(SP Op-ed) — A “staff report” from Republicans on the United States House Science, Space, and Technology Committee offers little evidence to prove allegations of Russian efforts to influence U.S. energy markets through “social media propaganda” to incite pipeline protests. Nonetheless, the report, pushed by Republican chairman Representative Lamar Smith, went virtually unquestioned when it was covered by […]
(COMMONDREAMS) — As green groups continue to denounce the Trump administration’s recently unveiled infrastructure plan as a “scam” that’s designed to keep the nation trapped in its “dirty and destructive past,” analysts are also warning the proposal will “make it harder for the next big anti-pipeline movement” to launch successful legal challenges to new fossil fuel projects. The plan aims to not only […]
Louisiana groups say they are fed up with environmental destruction wreaked by the oil industry and that the very least the state should allow a third-party assessment of what’s at stake before a proposed pipeline is allowed to be built.
They also want Louisiana to move to renewable energy, which is far safer and less toxic.
The groups cite the most recent oil spills – two in October in a three-day span, including a platform explosion that injured seven men and a pipeline leak that dumped 672,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
(ANTIMEDIA) The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reportedly withholding a recent study on the effects a spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline could have on the environment. The pipeline, which inspired months of protest and heavy-handed tactics from police in North Dakota, was delayed in December but fast-tracked when President Trump took office. It is expected to be operational within a month.
(ANTIMEDIA) Washington D.C. — With oil slated to begin flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) within weeks or even days, another attempt to block the controversial pipeline has been squashed. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Washington D.C. denied a request from the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe to halt the construction of the pipeline based on religious grounds.
This could get ugly quick.
This is why the #NoDAPL movement exists.
And every minute it's delayed costs them more.
People REALLY don't want this pipeline being built.
