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Lakota Warriors Vow ‘Dead or in Prison Before We Allow’ Pipeline

March 15, 2014 Camila Ibanez, www.alternet.org Resist! First Nations, Keystone, Tar Sands, TransCanada

The Oglala Lakota Nation is actively fighting the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. This 1,700-mile pipeline, which would carry 830,000 barrels of crude oil each day from western Canada through South Dakota en route to Texas. At two points it would even intersect with a pipeline that serves as a main water source for the Sioux Nation, affecting all of the Pine Ridge reservation as well as the nearby Rosebud reservation. “Dead or in prison before we allow the Keystone XL pipeline to pass,” the Lakota warriors, many mounted atop horses, repeated during the Liberation Day celebration. Their words carried the weight of 521 years, and counting, of lived resistance.

FBI Held Strategy Meeting with TransCanada in 2012

March 14, 2014 Adam Federman, www.earthisland.org Educate! Energy, Keystone XL, Tar Sands, TransCanada

The FBI meeting with TransCanada suggests that concerns over opposition to the pipeline had reached the highest levels of the law enforcement community. Terry Brannon, Cushing Police Chief at the time, says it was an information-sharing meeting. “I think it was important that law enforcement and the oil companies worked hand in hand together to make sure that if something did happen, that law enforcement wasn't playing behind the eight ball,” he told me. He said the biggest concerns raised at the meeting were opposition to the pipeline as well as terrorism and environmental activism.

Approving Keystone XL Could Be Obama’s Biggest Mistake

February 2, 2014 Michael Mann, www.theguardian.com Educate! Climate Change, Environment, Tar Sands, TransCanada

The simple fact is this: if Keystone XL is built, it will be easier to exploit fossil fuel reserves large enough to drastically destabilize the climate. A direct pipeline to refineries and global markets makes the business of polluting the atmosphere that much cheaper and easier. The only truly accurate examination of the pipeline would include a full cost accounting its environmental footprint. It needs to take into account how much energy is consumed in refining and transporting the crude from oil sands. It must acknowledge that the pipeline would lower the cost and raise the convenience of extracting and exporting the incredibly carbon-intensive deposits of oil. There are two main issues at stake in the Keystone XL decision: path dependency and US leadership.

Communities Organize Pipeline Watch To Monitor TransCanada

January 27, 2014 eponline, www.eponline.com Educate! Pipelines, TransCanada

“In our state, citizens and landowners continue to push back against this unwanted pipeline,” said Kathy DaSilva, Texas advocate. “A Texas coalition recently attended a meeting held at the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the agency charged with the oversight on pipeline projects in our 5-state area. In September PHMSA sent warning letters to TransCanada concerning code violations committed in the construction phase of the KXL southern leg, but the agency has no plan to follow up to see if these violations have been corrected. In their words, they have "faith" that the pipeline is now safe and ready for start-up. We have faith that this pipeline is inadequate and is ready to leak.”

TransCanada Pipeline Explodes, Thousands Without Heat

January 26, 2014 The Canadian Press, www.huffingtonpost.ca Educate! Energy, TransCanada

Several thousand people in southern Manitoba have been told that a pipeline explosion could mean they'll be without natural gas service for up to several days as temperatures hover close to —20 C. "As far as the temperature is concerned, the words 'polar vortex' is what they're saying," Myron Dyck, a spokesman for the Town of Niverville, said on Saturday. The explosion and fire at a TransCanada Pipelines valve site near St. Pierre-Jolys happened early Saturday morning, sending a massive fireball into the dark sky. The flames were out by Saturday afternoon and there were no reported injuries. But Manitoba Hydro said that in order to repair the line, TransCanada shut off its supply of natural gas for several municipalities affecting approximately 4,000 people.

High Cancer Rates And Oil Sands Connection Found

January 18, 2014 Scott Haggett, ca.reuters.com Educate! Cancer, Oil and Gas, TransCanada

Health officials in Alberta confirmed on Friday that there are more cases of cancer than expected in a small aboriginal village downstream from the Canadian province's massive oil sands plants, but they said there was no cause for residents to be alarmed. Residents of the village of Fort Chipewyan, a one-time trading post on the northeast shore of Lake Athabasca, say oil sands developments may be responsible for rare bile-duct cancers first spotted by a doctor in the community in 2006. Those complaints sparked a study by Alberta health authorities, which released the results on Friday. "We haven't seen it," said Steve Courtoreille, a councilor with the Mikisew Cree First Nation and chairman of the Nunee Health Board Society. "We've asked for it so our doctors can critique but they caught us off guard. It's not going to show the real picture ...There is a problem here."

Canada, Aboriginal Tension Erupting Over Resource Development, Study Suggests

October 31, 2013 Sunny Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.ca Resist! Fracking, Idle No More, Tar Sands, TransCanada

“Canada is a developed country and it is having an implosion of the sort that we’ve only seen in the developing countries,” said Rebecca Adamson, president and co-founder of First Peoples’ Worldwide, the group that conducted the study. “We’ve always seen this erupt when a government refuses to be clear in upholding indigenous land tenure.” The Indigenous Rights Risk Report studied 52 U.S. resource companies and 370 projects around the world, including 16 companies and 76 projects active in Canada. The aim of the survey is to assess how likely it is that conflict with indigenous communities could result in costly shutdowns.

“Enough is Enough:” Hostility Over Faulty Southern Leg of Keystone XL Pipeline

June 27, 2013 Stefanie Penn Spear, www.ecowatch.com/ Organize! Energy, Environment, TransCanada

Last month, TransCanada was in damage control mode concerning flaws in the newly laid southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline after dozens of anomalies, including dents and welds, were identified along a 60-mile stretch north of the Sabine River in Texas. As if Michael Bishop and his neighbors haven’t been through enough with the invasion of this Canadian company taking their property via eminent domain and then bulldozing their land. Now they watch as Michels digs up and rebuilds dozens of sections of the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline. “The truth is, this is the taking of land from sovereign citizens and taxpayers for the benefit of a private, foreign corporation. It is against every tenet of our beliefs and understanding of the Constitution of the United States of America,” said Bishop. “This pipeline will be stopped, eventually. We the people will prevail in this battle."

When Drones Guard Pipelines: The Militarization of Fossil Fuels

June 19, 2013 Winona LaDuke, www.alternet.org Educate! Energy, Environment, Tar Sands, TransCanada

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist. I’m in South Dakota today, sort of a ground zero for the XL Keystone Pipeline, that pipeline, owned by a Canadian Corporation which will export tar sands oil to the rest of the world. This is the heart of the North American continent here. Bwaan Akiing is what we call this land-Land of the Lakota. There are no pipelines across it, and beneath it is the Oglalla Aquifer wherein lies the vast majority of the water for this region. The Lakota understand that water is life, and that there is no new water.

Popular Resistance Newsletter – What’s Your Breaking Point?

June 13, 2013 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Chelsea Manning, Environment, NSA, TransCanada, Türkiye, Wars and Militarism, Worker Rights and Jobs

When Edward Snowden reached his breaking point, the world saw the truth about the vast extent of spying by the NSA on Americans and people around the world. In an act of conscience, Snowden released secret information, saying “My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.” Snowden sparked protest, lawsuits, criticism of the administration and US intelligence. His action shows the power that comes when someone inside the system break ranks and tells the truth. Successful movements depend on people breaking ranks: questioning, demurring, disobeying, defecting and withdrawing support.

TransCanada Calls Nebraska Ranchers Agressive and Abusive, Talks of Terrorism

June 11, 2013 Mark Hefflinger, www.boldnebraska.org Educate! Energy, Environment, TransCanada

TransCanada, the Canadian corporation behind the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, is providing security briefings to Nebraska authorities warning them to look into the application of "anti-terrorism laws" on people who oppose the pipeline despite the fact that no Nebraskan has committed a crime in the state in their efforts to stop the pipeline. Bold Nebraska obtained TransCanada documents from the Nebraska State Patrol through a Freedom of Information Act request and was alarmed to discover what they describe as efforts to build distrust between Nebraska police and citizens who have organized to oppose the pipeline which threatens their air, land and water.

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