By Fossil Free Penn At 9 a.m. today, 33 students at the University of Pennsylvania entered College Hall, sleeping bags in tow, to sit in with two demands. These demands were: 1. The immediate divestment of the University’s endowment from all companies involved with the extraction of coal and tar sands. 2. The establishment and […]
By Joshua Axelrod When he turned the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from dead and gone into a reawakened zombie, President Trump claimed that his doing so would mean new construction jobs, steel manufacturing jobs and money for the U.S. https://twitter.com/EcoWatch/status/824592790155907073 expand=1] Before he was elected, he used the pipeline to show how he […]
By Steve Horn and Itai Vardi Believe it or not, there’s a key connection to Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, in the fight over North America’s controversial Keystone XL pipeline. One of President Donald Trump’s first actions in office was to sign an executive order on Jan. 24 expediting the approval of the Keystone […]
Last week, a Skagit County, Washington jury failed to reach a verdict in my trial on charges of burglary and sabotage for closing the TransMountain pipeline as part of the ShutItDown climate direct action, which disrupted all five pipelines carrying Canadian tar sands oil into the U.S. last October. https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/827199019537616897 expand=1] The trial itself was […]
By Steve Horn On Jan. 30, 600,000 gallons (14,285 barrels) of oil spewed out of Enbridge’s Seaway Pipeline in Blue Ridge, Texas, the second spill since the pipeline opened for business in mid-2016. Seaway is half owned by Enbridge and serves as the final leg of a pipeline system DeSmogBlog has called the “Keystone XLClone,” […]
[Editor’s note: Skagit County jury did not convict Ken Ward of two felony counts stemming from an act of civil disobedience in October 2016. After more than five hours of deliberation, Ward’s three-day trial ended in a hung jury, with at least one juror refusing to convict. The judge officially declared a mistrial. There will […]
Today, President Donald Trump will scrap key aspects of former-President Obama’s climate leadership, as he reportedly plans to sign Executive Orders to move the the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines forward. TransCanada, the foreign company behind the Keystone XL project, will attempt to use eminent domain to sue American landowners and seize their private […]
New research released Thursday reveals disturbing new evidence on how locking-into new long-lived tar sands production undermines global efforts to address the global climate crisis far beyond Canada’s borders. “Trudeau’s pipeline decisions will lead directly to suffering, displacement and even death for vulnerable people around the world due to impacts of a warming world,” said […]
By Emily Johnston I’ve been thinking a lot about risk lately—what we’re willing to risk and why. I was one of five activists who turned off the major tar sands pipelines coming into the U.S. on Oct. 11, 2016. As a result, I’m risking prison time, ostensibly for property damage (we cut a few chains […]
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