by Nelson Bailey | Dec 7, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines, Spiritual Ecology
Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, has responded to the Army Corps of Engineers’ denial of a key permit by asking a federal judge to allow it to drill under the Missouri river immediately. The court filing came as thousands of...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 5, 2016 | Conservation, Pipelines
By U.S. Army December 4, 2016 Army POC: Moira Kelley (703) 614-3992, moira.l.kelley.civ@mail.mil The Department of the Army will not approve an easement that would allow the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline to cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota, the Army’s...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 3, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Health & Safety, Pipelines
Kinder Morgan pipeline: Canadians intensify huge opposition to expansion Trudeau’s approval of project some find analogous to Standing Rock incited thousands of activists, politicians and First Nations members to increase action. | World news | The Guardian Read...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 3, 2016 | Climate Change, Conservation, Fossil Fuels, Pipelines
Sept. 9, 2010: A fire caused by an natural gas pipeline accident roars through San Bruno, California.(Paul Sakuma/AP) The increasingly brutal police response to protests over the construction of The Dakota Access Pipeline has pushed the debate over the safety of oil...
by Nelson Bailey | Dec 2, 2016 | Climate Change, Endangered Species, Health & Safety
By Seth Borenstain | The Japan Times WASHINGTON – Driving a gas-powered car about 1,300 kilometers melts about a square meter of Arctic sea ice in the critical month of September, according to a new study that directly links carbon pollution to the amount of ice...