Tar Sands

Thousands Protest Tar Sands In St. Paul

June 7, 2015 Liz Sawyer, www.startribune.com Resist! Carbon infrastructure, Minnesota, Oil, Tar Sands

By Liz Sawyer in the Star Tribune. Thousands of protesters marched through downtown St. Paul to the State Capitol on Saturday, calling for the cancellation of the proposed Sandpiper oil pipeline that would travel near some of the state’s pristine waters. Though an independent tally was unavailable for the Tar Sands Resistance Rally, organizers estimated that 5,000 anti-pipeline and climate change activists took part in the colorful and peaceful march, marked by dozens of national speakers and live music and dance. Police reported no arrests.

Great Lakes Citizens Rally For Clean Energy For Wildlife

June 4, 2015 Cathy Collentine, www.tarsandsresistance.org Resist! Animal Rights, Canada, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands, usa

By Cathy Collentine by Tar Sands Resistance - On June 6, thousands will gather in the Twins Cities to express concern over expanded tar sands transportation through the Great Lakes region. Too much toxic and nearly impossible to clean up tar sands oil is already entering our region. The area has seen ill effects like the massive 2010 spill into the Kalamazoo River and piles of dirty, polluting coal-like petroleum coke piling up near refineries. With the U.S. State Department giving backroom approval for a near doubling of the amount of tar sands entering the region primarily along the Alberta Clipper line, it’s time for a clean energy future. People are demanding that no new tar sands enter the region until a transparent, public review process takes place, and cleaner solutions are considered and advanced.

Protests Helping To Stop Tar Sands Extractions

May 30, 2015 Hannah McKinnon, www.priceofoil.org Resist! Canada, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands

The Alberta tar sands has been on a collision course with the climate since industry and government made it clear they would bend over backwards to make this high cost, high carbon, high risk oil the centerpiece of a misguided strategy to become an ‘energy superpower’. For over two decades, the governments of Alberta and Canada have done everything possible to pave the way for rapid growth of the sector, leaving the industry to plan for rapid growth without giving a second thought to greenhouse gas emissions, environmental regulations, or even the rights of the First Nations on whose territory the tar sands are mined. But it was never going to be that easy to get away with such reckless expansion. Too many conditions need to be perfectly aligned for such rapid development.

Enbridge Tar Sands Resistance Tour

April 2, 2015 Action Network, www.actionnetwork.org Resist! Environment, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands

Big oil companies like Enbridge are threatening the Midwest and Great Lakes region with dirty tar sands pipelines and toxic fracking infrastructure. But communities across the Midwest are coming together to protect our water and stop this climate catastrophe. From April 14th to the 30th, the Enbridge Tar Sands Resistance Tour is traveling from Michigan to Minnesota to build the resistance across the Midwest. At each stop we’ll hear from community leaders about the threat Enbridge and tar sands poses to our communities, and we’ll strategize and make action plans for how to stop it. At the end of the tour, with thousands of new people engaged, we will all come together in Minneapolis for a mass action against the Alberta Clipper pipeline which has already illegally started transporting tar sands, and must be stopped!

Manifesto: Update From MICATS

March 24, 2015 MICATS, www.earthfirstjournal.org Organize! Michigan, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands

But our mission and resolve to stop tar sands has only strengthened with Line 6B in the ground. While we began as the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands, we understand the intricate and inextricable connection between the tar sands industry and other issues of injustice. The same authorities and governments profiting from the tar sands industry are those striking social programs, leading to increased criminalization of the poor and non-white and propagating the genocide of ecosystems and lifestyles. The same tactics used to ensure the maintenance of a culture built from slavery and genocide are the tactics used to protect industrial giants such as Enbridge. So while we are the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands, you could also call us the Michigan Coalition Against Terrible Stuff!

The KXL Pipeline On Steroids

March 8, 2015 Jay Bird Dirt, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Oil and Gas, Pipelines, Tar Sands

With continued distractions and temporary victories over the Keystone XL Pipeline, Enbridge Company quietly continues to upgrade line 61 to carry tar sands through Wisconsin and to the Oil refineries in Northern Illinois with very little resistance. With only a Dane County zoning committee standing in the way of the oil giants intentions, Enbridge appears that they may continue to be North America’s largest oil and gas pipeline operator. Line 61 went into operation in 2009 and has a capacity of 400,000 barrel per day. In 2014 Wisconsin State administration’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) issued the company an air quality permit for a storage tank needed for the expansion. The State did not require a new environmental assessment for the tripling in capacity. Now the Dane County Board’s Zoning and Land Regulation Committee is considering attaching conditions to the permit for the new pump station. This attachment may be what is needed for now, but many remain unconvinced.

Environmental Action At Toronto Stock Exchange

February 16, 2015 The Real News, www.therealnews.com Resist! Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Tar Sands

I'm here from Toronto350, and we're taking action for Global Divestment Day. Our message is that the tar sands are morally toxic and they're economically toxic. Morally, all of their share prices are based on 5 degrees of climate change, enough to start runaway climate change. Economically, if the oil price isn't above $95 a barrel, $271 billion of tar sands infrastructure won't break even over the next ten years. It's not an ethical investment. It's not even an economically sound investment. So our message is that we have to take power away by hitting them where it hurts and be the smart money and get out of the tar sands.

Tar Sands Pipeline Planned for Dane County Eclipses KXL

February 15, 2015 Rebekah Wilce, www.prwatch.org Resist! Climate Change, Environment, KXL pipeline, Pipelines, Tar Sands

A proposed expansion of the Enbridge Line 61 pipeline being debated in Dane County, Wisconsin may be even more critical than the KXL pipeline. Supervisor Patrick Miles is the chair of the Dane County Board's Zoning and Land Regulation Committee. He recently told Madison's community radio station WORT, "Tripling that capacity to me is... tripling the risk." Compared to the Kalamazoo River spill, in which 800,000 gallons of Tar Sands crude spilled over the course of 17 hours, Miles said that "at the volume of what we're talking about here, in an hour's time, if there's a spill at the proposed flow rate, we'd be talking about more than 2,000,000 gallons of the Tar Sands [oil] spilling. That's a lot of oil." Kaufman pointed out that Enbridge's track record of spills, as well as the fact that much of the increased capacity of the line will consist of Tar Sands oil, could potentially increase that risk. The tripling in capacity of Line 61, which already carries Tar Sands crude oil from Alberta to Illinois, will make it a third larger than the projected Keystone XL.

Newsletter: The Contagion Of Courage

February 14, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Blockades, Energy, Environment, fast track, FCC, Fracking, Free Trade Agreements, Internet, ISIS, Michael Brown, Net Neutrality, Pipelines, Racism, Tar Sands, TPP, Trade, Ukraine, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

When our colleagues take brave actions, others are inspired. George Lakey describes how courage develops in movements. He lists some key ingredients to overcome fear: people working in community to empower each other, envisioning a successful action and spreading the contagion of courage. Lakey describes courage as each of us expanding beyond our comfort zones and adds that our training for actions should include opportunities to step outside our comfort zone. He suggests we need to view the rapid heartbeat and adrenalin during an action not as fear, but as excitement. Envisioning the whole story - where the story starts, the action being taken and its successful impact - emboldens us and calms our fears of uncertainty. We learn courage in community because courage is contagious.

Environmental Movement Held Back KXL For Good Reason

February 10, 2015 Mark Weisbrot, www.cepr.net Resist! Canada, Climate Change, Energy, Keystone XL, Tar Sands

Ditching the Keystone XL pipeline should be a no-brainer. The 1,179-mile pipeline extension would carry some of the world’s dirtiest oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast of Texas. And it shouldn’t be necessary to repeat this, but since we have a Congress controlled by a party that denies the reality of climate change, it is: 97 percent of climate scientists agree that human activity has warmed the Earth. The evidence of climate disruption is all around us, from warming ocean surface and land temperatures, melting Antarctic ice sheets and glaciers, rising sea levels, and increasing heat waves and other changes in extreme weather events.

Anti-Oil Sands Activists In The U.S. Are Getting FBI Visits

February 9, 2015 Alexandra Panetta, www.revolution-news.com Organize! Environment, FBI, Law, Oil, Tar Sands

Unexpected visitors have been dropping in on anti-oil activists in the United States — knocking on doors, calling, texting, contacting family members. The visitors are federal agents. Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to Canada’s oilsands. A lawyer working with the protesters says he’s personally aware of a dozen people having been contacted in the northwestern U.S. and says the actual number is probably higher. Larry Hildes says it’s been happening the last few months in Washington State, Oregon and Idaho. He says one person got a visit at work, after having already refused to answer questions.

Protesters Interrupt Pipeline President’s Speech In Ottawa

February 4, 2015 Ben Powless, www.ecologyottawa.ca Resist! Canada, Oil & Gas, Tar Sands, Water

TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline president, Francois Poirier, came to Ottawa today, expecting to be the star attraction for a crowd of over 200 who paid to listen to his speech at the Chateau Laurier. Instead, his talk was interrupted by Ottawa residents upset with TransCanada’s plans to ship 175 million litres of tar sands bitumen through Ottawa every day. The protesters unfurled two banners saying “We can’t drink oil!” and “Stop Energy East!” before Poirier could take questions, as the protesters stood silently in front of Poirier before they were escorted from the room by security. “When we learned that the president of this pipeline project was coming to Ottawa, right after the Premiers’ Summit, we knew we had to make sure to let him know he and his pipeline wasn’t welcome here,” explained Jo Wood, one of the participants and a retired resident of the Glebe.

Northern Dene Trappers Alliance Holding The Line

January 28, 2015 Idle No More, www.idlenomore.ca Resist! First Nations, Food and Agriculture, Tar Sands, Transportation

The Northern Dene Trapper Alliance have been staying in trapper tents for the past 60 days, 10 km north of LaLoche, Saskatchewan along Hwy #955. They established the Camp on November 19, 2014 to show their grave concern over the amount of uranium and oilsands exploration that is taking place in their traditional trapping, hunting, and fishing areas. On November 22, 2014 they erected a checkpoint to prevent vehicles associated with this exploration from going through. Saskatchewan Government sent a negotiator to the Camp in late November. On December 1, 2014 a dozen RCMP with their hands on their pistols and two video cameras rolling served them an injunction removed the barricade and a trailer from the side of the road. The people at the Camp are not going away. They have been keeping a presence despite the injunction.

Rising Tide Disrupts Kinder Morgan’s Dinner

January 26, 2015 Rising Tide - Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories, www.facebook.com Resist! Environment, Kinder Morgan, Oil and Gas, Pipeline, Tar Sands

A group of demonstrators interrupted Kinder Morgan employees during their dinner at local seafood restaurant Fishworks to show them the real impacts the Trans Mountain expansion project will have on the province. “Every branch of Kinder Morgan needs to take responsibility for the company’s involvement in oil and gas expansion. The momentum built on Burnaby Mountain isn’t slowing down, and we want to make it clear that Kinder Morgan is involved not just in pipeline construction, but in other facets of fossil fuel transportation as well,” said Tamo Campos. The company plans to twin its existing Trans Mountain pipeline and triple its capacity, aiming to send 890,000 barrels of diluted bitumen to the coast every day. Drilling to determine whether the new pipeline would be built through Burnaby Mountain was met with strong resistance from both First Nations and settlers all over the Lower Mainland.

Nationwide Rallies Against KXL Reach Virginia Suburbs

January 25, 2015 Lee Stewart, www.cetology.org Organize! KXL pipeline, Pipelines, Stop KXL, Tar Sands

On January 14, a small crowd of people gathered suspiciously in the corridors of Dulles Town Center mall in Loudoun County, a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, DC. They sat huddled in a circle, some looking anxiously over their shoulders as mall security kept careful watch, fearful, it seemed, of possible mischief. To the side was a disheveled pile of jackets barely concealing posters, signs, and even a miniature wind turbine that stuck out from underneath. One poster read “President Obama, Reject the Keystone Pipeline.” It was obvious enough that these folks hadn’t come to the mall to shop. But neither had they come to protest, which, it turned out, was what mall security feared. They had come instead to hold a public vigil calling on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial tar sands pipeline that, if approved, would transport some of the dirtiest crude oil on the planet from Alberta, Canada across the United States for export overseas.

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