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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]