#ForestProtectors Arrested at #FairyCreek

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, August 16, 2023

"Three forest protectors were arrested on Tuesday protecting the old-growth forests west of Victoria, as Canada continues to target #NativePeople with police operatives protecting the interest of destructive industries. The police ops are #BritishColumbia's C-IRG, the Community #Industry Response Group.

"Mourning the invasion of the #MilitarizedPolice squad who arrested the #ForestDefenders, who were his guests, #Pacheedaht #FirstNation Elder Bill Jones said, 'We are at the end times of our great forests.'

"Abolish C-IRG said, 'Due to the increasing amount of #indigenous-led anti-resource extraction movements in British Columbia, the Community-Industry Response Group was born. C-IRG is unique to British Columbia. They are militarized, have no budget limit, and the officers get paid handsomely to force #pipelines, #mines, #dams, and #logging through unceded #IndigenousTerritories, without consent. This is just another extension of the #RCMP’s original task- to remove and separate people from the land and enforce #ColonialRule. They do not keep us safe, they protect #capital."

Background: Back to Fairy Creek

"The last time the world was watching Fairy Creek, we witnessed the largest act of #CivilDisobedience in #CanadianHistory. Well over 1,000 Indigenous and non-Indigenous forest defenders were arrested by the RCMP over months of tense standoffs in 2021 as #activists sought to halt the logging of rare #AncientTrees.

"The courts hammered that movement, with charges and bail conditions keeping many away, and the tussle in the trees went dormant for most of the last two years.

"Until now.

"A new blockade, led by #IndigenousYouth and supported by non-Indigenous allies, has just been erected on a key bridge crossing an arterial logging road. The RCMP's specialized tactical team that responds to land defence actions is present and surveilling the camp. A raid could come any day, and having #media on the ground is of crucial importance to keep tabs on police and document the latest developments as land defenders seek to protect their unceded territories from old-growth logging."

Full article and more information:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/08/forest-protectors-raided-at-fairy-creek.html

#VancouverIsland #ACAB #ProtectTheForests #CIRG #Colonialism #Capitalism #Corporatism #Oligarchy

#Hacking insecure process sensor systems may have affected the #Chernobyl #nuclear plant site

The compromise of Chernobyl’s process sensor readings reinforces the immediate need for the government and industry cybersecurity communities to address the cybersecurity gaps in control system field devices

by Joe Weiss, Aug. 11, 2023

"Process sensor systems include the physical transducer, conversion electronics, laptops/servers, calibrators, etc. Compromising any of those elements can cause the apparent sensor reading to be wrong. Unfortunately, when it comes to OT cybersecurity, process sensor readings are too often assumed to be uncompromised, authenticated and correct. It should be evident this is not the case. Even worse, in industries like #electric, #water, #oil/#gas, #pipelines, etc., the cybersecurity of process sensors is effectively ignored."

https://www.controlglobal.com/blogs/unfettered/blog/33009669/hacking-insecure-process-sensor-systems-may-have-affected-the-chernobyl-nuclear-plant-site

#InfoSec #Cybersecurity #NuclearPlants #Infrastructure #Flaws

by #AdamMahoney in #CapitalB:

"In the Bay Area, advocates say climate reparations would protect residents by fortifying the region’s shrinking coasts against flooding and removing harmful industries, including several oil refineries and pipelines, chemical plants, and landfills. Residents have been inspired by California’s first-of-its-kind Black reparations task force and a similar effort in San Francisco. Both task forces were created to deliver policy-based reparations recommendations — including for climate-related issues — to the state legislature and city council, respectively."

https://capitalbnews.org/climate-reparations-bay-area/

#BayArea #ClimateReparations #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #groundwater #SeaLevel #environment #flooding #toxic #chemicals #pollution #oil #refineries #pipelines #ChemicalPlants #landfills #racism

Wet'suwet'en Testify on Police Brutality, Imprisonment, at Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, July 10, 2023

"Wet’suwet’en described their struggle to defend their land, waters, and rights to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in a virtual hearing. Joined by Amnesty International, representatives from the Nation described the ongoing unjust #criminalization and #harassment of #LandDefenders opposing the construction of the #CoastalGasLink (#CGL) pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory. The Canadian government responded to the testimony of the Wet’suwet’en delegation. The testimony described the attacks on the Nation’s rights, including the right to free, prior and nformed consent to resource-extraction projects affecting their territory, as upheld in the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2023/07/wetsuweten-testify-on-police-brutality.html

#PoliceBrutality #Canada #ACAB
#Wetsuweten #FirstNations #IndigenousNews
#UN #DeclarationOfRights of #IndigenousPeoples
#CulturalGenocide #Pipelines

Sabotage, after all, is not incompatible with social distancing.

-- Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

https://worldcat.org/title/1230557127

#Capitalism #NedLudd #Anarchism #SocialDistancing #Pipelines #Sabotage #AndreasMalm #ClimateChange #Activism

Investigating the Nord Stream Pipeline Sabotage https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/world/europe/nordstream-pipeline-explosion-russia.html #RussianInvasionofUkraine(2022) #Sabotage(Crime) #EuropeanUnion #NordStreamAG #NaturalGas #Pipelines #BalticSea #Germany #Russia #Sweden

Mark Hefflinger sends out a daily #climate #Pipelines news summary via email - super helpful - https://substack.com/sign-in?redirect=%2Faccount%3Futm_source%3Dsubstack%26utm_medium%3Demail&for_pub=extracteddaily&email=&with_password=&change_user=false&justTrying= - 1 from todays email: https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2022/11/09/carbon-pipelines-seek-iowa-permits?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Senator Amy Klobuchar’s Speech Disrupted by Water Protectors https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/senator-amy-klobuchars-speech-disrupted-by-water-protectors/ #Community #Direct_Action #Eco #Amy_klobuchar #Connie_Bernardy #Crooners_Supper_Club #DFL #DirectAction #Disruption #line_3 #NoLine3 #organizing #Pipelines #Politics #Senator #senator_klobuchar #Speech #Speech