyors from their pastures, made anti-pipeline signs for a protest at the county courthouse and at appearances by the Virginia governor. They've also kept up pressure on local officials. As the leader in this multigenerational band of family activists, Carolyn Reilly has found the experience exhilarating and bruising.

Another Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline To Fight In Wisconsin

November 9, 2015 Steven Verburg, www.host.madison.com Resist! Pipelines, Tar Sands, Wisconsin

By Steven Verburg for Wisconsin State Journal - Crews hired by Enbridge Inc. are surveying a 300-mile corridor running the length of Wisconsin for a possible new tar sands pipeline that would be the twin to an underground line whose capacity has quietly eclipsed the projected flow of the Keystone XL project. Activists and landowners say they are worried that digging for a new pipeline would disrupt lives, lead to a repeat of environmental violations committed when the last line was laid, and increase the chances of a devastating spill of heavy crude. A spokeswoman for the Canadian pipeline giant last week said the company has improved its safety practices and said there was no timetable for building a line.

Pipeline Delay Causes $609 Million Loss For Enbridge

November 6, 2015 Jeremy van Loon, www.business.financialpost.com Resist! Canada, Pipelines

By Jeremy van Loon for Financial Post - Enbridge Inc. reported a loss in the third quarter as one-time charges and a delay in startup of a pipeline to Eastern Canada dragged on earnings. Canada’s largest pipeline company reported net loss of $609 million (US$463 million), or 72 cents a share, compared with a loss of $80 million, or 10 cents, a year earlier, according to a statement Thursday. Excluding one-time items, per-share profit missed by 3 cents the 50-cent average of 13 analysts’ estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Enbridge has been transferring assets to affiliates such as Enbridge Income Fund Holdings Inc. which contributed to $351 million in costs in the quarter, along with $654 million in one-time expenses related to changes in the value of derivatives.

Enbridge Office Flooded With Protesters In Action Against Pipelines

November 4, 2015 Staff, www.unicornriot.ninja Resist! Pipelines, Protests

By Staff of Unicorn Riot - Duluth, MN – Nov. 2, 2015. A rally in Duluth agitated against pipeline construction and demanded full Tribal consultation regarding these dangerous projects. Many groups are rallying to resist the construction of more dirty pipelines across northern Minnesota and beyond. UnicornRiot.ninja had reporters on site and will continue to post updates. Protestors march to Enbridge offices in Duluth, MN to deliver a letter which outlines tribal concerns regarding their plans for new pipelines, Protestors use skyway to enter Enbridge Offices.

Newsletter: Only People Power Can Save The Planet

November 1, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter carbon free nuclear free, Carbon infrastructure, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Pipelines, TTIP, TTP

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. In recent years the conflict has escalated between the people and energy interests due to the reality of climate change. There is national consensus to end dependence on fossil fuels, against big energy corruption of government, and its bi-partisan ‘all of the above’ energy strategy with massive new carbon infrastructure projects, and against the escalation of extreme energy extraction like tar sands and fracking. People on the ground in communities across the nation are standing up to big energy, corrupt government and extreme extraction – and they are having an impact. As the climate meetings approach in Paris, the climate movement should recognize its growing strength.

Protests Are Putting A Serious Dent In Tar Sands Expansion

October 31, 2015 Katie Valentine, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Oil, Pipelines

By Katie Valentine for Climate Progress - All of those marches, rallies, arrests, and inflatable pipelines are working. That’s the main finding of a report released this week by pro-clean energy group Oil Change International. According to the report, public opposition has been successful in stopping or delaying tar sands pipeline construction in North America. The existing pipelines carrying oil from Alberta’s tar sands region are 89 percent full, meaning that expansion of tar sands development depends heavily on new pipelines to get that oil to market. Oil Change International’s models found that without new pipelines or expansions on existing routes, tar sands producers will run out of pipeline capacity by 2017.

Canadian Indigenous Tribe Turndown $267K Per Person

October 29, 2015 Rob Wile, www.fusion.net Resist! Indigenous Peoples, Pipelines

By Rob Wile for Fusion - The Lax Kw’alaams Band, a Canadian first nations people living in a remote part of British Columbia, turned down an offer amounting to $267,000 per person to allow a natural gas pipeline and processing facility to be built on their lands. Malaysian energy giant Petronas and its partners had offered the 3,600-member band a total of $960 million to allow construction of its $30-billion-dollar Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal and Prince Rupert gas pipeline to proceed. The band wasn’t interested. “This is not a money issue: this is environmental and cultural,” the band said in a statement. Representatives of the band voted unanimously against the offer.

Vermonters Protest Fracked Gas Pipeline

October 26, 2015 Rose Spillman, www.wcax.com Resist! Pipelines, Protesters, Vermont

By Rose Spillman for WCAX - MONTPELIER, Vt. - The fight over the Vermont Gas pipeline continues. Saturday crowds of people filled the streets in Montpelier to protest the project while the company stands behind its plans. Avery Pittman is a Vermont Gas customer who has taken part in many protests against the company's natural gas pipeline. "This project clearly does not make any sense for where we are right now, and as a rate payer in Burlington, I was not excited that I was gonna be having to pay for it," said Pittman. The pipeline is already undergoing construction from Colchester to Williston in order to bring Vermont Gas service to people in Addison County, but protesters like Pittman want the construction to end.

Vermonters Occupy Capital To Stop Fracking Pipeline

October 25, 2015 Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Fracking, Pipelines, Vermont

By Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Montpelier, VT - On Saturday, Oct. 24, more than 100 people demonstrated against a pipeline that will carry fracked gas from Colchester to Rutland if it is completed. The pipeline is being built by Vermont Gas which is a subsidiary of the Canadian company Gaz Metro of Quebec. Concerned Vermonters gathered on the lawn in front of the Capitol in Montpelier and then marched through the streets, passing the building where the Public Service Board, which approved the pipeline, meets. Much to the surprise of local law enforcement, the marchers then took over State Street and set up a giant replica of a fracking well. The crowd gathered there to listen to speeches. Police shut the street down. In the evening, some from the group set up tents to occupy the street.

Most Significant Barrier For Pipeline Construction: Protests

October 23, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Gas, Oil & Gas, Pipelines

The two factors that pipeline respondents felt were the most significant barriers associated with the construction of new pipeline capacity were delays from opposition groups, 78 percent, and regulatory uncertainty, 68 percent (Figure 17). To provide additional guidance for project participants, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently issued a set of guidelines that it expects the pipelines to follow: check with landowners and the community, know who you should notify and how to deal with environmental groups. If an energy company has not checked the boxes, it is pretty clear that FERC is not going to process the application to build the pipeline. At the same time, the interstate pipeline industry is pushing back against the noisy opposition, rather than letting the activist groups monopolize the story unchallenged. Industry associations are finding new ways to reach the public, such as the use of social media and other venues, while attempting to reach the landowners first. The process is in educating the public and engaging in community outreach sooner than later. Every proposed pipeline project must include a proactive public and community relations effort. Even FERC experienced the activist push at its meetings and has seen everyday citizens become unexpected interveners in routine filings.

New Yorkers Object To FERC Rubber Stamp Of Dominion Pipeline

October 22, 2015 Staff, www.mohawkvalleykeeper.com Resist! FERC, New York (NY), Pipelines

By Staff for Mohawk Valley River Keeper - A coalition of environmental and citizens organizations from across New York strongly object to the release of a woefully inadequate Environmental Assessment (EA) by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on October 20th which supports expansion of a gas pipeline owned by Dominion Transmission Inc. The coalition also demands that the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). “Both FERC and Dominion have snubbed their nose at the public from day one,” said John Valentine, spokesperson for Mohawk Valley Keeper. “Our community is dominated by organic farmers and Amish families whose entire lives are inextricably tied to the air, water, and land immediately around them. Yet, the proposed four-smokestack compressor station that Dominion wants to build in our backyard would be the most polluting of the entire project.

Good-Bye Harper, Now It Is Time To Push Trudeau

October 20, 2015 Brent Patterson, www.canadians.org Resist! Canada, Democracy, Oil & Gas, Pipelines, TPP

By Brent Patterson for the Council of Canadians - More than a year ago the Council of Canadians set twin objectives for this federal election: to get out the vote and to defeat the Harper government. Both were accomplished last night. More than 17.5 million people, about 68 per cent of all eligible voters, cast a ballot in this election. That's a dramatic increase of almost 3 million voters from the 14.8 million people, or 61.4 per cent of eligible voters, who voted in May 2011. And last night not only was Stephen Harper defeated as prime minister, he resigned as leader of the Conservative Party. We celebrate both of these accomplishments. We should rightly celebrate the defeat of Stephen Harper, a significantly increased voter turnout, and an election apparently relatively free of the voter suppression evident in the last federal election, but we will have to campaign even harder now to ensure that the 70 per cent of Canadians who said "it was the time for change" in Ottawa this election, get the change they deserve.

Stop Fracking Infrastructure In The Northeast & Mid-Atlantic

October 18, 2015 Rally to Say No to Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Fracking, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Rally to Say No to Fracked Gas in Pennsylvania - RALLY Northeast & Mid-Atlantic Fracking Infrastructure Fighters in Harrisburg, PA on October 28 at noon. We all know that more drilling and fracking in Pennsylvania means more pipelines, LNG facilities, compressor stations, and gas processing plants for the rest of us in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts and beyond. If we want to stop the pipelines, we must work together in solidarity to stop the gas at the wellheads in Pennsylvania. The open public participation of PA's Pipeline Task Force offers us the opportunity to have our collective voices heard while working together with our friends and neighbors throughout PA who have been fighting the oil and gas invasion of their beautiful state for many years. Please join us at the task force's next meeting to send a strong message to the Wolf administration!

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