@aka_quant_noir

#Oil lobby's financial pressure on #Obama over Keystone XL pipeline revealed

Study shows money flowing to oil lobby ahead of decision on tar sands pipeline in the November elections

Suzanne Goldenberg, January, 2012

"Obama has until 21 February to make a decision on whether to approve the pipeline, under a compromise tax measure approved late last year. America's top oil lobbyist warned last week that the president would face "huge political consequences" if he did not sign off on the project to pump tar sands crude across the American heartland to refineries on the Texas coast.

"The Canadian government is also on the offensive, with an attack this week on 'jet-setting celebrities' opposed to tar sands pipelines. At the same time, TransCanada executives have embarked on a letter-writing campaign.

"Now Maplight, an independent research group in Berkeley, California, that tracks the influence of money in politics, has conducted an analysis of oil industry contributions to members of Congress supporting the pipeline."

#NoKXL #BigOil #NoDAPL #BigOilKnew

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jan/11/oil-lobby-money-obama-keystone

#NativeAmerican #WaterProtectors Assaulted During #Enbridge Lecture at Northern Michigan College

By Sierra Clark, Contributing Writer, June 29, 2023

"A public lecture featuring transnational pipeline and energy company Enbridge last week escalated to the assault of an #Anishinaabe water protector and allies protesting the controversial #Line5 project.

"The event, hosted by North Central Michigan College (NCMC) in Petoskey on June 22, featured an Enbridge representative speaking about the Great Lakes Tunnel Project that would house a section of Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac.

"During the lecture, the environmental protestors entered the NCMC Library Center and were confronted physically by several people attending the luncheon event."

#NativeAmericanNews #IndigenousNews #WaterIsLife #NoKXL #NoLine5
Read more:
https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/native-american-water-protectors-assaulted-during-enbridge-lecture-at-northern-michigan-college

US Protest Law Tracker

The US Protest Law Tracker follows state and federal legislation introduced since January 2017 that restricts the right to peaceful assembly.

#ProtestLaws #protestors #protestors_in_prison #NoDAPL #NoKXL #StopCopCity #CivilLiberties #Fascism #USA

https://www.icnl.org/usprotestlawtracker/?location=&status=enacted&issue=&date=&type=legislative

Welcome to #Utah, where #pipeline #protests could now get you at least five years in prison

Since the Standing Rock protests in 2017, 19 states have passed so-called critical infrastructure laws.

by Naveena Sadasivam, Mar 21, 2023

"Similar bills are pending in at least five other states, including #Georgia, #Illinois, #Minnesota, #Idaho, and #NorthCarolina. These bills include various misdemeanor and felony charges for trespassing, disrupting, or otherwise interfering with operations at critical infrastructure facilities.

"In Utah, protests that hinder the functioning of fossil fuel infrastructure could now lead to at least five years in prison. The new rules make Utah the 19th state in the country to pass legislation with stiffer penalties for protesting at so-called critical infrastructure sites, which include oil and gas facilities, power plants, and railroads. The new laws proliferated in the aftermath of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2017.

"Utah’s legislature passed two separate bills containing stricter penalties for tampering with or damaging critical infrastructure earlier this month. House Bill 370 makes intentionally 'inhibiting or impeding the operation of a critical infrastructure facility' a first degree felony, which is punishable by five years to life in prison. A separate bill allows law enforcement to charge a person who “interferes with or interrupts critical infrastructure” with a third degree felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. Both bills were signed into law by the governor last week.

Of the two bills, First Amendment and criminal justice advocates are particularly concerned about HB 370 due to its breadth, the severity of penalties, and its potential to curb environmental protests. The bill contains a long list of facilities that are considered critical infrastructure including grain mills, trucking terminals, and transmission facilities used by federally licensed radio or television stations. It applies both to facilities that are operational and those under construction.

"Since the bill doesn’t define activities that may be considered 'inhibiting or impeding' operations at a facility, environmental protesters may inadvertently find themselves in the crosshairs of the legislation, according to environmental and civil liberties advocates. Protesters engaging in direct action often chain themselves to equipment, block roadways, or otherwise disrupt operations at fossil fuel construction sites. Under the new legislation, such activities could result in a first degree felony charge."

#protestors #protestors_in_prison #NoDAPL #NoKXL #Utah #StopCopCity #CivilLiberties #Fascism #USA

Read more: https://grist.org/protest/utah-critical-infrastructure-law-felony/

Could it have been sabotage by RW types with guns or explosives? Whatever the cause, we all sounded the warning before the #Keystone pipeline was even built! #NoKXL #NoDAPL #KXL #WaterIsLife
"Officials hadn't yet determined the cause of the incident, TC Energy, the Canadian pipeline operator, said on Sunday."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/keystone-pipeline-oil-spill-investigators-search-cause-kansas/story?id=95048959

In Kansas, crews contain largest-yet breach of Keystone Pipeline

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna61196

#keystonexl #nokxl #pipeline #kansas #keystonepipeline

RT @HonorTheEarth@twitter.com

Pipelines leak. Tar sands pipelines leak an especially toxic mix of oil and chemicals.

A solar spill is a sunny day.
#LoveWaterNotOil #RejectLine5 #Stopline3 #NoKXL https://twitter.com/BoldNebraska/status/1601356357944360962

RT @janekleeb@twitter.com

This is what 600,000 gallons of tarsands and toxic chemicals like benzene looks like. The black area is not a shadow, that’s tarsands that then spills into water. The number will go⬆️ It will take years + millions to clean up. We need stronger laws. Also, thx @POTUS@twitter.com for #NoKXL.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/janekleeb/status/1601593593743159296

RT @janekleeb@twitter.com

This is what 600,000 gallons of tarsands and toxic chemicals like benzene looks like. The black area is not a shadow, that’s tarsands that then spills into water. The number will go⬆️ It will take years + millions to clean up. We need stronger laws. Also, thx @POTUS@twitter.com for #NoKXL.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/janekleeb/status/1601593593743159296

RT @annmarie309@twitter.com

#NoKXL 8 years ago

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/annmarie309/status/1597289463436435457

https://indiancountrytoday.com/the-press-pool/dedicated-pipeline-fighter-and-water-protector-joye-braun-passes-away

#WaterIsLife #StopLine3 #NoKXL

Remembering Grandmother, Water Protector, and Pipeline Fighter @joyem_braun@twitter.com, Wanbli Wiyan Ka’win
@IENearth@twitter.com
#NoDAPL
#NoKXL
#WaterIsLife

Remembering Grandmother, Water Protector, and Pipeline Fighter @joyem_braun@twitter.com, Wanbli Wiyan Ka’win
@IENearth@twitter.com
#NoDAPL
#NoKXL
#WaterIsLife

RT @Ruth_HHopkins@twitter.com

🚨 IT’S OVER 🚨

The Keystone XL pipeline is NO MORE in South Dakota. The state Public Utilities Commission voted 3-0 to release the road bond, stop filing reports & end use of a public liaison for the project. The Lakota Nation & Mother Earth won! #NOKXL https://www.keloland.com/news/capitol-news-bureau/puc-grants-keystone-xl-request-to-end-project/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Ruth_HHopkins/status/1504117317482987521

RT @RiveraSunAuthor@twitter.com

SteamDrills -The Earth is singing her revolution.She is calling her brave men and women to her defense Climate #Coal #MTR #NoKXL 5Star

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RiveraSunAuthor/status/1417358898726584320

RT @IENearth
After more than 10 years -- we have finally defeated an oil and gas giant! Keystone XL is DEAD!

We are dancing in our hearts for this victory! #NoKXL #NoTarSands

https://www.tcenergy.com/announcements/2021-06-09-tc-energy-confirms-termination-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-project/

RT @dallasgoldtooth
Trumps VERY 1st presidential action was to approve KXL and DAPL.

That was his 1st white supremacist act as president.

If @JoeBiden stops KXL but does not stop DAPL? Then THAT IS NOT A VICTORY. They are joint struggles. #NoDAPL #noKXL

RT @RuthH_Hopkins@twitter.com

Keystone Pipeline leak spills oil in northeastern North Dakota

Corp says the oil hasn’t contaminated any drinking water & they’re cleaning it up but anyone who drives to the site will be fined by their security so who knows what’s going on. #NOKXL https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/4746575-Keystone-Pipeline-leak-spills-oil-in-northeastern-North-Dakota

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/RuthH_Hopkins/status/1189716317714223104

RT @UUSC@twitter.com

“Where there is Indigenous Power and Solidarity, that is where we win!” –Indigenous Youth Leader from Standing Rock #PromiseToProtectTour #NoKXL

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/UUSC/status/1127294231977107457

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