"Ultimately, I think that the ruling is a clear signal to Enbridge as well as to state and federal regulators that there is no point investing further into risky and expensive projects for a pipeline that will inevitably be shut down. And that includes not investing in the Great Lakes tunnel project. I think the writing is on the wall that Line 5 is on life support, and that eventually it will be decommissioned altogether.” --Whitney Gravelle, president at Bay Mills Indian Community in the Upper Peninsula.
Good news: Enbridge ordered to shut down its operations on Tribal land in WI, compensate Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for trespassing. This could impede Enbridge efforts to expand pipeline operations in Michigan.
As the investigation into damage to Baltic Sea critical infrastructure continues, Finland's Minister of European Affairs Anders Adlercreutz said it’s hard to believe sabotage to the undersea gas pipeline was accidental — or that it happened without Beijing’s knowledge.
“I'm not the sea captain. But I would think that you would notice that you're dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers”.
#Finnish police say their investigation into the breach of the undersea gas #pipeline between #Finland and Estonia is now focused on a Chinese vessel. It said the movements of the ship, called the Newnew Polar Bear, perfectly matched the time and location where the damage occurred. Police have also found on the seabed what they describe as a heavy object embedded in recently disturbed mud; at the next stage of the investigation efforts will be made to lift the object.
Dr. Rose Abramoff de @ScientistRebellion et des activistes de "Appalachians Against Pipelines" et "Rocking Chair Rebellion" (RCR) bloquent la construction du #pipeline de Mountain Valley (#MVP, West Virginia, USA). Iels refusent de partir étant donnée la catastrophe climatique auquel le monde fait face et se sont enchaînés à des foreuse pour stopper les travaux. 4 personnes âgées de RCR bloquent les voix d'accès avec des structures en béton.
""More than 50,000 pages of documents were recently made public after the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline lost a court case to keep them secret."
"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."
"A new business model for breaking down environmental movements was being hatched in real time. On Labor Day weekend in 2016, private security dogs in North Dakota attacked #pipeline opponents led by members of the #StandingRockSioux Tribe as they approached earth-moving equipment. The tribal members considered the land sacred, and the heavy equipment was breaking ground to build the Dakota Access pipeline. With a major public relations crisis on its hands, the pipeline’s parent company, Energy Transfer, hired the firm TigerSwan to revamp its security strategy.
"By October, TigerSwan — founded by James Reese, a retired commander of the elite special operations Army unit Delta Force — had established a military-style pipeline security strategy.
"There was one nagging problem that threatened to unravel it all: Reese hadn’t acquired a security license from the North Dakota Private Investigation and Security Board. Although Reese claimed TigerSwan wasn’t conducting security services at all, the state regulator insisted that its operations were #unlawful without a license."
A report titled Criminalization, Intimidation and Harassment of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders was released Dec. 11 by Amnesty International.
It condemns actions undertaken against hereditary leadership and their supporters who have sought to halt construction of a #pipeline that will transport natural gas extracted from the Dawson Creek area to a liquified natural gas export facility near Kitimat, B.C.
Imagine an invading army came to Canada and lit this many fires. We'd be demanding the Americans nuke them. But it was the oil companies so it's totally cool. Thanks guys! #climatecrisis#trudeau#pipeline#wildfires
It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People chronicles the author’s experience in leading the Tsleil-Waututh Nation opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in British Columbia.
But the story is much more than just about a pipeline. It’s about ancestral connection to the lands and waters and a West Coast people’s legal and spiritual systems.
First Nations unterliegen Ölkonzern vor australischem Gericht
Der australische Gasriese Santos hat in einem Rechtsstreit um eine umstrittene Unterwasserpipeline obsiegt. Eine Gruppe der First Nations hatte gegen das Projekt geklagt: Die fürchtet Risiken für Unterwasserstätten, die ihr heilig sind.
The defense for three activists from #FirstNations argues abuse of process by security forces around the pipeline construction site, as the U.N. and Amnesty International allege excessive force, surveillance and #criminalization of land defenders.
By Keerti Gopal
January 24, 2024
"The trial of three Indigenous land defenders arrested at a pipeline construction site on #unceded#Wetsuweten First Nation land was adjourned until spring on Friday, as the court looks into potential abuses by Canadian police.
"In the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Smithers, B.C., the trial is the latest development in the nearly 12-year fight against the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline in the Canadian province.
"Land defenders #Sleydo’ #MollyWickham, #ShayLynnSampson and #CoreyJocko were found guilty of criminal contempt earlier this month, with Justice Michael Tanmen ruling that they broke a court injunction forbidding them from blocking access to construction for the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
"But immediately following the verdict, Tanmen began a week-long hearing to listen to the three individuals’ abuse of process applications, which allege that their Charter rights were violated during their arrests and detentions. During the hearing, the defense argued to stay the charges based on these applications, citing excessive force, aggressive behavior, offensive language and mocking by police.
"In Canada, the abuse of process doctrine allows courts to stay, or postpone, a proceeding on the grounds that some element of the process was unfair, and might undermine the legal system. In this case, the abuse of process application focused on treatment during and after arrests.
"The trial began on Jan. 8 and consisted mainly of witness testimony and evidence gathered in November 2021, during one of four major police raids at the pipeline between 2019 and 2023. The evidence included videos from social media and other videos taken by officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada’s national police service.
"The videos, and testimony from witnesses, including #RCMP officers, detailed the police using dogs and firearms and wielding chainsaws to cut down the doors of a cabin where Sleydo’ and Sampson were arrested. Jocko was arrested in another small structure close by.
"The activists allege police used excessive force to break down the doors and used offensive language, showing videos in which officers described arrestees as 'orcs' and 'ogres.' The abuse of process hearing will likely restart in June.
"Chief Na’Moks, a Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief and prominent advocate against the pipeline, said that the trial may serve as a template for future legal battles across Canada, where several other pipeline projects are underway.
"'This is going to affect everything else that happens, not only in #BritishColumbia but in #Canada,' Chief Na’Moks said last week. “This is the template that they want to use...and the harassment and constant abuse of #HumanRights has to stop.”
"Wet’suwet’en hereditary leaders have opposed #pipeline construction through their traditional territory since before the #CoastalGasLink pipeline project was first proposed. In December 2018, the B.C. Supreme Court issued an interim injunction to the company, which prohibited anyone from blocking pipeline access roads or work sites. A year later, on Dec. 31, 2019, the court granted a permanent injunction for the duration of the project.
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"Last month, Tammen determined there was sufficient evidence to convict three #Indigenous#LandDefenders — Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jocko. They were arrested the day after Dennis and later charged with criminal #contempt. Hearings have begun into an application by the defence to stay the charges based on police conduct during the arrests.
"#ChiefDstahyl’s arrest took place in October 2021, after a series of interactions with Coastal GasLink workers and security contractors on the Shea Forest Service Road on Likhts’amisyu Clan territory.
"During those interactions, Dsta’hyl and others blocked access to a work camp and 'seized and rendered inoperable' multiple pieces of machinery belonging to Coastal GasLink contractors by cutting electrical wires and removing batteries, according to evidence presented during the trial.
"When Dsta’hyl was arrested, he had four batteries from heavy machinery in the back of his pickup truck, the judge said.
"'There is little dispute concerning the basic facts,' Tammen said, noting that video evidence documenting the incidents was presented during the trial.
"'Chief Dsta’hyl, acting as an enforcement officer for the Likhts’amisyu Clan, participated in the decommissioning of a piece of heavy equipment owned by a CGL subcontractor on Oct. 17, 2021. That action consisted of removing the battery from the equipment, an excavator, thus rendering it inoperable.'
"Witnesses for the defence included other #Likhtsamisyu Chiefs, who described the Wet’suwet’en traditional clan system and its role in governing the traditional territory. Among the Chiefs’ duties is preservation and protection of the traditional territory, or #yintah, Tammen said.
"Tammen also summarized the Wet’suwet’en law of trespass, something described in detail by defence witnesses, saying permission is required to access territory belonging to a house group 'beyond just passing through it.'
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"Criminal contempt penalties can include fines or imprisonment. Sentencing has been set for 9 a.m. on March 6."
"The Netherlands has officially started construction of a 1,200km-long €1.5 billion hydrogen pipeline amid a continent-wide push to wean Europe off natural gas."
"Accidental #pipeline leaks – caused by things like punctures, corrosion, severe weather and faulty equipment - happen routinely and are a #climate menace that is not currently counted in the official U.S. tally of greenhouse gas emissions."
Her dad was an early US spy after World War II but pre-CIA & he died in a mysterious plane accident 2 weeks after submitting his report on setting up a middle eastern pipeline to supply Europe during the post-war rebuilding phase under US control. Her study goes from 1947 to today's current pipeline wars.
Do you use the composer audit option in your CI/CD Pipeline and if so how do you use it?
I have implemented it very simple and all security vulnerabilities and abandoned packages must be fixed before the pipeline continues. The reason is that we don’t want this issues in our production code anymore.