In the past few weeks, a number of water protectors have seen criminal cases dismissed by prosecutors in so-called Northern Minnesota for alleged actions taken to stop the Line 3 pipeline in defense of the water, the climate, and the treaty rights of the Anishinaabeg people. Violating Anishinaabe treaty territories in Minnesota, the new stretch of Line 3 was approved without full consent or proper impact studies, threatening safe water sources for millions. It carries the carbon equivalent of 50 coal plants. More than 68,000 Minnesotans testified against this plan. Over 1,000 arrests were made during the nine months of construction. […]
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TikTok Has Become An Enormously Influential Medium That Reaches Over One Billion People Worldwide. Having Control Over Its Algorithm Or Content Moderation Means The Ability To Set The Terms Of Global Debate And Decide What People See. And What They Don’t. Culver City, California – As the bloody conflict in Ukraine continues to escalate, so does the online propaganda war between Russia and the West. A prime example of this is the White House directly briefing influencers on popular social media app TikTok about the war and how to cover it. As the crisis spirals out of control, Americans have turned to […]
Above photo: Rene Theberge. Massachusetts – Under the threat of the proposed Eversource pipeline and stormy skies, 200 residents from Springfield, Longmeadow and across the Commonwealth demanded that Eversource cancel the Proposed Springfield-Longmeadow gas pipeline. The Springfield Climate Justice Coalition and the Longmeadow Pipeline Awareness Group along with 57 co-sponsoring organizations, many from Springfield, came together on Saturday afternoon, April 9th to say “No!” to Eversource’s proposed Springfield-Longmeadow natural gas pipeline. Cut short by flashes of lightning and the cry of thunder, the rally ended for safety reasons, resulting in the large crowd hearing only half of the speakers waiting their turn to take […]
Above Photo: Marsh Creek Water Protectors / Facebook. The scientist and nurse who halted Sunoco|Energy Transfer’s Mariner East Pipelines construction in January found not guilty. While the PA Governor and Attorney General continue to delay halting construction and cleaning up toxic spill in Marsh Creek, local residents take matters into their own hands with direct action and win in court today. “We had no choice but to resort to peaceful protest on an active construction site to raise awareness of the dangers that have not been addressed by the responsible government agencies.” Downingtown, Upper Uwchlan, PA – Today, two local residents, […]
Above Photo: PBI-Mexico at the National Meeting of Struggles against Gas Pipelines and Death Projects where the Caravan for Water and Life was announced. Earlier this year, the Peace Brigades International-Mexico Project accompanied the organizations and communities that gathered in the municipality of Juan C. Bonilla, Puebla for the National Meeting of Struggles Against Gas Pipelines and Death Projects. At that time, PBI-Mexico tweeted: “We celebrate that this meeting has been an opportunity for defenders of the territory and the environment to share their words and experiences on the road to articulating a culture of peace, justice and respect for community rights.” […]
Investors Are Reevaluating The Mountain Valley Pipeline By William Limpert, Truthout. March 12, 2022 Investors Are Reevaluating The Mountain Valley Pipeline2022-03-122022-03-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220312-4.jpg200px200px Above Photo: Activists rally with the People vs. Fossil Fuels demonstration to call for President Biden to stop approving fossil fuel projects at the Capitol Reflecting Pool on October 15, 2021. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc Via Getty Images. Let’s Cancel It For Good. The unjust, unneeded and destructive Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), a fracked-gas pipeline from West Virginia down into Virginia, should be canceled. Project completion is already in jeopardy. During a recent hearing about the Federal Energy Regulatory […]
Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Demand Royal Bank Stop Financing Pipeline By Jennifer Wickham, Last Real Indians. March 9, 2022 Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Demand Royal Bank Stop Financing Pipeline2022-03-092022-03-09https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2022/03/220309-2.jpg200px200px Unceded Gidimt’en territory, so-called Smithers, British Columbia, Canada – On Friday, February 25, Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs met with Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and City National Bank (CNB) executives demanding the bank withdraw financing for the Coastal GasLink pipeline by March 11. The meeting marked the first-ever meeting between RBC leadership and Indigenous land defenders, who have been resisting the controversial fracked gas pipeline for a decade. At the meeting, the following demands were […]
Above photo: Nord Stream 2 pipe-laying in Swedish waters in the Baltic Sea. Axel Schmidt. Why Nord Stream 2 is a key part of the impasse. “Canada is supporting Ukraine … because we have a clear and urgent national interest in the situation there.”—Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, January 26, 2022 Amid escalating tensions between the United States, NATO and Russia, all eyes are on Ukraine. Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland describes it as “a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.” But Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany, is […]
Above Photo: Chief Madeek opens the summit. Arvin Singh. “I Can Never Stop Being Wet’suwet’en.” Indigenous leaders from many nations say they will support Wet’suwet’en fight for control over their territory. The conflict over the Coastal GasLink project is about more than the fate of a single pipeline or the territory of one Indigenous nation. The precedent set here will have far-reaching consequences, and Indigenous nations and leaders from across Turtle Island are paying close attention. The hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation hosted a Peace and Unity Summit in the town of Smithers on Jan. 15. Wet’suwet’en leaders and representatives […]
Above Photo: Mi’kmaq grandmothers and supporters celebrate the cancellation of the Alton Gas project. Darren Calabrese. Plans to flush out salt caverns for gas storage hit a wall of Mi’kmaq grandmothers. Cheryl Maloney’s eyes glossed over with tears as she stood near the bank of the Stewiacke River in the middle of Nova Scotia. The news was finally sinking in. Behind her, about 100 people filled plates with spaghetti and fried chicken; the crowd included her 11-year-old grandson, Drake Nevin, one of many children who’d spent most of their childhoods fighting alongside Elders to protect this river system. She saw the […]
Above Photo: Christine Pontecorvo. The Better Path Coalition reported on January 6 two local residents Christine “PK” DiGiulio, Analytical Chemist from Downingtown, Upper Uwchlan Township, and Connor Young, Registered Nurse from Lionville, Uwchlan Township, locked their bodies and halted construction on the Energy Transfer Partners/Sunoco Mariner East Pipelines. This pipeline project is slated to take natural gas liquids out of the US to overseas markets. Before reaching the Marcus Hook shipping port, the line traverses 350 miles of personal and public property, 1,227 stream crossings, 570 wetland crossings, and 11 pond crossings; 337 of these crossings disturb what DEP refers to […]
Above Photo: Water protectors in Mackinaw City, Michigan, protest Enbridge’s Line 5 project on May 13, 2021. Whitney Gravelle. Line 5 moves 23 million gallons daily of crude oil and natural gas liquids between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario. A federal judge retained jurisdiction Tuesday in a dispute over a Canadian oil pipeline that runs through a section of the Great Lakes, rejecting Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s contention that the case belongs in state court. The clash over whether Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 should continue operating raises issues “under consideration at the highest levels of this country’s government” involving a U.S.-Canada […]
Above photo: Ron Turney. Anishinaabe Akiing, Minnesota – Today, defendants arrested while opposing the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline launched a campaign calling on Minnesota’s elected leadership to drop all criminal charges against over 700 water protectors. A Drop the Charges petition to MN Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison has already garnered over 13,000 signatures. Organizers of the campaign describe the charges as unjust based on the brutal policing tactics that the Enbridge corporation directly funded, the violation of Anishinaabe treaty rights, and the project’s contribution to catastrophic climate change. Winona LaDuke, executive director of […]
Above Photo: Journalist Karen Savage is arrested and handcuffed by several sheriff’s deputies at a boat ramp far from the Bayou Bridge pipeline construction easement on September 18, 2018. (Cherri Foytlin) Under Louisiana’s Felony Trespassing Law An investigative journalist shares her perspective after being arrested twice while reporting on resistance to the Bayou Bridge pipeline construction. For the first time in nearly three years, I woke up a few months ago without felony charges hanging over my head. I’m an investigative journalist and I’d been arrested twice in 2018, both times for allegedly trespassing on what’s known as “critical infrastructure,” a felony under […]
Above Photo: Activists across New Jersey and Pennsylvania have long fought against PennEast’s proposed fracked gas pipeline. Delaware Riverkeeper Network/Twitter. ‘Momentous Win’: Opponents in Pennsylvania and New Jersey cheer “cancellation of this unneeded, dangerous fracked gas pipeline.” Environmental and public health advocates on Monday celebrated the demise of a proposed fracked gas pipeline across Pennsylvania and New Jersey after PennEast decided to cease development because of difficulties acquiring certain state permits. “This is a huge victory. Today, water, the environment, and people spoke louder than fossil fuels,” said Jim Waltman, executive director of the New Jersey-based Watershed Institute, in a statement. “We congratulate and […]
Above photo: Appalachians Against Pipelines. Lindside, WV — Early Tuesday morning, two Mountain Valley Pipeline protesters locked themselves to construction equipment at a construction site in Lindside, WV. A rally of nearly a dozen supporters gathered nearby. Banners at the site read, “PIPELINES STINK,” “SOLIDARITY WITH STOP LINE 3,” and “AIN’T SCARED.” As of 11 AM, one protester had been extracted and arrested after preventing construction at the site for over 5 hours. The other was in the process of being extracted by law enforcement. Those locked down stated, “A better world isn’t just possible, it’s necessary. As we write this, […]
Above Photo: Kirk Sidlo. St. Paul, MN – Over 50 water protectors protesting Line 3 were arrested, some violently, outside the Minnesota Governor’s Residence in St. Paul on Saturday, August 28, 2021. Those arrested were among hundreds who marched from the Capitol to Governor Walz’ mansion attempting to speak to him about their opposition to the Line 3 pipeline construction in northern Minnesota that’s nearing completion. The march on August 28 was led by pipeline resistance camp Camp Migizi, who had three Indigenous water protectors lock down to the fencing of the mansion after unsuccessfully pursuing a meeting with the governor. […]
Wet’suwet’en Call On Province To Close Pipeline Work Camps By Amanda Follett Hosgood, The Tyee. December 4, 2020 Wet’suwet’en Call On Province To Close Pipeline Work Camps2020-12-042020-12-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/mancamp-e1607089599886.jpg200px200px Above photo: Work camps like this one at the LNG project in Kitimat should be shut down to protect Indigenous communities from COVID-19 risks, say Wet’suwet’en chiefs. LNG Canada. Female chiefs say COVID-19 risk means work on oil and gas projects shouldn’t be classed as an essential service. Members of the Wet’suwet’en Nation are calling on B.C.’s public health officer to shut down work camps operating on their territory as COVID-19 numbers rise in northern B.C. […]
Activists Resist Frantic Pipeline Development By Leanna First-Arai, Truthout. December 3, 2020 Activists Resist Frantic Pipeline Development2020-12-032020-12-03https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/pipeline.png200px200px Above photo: Jessica Garraway sings as people protest against the Enbridge Energy Line 3 tar sands pipeline project outside the governor’s mansion on November 14, 2020, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen / Getty Images. The final weeks of the Trump administration have been frenzied for oil and gas pipeline companies. On November 24, Enbridge — the largest pipeline developer in North America — filed a lawsuit to block Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from shutting down one of its major projects, swiftly announcing on the same day plans to move […]
Lockdown To Stop The Keystone XL Pipeline November 22, 2020 Lockdown To Stop The Keystone XL Pipeline2020-11-222020-11-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/117235375_113791353769519_4192287940227551153_o-e1606055092485.jpg200px200px Above photo: From the 2KC Media Facebook Page. STOP the desecration No KXL Shut it Down! Live from Sovereign Oceti Sakowin Territory in so-called Haakon county, South Dakota at one of many active and illegal KXL Crude Oil Pipeline Pump Stations. Illegal Construction on Treaty Lands. Protectors have notified officials and filed a complaint about the unlawful construction and peace treaty violations.. but nothing has been done. The desecration & disrespect continues. So what do we do when our leaders don’t act, don’t protect […]
Mountain Valley Pipeline Project Remains Stalled In Legal Limbo By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail. October 25, 2020 Mountain Valley Pipeline Project Remains Stalled In Legal Limbo2020-10-252020-10-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/mvp-e1603643034869.jpg200px200px Above photo: WVTF.org. It was a shock to the system. That’s how EQT President and CEO Toby Rice described the impact of the July cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Rice made the allusion during EQT’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday while reporting talks with four or five other unnamed companies to offload some or all of EQT’s Mountain Valley Pipeline capacity. Environmentalists hope Mountain Valley is headed for the same fate as Atlantic Coast and […]
Way Down In The Hole: Pipeline Lockdown By Kevin Duggan, Brooklyn Paper. October 17, 2020 Way Down In The Hole: Pipeline Lockdown2020-10-172020-10-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/bnatgrid.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protesters Pati Rodriguez (left) and Benny Woodard locked themselves to a National Grid pipe in protest on Oct. 15. Lisette DeJesus. Protestors lock themselves to National Grid pipeline in Williamsburg. Police arrested four protesters who locked themselves to a controversial National Grid fracked gas pipeline construction site in Williamsburg on Thursday morning. Two environmental advocates fastened each other to the underground tube for three hours while two more activists secured themselves to the active building site at […]
Members Of Secwépemc Unity Camp Shut Down Trans Mountain Pipeline By Michael Potestio, Kamloops This Week. October 17, 2020 Members Of Secwépemc Unity Camp Shut Down Trans Mountain Pipeline2020-10-172020-10-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/tmx-protest-e1602895621614.jpg200px200px Above photo: Members of the We, the Secwépemc Unity Camp to Stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline took their message to Trans Mountain’s worksite off Mission Flats Road on Oct. 15, 2020. Facebook. Mounties make arrests at Trans Mountain worksite in Kamloops. On Oct. 15, members of the We, the Secwépemc Unity Camp to Stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline walked across Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and onto the Trans Mountain site. There, at least one […]
Fracked Gas Pipeline In Brooklyn Continues By Jessy Edwards, BK Reader. October 14, 2020 Fracked Gas Pipeline In Brooklyn Continues2020-10-142020-10-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/bk.png200px200px Above photo: Climate activist Gabriel Jamison says Brownsville wants renewable energy, not more fracked gas. Claire Haughey. Despite Calls to Stop Construction Immediately. The pipeline would carry fracked gas through Brownsville, Bed-Stuy, Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint. New York City – Fracked gas could soon be running through a new pipeline near you, despite rising calls for construction on the North Brooklyn Pipeline to be halted immediately. National Grid started construction on the Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project — also known as […]
Wet’suwet’en Women Occupy Pipeline Drillsite To Protect Their Sacred Headwaters October 14, 2020 Wet’suwet’en Women Occupy Pipeline Drillsite To Protect Their Sacred Headwaters2020-10-142020-10-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/121554726_695969518015504_8666472389795387412_o-e1602683281331.jpg200px200px Above photo: Facebook. Coastal GasLink has called in the RCMP to try and remove Wet’suwet’en community members and Indigenous youth as they hold a ceremony at a proposed drill site for Coastal Gaslink’s pipeline. Coastal Gaslink has been evicted from our territories by the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs – who have full jurisdiction over Wet’suwet’en lands. As CGL continues to trespass, we will do everything in our power to protect our waters and to uphold our laws. We will […]
Ceremony To Stop A Pipeline By Amandalina Letterio, Castanet. September 29, 2020 Ceremony To Stop A Pipeline2020-09-292020-09-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/tmp-e1601388961988.jpg200px200px Above photo: Secwepemc canoe and kayak celebration took place Saturday morning. Anushka Nagji. First Nations activists gather at Adams Lake in opposition to Trans Mountain pipeline project. A group of Secwepemc people held a canoe and kayak ceremony Saturday morning in Kamloops in opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project drilling under the Thompson River. The journey began at Adams Lake and the group kayaked and canoed their way to the Mission Flats area for a potluck dinner and games. “Families from our Secwepemc Nation came together […]
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States is building a coalition against the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in an interview. “We hope that the Nord Stream 2 pipeline won’t be completed. We’re working to make sure we build out a coalition that prevents that from happening,” Pompeo told Bild on Monday. The United States has opposed the natural gas pipeline since its inception, arguing that it would lead to a European overdependence on Russian gas and thus pose a risk to European security. The US campaign against Nord Stream 2 intensified after the […]
This week, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt signed an agreement that would expand a pipeline to transport Iraqi oil from Basra to Egypt, through Jordan. Sputnik talked to experts to find out what the benefits are for the three participants in the project. Benefits for Iraq In terms of benefits, the first and clearest is that Iraq will be paid for its exports. The country, struggling to restore its economy after a war with Daesh terrorists, needs serious international projects. Oil sales are one of the most affordable ways for Baghdad to solve a number of economic issues. Iraqi economic expert Abdel Rahman […]
Gas pipeline explosion causes ‘total blackout’ in Syria – state media — RT World News icon bookmark-bicon bookmarkicon cameraicon checkicon chevron downicon chevron lefticon chevron righticon chevron upicon closeicon v-compressicon downloadicon editicon v-expandicon fbicon fileicon filtericon flag ruicon full chevron downicon full chevron lefticon full chevron righticon full chevron upicon gpicon insicon mailicon moveicon-musicicon mutedicon nomutedicon okicon v-pauseicon v-playicon searchicon shareicon sign inicon sign upicon stepbackicon stepforicon swipe downicon tagicon tagsicon tgicon trashicon twicon vkicon yticon wticon fm 24 Aug, 2020 02:20 Follow RT on Follow RT on Add to home screen Source link
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008241080257465-explosion-in-arab-gas-pipeline-leads-to-blackout-in-syria-electricity-minister-says/ An explosion in the Arab gas pipeline between the Al-Dameer area and Adra in the Damascus countryside has led to a total blackout in Syria, the minister of electricity said, according to SANA news agency. DETAILS TO FOLLOW Source link
First Nations Leaders Speak Out Against Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Approval July 27, 2020 First Nations Leaders Speak Out Against Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline Approval2020-07-272020-07-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/reuben_george_credit_cnw_grouptsleil-waututh_nation.png200px200px Above photo: Rueben George pic by Vancouver Sun. Kinder-Morgan’s application for approval of the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion (TMX) has been bouncing around in Canada’s federal courts like a pinball since 2013. First Nations tribes and environmental groups have valiantly worked the flippers of the judicial pinball machine for years, filing lawsuits and appeals, to keep that shiny ball from rolling down the drain of approval. But on July 2, down it went when the Supreme Court […]
States Sue Over Rule Limiting Them From Blocking Pipeline Projects By Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill. July 24, 2020 States Sue Over Rule Limiting Them From Blocking Pipeline Projects2020-07-242020-07-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/pipeline.png200px200px Above photo: Tom Anderson. A coalition of 20 states is suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a rule that weakens states’ ability to block pipelines and other controversial projects that cross their waterways. The Clean Water Act previously allowed states to halt projects that risk hurting their water quality, but that power was scaled back by the EPA, a move Administrator Andrew Wheeler said would “curb abuses of the Clean Water Act that have held our […]
The Bulgarian section of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline from Russia, known as Balkan Stream, is set to be completed by the end of the year, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The news that the construction of the gas pipeline is proceeding on schedule comes shortly after Washington updated the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA). The move paved the way to impose secondary sanctions on companies involved in Russian energy projects – Nord Stream 2 and the second line of TurkStream natural gas pipelines – both of which are under construction. Also on rt.com US expands draconian sanctions […]
Appeals Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company ‘Trampled’ Landowners’ Rights By the Center for Constitutional Rights. July 21, 2020 Appeals Court Rules Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company ‘Trampled’ Landowners’ Rights2020-07-212020-07-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/bbp-e1595360504597.jpg200px200px Above photo: By Julia Dermansky. Landowners Awarded $10,000 Each Plus Attorneys Fees. July 16, 2020, Lake Charles, LA – Today, the Third Circuit Court of Appeal for the State of Louisiana ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company (BBP) violated the due process rights of landowners when it constructed an oil pipeline across their property before acquiring the legal rights to do so. The construction – including clearing trees, trenching, and laying pipe […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202007181079924684-israeli-media-reports-claim-huge-explosion-occurred-at-iranian-oil-pipeline/ At the beginning of July, an explosion occurred at the country’s Natanz nuclear facility, which an anonymous Middle Eastern intelligence official blamed on Israel. In an interview with The New York Times, the man claimed that Tel Aviv had planted a powerful bomb at the site. A powerful explosion has occurred at an oil pipeline in Iran’s Khuzestan province, Israeli media reported. Footage of a huge blaze was posted on social media. However, there has been no confirmation from Iranian officials of the incident. The development comes two days after a US official told […]
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Win Was A Hard-Earned Victory By Lorne Stockman, Oil Change International. July 16, 2020 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Win Was A Hard-Earned Victory2020-07-162020-07-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/03/atlantic-coast-pipeline-protest-peoples-hearing-next-door-to-fake-hearing-february-2017-e1554047147736.jpg200px200px Beware industry and government’s revisionist history. Sunday’s announcement of the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) was remarkable for so many reasons. Not least that the two companies, Dominion and Duke, are the most powerful corporate entities in their respective states (Virginia and North Carolina). For these two corporate giants to back down is a rare and beautiful thing to behold. This victory comes as an enormous relief to people all along the more than 600 miles […]
A US appeals court has allowed the Dakota Access oil line to stay in operation while legal wrangling continues over the controversial project, overturning a lower court’s ruling handed down last week to shutter the pipeline. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Tuesday that Energy Transfer LP – the firm controlling Dakota Access – could keep the 570,000-barrel-per-day pipeline running as it considers a final decision on whether to delay enforcement of the previous court order. Last week, the US District Court for the District of Columbia called on Energy Transfer to halt use of […]
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Canceled Following Years Of Protests By Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. July 7, 2020 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Canceled Following Years Of Protests2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/03/atlantic-coast-pipeline-protest-peoples-hearing-next-door-to-fake-hearing-february-2017-e1554047147736.jpg200px200px Above photo: Protest by FrackFreeNC.org against the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Note: Years of work by thousands of front line activists and their allies have resulted in a major victory — stopping the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Activists used a wide range of tools including blocking the pipeline from being built, rallies, protests, lobbying in Washington, DC, and litigation. Activists even made a great film about the damage the pipeline was going to cause. They educated the public, built consensus against […]
Federal Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline Shut Down By Amy R. Sisk, The Bismark Tribune. July 7, 2020 Federal Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline Shut Down2020-07-072020-07-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/08/dakota-access-pipeline-protest.-photograph-by-peg-hunter.-used-under-creative-commons-license-e1594147238184.jpg200px200px Above photo: Dakota Access Pipeline Protest. Photograph by Peg Hunter. Used under Creative Commons license. The Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down and emptied of oil within 30 days while a lengthy environmental review of the project is conducted, a federal judge ruled Monday. The move was requested earlier this year by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and three other Sioux tribes in the Dakotas who fear environmental harm from the pipeline and have spent […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/105095/96/1050959647_0:306:3264:2142_1200x675_80_0_0_638b549ac4bc880f8c292b03226398a5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/us/202007061079811125-us-court-orders-shutdown-of-dakota-access-pipeline-by-august-5-pending-review-/ WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Dakota Access Pipeline must be shut down and emptied of oil by 5 August pending an additional environmental review, a US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on Monday. “The Court will nonetheless require the oil to stop flowing and the pipeline to be emptied within 30 days from the date of this opinion and accompanying order,” US District Court Judge James Boasberg said. The 30-day period, which ends on 5 August, was suggested by the tribes and should provide enough time to cease operations in a “safe […]
Two energy companies behind the controversial 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline slated to run from West Virginia to North Carolina, said they are scrapping the project after it has been on hold for years due to legal challenges. In a joint statement on Sunday, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced that they pull the plug on the project, which was first announced in 2014 and has faced fierce opposition from landowners and environmental activists, arguing that the 600-mile (970km) pipeline would cause irreparable damage to the land and wildlife. The developers, who argued that the pipeline is a better option environment-wise, since […]
The construction of an Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP), to deliver fracked natural gas 600 miles from West Virginia, through Virginia to a North Carolina port, has faced heavy opposition by environmental activist groups since it’s 2014 announcement. Activists also opposed a pipeline tunneling below the famed Appalachian Trail. Two US companies attempting to carry out the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy, announced on Sunday that they would abandon the pipeline due to “ongoing delays” brought by legal battles and “increasing cost uncertainty” that “threaten the economic viability of the project”. The two companies cited a recent Montana […]
A coyote trots along a lush, green clearing near the town of Fort McMurray, Canada. It is brazenly undeterred by the presence of humans. Sniffing the grasses still wet with rain on an overcast summer day, it pauses at the edge of a wide expanse of thick, dark sludge. The air here is harsh with chemicals that rise off the muck—they burn the mouth and throat, almost like being on the outskirts of a tear gas cloud. These are the Athabasca tar sands, the result of open-pit mining of bitumen and crude oil. The boreal forest that stood here for millennia […]
Looking west from this overlook in the George Washington National Forest in central Virginia, the pathway of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would be visible along the valley floor running to the north. Becky Sullivan/NPR hide caption toggle caption Becky Sullivan/NPR Looking west from this overlook in the George Washington National Forest in central Virginia, the pathway of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would be visible along the valley floor running to the north. Becky Sullivan/NPR The Supreme Court ruled Monday in favor of a pipeline company in a dispute about whether a new 600-mile natural gas pipeline could cross underneath the Appalachian […]
Grassroots Activists Defeat Controversial Williams Fracked Gas Pipeline In New York Harbor Lee Ziesche and Robert Wood, Sane Energy Project. May 18, 2020 Grassroots Activists Defeat Controversial Williams Fracked Gas Pipeline In New York Harbor2020-05-182020-05-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/new-yorker-power-defeated-william-pipeline.-bu-erik-mcgregor.-e1589821994336.png200px200px The decision ends the three-year fight, barring litigation; New Yorkers celebrate decision as essential for protecting public health and the planet during the crisis New York, NY – The New York Department of Environmental Conservation today denied a needed water quality permit for the controversial Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline, effectively putting an end to the epic fight against the widely opposed project. The pipeline was slated to […]
Europe 11:21 GMT 12.05.2020Get short URL https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107728/17/1077281737_0:92:3072:1820_1200x675_80_0_0_ec3ece3607f15bab08223da4e3fa2c7e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202005121079280569-germanys-bna-to-make-final-decisions-on-nord-stream-2-pipeline-before-24-may—sources/ BERLIN (Sputnik) – The German Federal Network Agency (BNA) intends to make a final decision before 24 May regarding the request of Nord Stream 2 AG, the operator of the Nord Stream 2, on whether to absolve the pipeline from the EU Gas Directive, BNA representative Fiete Wulff has said. “The decision will be made public no later than 24 May,” Wulf said. According to a legislative amendment adopted by Brussels, decisions on the exemption of gas pipelines from the scope of the directive must be made before […]