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decolonize-the-left · 5 months
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.....PNW allies wake up
This will be not even 30 minutes away from where I live.
I hope to see you at the front lines.
"The energy giant’s plan to accomplish this hinges on increasing the GTN pipeline’s flow with an additional 150 million cubic feet of gas per day. Increased flow is correlated with more frequent and dangerous leaks, though TC Energy’s proposal includes neither repairs nor updates to GTN’s 61-year-old pipes.
Instead, the expansion will install new turbines and software updates at three compression stations along the pipeline route. Each of these compressor stations is located in or near residential areas, with the Athol station in particular situated in the middle of a residential neighborhood just a few miles from the popular Silverwood Theme Park and its 800,000 seasonal visitors. Research on compressor stations’ public health impact paints a grim picture, demonstrating higher rates of mortality and negative health outcomes for those living nearby. These harms scale proportionally with increased emissions, a natural result of TC Energy’s proposed expansion."
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A Secwepemc law called X7ensq't says that if you disrespect the land and don't take care of it properly, the land and the sky will turn on you. "It's a serious law," said Mike McKenzie, a Secwepemc knowledge keeper. He said he wonders "how much farther" people want to go in violating it. McKenzie was speaking about the Trans Mountain Corp., which last week resumed construction close to Pipsell, or Jacko Lake, near Kamloops, B.C., after a federal regulator approved a change to the Trans Mountain pipeline route. McKenzie, who has been a vocal critic of the pipeline expansion, said he believes the destruction of the site is a continuation of cultural genocide. "Without that place, we lose a big part of ourselves," said McKenzie, who noted the Secwepemc creation story takes place in Pipsell, and their laws and customs are born from that land. "This is our Vatican. This is our Notre Dame. This is a place that gives our people an identity and kept our people grounded since time immemorial."
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thoughtportal · 1 year
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oil pipeline leak on Wind River Reservation
every article I could find about this incident all seemed to quote the same press release from the oil company word for word.
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feckcops · 5 months
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‘Very disturbing’: crackdown on oil pipeline protests in Uganda concerns UN rights expert
“In mid-September, four dozen university students marched through Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, to deliver a petition to parliament calling on the government to end fossil fuel investments and scrap the 900-mile east Africacrude oil pipeline (Eacop) ... Police officers refused to let them enter parliament. Most were chased away, but four male students were corralled under a table near the main entrance, where they say police kicked and punched them, and beat them with wood.
“After the beatings, the students were handcuffed and taken to a police station, where they say officers accused them of having been paid to protest against the pipeline. The four students spent the weekend in one of the city’s most notorious and overcrowded prisons, before being charged with public nuisance and released on bail.
“‘Young people are the majority in our country and we are the most vulnerable to the climate crisis. But anyone rising up against Eacop is facing the brutal wrath of the regime,’ said Magambo, who suffered a dislocated ankle and damage to his left eardrum. ‘It is a laughable case, but they want to keep us busy in court so that we can’t organize and protest. But we have to join the global community’s fight against fossil fuels,’ he said.
“Last month’s arrests were the latest in a wave of criminal charges and other judicial harassment against activists and organizations, raising concerns about the environmental and social impacts of the east African pipeline – which is one of the largest fossil fuel projects under construction in the world.”
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ravnlghtft · 2 years
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Resolving to banish Enbridge’s Line 5 dual pipelines from their ceded territory including the Straits of Mackinac, the Bay Mills Indian Community noted, “the right to fish, hunt, and gather throughout the ceded territory under the 1836 Treaty of Washington is dependent upon the ability of the Great Lakes and inland ecosystems to support viable and stable treaty resources.” Commercial and subsistence fishing and hunting continue to provide economic survival for the majority of Tribal members. For thousands of years, the Straits area has been the center for cultural contact and interaction for the Bay Mills Indian Community. It is irreplaceable and must be protected.
For all these reasons and more, please deny Enbridge’s request to build an extreme oil tunnel through the Straits of Mackinac to extend the life of this dangerous, decrepit pipeline. Enbridge’s Line 5 should be retired, not resuscitated. Help Michigan move toward the safe, reliable, renewable energy economy we all need.
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timmurleyart · 1 year
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The oil tanker. Oops. 🚢⛽️💲⚫️🔥🌍💵💰
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radissonimpex · 1 year
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tshortik · 7 months
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timesofocean · 2 years
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EU officially adopts sixth sanctions package against Russia
New Post has been published on https://www.timesofocean.com/eu-officially-adopts-sixth-sanctions-package-against-russia/
EU officially adopts sixth sanctions package against Russia
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Brussels (The Times Groupe)- As the war in Ukraine continues, the European Union adopted its sixth sanctions package against Russia on Friday.
“By imposing further economic sanctions, we are further restricting the Kremlin’s ability to finance the war,��� EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell commented on the EU Council’s decision.
The package includes a ban on Russian oil imports, giving EU member states six months to reduce crude oil imports and eight months to reduce other refined petroleum products.
Oil pipelines are temporarily exempt from the embargo, as a concession to Hungary.
Furthermore, Bulgaria and Croatia are also granted further exemptions on the import of seaborne oil and vacuum gas oil.
The European Commission calculated that the sanctions will cut 92% of Russian oil trade into the bloc by the end of this year.
It expands the list of dual-use goods and technologies that cannot be exported to Russia because they could support the military and defense sector.
Additionally, the sanctions package excludes Russia’s biggest bank, Sberbank, as well as Credit Bank of Moscow, the Russian Agricultural Bank, and the Belarusian Bank For Development And Reconstruction from the SWIFT international payment system.
Three more Russian state-owned broadcasters were added to the EU’s list of banned media outlets, including Rossiya RTR/RTR Planeta, Rossiya 24/Russia 24, and TV Centre International.
These outlets are said to be used to manipulate information and disinformation about the invasion of Ukraine, including propaganda, with the aim of destabilizing Russia’s neighboring countries and the EU.
Borrell says the EU is also taking action against those responsible for the atrocities committed in Bucha and Mariupol.
Leading business people and their families, as well as Kremlin officials, are subject to travel bans and asset freezes.
At their summit on late Monday night, EU leaders reached an agreement on the sixth set of restrictive measures after a month of stalled negotiations.
The new package complements previous sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, as well as banning the export of luxury goods and coal imports, and prohibiting Russian and Belarusian banks from using SWIFT.
The EU has allocated €2 billion ($2.15 billion) in military aid to Ukraine and mobilized more than €4 billion in macro-financial assistance, humanitarian aid, and support to EU countries hosting Ukrainian refugees since the war began on Feb. 24.
Ukraine will also receive a further €9 billion in credit from the EU.
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burnt-scone · 2 years
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The Big Black Snake from Pink Williams
Last year I made the cover for this song as fanart for it to just get people to look into the song. Proceeds go to support those fighting against the pipelines decimating our land. Past pipes lines have left parts of Turtle Island (The Northern "Americas" ) without clean water for over THIRTY years, and now more locations are left without clean water. People living on reservations have to travel miles to buy water to bring back. Those in power ignore the Treaties and continue to destroy Native Land.
If you can't help physically or with donations to the cause, atleast you can share information. Find native voices and share them. Do research and inform others. Every voice matters. This one of many issues Native people face. We still have missing women and children, and I'm not talking about the past. In the last 3 years over a Million little boys and girls were missing and American law enforcement did nothing. Said it wasn't their problem that native children were disappearing. This is why voices need to be risen. Because people aren't being heard, they're told their voices do not matter. They do and they need to be heard. Now.
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noctude · 4 months
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my professor once had an entire slide in his lecture dedicated to pictures of reagan and thatcher hanging out and all he had to say on it was "they clearly loved each other Very much" (flatly. with derision) . i havent been able to get this stupid meme out of my head since
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Dalton Highway, from Coldfoot to Deadhorse
Taken June 2023
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The company building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is warning the project's completion could be delayed by two years if the Canada Energy Regulator does not allow a previously rejected request for a pipeline variance. In a regulatory filing Thursday, Trans Mountain Corp. said such a delay would be "catastrophic" for the pipeline project, which is currently more than 97 per cent complete. It said a delay of that length would result in billions of dollars of losses for the company, which is a Crown corporation.
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egirlbutternubs · 20 days
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I think the best way of describing why i just dont enjoy using this site is the way people spread awareness about social issues, and recent events in palestine have really brought this to life. Like, on every other website, posts that spread awareness are just "this bad thing is happening! Donate to these charities and call your representative and sign these petitions to help!" And then that same post on tumblr goes "not that any of you liberals/americans/etc care, but this bad thing just happened." And then there's only a 50/50 chance that post comes with a call to action of some sort rather than just ending after the guilt tripping. It feels like some of you go out of your way to make these situations feel hopeless by implying that no one cares and then not showing ways to help
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lostinmac · 11 months
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
Dir. Daniel Goldhaber
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shamandrummer · 7 months
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Let's Stand Again With Standing Rock
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It's time to take action and stop the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL)! It's been over six years since DAPL began carrying oil and nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the pipeline operator Energy Transfer's attempt to avoid producing a required Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Today, in violation of a separate court order, DAPL continues to operate illegally, without a federal easement. Finally, after interminable delay, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has finally released an extremely problematic draft EIS for public input.
That's where you come in. You now have just a few weeks to submit your public comment demanding the Corps shut this pipeline down and require a new, valid EIS. Please stand with Standing Rock in this critical moment and write to the Army Corps right now.
Now that the EIS has been released, we can confirm what we already suspected. Prepared by a member of the American Petroleum Institute -- clear conflict of interest -- the EIS addresses none of Standing Rock's many grave concerns about DAPL. Those include DAPL's imminent threat to the Missouri River, big problems with Energy Transfer's emergency response plans, Energy Transfer's horrendous safety track record, continued lack of transparency with Standing Rock throughout the environmental review process, inaccurate characterizations of tribal consultation, and sensitive habitat and sacred burial sites along the riverbank.
Earlier this year, four U.S. senators including Bernie Sanders submitted a letter to the Corps seeking an explanation. The reply from Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Michael Connor did not adequately or honestly address the tribe's complaints. Standing Rock replied, pointing out the flaws in approach and demanding redress.
For now, it's up to us to lend a hand. We must flood the Army Corps with a single, unified message: This illegal pipeline's operations must be terminated and the Army Corps must start over with a legitimate environmental review. In the midst of a climate emergency, let's defend sacred ground and safeguard Unci Maka (our Grandmother Earth). This may be our last, best chance to end DAPL once and for all. Please take action now.
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