from North Shore Info Anonymous submission to North Shore This week across southern ontario and quebec, we’ve lost count on how many RBC branches were targeted (we estimate 10+) for disruption and attack. So-called toronto, hamilton, montreal… friends in places as small […]
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Enbridge Crews Punctured Three Aquifers During Line 3 Construction
by Jennifer Bjorhus / Star Tribune Damage to Minnesota’s public groundwater resources from construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline is more severe than previously known, state environmental regulators disclosed Monday. Enbridge Energy crews ruptured three groundwater aquifers while building the 340-mile […]
Continue readingSupreme Court Declines Appeal in Dakota Access Pipeline Case
by Chris Schaino / Unicorn Riot Washington, DC – Today the United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal brought by Energy Transfer, the energy giant behind the highly contested Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). This means that the existing federal court […]
Continue readingNew Disruptive Action in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Targeting Royal Bank of Canada Branches (Again)
from MTL Counter-Info On the night of February 6th, 2022 in Montreal (Tio’Tia:Ke), non-Indigenous allies demonstrated their solidarity with the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation. The instigators of this action are responding to a call by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs to #ShutdownCanada […]
Continue readingFederal Court Deals Blow to “Noxious Fracked Gas” Mountain Valley Pipeline
by Jessica Corbett / Common Dreams Climate campaigners celebrated Thursday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit delivered yet another blow to a controversial gas project spanning over 300 miles in Virginia and West Virginia. “At a time when we need to […]
Continue readingBurst Pipeline Sprays Crude Oil Into Ecuadorian Amazon
by Julia Conley / Common Dreams Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador on Sunday pointed to a pipeline rupture in the Amazon rainforest as “the exact reason why we oppose oil extraction” as the pipeline operator temporarily halted pumping crude oil. A pipeline constructed […]
Continue readingPipeline Near New Orleans Leaks Three Hundred Thousand Gallons of Oil
[Editorial Note: The existence of Pipelines, more than weak regulations, is what causes pipelines to leak. Instead of stronger regulations, perhaps a better solutions is no more pipelines.] by Cecelia Paz / Liberation News On Jan. 12, federal documents revealed an oil […]
Continue readingPipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition
by Alleen Brown / The Intercept AS PART OF its efforts to build and operate pipelines, the oil transport company Enbridge used a tracking system that identified Indigenous-led groups as key threats. Internal documents reviewed by The Intercept describe how Enbridge launched an […]
Continue readingMountain Valley Pipeline Protester Blockades Access To Work Site
by: Appalachians Against Pipelines / It’s Going Down Just before 6 A.M. Tuesday morning, a Mountain Valley Pipeline protester locked themself to the inside of a broken down vehicle outside of Pembroke, VA, blocking access to a pipeline construction site. The vehicle’s […]
Continue readingCall to Action: Honor the Treaties, Stop Line 3!
from Treaty People Gathering Rise up. We rise together for treaties. We rise together for climate. We rise together for our water. We rise together for one another. As Enbridge builds Line 3 through Anishinaabe treaty land and the Mississippi Headwaters, we […]
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