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 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 29, 2017 | Environmental Justice, Events
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Saturday, Anti-pipeline group Friends of Buckingham hosted a tribunal at Charlottesville’s CitySpace where more than 40 people spoke about what they see as the negative effects of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline. This...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 23, 2017 | Environmental Justice
OSLO (Reuters) – The ethics watchdog for Norway’s $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund is reviewing allegations that U.S. pipeline operator Energy Transfer Partners may breach the fund’s investment guidelines. The Norwegian fund held $248 million of ETP...
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...
