#pipeline vandalism

[akeliciousmedia]

CSOs Condemn Suspension of Fubara, and Other Officials, Call It 'Executive Coup' Against Rivers People

A coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) has strongly condemned the recent suspension of Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Prof. Ngozi Odu, and all members of the State House of Assembly. The suspension, which followed President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of a state of emergency in the state, has been described by the coalition as an “executive coup” aimed at…

[youthchronical]

Man Who Shot at Pipeline and Power Station Gets 25 Years in Prison

A Canadian man who, in an attempt to raise awareness about climate change, used a high-powered rifle to fire shots at a pipeline in South Dakota in 2022 and a power station in North Dakota in 2023 was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in federal prison. The man, Cameron M. Smith, 50, who pleaded guilty last September in U.S. District Court in Bismarck, N.D., to two counts of destruction of an…

[chknbzkt]

Anddd for the one that started it all: Moondrop the Night Terror!!! \o/

Stand-alone!!!

More pictures and lore below!!

Proto dragon Moon (yucky man, I love him so)

Gremlin to not-gargoyle pipeline is so real lmaooo-

The shades, abyssal inky monsters that take vague, bastardized forms based on things they see (and oft consume) are infamous for only venturing out of their pools at night. Shades are, however, not the only thing that stalks Hyde’s Crossing and it’s people when the sun falls ‘neath the horizon.

Yet another “problem dragon” (with an impressively sizeable bounty on his head!!), Moon’s disposition towards humans in particular is hostile at best, potentially deadly at worst. He relishes in the chaos and unrest his nightly excursions cause to all manner of folk, seemingly unpredictable in that he never sticks around in any one part of Hyde’s Crossing for too long.

No, indeed efforts have been ramping up of late to catch him. He’s responsible for all manner of crimes including arson, murder of livestock, theft, jaywalking, vandalism, bribery, forgery… and murder. Never you mind that the deaths in question were either an accident on his end or that of his would-be slayers, unfortunately he’s not particularly interested in sticking around to give his testimony to the contrary.

So, as efforts to encourage monster hunters to kill him dead in the form of steadily rising bounty rewards continue being made, he’s stuck nomadically jumping around from place to place to evade capture or worse. He’s not keen on stopping his nightly reigns of terror, he wants to be feared and he likes the purchase that comes with having no alignments or attachments.

He’s made attachments with humans before. He has the iron collar to show for it. Never again.

He has no hoard to call his own and it’s not doing his dubious mental stability (with like zero support) any favors. He does tend to linger near villages with libraries a tad longer despite the risk, however.

It’s only a matter of time before his bounty gets upped to “kill on sight,” though to finally sort himself and his baggage out may require being “slain” by the right hunter he meets at the right time…

[mtnman451]

Another One:

I've made no secret that I have a fondness for "Old Sayings." I like them because there's so much truthfulness in them. Here's one I really love. ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS. One thing we should understand when dealing with Leftists, Liberals, and Democrats is that they will rabidly support causes vocally but when it comes right down to it their actions show they don't really support those causes they're just using those causes per se and are using those causes in an attempt to control us. Let's examine some of their actions concerning "Climate Change." As we know they vehemently support the assertion that Climate Change is real and accelerating every day no action is taken against it. They're against any proliferation of anything that has to do with the promotion or use of Fossil Fuels. If that truly was the case then why, after protesting against The Keystone XL Pipeline and losing in 2017, did most ALL the protesters there leave a Toxic Waste Dump behind? It would stand to reason, if they have such a reverence for The Environment, it should be for ALL of the environment not just one part of it, correct? That's what I thought but I guess I'm wrong.

Now fast forward to what's happening in The US now. Elon Musk, due to the success of his Electric Car Company, Tesla, used to be the darling of the Left and Climate Change supporters. Now, since Musk has supported President Trump and his helping him in his quest to slim down our government, Leftists, Liberals and Democrats have made him Public Enemy Number 1. They're selling their Teslas, Vandalizing Tesla dealerships, charging stations and, in fact, trashing and destroying Tesla's that belong to other people. Now here's the rub. Everyone knows that the batteries in Electric Cars are filled with, yep, Toxic Heavy Metals which when introduced into our environment from a ruptured battery of a vandalized Electric car would contaminate the environment but it would seem that Leftists, Liberals and Democrats are good with that as long as they're the ones doing it. Strange, huh?

If you don't think EVERYTHING they do is about Controlling You, Think Again.

Btw, the saying "Actions Speak Louder than Words" can also be applied to what Leftists, Liberals and Democrats are doing in the areas of Law & Order also. They SAY they're all for The Rule of Law and Law & Order but at every turn they cause nothing but chaos as their DA's release violent criminals without bail, they violently protest in support of people that hate our allies, support Terrorist Organizations, and they go "Judge Shopping" to find sympathetic Judges to stop the deportation of violent international Narco/Terrorist Gang members. If you ask me, those are some strange things for people who say they value The Rule of Law and Law & Order in our country to be doing, don't you think?

[beardedmrbean]

A Texas pipeline company's lawsuit accusing Greenpeace of defamation, disruptions and attacks during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline goes to trial in North Dakota on Monday.

The environmental advocacy organisation says the case threatens free speech rights and its very future.

The lawsuit stems from the protests in 2016 and 2017 over the oil pipeline's planned Missouri River crossing, upstream from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's reservation. The tribe has long argued that the pipeline threatens its water supply. Of the thousands of people who protested the project, hundreds were arrested.

Energy Transfer and its subsidiary Dakota Access allege trespass, nuisance, defamation and other offences by Netherlands-based Greenpeace International and its American branch, Greenpeace USA. The lawsuit also names the group's funding arm, Greenpeace Fund Inc.

The jury trial in state court in Mandan, North Dakota, is scheduled to last five weeks.

What are the details of the case?

Dallas-based Energy Transfer alleges Greenpeace tried to delay construction of the pipeline, defamed the companies behind it, and coordinated trespassing, vandalism and violence by pipeline protesters.

The company has claimed that protests delayed the pipeline's start and increased costs by at least $300 million (€286.5 million).

The Dakota Access Pipeline was completed and has been transporting oil since June 2017.

Greenpeace International said it shouldn't be named in the lawsuit because it is distinct from the two US-based Greenpeace entities, operates outside the US, and its employees were never in North Dakota or involved with the protests.

Greenpeace USA said the plaintiffs have failed to back up their claims in the years since the protests.

Earlier in February, a judge denied motions by Greenpeace to throw out or limit parts of the case.

What is Greenpeace's position?

Representatives of the environmental organisation founded over 50 years ago said the company just wants to silence oil industry critics.

“This trial is a critical test of the future of the First Amendment, both freedom of speech and peaceful protest, under the Trump administration and beyond,” Greenpeace USA Interim Executive Director Sushma Raman told reporters.

“A bad ruling in this case could put our rights and freedoms in jeopardy for all of us, whether we are journalists, protesters or anyone who wants to engage in public debate.”

Greenpeace USA helped support “nonviolent, direct-action training” on safety and de-escalation at the protests, Senior Legal Adviser Deepa Padmanabha said.

Energy Transfer is arguing that “anyone engaged in a training at a protest should be held responsible for the actions of every person at that protest,” Padmanabha said.

“So it's pretty easy to see how, if successful, this kind of tactic could have a serious chilling effect on anyone who might consider participating in a protest.”

Earlier in February, Greenpeace International filed an anti-intimidation suit in the District Court of Amsterdam against Energy Transfer, saying the company acted wrongfully and should pay costs and damages resulting from its “meritless" litigation.

What does Energy Transfer say?

An Energy Transfer spokesperson said the lawsuit is about Greenpeace not following the law.

“It is not about free speech as they are trying to claim. We support the rights of all Americans to express their opinions and lawfully protest. However, when it is not done in accordance with our laws, we have a legal system to deal with that,” Energy Transfer spokeswoman Vicki Granado said in a statement.

The company filed a similar case in federal court in 2017, which a judge dismissed in 2019. Soon after, Energy Transfer filed the state court lawsuit now headed to trial.

Energy Transfer launched in 1996 with 20 employees and 320 kilometres of natural gas pipelines. Today the 11,000-employee company owns and operates over 200,000 kilometres of pipelines and related facilities.

[petewentzisblack1312]

its not hopeless. there are things you can do. we can see from down here there are things you can do. do them.

hi as someone from a small island developing state (ie the global south and a place that would be affected first and worst by climate change) lemme just say, dont be a fucking doomer.

[jackawful]

protest movements - the kind that damage property and get called violent for doing so - over the last decade or so haven't been great at getting specific demands met, but they are excellent at wasting the time and money of big institutions. so tactically, if you're banking on economic disruption to get the attention & compliance of those in power, it might be more effective to smash a window than to not buy things for a day or boycott amazon for a week or whatever.

like, pipelines and cop cities get built, universities resume classes and keep bad investments, but occupations consistently cost these institutions hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of dollars and delay operations for years. but if corporations are feeling the impact of boycotts and economic blackouts, they sure ain't showing it. so the boycotts aren't succeeding as boycotts, and the occupations aren't really succeeding as occupations, but the occupations are succeeding as boycotts, at least when you look at economic impact.

this is why I'm so excited about stochastic vandalism of cybertrucks, and more wide scale public hostility towards cybertrucks and their drivers. if it keeps happening and contributes to tesla stock going down, that's really interesting news for decentralized movement tactics.

[darkmaga-returns]

ANorth Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages over its role in months-long protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017.

After two days of deliberation, the New York Times reported, the jury returned the verdict. Energy Transfer, the owner and operator of the pipeline, filed the lawsuit in North Dakota state court against Greenpeace and Red Warrior Camp, which Energy Transfer claimed was a front for Greenpeace, and three individuals. 

The lawsuit alleges that Greenpeace had engaged in a misinformation campaign with mass emails falsely claiming that the Dakota Access Pipeline would cross the sovereign land of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. In court filings, Energy Transfer claimed protesters engaged in a campaign of “militant direct action,” including trespassing on the company’s property, vandalizing construction equipment, and assaulting employees and contractors. 

[akeliciousmedia]

National Assembly Faces Intense Pressure Over Tinubu’s Rivers State Emergency Declaration

Nigerian lawmakers are facing mounting pressure to approve President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent state of emergency declaration in Rivers State, as stipulated by the constitution. The proclamation, made on March 18, 2025, resulted in the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, and all members of the State House of Assembly for six months. The move was reportedly aimed at addressing…

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

A North Dakota jury on Wednesday awarded damages totaling more than $660 million to the Texas-based pipeline company Energy Transfer, which had sued Greenpeace over its role in protests nearly a decade ago against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

The verdict was a major blow to the environmental organization. Greenpeace had said that Energy Transfer’s claimed damages, in the range of $300 million, would be enough to put the group out of business in the United States. The jury on Wednesday awarded far more than that.

Greenpeace said it would appeal. The group has maintained that it played only a minor part in demonstrations led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It has portrayed the lawsuit as an attempt to stifle oil-industry critics.

The nine-person jury in the Morton County courthouse in Mandan, N.D., about 45 minutes north of where the protests took place, returned the verdict after roughly two days of deliberations.

It took about a half-hour simply to read out the long list of questions posed to the jurors, such as whether they found that Greenpeace had committed trespass, defamation and conspiracy, among other violations, and how much money they would award for each offense.

Afterward, outside the courthouse in Mandan, both sides invoked the right to free speech, but in very different ways.

“We should all be concerned about the attacks on our First Amendment, and lawsuits like this that really threaten our rights to peaceful protest and free speech,” said Deepa Padmanabha, a senior legal adviser for Greenpeace USA.

Just moments before, Trey Cox of the firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, the lead lawyer for Energy Transfer, had called the verdict “a powerful affirmation" of the First Amendment. “Peaceful protest is an inherent American right,” he said. “However, violent and destructive protest is unlawful and unacceptable.”

Energy Transfer is one of the largest pipeline companies in the country. The protests over its construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline drew national attention and thousands of people to monthslong encampments in 2016 and 2017.

The demonstrators gathered on and around the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, arguing that the pipeline cut through sacred land and could endanger the local water supply. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sued to stop the project, and members of other tribes, environmentalists and celebrities were among the many who flocked to the rural area, including two figures who are now members of Mr. Trump’s cabinet: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard.

But the protests erupted into acts of vandalism and violence at times, alienating people in the surrounding community in the Bismarck-Mandan area.

Greenpeace has long argued that the lawsuit was a threat to First Amendment rights, brought by a deep-pocketed plaintiff and carrying dangerous implications for organizations that speak out about a broad range of issues. Greenpeace has called the lawsuit a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or SLAPP suit, the term for cases meant to hinder free speech by raising the risk of expensive legal battles. Many states have laws that make it difficult to pursue such cases, though not North Dakota.

[dailyanarchistposts]

Why ignore committed struggle?

The occupation and direct action movements are nearly endless. Remember the NoTAP (Trans Adriatic Pipeline) struggle, numerous ZADs, inhabited forests in Uppsala and forest defense against highways in Germany and so many more across Europe and the world. Considering the state of ecological and climate crisis, employing brisantic politics and “diversity of tactics”—“vandalism” (or art), sabotage, blockades or destruction of coercive infrastructure—is legitimate. This is real democratic participation in matters where people have no vote or choice, only consultation.

Degrowth celebrates mainstream environmentalism promoting climate marches, weeklong gatherings and civil disobedience actions. Yet, why ignore the decades long struggles committed to inherently enacting degrowth within Europe itself? This extends to other schools of thought and academic disciplines as well. Degrowth should embrace and celebrate combative movements, spreading the knowledge of their struggles.

[beetlebongos]

and once again dude from white lotus from smile from You from euphoria?? Idr that ok from American vandal too? Ok from how to blow up a pipeline ya I rmr from Veronica Mars I rmr from did anyone see assassination nation I think I saw the trailer 200 times but that's it from Fargo??? Who did he play in Fargo? Anyways idk what I was gonna say bout him but perhaps there really is only entertainers and observers.......brother I have to do something I have to do anything I have to everything I have to be guy with that face from 100 shows and movies also I listened to ur recent album recs not all halfway thru goyard cuz I kept pausing to read n I couldn't figure out which tracks were actually on brainwave entertainment cuz I didn't look hard enough so I just listened to rando eternal tapestry songs the way home that day instead there was a third comment I'll listen I will

[manda-kat]

I've been planning Kat's Karousel some more. My end goal- as you can guess- is to build a carousel. Today I came to the thought that instead of building an attraction that could eventually be worthy of housing a carousel, I could just build a carousel and form my future attractions around that.

My mom heard this idea and suggested a retro-inspired arcade with animatronics and fun machines that I'm already into, all surrounding the casousel. She also recommended a larger building so I can house my ride indoors, which would be helpful considering vandals exist.

Hmmm I think this is more profitable and the focus on fun and games is more fun for me (nothing against the museum, I still love it, but arcades rock) and the faster I get my spinny horses the better.

Funding this will be an endeavor, but the city I plan to build it in has been trying to revitalize itself through attractions and activities- WHICH MEANS- They are willing to offer grants to make it happen.

My current pipeline now is:

Work out my timeline/budget/financial plan

Find a suitable location (already have two in mind)

Get in touch with the city and find all the extra moneys I can get my little hands on

Contact several ride manufacturers and get quotes for a custom indoor carousel. This thing won't be cheap, but if I'm gonna blow my money on it, I'm not holding back. The one thing I can't afford to be stingy on.

As the carousel is being constructed and the building is being finished and decorated, I gather the rest of the games and activities. Things like pool and foosball will be good filler to save some money and maintenance, but I'll make sure to get some proper electronic games.

Get some fun decor to add to the whimsical vibe

During all of this, blow up all social medias I can with talk about the new attraction. Make it THE place to be in our town come opening day.

Finally rest. The hard part is that at some point in this I have to quit my full time job or move back to part time in order to have time to work on Karousel. But if I do that, any supplementary income from my job will go away. So Karousel needs to earn REAL GOOD on opening day.

[annekewrites]

Yet another grouchy old queer moment

Really tired of The Youths yelling "A is not for Ally and it never was!"

The first part...okay, fair enough. Aces and Aros shouldn't be erased.

But as an Old Queer? A absolutely was for Ally, back in my day. The original group at my college in the mid-1990s was GLBF (Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Friends). Remember that it was Gay-Straight Alliance long before it was "Gender and Sexuality Alliance" etc etc. And there were reasons for that.

Reason the First: Plausible deniability. Which some people who couldn't be safely out to their family desperately needed. Some kids might get grounded for supporting the queers, and entirely thrown out of the house after being beaten up for being known to be one of them.

Reason the Second: I know a lot of y'all don't like this, some of y'all don't believe this, but the Annoyingly Earnest, Overly Invested Ally to "uh...hey...wait a minute here!" pipeline? Is real. It's far FAR more real than the Loud Homophobe Who Is Seekritly Having Homosexual Thoughts. (Aside: I'm so incredibly sick and tired of people being nicer to or about the Loud Phobe "just in case" than they are to the Annoyingly Earnest "Ally" - like, what??) Yes, that includes the "bi woman's cishet boyfriend" who might just realize "sorry, neither" over time, and who is going to have a lot harder time having that realization if gatekeeping queerer-than-thous make his/their/her life hell for not figuring things out faster on his/their/her own.

Reason the Third: Learn some history, kids. Being a vocal ally to queer people absolutely was dangerous. It was...somewhere between 20 and 25 years ago, I don't remember exactly when, that the pastor of the UU church I went to in my mid-20s, in what was considered one of the gay-friendliest cities in a gay-friendly state, was receiving death threats and having the windows of his house broken for performing (non legally binding at the time) same-sex weddings. Very heterosexual, masculine man, husband and father, tattooed martial arts practitioner, later went on to be an Army chaplain. I remember people looking at the church budget and grumbling about the pastor's salary and snapping at them that THIS WAS HAZARD PAY. Because it was. It really was. Oh yeah, and that church's banners about supporting marriage equality got stolen, church otherwise got vandalized a bunch of times over this. So it wasn't even just the pastor, it was being known to be associated with that congregation. It was an entire thing. Around that same time, in that same city that I had moved to for its comparative queer-friendliness, I had a co-worker who was getting anonymous harassment at work for being vocally supportive of her out gay teenage son (who was, simply for BEING gay and out, getting falsely reported for sexually harassing classmates all over the place, it was a mess). She almost quit, but was scared that she'd be even less able to find a new job because of the reason.

Anyway. What I'm saying is this.

Including ace and aro folks in Pride: YES!

Ignoring our own history with this "A was NEVER for Ally, how dare the straights make it about themselves!" stuff: NOPE!

Besides...as I'm looking around at All The Politics Right Now...seems to me we need all the allies we can get! Let's not be damn fools about it.

[overfedvenison]

Man, that Paris SUV fee increase... So. There was an idea proposed in How To Blow Up A Pipeline that was like...

"100 people in a city intent on deflating tires could effectively destroy the ability for SUVs to exist within that environment." If it becomes functionally impossible to use an SUV, they no longer become a viable mode of transport and die out. This does not have to be liked or appreciated to function, it just has to be a reality. You are essentially destroying the ability for this kind of vehicle to exist. A movement has sparked from this, the Tire Extinguishers.

But Paris just fuggin... Tripling the fees for SUVs, in a walkable city where it is fairly easy to get car-related fees already and cars are already difficult to work with?

That strikes me as effectively accomplishing the same result with none of the underlying ethical issues. You just need to remove the ability for vehicles like this to exist in a niche, and that CAN be done institutionally and without the need for the kind of ecoterrorist vandalism which can breed resentment (but is rising in fringe circles.)

It's like, a city or a state or a region is a kind of ecology with it's own niches, which allow evolution in a particular direction through the natural flow of human activity. It is possible to encourage or discourage particular evolutionary niches (of technology, business, lifestyle, etc) through choices such as this, and I think that holistic approach - which will simply encourage positive and ethical choices and sustainability - is going to be more effective over time than bans outright which will be met with higher direct opposition and are more easy to dismantle.

[firstnewsng]

Tougher days ahead for pipeline vandals as FG targets 2.5m barrels output – NSA

Tougher days ahead for pipeline vandals as FG targets 2.5m barrels output – NSA https://firstnews.com.ng/tougher-days-ahead-for-pipeline-vandals-as-fg-targets-2-5m-barrels-output-nsa/