Pipelines

Hundreds Gathered For A Rally Against Enbridge

October 8, 2015 Melissa Shaw, www.tnewsfriends.net Resist! Native Americans, Pipelines

By Melissa Shaw for News Friends, About 500 people attended a rally in support of eight First Nations, four environmental groups and one labour group challenging the Federal Government’s approval of Enbridge’sNorthern Gateway pipeline. The crowd gathered at the corner of Howe and Georgia Street in Vancouver on Thursday October 1, the first day of a six-day hearing in the Federal Court of Appeal. “The struggle involves all the nations and everything from direct action to court cases to political action,” said Bob Ages during the rally. Ages is a member of the Council of Canadians and the Unist’ot’en Solidarity Brigade, which is “physically blocking pipeline crews” working on Chevron’s Pacific Trails Pipeline (PTP), which crosses Wet’suwet’en traditional territory in Northern BC.

FERC Gets An Earful From Sabal Trail Pipeline Opponents

October 5, 2015 Carlton Fletcher, www.albanyherald.com Resist! Environement, New York (NY), Pipelines

By Carlton Fletcher for The Albany Herald - ALBANY — The complaints offered by 34 opponents of the Sabal Trail pipeline — plus the one comment in support of the project — were duly noted Monday evening by representatives of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. They listened patiently, a stenographer taking down comments to make them part of the official record of the event, as citizen after citizen made one point resoundingly clear: None wanted the pipeline or its accompanying compressor station. “I am here tonight because I am my brother’s keeper,” Gladys Joyce Jordan Jones told the FERC representatives. “I am here because of the school children of this community. I’m here because the people of Indian Creek, the people of Willow Wood, the people of Countryside Village are afraid.

Newsletter: The Obvious Blinds Us, Unless The Truth Is Told

August 22, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Climate Justice, Cornel West, Ferguson, Pipelines, Racism, Solar, TAFTA, TPP, TTIP, Wind

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance - It has been a busy two weeks since our last newsletter for #BlackLivesMatter, seeking climate justice, fair wages and stopping the TPP. We have been doing weekly newsletters since Occupy, last week we missed our first week as we were at the Localize This Action Camp of the Backbone Campaign. The reality of our times and of our history is that truth needs a messenger. Truths, especially difficult ones to face, do not become known on their own. Telling the hard to face truths is where movements begin; spreading that truth creates a national consensus for change and is the source for mobilizations that force essential transformations.

Green Line Of Protest Is Stopping Coal & Oil In Their Tracks

August 16, 2015 Eric de Place, www.daily.sightline.org Resist! Blockades, Coal, Oil, Pipelines

By Eric de Place for Sightline Daily - The Cascadia region has proven to be extraordinarily challenging for those who would turn it into a major carbon energy export hub—so much so that Sightline has taken to calling it the Thin Green Line. Since 2012, a staggering number of schemes have proposed to move large volumes of carbon-intense fuels through Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia to Asian markets. A recent Sightline analysis shows that proposed and newly permitted energy projects in the region would amount to the carbon equivalent of more than five Keystone XL Pipelines. But in big ways and small—from Coos Bay, Oregon, to Prince Rupert, British Columbia—the Thin Green Line has held fast. Big energy projects have faced delays, uncertainty, mounting costs…and then failure. A review of these projects makes clear just how successful the region has been in denying permission to dirty energy companies as it stays true to its heritage as a center of clean energy, sustainability, and forward thinking.

Solidarity Action Held In Support Of Unist’ot’en Camp

August 4, 2015 Staff, www.lastrealindians.com Resist! Canada, First Nations, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Staff for the Last Real Indians - On July 28th, several dozen Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists took to the streets of Seattle to hold a solidarity action in support of the Unist’ot’en Camp in B.C. Canada. Currently, eleven companies have proposed to build oil and gas pipelines through Unist’ot’en territory from the Tar Sands in Alberta. Additionally, Pacific Northern Gas (Chevron is the majority owner) has proposed to build the Pacific Trails Pipelines which would carry fracked natural gas from the Horn River Basin through Unist’ot’en territory. Activists briefly occupied the Canadian consulate in downtown Seattle and then marched, occupied and picketed Fidality Investments, a major investor in Chevron. Demonstrators were removed from Fidality’s offices by Seattle police, but continued to demonstrate blockading the entrance to Fidaility.

FERC Teaches Oil And Gas Industries To Silence Protest

July 23, 2015 Lee Stewart, www.popularrresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, FERC, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Lee Stewart. WASHINGTON, DC--At the Natural Gas Roundtable luncheon in DC on Tuesday, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Norman Bay announced his agency would soon issue a 'best practices manual' to help the gas industry win permits for fracked gas infrastructure projects. As he spoke to a packed audience of gas lobbyists, industry representatives, and their supporters in Congress, Bay echoed advice he received from a gas pipeline CEO. “While you certainly want to receive a certificate from FERC, you also want to earn a social license from the communities along the path of the pipeline," he said.

Spectra Sues Boston Over West Roxbury Gas Line

July 5, 2015 Jack Newsham, www.bostonglobe.com Resist! Gas, Massachusetts, Pipelines

By Jack Newsham for the Boston Globe. The owners of the biggest natural gas pipeline in New England have sued the city of Boston for standing in the way of a controversial pipeline extension through West Roxbury. Spectra Energy Corp., the Houston company that is expanding Algonquin pipeline network, filed suit against the city in federal court on Wednesday alleging that the city would not sell the easements, or rights-of-way, that the company needed to bury its pipeline. Boston politicians have resisted the company’s efforts to build a pipeline spur through part of West Roxbury, siding with neighbors who say the gas line’s proximity to a gravel quarry in the neighborhood poses a threat to public safety. Federal regulators have dismissed those concerns. But Mayor Martin J. Walsh, city councilors, and Congressman Stephen Lynch, a Democrat whose district includes West Roxbury, have appealed that decision and asked regulators to halt pipeline construction until its appeal is heard.

Newsletter – No Justice, No Peace

June 20, 2015 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Arctic drilling, Asian Pivot, BXE, Climate Justice, Criminal Justice and Prisons, fast track, Freedom of Speech, Gas, Housing, Inequality, Net Neutrality, New York City (NYC), Pipelines, Police violence, Pope Francis, Privacy, Racial Discrimination, Racism, Rikers, Shell Oil, sHellNo!, South Carolina, Terrorism, TPP, Wars and Militarism

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report writes that “No justice, no peace” is “a vow by the movement to transform the crisis that is inflicted on Black people into a generalized crisis for the larger society, and for those who currently rule.” In reality, given the violence being inflicted upon people, particularly people of color, whether directly or indirectly through rising poverty, unemployment, homelessness, lack of access to health care and more, and the government’s failures to address these crises and listen to the people, disruption is a necessary element of political change. In 1968 the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke outside a prison in California where people were being held for protesting the Vietnam War. In the speech he drew the connections between the Civil Rights movement and the peace movement against the Vietnam War. Today we see the links between racism, inequality, imperialism, militarism and ecocide and his comment on that day continues to ring true: "There can be no justice without peace. And there can be no peace without justice."

Northeast Anti-Fracking Coalition Derails Gas Forum

June 17, 2015 Kelly Canavan, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Cove Point, Dominion, Fracking, Gas, Pipelines, Spectra

By Kelly Canavan for Popular Resistance. Boston, MA - Activists from Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland, Washington DC, and Maine disrupted the twentieth annual LDC Gas Forum two days in a row in protest of the Algonquin Incremental Market Expansion, the Cove Point LNG Export Terminal, the Vermont Gas Pipeline, and to demand the cancellation of all new gas infrastructure projects. One woman was arrested. Protesters are increasingly united across state lines, and across projects, and showing that they are not going to settle for causing a ruckus in only their own backyards. The annual Forum, attended by nearly 600 people, is designed to bring together large energy corporations with local gas distributors. On Monday morning Jay Gustaferro of Gloucester interrupted the conference's opening ceremony and took over the mic. Gustaferro addressed hundreds of gas industry professionals, urging them to take issues such as climate change and water contamination seriously. “I wanted to call out some of the myths that they are hoping to spin at this conference, and call out their hypocrisy and criminality.”

Demonstrators Bring Pipeline Fight To Governor’s Home

June 7, 2015 Staff, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Spectra

By Staff. Swampscott, MA - In April, pipeline fighters delivered an ultimatum to Spectra Energy's office: "You have 40 days to stop the AIM (Algonquin Incremental Market) expansion or we will increase our resistance." The AIM expansion project involves expanding pipelines, compressors and metering stations from New York through Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The forty days is up and Spectra has not backed down, so the people working to stop Spectra and their allies have organized a week of actions. They started with a march on Saturday, June 6 to Governor Charlie Baker's house in Swampscott, MA. About 60 people participated in the march. Some carried the 50-foot "United States of Fracking" banner that was created during the Stop the FERCus week of actions in Washington, DC at the end of May.

47 Groups Sponsor Rally Outside CT Governors’ Energy Summit

April 24, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Gas, Pipelines, Renewable Energy

This morning, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy hosted an energy summit of five New England governors to address energy challenges facing the region. As the governors met, community leaders from across New England gathered outside to express their discontent with a decision-making process that has been entirely closed to citizen input, and to spell out what a sane and healthy energy future would look like. Huge corporations have proposed new fossil-fuel power plants and pipelines all over New England, sparking fierce resistance from local residents concerned about public health, climate change, and environmental degradation. Over the last year, grassroots groups have formed several new cross-state coalitions in order to fight proposed fossil-fuel infrastructure in a unified way.

Whitney Museum Protested Over Gas Pipeline Under Building

April 15, 2015 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Museum, New York City (NYC), Pipelines

Activists from various arts and activist groups, including Occupy Museums, Occupy the Pipeline, Sane Energey Project, Liberate Tate, Peng Collective, The Yes Lab, Guerrilla Girls, People's Climate Arts, and others held an artful pre-opening protest at the Whitney Museum. (See www.WhitneyPipeline.org for more information.) The protest was against the Spectra energy pipeline that runs through New Jersey, under the Hudson River and across the West Side Highway, terminating in a vault beneath the yet-to-open Whitney Museum. Artist-activist Kim Fraczek reports that the goal of the artful protest was to "engage the public to ask questions about fossil fuels, our future and what roles our institutions should play in leading us to a renewable future rather than succumbing to more fracked gas."

143 Mile Hike Protests Kinder Morgan NE Energy Direct Pipeline

April 10, 2015 Kelsey Erickson, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pipelines

The Pipeline Pilgrimage is a Quaker-led trek along the proposed route of Kinder Morgan’s Northeast Energy Direct pipeline in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It began in Pittsfield, MA on April 1st and will end in Dracut, MA on April 12th, a total of 143 miles. The purpose of the pilgrimage is to foster spiritual growth in a community to catalyze a force for change. As the pilgrims travel, they are meeting local people who will be directly impacted by the pipeline, many of whom are farmers and many of whom have young children. The health and safety hazards of the Kinder Morgan pipeline would threaten their livelihoods and increase fracking operations in communities residing over the Marcellus Shale. The implications of an increase in fracking go far beyond the desecration of people's drinking water. A surge in methane emissions will seal a future of climate chaos at which point we will be powerless to remedy the wreckage we've inflicted on our planet.

Company Sues For Land Of 100 W. Virginians For Pipeline

April 5, 2015 Katie Valentine, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Pipelines, West Virginia

Mountain Valley Pipeline LLC filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court last week to force more than 100 property owners and three corporations in 10 West Virginia counties to open their land to surveying for the Mountain Valley Pipeline. The pipeline company says that it contacted the residents being sued to try to get permission to survey their land, but all of them “failed or refused to permit” the company from entering their properties. Joe Lovett, executive director of Appalachian Mountain Advocates, told ThinkProgress that he didn’t think the lawsuit has legs. “I don’t think the pipeline company has the right to survey people’s property in West Virginia before it’s been granted right of eminent domain,” he said. “This is an attempt to gain a right through litigation that they do not have.” Appalachian Mountain Advocates is supporting three landowners who filed their own lawsuits against Mountain Valley Pipeline last month. Those lawsuits state that the pipeline company doesn’t have the right to eminent domain because the natural gas won’t be used by West Virginians. That means, they say, that the pipeline doesn’t meet the “public use” clause in West Virginia’s eminent domain law.

Newsletter: Austerity, Debt & Environmental Degradation

April 4, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Austerity, Climate Change, climate crisis, Environment, fast track, Globalization, Living Wage, Neoliberalism, Pipelines, TPP, Worker Rights and Jobs

Last week, we wrote about the epidemic of neoliberalism. This week, as major protests erupt in Canada, Mexico and Belgium, we discuss its sister, austerity. In neo-liberal economics, wealth is funneled to the top through increasing privatization of the public and cuts to social services. This can only occur if those who are not at the top are subjected to austerity measures. Those at the bottom are squeezed, suffer financial insecurity and the inability to meet basic needs. Rather than these realities weakening our ability to stand up we must stand together in solidarity to take care of each other and build our power in the struggle. People are becoming more aware that their individual struggles are against system-wide problems and are seeing that when the people are united, they can win. Let’s keep building solidarity and unity of action so the muscle of people power grows.

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