by Nelson Bailey | Nov 1, 2017 | Accidents, Health & Safety, Pipelines
(Lebanon) — Mariner East 2 pipeline builder Sunoco needs to work harder to prevent “drilling mud” spills, not just treat them after the fact. That’s the gist of a notice of violation the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy
Earlier this week a group of 84 members of Congress sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking if the department plans to pursue an investigation against protesters who sabotaged pipelines and equipment last year in an effort to block the completion of the...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on letter asking the Attorney General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism. Environmental activists who sabotage oil and gas pipelines to protect land, water, and the climate should be treated like out-and-out terrorists,...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 31, 2017 | Politics of energy, Spiritual Ecology
The FAA’s no-fly zone barred indigenous drone pilots from documenting the NoDAPL struggle, but private security aircraft continued surveillance. At the height of the movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline’s construction last fall, the Federal Aviation...
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...
