by Nelson Bailey | Nov 22, 2016 | Endangered Species, Health & Safety
A 21-year-old woman was severely injured and may lose her arm after being hit by a projectile when North Dakota law enforcement officers turned water cannon on Dakota Access pipeline protesters and threw “less-than-lethal” weapons. Sophia Wilansky was one of several...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 21, 2016 | Fossil Fuels, Pipelines, Spiritual Ecology
Protesters also reported being hit with rubber bullets and percussion grenades on a bridge just north of the encampments established by indigenous and environmental activists in opposition to the controversial pipeline. Everything you need to know about the...
by Heidi Dhivya Berthoud | Nov 20, 2016 | Pipelines, Uncategorized
Presidential politics and property rights take center stage as Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipeline opponents strategize post-election. In the Natural Bridge Hotel lobby before a pipeline summit in opposition to two planned fracked-gas pipelines, two words...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 16, 2016 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
BY DEVIN HENRY – 11/15/16 12:05 PM EST Regulators have finalized a rule cracking down on methane leaks at natural gas drilling sites on federal land. The rule, released Tuesday by the Interior Department, updates 30-year-old regulations on methane venting,...
by Nelson Bailey | Nov 11, 2016 | Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
Pastor Paul Wilson Chad Oba The pastor of two Baptist churches near a proposed natural gas fired 53,515 horsepower compressor station — part of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) project — is decrying the alleged threat of arrest of seven women...