When 10000 barrels of crude oil roll down your street

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In case anyone thinks that natural gas pipelines are benign relative to oil pipelines:

A map of $1.1 billion in natural gas pipeline leaks
In seven years, pipeline incidents have killed nearly 100 people nationwide.

The natural gas compressor station that leaked? It operates without a permit — legally

Atlantic Coast Pipeline starts suing NC landowners as construction schedule loo

Atlantic Coast Pipeline blows another deadline as NC officials seek more info

Tell Governor Cooper – NO ACP for the Holidays!

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Government Contractor Monitoring Enbridge’s Atlantic Bridge Gas Project Works Extensively for the Company

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Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests

On the heels of Iowa and Ohio ...

:cussing:

Coming to NC with the Atlantic Coast Pipeline?

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Anti-pipeline campaigners found not guilty by judge because 'protest against climate change crisis' was legal 'necessity'
'We're part of the the movement that is standing up and saying we won’t let this go by on our watch'

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Rover Pipeline Sets Record for Environmental Violations

Energy Transfer Partners' controversial $4.3 billion Rover pipeline has more negative inspection reports than any other major interstate natural gas pipeline built in the last two years, according to a new Bloomberg analysis.

The 713-mile pipeline, which will carry fracked gas across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and Michigan and Canada, has been stalled from numerous environmental violations, including a 2 million gallon drilling fluid spill into an Ohio wetland in April.

Rover has accrued 104 violations since construction of the $4.2 billion project in started in March.

That's more negative reports than the next four pipeline projects combined, including William's Virginia Southside Expansion (26 reports), Enbridge's Algonquin Incremental Market (24), Williams' Dalton Expansion (23) and Endbridges Sabal Trail (18)....

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Tell Justin Trudeau: This is a historic mistake.

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Report: Virginia Drinking Water Threatened by Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley Pipelines
With new analysis on groundwater threats and earlier report of dangers to rivers and streams, Water Board and Northam administration should act to protect Virginians

America's tree sitters risk lives on the front line

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https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/bac ... ew-demands

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Submit a comment: No Keystone XL pipeline

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Tell the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that pipelines deserve more scrutiny, not a bigger rubber stamp.

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Judge Slams Pipeline Corporation for Frivolous Legal Claims Against Activists



I searched but could not find the name of the judge. With his district being ND, there's a better than even chance that he's a moderate or a con.

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Federal Court Rules State Dept. Must Conduct Full Environmental Review of Keystone XL in Nebraska

Still not a done deal. An Earth First!er told me once, "We never win in the woods, we delay them until the lawyers win." Could still be that's what the ND occupation did.

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Demand that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stop the reckless Keystone XL tar sands pipeline once and for all!

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Trump administration rushes to lease federal lands

Of course they do.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-flor ... Insider%29

Bad hurricane, who knew there could be a hurricane?


Or was it, who knew they would use airplanes as missiles?

Or is it, was and forevermore, just plain old, who knew?








Answer - almost everyone





"Duke Energy said Saturday night that heavy rains from Florence caused a slope to collapse at a coal ash landfill at a closed power station near the North Carolina coast"

Or

Duke blames rain for failure of an inadequate retention slope at a toxic ash dump foolishly located near the fucking coast.

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Stand up to the Trump Administration’s push to get the Keystone XL pipeline built



Your public comment will be delivered to the State Department

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Tell the Trump Administration: No Keystone XL pipeline

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US court halts construction of Keystone XL oil pipeline

A federal judge on Thursday halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, arguing that President Donald Trump's administration had failed to adequately explain why it had lifted a ban on the project.

The ruling by Judge Brian Morris of the US District Court for the District of Montana dealt a stinging setback to Trump and the oil industry and served up a big win for conservationists and indigenous groups.

Trump granted a permit for the $8 billion conduit meant to stretch from Canada to Texas just days after taking office last year. He said it would create jobs and spur development of infrastructure.

In doing so the administration overturned a ruling by then president Barack Obama in 2015 that denied a permit for the pipeline, largely on environmental grounds, in particular the US contribution to climate change.

The analysis of a cross-border project like this is done by the State Department.

The same environmental analysis that the department carried out before denying the permit in 2015 was ignored when the department turned around last year and approved it, the judge argued.

"An agency cannot simply disregard contrary or inconvenient factual determinations that it made in the past, any more than it can ignore inconvenient facts when it writes on a blank slate," Morris wrote.

He added: "The department instead simply discarded prior factual findings related to climate change to support its course reversal."

The judge also argued that the State Department failed to properly account for factors such as low oil prices, the cumulative impacts of greenhouse gases from the pipeline and the risk of oil spills....

One of the plaintiffs, the Sierra Club, welcomed the judge's decision.

"Today's ruling makes it clear once and for all that it's time for TransCanada to give up on their Keystone XL pipe dream," Sierra Club senior attorney Doug Hayes said in a statement.

"The Trump administration tried to force this dirty pipeline project on the American people, but they can’t ignore the threats it would pose to our clean water, our climate, and our communities."

Liberal judge? Not quite.

Brian Morris

Yes, he was appointed to the federal bench by Barack Obama. However:
He was a law clerk to United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., who had been appointed by President Ronald Reagan;
He was a law clerk to uber-con Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist;
He was the Solicitor for Bush 2's Department of Justice;
Very moderate Montana voters elected him to the Montana Supreme Court;
He was confirmed by the narrowly divided United States Senate on a vote of 75–20 in December 2013.

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Report: 90% of Pipeline Blasts Draw No Financial Penalties

A striking report has revealed that 90 percent of the 137 interstate pipeline fires or explosions since 2010 have drawn no financial penalties for the companies responsible.

The article from E&E News reporter Mike Soraghan underscores the federal Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA) weak authority over the fossil fuel industry for these disasters.

The government levied a mere $5.4 million in fines for the 13 pipeline explosion and fire cases in the last eight years, the analysis found.

"That's less than one day of profits for one major pipeline company, TransCanada. It's $2 million less than what [TransCanada CEO Russ Girling] made last year," Soraghan explained in a tweet.



One of the country's largest natural gas pipeline accidents—the 2010 San Bruno, California pipeline explosion that resulted in eight deaths—fell under state jurisdiction rather than PHMSA. California authorities imposed a record $1.6 billion fine against Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)....

Citing PHMSA data, the Washington Post reported that more than 300 people have died and 1,200 have been injured due to natural gas pipeline incidents in the last 20 years—and the nation's aging gas distribution network further increases these risks....

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Report: 90% of Pipeline Blasts Draw No Financial Penalties

A striking report has revealed that 90 percent of the 137 interstate pipeline fires or explosions since 2010 have drawn no financial penalties for the companies responsible.

The article from E&E News reporter Mike Soraghan underscores the federal Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA) weak authority over the fossil fuel industry for these disasters.

The government levied a mere $5.4 million in fines for the 13 pipeline explosion and fire cases in the last eight years, the analysis found.

"That's less than one day of profits for one major pipeline company, TransCanada. It's $2 million less than what [TransCanada CEO Russ Girling] made last year," Soraghan explained in a tweet.



One of the country's largest natural gas pipeline accidents—the 2010 San Bruno, California pipeline explosion that resulted in eight deaths—fell under state jurisdiction rather than PHMSA. California authorities imposed a record $1.6 billion fine against Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)....

Citing PHMSA data, the Washington Post reported that more than 300 people have died and 1,200 have been injured due to natural gas pipeline incidents in the last 20 years—and the nation's aging gas distribution network further increases these risks....

More news from the Manchurian president's administration.