Tar Sands

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.

Shell Scraps Alberta Tar Sands Project

October 29, 2015 Staff, www.ctvnews.ca Educate! Shell Oil, Tar Sands

By Staff of CTV News - CALGARY -- Royal Dutch Shell is scrapping its Carmon Creek oils ands project in northwestern Alberta, citing a lack of pipelines to coastal waters as one reason for the decision. The move comes after a review of the project's design and costs and where it stacks up against other projects Shell has in its portfolio. The European energy giant first announced it would build the 80,000-barrel-a-day, steam-driven operation near Peace River, Alta., in October 2013. But last March, the company said it would slow down the project while attempting to lower costs and improve its design.

First Nations Women Shut Down Tar Sands Pipeline Hearing

September 25, 2015 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Resist! Environment, First Nations, Tar Sands

By Sarah Lazare in Common Dreams - Chanting "No tar sands on stolen native lands," First Nations women disrupted and shut down a Montreal public hearing on the controversialEnergy East pipeline on Wednesday night, the latest in a resistance campaign against the massive project proposed by the Alberta-based TransCanada Corporation. "What we want TransCanada to understand is that no means no. This is Kanien’ke, this is Mohawk Land, and we are tired of occupation, we are tired of environmental disaster," declared Amanda Lickers, who hails from the Seneca-Haudenosaunee community, at Wednesday's hearing. "This is our land and we are going to protect it." Four Indigenous women took the stage and hoisted a banner reading, "No consent, no pipelines" as dozens of protesters cheered them on. The action successfully shut down the hearing, and while police were called, no arrests were made.

Building A Solar Dream In A Tar Sands Nightmare

September 24, 2015 Melina Laboucan-Massimo, www.greenpeace.org Create! Canada, Energy, First Nation, Fracking, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands

By Melina Laboucan-Massimo in Green Peace - After dealing with three decades of intensive oil, gas, logging, fracking and tar sands exploitation in our homeland, my community of Little Buffalo decided to forge a new future and become powered by the sun. First Nation communities have been on the front lines of resource extraction for far too long and we have paid the price for humanity’s addiction to oil, but we have hope for a way out of the crisis we are currently facing in Alberta and around the world. In a community of 500 in northern Alberta, this 20.8 kW solar installation will power the First Nation’s health center, and put additional energy back to the grid. Our community used to be self-sufficient and was able to live off the land. Now the community deals with contaminated water, polluted air and a compromised landscape. In 2011, the community had to deal with one of the largest oil spills in Alberta’s history.

Breaking: Civil Disobedience At Kerry’s House Over Tar Sands

August 25, 2015 Filiberto Nolasco Gomez, www.elhuateque.com Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Pipeline, Tar Sands

By Filiberto Nolasco Gomez in Elhuateque.com. Washington, DC - Responding to what they believe to be an illegal backroom deal between John Kerry’s State Department and pipeline company Enbridge activist's have staged at protest at the home of Secretary of State John Kerry. Protesters argue that the pipeline deal would allow the Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline expansion to proceed without any federal environmental review. Protesters appear to have there arms linked in plastic tubes in order to stage a sit in and risk arrest.

Judges Ruling In Favor Of KXL Had Tar Sands Investments

August 16, 2015 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Corruption, Courts, Tar Sands

By Steve Horn for Desmog Blog - On August 4, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 10th Circuit shot down the Sierra Club's petition for rehearing motion for the southern leg of TransCanada'sKeystone XL tar sands export pipeline. The decision effectively writes the final chapter of a years-long legal battle in federal courts. But one of the three judges who made the ruling, Bobby Ray Baldock — a Ronald Reagan nominee — has tens of thousands of dollars invested in royalties for oil companies with a major stake in tar sands production in Alberta. And his fellow Reagan nominee in the Western District of Oklahoma predecessor case,David Russell, also has skin in the oil investments game. The disclosures raise questions concerning legal objectivity, or potential lack thereof, for the Judges.

Urgent: Children’s Legacy Camp Under Attack

August 12, 2015 Gary Mesker, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Tar Sands

By Gary Mesker of Peaceful Uprising/Utah Tar Sands Resistance. Utah Tar Sands on the Edge of Destruction by Rogue Corporation. Sobering news; please share widely: United States Oil Sands (USOS) has begun illegally stripping the trees, the soil, the very lives present at Children's Legacy Camp in Grand County Utah. In a stunning show of contempt for lawful public process today four USOS earth movers are dozing a one mile loop from the Legacy Camp to below the USOS tar/chemical processing plant on Seep Ridge Road to dump the soil and return again and again and again from 6:15 AM 'til 5 PM.

Tar Sands Protesters On Tripods Arrested In Uintah County

August 12, 2015 Jennifer Dobner, www.sltrib.com Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands, Utah

By Jennifer Dobner in The Salt Lake Tribune - Four activists reportedly were arrested in Utah's Book Cliffs on Monday during a protest against the planned expansion of a tar sands mine, which the group argues could do significant damage to regional water resources in the Colorado River watershed area. Peaceful Uprising announced the arrests on its website and through Twitter on Monday and said police officers from two state agencies and sheriff's offices in Grand and Uintah counties were involved in the arrests. It wasn't immediately clear if the individuals were taken into custody or cited and released by police. On Monday, protesters suspended themselves from metal tripods to block site-clearing work underway at PR Spring, where the East Tavaputs Plateau straddles the Grand and Uintah county lines. Officers reportedly used a cherry picker to remove them.

Breaking: Land Defenders Protest Mining Co. After River Poisoning

August 10, 2015 Jesse Fruhwith, www.peacefuluprising.org Resist! Environment, Mining, Tar Sands, Water

By Jesse Fruhwith of Peaceful Uprising. PR SPRINGS, UT --Several dozen climate justice land defenders will enforce a shut down at the US Oil Sands tar sands mine today in the Book Cliffs of Utah. The action comes just days after a century-old mine poured millions of gallons of toxic sludge into waterways that sustain 40 million Americans. Calgary-based US Oil Sands is amidst an $80-million construction phase to assemble processing equipment, clear cut more land for more strip mine pits and ultimately to turn tar sands rocks into liquid fuels. The company operates on land traditionally inhabited by Ute people and is now managed and leased to private corporations by the state of Utah.

Protesters Tap Water Supply At Detroit Mayor’s Mansion

August 6, 2015 Gus Burns, www.mlive.com Resist! Detroit, Tar Sands, Water

By Gus Burns in M Live - A group of more than a dozen activists wanted to make point about water access Monday. Wearing ventilation masks and carrying signs that read, "Thousands of kids w/o water" and "Water is life," they walked up the circle drive to Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's' home, the Manoogian Mansion, hooked hoses to the tap and filled up water jugs. Daymon Hartley, who photographed the protest for the People's Tribune, said the activists spent about 10 minutes filling jugs and took group photographs on the front lawn of the 4,000-square-foot riverfront home without being approached by Duggan's security detail or Detroit police; although Hartley said he saw an unoccupied, unmarked police car in the driveway. The Detroit Coalition Against Tar Sands, who are environmental protection advocates, helped organize the protest in response to the growing number of Detroit and other area residents who are forced to live without water because of shutoffs.

Why I’m Biking The Tar Sands

August 2, 2015 Erika Lundahl, www.occupy.com Resist! Tar Sands

By Erika Lundahl for Occupy.com - Six months ago, my friend Phil Jones announced that he was making a bicycle pilgrimage to the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, and asked if anyone wanted to join him. As he spoke, I nodded and listened, thinking Wait. Where is that? At the time I was working as a barista in Downtown Seattle, pouring espresso shots, pinging between freelance writing jobs and playing music in my band. It took me a while to make the connection in my mind that this place, one of the biggest and most devastating oil extraction projects in the world, was close enough to my home in Seattle that I, too, could ride my bicycle there – all 1,100 miles along the route of the Trans Mountain pipeline through Canada. The scope of this journey hooked my imagination, and as I read up on the tar sands, spoke to others with firsthand knowledge of the issue, and trained physically for the ride, I began to feel its true gravity and urgency. I, along with others, am now asking you to support us as we embark on this two-wheeled journey for the climate.

Remember The Kalamazoo, Cleaning The Michigan River

July 27, 2015 Brian Palmer, www.onearth.org Educate! Environment, Natural Gas, Tar Sands

By Brian Palmer in One Earth - Five years ago, in the middle of the night, an oil pipeline operated by Enbridge ruptured outside of Marshall, Michigan. It took more than 17 hours before the Canadian company finally cut off the flow, but by then, more than a million gallons of tar sands crude had oozed into Talmadge Creek. The oil quickly flowed into the Kalamazoo River, forcing dozens of families to evacuate their homes. Oil spills of that magnitude are always disastrous, but the Kalamazoo event was historically damaging. The first challenge was the composition of the oil. Fresh tar sands crude looks more like dirt than conventional crude—it’s far too thick to travel through a pipeline. To get this crumbly mess to flow, producers thin it out with the liquid constituents of natural gas. Diluted bitumen, or dilbit, as it’s called in the tar sands industry, is approximately three parts tar sands crude, one part natural gas liquids.

Help Build Resistance To Tar Sands Mining In US

July 19, 2015 Peaceful Uprising, www.indiegogo.com Organize! Climate Change, Environment, Tar Sands, Water

From Peaceful Uprising, Book Cliffs, Utah - Our third annual mass action camp is just around the corner, and we’re stoked to be hosting close to 100 participants who care about defending our future from tar sands mining! The camp will include workshops on climate justice and decolonization, nonviolent direct action, art, the history of the land we’re working to protect, and lots more. This large gathering helps us build needed momentum for our campaign, and prepares many new people to join us, some for the short-term and others for the long haul. We'll also be holding subsequent trainings throughout the summer and fall, and these funds will help to support them as well. To pull this off, we need to raise $5,000. We need your support to make this gathering a huge success.

Students Protest Tar Sands In Canada

July 5, 2015 Staff, www.sackvilletribunepost.com Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Student Activism, Tar Sands

By Staff for the Sackville Tribune Post. About a dozen university students walked into Dominic Leblanc’s office in Shediac this afternoon demanding he sign a letter pledging substantive action on climate change. The sit-in was coordinated with six other student protests across Canada in an effort to halt tar sands expansion. Students occupied MP offices in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal. LeBlanc, the Liberal party’s house leader, has not explicitly addressed the expansion of the tar sands despite voting to “ensure Canada assumes its responsibilities in preventing dangerous climate change.” Student protesters said this contradiction is unacceptable. “We continue to hear political leaders say they’re committed to action on climate change, but their support of tar sands expansion and major industrial infrastructure projects like the Energy East pipeline, run completely counter to those commitments,” said Emma Jackson, a graduate of Mount Allison University. “It tells us that they’re paying lip service to climate action but are unwilling to take the steps that are required to drastically curb emissions.”

A Diverse Nation Comes Together Against Tar Sands

June 15, 2015 Aaron Mair, www.sierraclub.org Resist! Environment, Indigenous Peoples, Sovereignty, Tar Sands

By Aaron Mair in Sierra Club - Last weekend I was honored to join more than 5,000 citizen activists in the Tar Sands Resistance March from the Mississippi River to the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul to protest the expansion of the Alberta Clipper tar sands pipeline and other fossil fuel projects that are threatening the Midwest. The march, co-sponsored by the Sierra Club, was the largest anti-tar sands event ever in the region. Headed up by many indigenous leaders, including Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network and Winona LaDuke of Honor the Earth, the march was a moving demonstration of the diversity of the growing anti-tar sands movement in the Midwest.

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