by Nelson Bailey | Nov 28, 2017 | Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested as part of the Birmingham Campaign, an effort to bring national attention to systemic racism in one of America’s most segregated cities. As he sat in a jail cell, King wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 7, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Regulatory Permit Process
Construction has stopped along the Atlantic Sunrise gas pipeline’s 37-mile route in Lancaster County amid a confusing stay order issued by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. on Monday. A temporary stay was issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 6, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
HELENA, Ala. – For the second time in two months, a pipeline that supplies gasoline to millions of people was shut down, raising the specter of another round of gas shortages and price increases. The disruption occurred when a track hoe — a machine used to remove...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 30, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
One year ago today, on October 27, 2016, hundreds of law enforcement officers descended on a small resistance camp that stood directly in the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline, forcibly evicting residents and arresting 142 people — more than on any other day in the...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 8, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Federal lawyers said Friday that the government’s court-ordered environmental review of the Dakota Access pipeline will be complete by next spring, not this year, as previously expected. In a court filing, the Army Corps of Engineers said it was pushing back its...
