Category: Pipelines

KLX is dead

KLX is dead

Months after President Biden revoked the Keystone XL permit, TC Energy Corp in conjunction with the Albertan provincial government, have voiced their decision to abandon the project.
After 13 years of concerted efforts by Indigenous-led environmental frontline actions, the pipeline, which would have carried upwards of 35 million gallons of crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast, is DEAD.
“The end of KXL is an affirmation that persistence works, that intersectional organizing works, and that when we center our efforts in our Indigenous values and in our respect for water, land, and our people, we win.” — Jade Begay, Climate Justice Campaign Director for the NDN Collective.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1004908006/developer-abandons-keystone-xl-pipeline-project-ending-decade-long-battle

 

Indigenous women fight back

Indigenous women fight back

Enbridge, the Canadian energy company behind Line 3, claims it is merely replacing a 60-year-old pipeline that is likely to corrode and leak if it isn’t updated. But opponents see the plan as an expansion of it, because it will carry twice the amount of oil. Houska says Line 3 violates Anishinaabe rights granted under the 1837 White Pine Treaty by endangering wild rice, a plant unique to the region and sacred to her tribe. The pipeline faces legal challenges from tribes, environmental groups, and even the Minnesota Department of Commerce, all of which say the environmental risks far exceed the need for additional oil.

A pipeline is threatening their homeland. Indigenous women are fighting back.

To tribal attorney Tara Houska, the fight against the Line 3 pipeline is a fight for future generations.

Stop Line 3

Stop Line 3

with an amzing array of artists on it

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Hummingbirds Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline

Hummingbirds Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline

Nature 1 – TMP 0

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/hummingbird-nesting-ground-briefly-stops-a-construction-site-of-trans-mountain-pipeline/

End DAPL

End DAPL

Tell President Joe Biden to stop DAPL once and for all. Protect the planet and the Lakota people. No destruction of the earth. No endangering our water. Mni wiconi — water is life. Sigh the petition here

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Oppose Line 3

Oppose Line 3

#stopline3

Opposition to Line 3 Mounts – UNICORN RIOT

Saint Paul, MN – Around 600 people gathered in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 29, calling on President Biden to revoke permits for the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline project. The protest billed as ‘Protect the Water, Revoke the Permits’ started at Kellogg Park and marched into downtown to the local Army Corps of […]

What Really Happened at Standing Rock

What Really Happened at Standing Rock

Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Great Sioux Nation and Lead Counsel for the Lakota People’s Law Project talks about Standing Rock.

What Really Happened at Standing Rock | I Was There

Correction: An archival source was named incorrectly in the credits of this video. The footage was provided by Digital Smoke Signals NOT Digital Smoke Screens. To see more of their work please visit: https://www.facebook.com/DigitalSmokeSignals/ In 2016, indigenous water protectors and their allies gathered at Standing Rock to oppose the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline under Lake Oahe and the Missouri River.

Win for Water Protectors

Win for Water Protectors

On Thursday, September 10, 2020, in a long-awaited ruling, United States District Court Judge Daniel Traynor (District of North Dakota) allowed a lawsuit challenging law enforcement’s 2016 use of fire hoses and munitions against water protectors opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) to move forward with discovery. The case had been stalled for more than two years after Morton County and other defendants filed a motion asking the court to dismiss the case.
https://waterprotectorlegal.org/victory-for-water-protectors/

Red Fawn is Free

Red Fawn is Free

Fallis, a tribal citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, was a water protector at Standing Rock during the resistance to stop the Dakota Access pipeline. She was arrested on Oct. 27, 2016 at an incident at Standing Rock. She was one of more than 140 people arrested in a violent clash with law enforcement led by the Morton County Sheriff’s Department on that day.

On July 11, 2018 Red Fawn was sentenced to 57 months pursuant to the terms of a non-cooperating plea agreement accepted by the court on January 22, 2018. In exchange for a guilty plea to the charge of Civil Disorder and Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Convicted Felon, the charge of Discharge of a Firearm in Relation to a Felony Crime of Violence was dismissed. Had Fallis gone to trial and been convicted of this charge, she’d have faced a minimum of 10 years and risked up to life in prison. She was sentenced to 18 months on the Civil Disorder charge and to a concurrent term of 57 months on the Possession charge.