by Nelson Bailey | Nov 2, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
SANDISFIELD — On the very day the pipeline company got permission to put its new third line in service here, three anti-pipeline activists were arrested for blocking a road, and witnesses say Massachusetts State Police used a stun gun on one man when he tried to run...
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...
by Nelson Bailey | Oct 23, 2017 | Health & Safety, Politics of energy
Chester County resident David Mano was hosting a Fourth of July party this year when he first learned that his drinking water had a strange taste. A guest took a sip and then spat it out, he said. “I didn’t even notice it,” Mano said. “I guess I was just used to it.”...
