A Death Blow To Pipelines?
An amendment Ocasio-Cortez proposed for the next budget bill would prohibit the nation’s main infrastructure-building agency from using federal money to issue permits under the Section 404 of the Clean Water Act “for the discharge of dredged or fill material resulting from an activity to construct a pipeline for the transportation of oil or gas.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proposes A Death Blow To Pipelines Like Dakota Access
The New York congresswoman is pushing to block the troubled pipeline and similar oil and gas projects through an amendment to the budget bill.
Good News on Oil Pipelines
What a week as well as Nestlé Canada Inc pulling out of the bottled water market, we had a judge ordering the shutdown and draining of DAPL
Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline to Shut Down
Unprecedented victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe after four-year legal battle
and then also the KLX pipeline blocked
Supreme Court upholds block on Keystone XL Pipeline construction – UPI.com
The Supreme Court on Monday denied the Trump administration’s request to allow for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline to continue, upholding a lower court’s decision to cancel a key permit on environmental grounds.
Court Invalidates Keystone XL Permits
A federal judge ruled today that the US Army Corps of Engineers violated the law when it approved Nationwide Permit 12, a key water crossing permit for TC Energy’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and many other pipelines nationwide.
PRESS RELEASE: Yet Again, Federal Court Invalidates Key Permit for Keystone XL | Bold Nebraska
Rosebud Sioux Tribe Spirit Camp, 2014 (Photo: Matt Sloan / Bold Nebraska) For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 Yet Again, Federal Court Invalidates Key Permit for Keystone XL Court blocks the use of Nationwide Permit 12 for pipeline water crossings Great Falls, MT – A federal judge ruled today (see ruling below) that the US Army Corps of Engineers violated the law when it approved Nationwide Permit 12, a key water crossing permit for TC Energy’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and many other pipelines nationwide.
a little good news
A major investor has pulled out of a major Quebec natural gas pipeline project, with the company behind the project saying it was due to “challenges in the Canadian political landscape.”
Major investor pulls out of Quebec pipeline project, citing rail blockades
A major investor has pulled out of a major Quebec natural gas pipeline project, with the company behind the project saying it was due to “challenges in the Canadian political landscape.”
Its Not over
In the wake of limited talks between the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs and representatives of the Canadian state, a sense of confusion has set in. State and corporate media outfits have added to this confusion by portraying these talks as an endpoint to the protests that have been taking place for weeks in support of Wet’suwet’en and against the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
But the fact remains that there’s been no agreement to allow for the pipeline to be built, and no calls have been made for people to take down their blockades. Despite what they want you to think… it’s not over.
Pipeline Project Scrapped
Stop the Money Pipeline
“Stop the Money Pipeline”: 150 Arrested at Protests Exposing Wall Street’s Link to Climate Crisis
Nearly 150 people were arrested on Capitol Hill Friday in a climate protest led by Academy Award-winning actor and activist Jane Fonda. Fonda has been leading weekly climate demonstrations in Washington, D.C., known as “Fire Drill Fridays,” since October.
Keystone pipeline leak
Trans Mountain Pipeline
Dr Mark Jaccard of Simon Fraser University calculated the carbon emissions of the entire Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project with the proposed expansion to be 71,100,000 metric tons (71.1 Mt) of Co2e annually. According to the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, that would be like adding 15,095,541 passenger vehicles driven for one year.
Trans Mountain Is a Major Climate Problem – Last Real Indians
Since the Trans Mountain Pipeline and Tanker Project was proposed in 2009, global concern over the climate crisis has grown exponentially. Almost every sector of industry has adapted their future plans to take the Climate Emergency into account — oil and gas is lagging behind. Major projects like