#pipelines

[hope-for-the-planet]

From the article:

A recent report by Indigenous Environmental Network, or IEN, and Oil Change International, or OCI, found that Indigenous-led resistance to 21 fossil fuel projects in the U.S. and Canada over the past decade has stopped or delayed an amount of greenhouse gas pollution equivalent to at least one-quarter of annual U.S. and Canadian emissions. 

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled that a traditional Wet’suwet’en trespass law cannot “coexist” with the injunction order issued to Coastal GasLink in response to pipeline protests from the nation’s hereditary leadership. As a result, Chief Dsta’hyl, a Wing Chief of the Likhts’amisyu Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation who also goes by Adam Gagnon, was found guilty of criminal contempt in a Smithers courtroom on Tuesday morning. To be found guilty of contempt of court, the prosecution needs to establish that a person is aware of a court order and violated it intentionally. To meet the threshold for criminal contempt, the violations must be public in nature. In making the decision, Justice Michael Tammen rejected a defence argument that could have set precedent in cases involving conflicts between Canadian court orders and Indigenous legal orders. [...] The defence argued that “subjugating Indigenous law to colonial law, when they both form part of the law of the land in Canada, brings the administration of justice into scorn, precisely the consequence that criminal contempt proceedings are meant to punish.”

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Dalton Highway, through the Brooks Range

Taken June 2023

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

“This is the last turn and the end of the fourth hill of life, when Bad River, as a spirit, transforms into something other, something extraordinary,” Mike Wiggins said as he rounded a final bend in one of the largest and most pristine wetlands on the shores of Lake Superior, one of the biggest freshwater lakes in the world.

It’s “similar to our spiritual journey off this planet into something other and extraordinary.”

From the driver’s seat of his small fishing boat, Wiggins, the former chairman of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, contemplated his surroundings with awe as a bald eagle soared overhead.

Beds of wild rice, a key food source and cultural pillar of the Bad River tribe, danced in his wake, glinting under the afternoon sun and nearly ready for harvest. 

“This is a power place,” he said as he blasted Unbound, a recently released album by musicians including fellow Bad River tribal member Dylan Jennings. “It’s just no place for an oil pipeline.”

It has one, though. Seventy-one years ago, Lakehead Pipeline, a predecessor to Canadian pipeline company Enbridge, commissioned the construction of Line 5, a 30-inch diameter crude oil pipeline that transports up to 540,000 barrels of hydrocarbons per day from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario. The 645-mile line is part of a network that originates more than a thousand miles to the northwest in the oil fields of Alberta and, in the case of Line 5, ends back in Canada. It includes a 12-mile stretch that bisects the Bad River reservation, which is heavily forested with river crossings and large swaths of wetlands.

Any spill from the pipeline would drain into the Bad River and Kakagon Sloughs, where Wiggins fished. Known as the “Everglades of the North,” the area is protected under an international environmental agreement as well as multiple treaties between the U.S. and the Chippewa people, also known as the Ojibwe.

The path through the reservation was originally approved by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. However, more than a dozen easements granted to the pipeline, which was completed in 1953, have since expired.

In 2017, the Bad River tribal council voted unanimously not to renew them. Two years later, the tribe sued to have the pipeline removed from the reservation. The ongoing “David vs. Goliath” legal battle was chronicled in Bad River, a recent documentary.

In 2023, Judge William Conley of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin ruled in favor of the tribe and gave Enbridge three years to stop pumping oil through the reservation. The pipeline company has appealed the ruling.  

[allthegeopolitics]

Roughly 70000 gallons (264,978 litres) of oil from a pipeline spilled into the ground in Wisconsin, officials said. The problem was discovered Nov. 11 in Jefferson County, 60 miles (96.5 kilometres) west of Milwaukee, by an Enbridge Energy technician, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported, citing a federal accident report.

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Let's Stand Again With Standing Rock

It's time to take action and stop the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL)! It's been over six years since DAPL began carrying oil and nearly a year and a half since the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the pipeline operator Energy Transfer's attempt to avoid producing a required Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Today, in violation of a separate court order, DAPL continues to operate illegally, without a federal easement. Finally, after interminable delay, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has finally released an extremely problematic draft EIS for public input.

That's where you come in. You now have just a few weeks to submit your public comment demanding the Corps shut this pipeline down and require a new, valid EIS. Please stand with Standing Rock in this critical moment and write to the Army Corps right now.

Now that the EIS has been released, we can confirm what we already suspected. Prepared by a member of the American Petroleum Institute -- clear conflict of interest -- the EIS addresses none of Standing Rock's many grave concerns about DAPL. Those include DAPL's imminent threat to the Missouri River, big problems with Energy Transfer's emergency response plans, Energy Transfer's horrendous safety track record, continued lack of transparency with Standing Rock throughout the environmental review process, inaccurate characterizations of tribal consultation, and sensitive habitat and sacred burial sites along the riverbank.

Earlier this year, four U.S. senators including Bernie Sanders submitted a letter to the Corps seeking an explanation. The reply from Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Michael Connor did not adequately or honestly address the tribe's complaints. Standing Rock replied, pointing out the flaws in approach and demanding redress.

For now, it's up to us to lend a hand. We must flood the Army Corps with a single, unified message: This illegal pipeline's operations must be terminated and the Army Corps must start over with a legitimate environmental review. In the midst of a climate emergency, let's defend sacred ground and safeguard Unci Maka (our Grandmother Earth). This may be our last, best chance to end DAPL once and for all. Please take action now.

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lets hear it for this cunty lil mama!

[nnctales]

Monel Sheathing: Enhancing Corrosion Resistance in Offshore Structures

Offshore structures face a myriad of challenges, with one of the most formidable being the corrosive forces unleashed by the marine environment. In the relentless battle against corrosion, engineers and designers turn to innovative solutions, and one material that has proven its mettle in this arena is Monel. This nickel-copper alloy, celebrated for its exceptional corrosion resistance, finds a…

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Aphorism from BC Author and Artist Douglas Coupland, CCA, Montréal, 2023.

About 40 of Coupland's sayings are printed and posted on the fence in front of the Canadian Center for Architecture - Centre d'Architecture in Montréal. There has been great resonance of this issue in BC over the recent past with plans for pipelines from the fields producing Alberta's "dirty" shale oil (and other deposits in that province) to several points on the BC coast.

[nando161mando]

[theatre-gay-they]

I am so done with """leftists""" being pro pipeline "for our sovereignty". You know whats good for sovereignty? Not being owned by American oil companies and falling for their propaganda hook line and sinker.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Enbridge says it will not develop the Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission line, one of several pipelines previously slated for northern B.C., after its environmental certificate expired last week. In an email to The Tyee, the energy company confirmed that it has no plans to proceed with the project. It’s the first time an environmental assessment certificate for a pipeline project in B.C. has expired, B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office confirmed with The Tyee.

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Dalton Highway, from Coldfoot to Deadhorse

Taken June 2023

[rjzimmerman]

Something cleve from Bill McKibben:

Up in Canada (where, fingers crossed, people are voting today) one artist figured out a way to keep pipelines from crossing his land, even though, as in too many places, the subsurface was subject to eminent domain

When gas company representatives came to negotiate a right-of-way, von Tiesenhausen took the men for a walk around his property. They told the artist he had no means to stop them; the province was determined to develop its energy resources and expropriation was likely. Then, von Tiesenhausen rattled off his argument: "My title says I own the top six inches [of the land], right? While this might look like a field to you folks, it's not. And that isn't a forest over there.… "They went, 'What are you talking about?' I said, 'What's not readily evident to the untrained eye is that this is actually artwork, this whole land, and I maintain the copyright. Now, if you could put a pipeline underneath, I can't stop you, as long as you don't disturb the surface. But if you're going to disturb the surface over this one-mile length, then you're infringing on my rights.'" The artist remembers one of the men saying, "You can't do that, can you?" "I don't know," he replied. Perplexed, the pair got in their truck and left. Gallerist Clint Roenisch — then a curator with the Kelowna Art Gallery — was on a visit with von Tiesenhausen before a solo exhibition and was at the meeting. He'd found the artist's position "clever, sly and poetic — and most importantly, persuasive." The gas company came back the next day and asked von Tiesenhausen to name his price. "It's not about the money," he said. Shortly after, the company notified him it would divert the pipeline around his property.

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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…

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Colorful Plexus Letter T in 3D Fantasy Design . A vibrant, intricately designed lowercase "t" crafted from a colorful array of glass pipelines. The ultra-realistic 3D rendering showcases stunning detail and a captivating fantasy aesthetic.