The expansion of oil and gas exports has become a strategic priority for a major section of the capitalist class in Canada and its political enablers. The declining possibilities for export to the US, moreover, have led ‘business and political leaders…to pivot to East Asia, particularly China.’ This has involved the development of the required infrastructure […]
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Canada’s big banks are secretly supporting Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion
“Once again, we see that Canadian banks are leading the world in financing climate-destructive, Indigenous rights-violating projects,” said one campaigner.
Oil pipeline Canada bought will cost over $25 billion and never turn profit
Climate activists on Wednesday reiterated calls to cancel Canada’s expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline after a new analysis found that a recent pledge to not put any public money into the project “is a promise that the government can’t keep.” “The only solution is to cancel it.” “The only solution is to cancel it,” tweeted Wilderness Committee campaigner […]
Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs Demand Royal Bank Stop Financing Pipeline
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, […]
The Indigenous Grandmothers Who Stopped A Pipeline
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 […]
Libya’s oil output drops by 200,000 due to damaged pipeline
Libya’s oil output has dropped by about 200,000 barrels a day after the closure of a leaking pipeline, Bloomberg reports. According to the report, Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corporation said, late Saturday, that the main pipeline linking the eastern Samah and Dhuhra fields to the country’s biggest export terminal, Es Sider, will be shut for […]
BC Coastal GasLink Pipeline Conflict Gets International Attention While Some Warn of One-Sided Information
The conflict in northern B.C. over the Coastal GasLink pipeline caught greater international attention on Nov. 22 when Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio chimed in, posting on Twitter a video of RCMP officers confronting indigenous activists opposed to the pipeline. “After setting up a blockade to protect their land, community, and sacred headwaters Wedzin Kwa from Coastal GasLink’s […]
Judge Keeps Oil Pipeline Case In Federal Court
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 […]
New Campaign To Drop Charges Against Line 3 Pipeline Water Protectors
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 […]
Journalist Targeted For Reporting On Police Working For A Pipeline Company
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 […]
Mariner East 2 pipeline charged with 48 environmental crimes in Pennsylvania
On October 5, the Pennsylvania Attorney General unveiled criminal charges against the Mariner East 2 pipeline, a long-distance natural gas pipeline that traverses the state. Stemming from a grand jury investigation, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced 46 environmental crimes, plus an additional two charges that were referred to his office by the Pennsylvania Department of […]
Oil flows through Line 3 as water protectors continue resistance to pipeline
While oil started flowing through Line 3 pipeline on Friday, resistance to the pipeline will continue. Water protectors vow to keep fighting for climate justice as a challenge to the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to issue a key water-crossing permit for the pipeline is still pending in federal court. The owners of the pipeline, […]
Years Of Local Opposition Defeats PennEast Pipeline
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 […]
Why is the TAPI Gas Pipeline So Important to Turkmenistan?
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov strictly adheres to the policy of his predecessor, Saparmurat Niyazov. The present leader of the country, who bears the official title of Arkadag, translated as patron from the Turkmen language, does his best to ensure that the state entrusted to him remains permanently neutral. The policy of neutrality has led Turkmenistan […]
Daesh claims responsibility for bomb attack on Syria pipeline
Daesh has claimed responsibility for the attack on a natural gas pipeline located in southern Syria on Friday night, which resulted in a power cut across the capital Damascus and many other surrounding areas. According to a statement by the terror group on Saturday, Daesh claimed that its fighters “were able to plant and detonate […]
Blurring the lines: Phony leftists and the populist right pipeline
One of the excuses most often heard from those commentators accused of not bothering to do basic research using reputable sources is that such work isn’t necessary as they are just ‘just asking questions’. We see this a lot with those promoting cheap miracle cures for the novel coronavirus despite widely available free vaccines in […]
Over 130,000 People Call On Chubb To Drop Trans Mountain Pipeline
Above Photo: Harriet Prince, 76, of the Anishinaabe tribe marches with Coast Salish Water Protectors and others against the expansion of Texas-based Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada on March 10, 2018. Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images/Common Dreams. 15 Insurers Have Already Cut Ties With The Controversial Pipeline. səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), […]
‘Stand with us’: Indigenous Line 3 opponents seek allies to fight tar sands pipeline
Opponents of Canadian company Enbridge’s Line 3 tar sands pipeline march to the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 1, 2021 to call on President Joe Biden to cancel the toxic project’s permit. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) As state and local law enforcement in Minnesota intensify their violent repression of water […]
Gas Bill Strike Is Underway To Protest The North Brooklyn Pipeline
The No North Brooklyn Pipeline coalition is encouraging fellow community members to join a National Grid gas bill strike in the face of potential rate hikes meant to fund the aforementioned fracked gas pipeline. Since June 1, the campaign — which is organized and/or supported by the Sane Energy Project, Brownsville Residents Green Committee, Newtown Creek Alliance, and many […]
Old Hills And Old Folks Resist The Mountain Valley Pipeline
By Appalachians Against Pipelines, Popular Resistance. July 1, 2021 Above photo: Appalachians Against Pipelines. Bent Mountain, VA – On Wednesday, June 30, 2021 at 5:30 A.M., Deborah Kushner, Alan Moore, and Bridget Kelley locked themselves in and to a broken down vehicle on Honeysuckle Road, blocking Mountain Valley Pipeline’s access to the pipeline easement, a […]
Three Pipeline Protesters Arrested After Large Sit-In At Energy Giant’s Offices
Above Photo: John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe. The Arrests Come After Dozens Of Activists Staged An Occupation Of The Offices Of The Company Behind The Weymouth Compressor Station And Other Pipelines. Three activists who refused to leave the Waltham offices of the pipeline company Enbridge were arrested by police Wednesday afternoon, ending a more […]
A Native-Led Fight Against Pipeline Construction Has Begun In Minnesota
Above Photo: Ellen Schmidt/MPR News. Native water protectors in Minnesota are waging a battle against the Line 3 pipeline construction which violates their treaties and threatens the environment. A native-led battle for the environment is being waged in Minnesota. On June 7, water protectors from the territories of the Anishinaabe tribes — which include members […]
The Keystone XL Pipeline Is Officially Dead
Above Photo: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images. TC Energy, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, has said it has “terminated” the project. In a shocking move, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has announced it will no longer move forward with the project. The controversial pipeline has been at the center of a […]
US recovers most of Colonial Pipeline bitcoin ransom
The chief executive of the massive fuel pipeline hit by ransomware last month is expected to detail his company’s response to the cyberattack and to explain his decision to authorise a multimillion-dollar payment when he testifies before Congress this week. Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount will face the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, one […]
How Did FBI Get Private Key to Bitcoin Wallet Used by Pipeline Hackers?
Via: Bloomberg: In the digital world, though, it’s a simple matter to then transfer those Bitcoins to another address. And another. And another. This is done to obscure a trail and mask the flow of funds, kind of like money laundering. By May 27, the FBI had identified at least two dozen different Bitcoin addresses used […]
Protests Over Enbridge’s Pipeline Are Expected To Intensify
Protests Over Enbridge’s Pipeline Are Expected To Intensify Above Photo: Richard Tsong-Taatarii, Star Tribune. Protests are planned to resume Monday, and critical court actions are expected over the replacement for the Canadian company’s current Line 3. It could be a long, hot summer for the $3 billion pipeline Enbridge is building across northern Minnesota. As […]