Private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pi
Photo: TigerSwan From The Intercept: TigerSwan Tactics Leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline. PART 1 Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies” PART 2 Standing Rock Documents Expose Inner Workings of “Surveillance-Industrial Complex” #theintercept #dakotaaccesspipeline #nodapl #tiger
Video: FERC Vacancies Campaign - Commissioner Nominee Hearing
Edited by EDGE member for our friends at Beyond Extreme Energy Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
FERC Commissioner Nominee Hearing
Washington D.C. - May 25, 2017 On Thursday, the violence that stands at the foundation of what FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) does was palpable as one by one, folks who stood up to speak out at the Senate Confirmation Hearing for commissioner candidates Neil Chatterjee and Robert Powelson were ripped from the room. It's
Camp White Pine - Forest Defense Camp Resisting Sunoco's Mariner East 2 Pipeline
Camp White Pine is a direct action tree-sit fighting against the Energy Transfer Partners/Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline. Follow Unicorn Riot for up-to-date videos from the Camp! Camp White Pine is preparing for ETP/Sunoco and Police to arrive any day and have built a treesit stronghold to defend this space. But last year, folks arrested there faced bails as high as $200,000 in an attempt to shut down our resistance efforts. They need to build a strong legal fund to support t
How a Small Town Is Standing Up to Fracking
Photo: Mike Belleme for Rolling Stone. Stacy Long, on her property in Grant Township (right), has been fighting to stop her town from being used as a toxic waste dump. Article by Justin Nobel Read full article here: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-a-small-town-is-standing-up-to-fracking-w482577 Grant Township, Pennsylvania, population 741, has became the front line of a radical new environmental movement – and they're not backing down "Oil-and-gas companies in P
Energy Transfer Partners & Sunoco Logistics are Polluting PA Waterways
ETP/Sunoco Logistics is polluting Pennsylvania waterways with clay and undisclosed chemicals. 3 spill incidents (May 3rd, 4th, 10th) in the past two weeks with a reported almost 600 gallons of lubricant leakage! And this is only in construction of a pipeline, not even in operation. See article: http://www.delcotimes.com/article/DC/20170517/NEWS/170519634 Leaks of drilling fluid are commonplace in Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners operations. The first of the latest spills was i
We Are Seneca Lake Claims Victory; Crestwood Retreats from Gas Storage Expansion
Image from We Are Seneca Lake Geneva, NY - "We Are Seneca Lake is celebrating a successful campaign forcing Crestwood's retreat from plans to expand methane storage in unstable salt caverns along the shores of Seneca Lake. In a two and a half year campaign, over 650 people from around the region were arrested protesting the Texas based corporation's plans threatening Seneca Lake. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) had granted a permit for the gas storage projec
ALEC Style Bills Aim to Criminalize Pipeline and Fracking Demonstrations Throughout Pennsylvania
Article from Sean Kitchen - contributor and assistant editor of the Raging Chicken Press. Full article: https://ragingchickenpress.org/2017/05/10/anti-terror-and-civil-liability-bills-to-criminalize-pipeline-and-fracking-demonstrations-throughout-pennsylvania/ "The first overreach came in early March when Conestoga township officials slapped a condemnation notice on the Stand’s tobacco barn, which was being used to hold meetings and trainings. The building’s owners faced a th
Illustration: Defend What You Love vol. 2
Created by E.D.G.E. member. In support of Middletown Coalition for Community Safety (MCCS) - a nonpartisan grassroots group of parents and residents whose goal is to educate elected officials and the public regarding the risks associated with the proposed Mariner East 2 pipeline. The so called proposed "ME2" pipeline is a hazardous, highly volatile liquids (HVL) pipeline slated to run through all of Middletown Township, Delaware County, a densely populated "high consequence"
