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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    Pipeline Madness results in death of a man who shot at a natural gas pipeline in Florida

    The protest and negative pipeline mindset has apparently lead to the death of a man in Florida after he engaged local law enforcement in a standoff.

    Quote FLORAL CITY, Fla. (AP) — Police have identified a man who was fatally shot by officers after he was suspected of firing a gun at a pipeline construction site and fleeing.

    The Citrus County Sheriff's Office said on its Facebook page that 66-year-old James Leroy Marker was killed on Sunday by officers after he shot and damaged a section of the Sabal Trail pipeline in north Florida.

    The office says the pipeline, which will transport natural gas from Alabama to Florida, was damaged extensively.

    Authorities say Marker fled after shooting the pipe and was eventually stopped by officers. The sheriff's office says he "engaged with law enforcement" before being fatally shot.

    Three Citrus County deputies have been placed on administrative leave while a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation occurs.
    The Slain Sabal Trail shooter has been ID’d as Chokoloskee man. http://www.gainesville.com/news/2017...hokoloskee-man

    A Citrus County sheriff's official said he waved his weapon at officers, who then fired and killed him. No law enforcement officer was injured or fired upon.

    Water Protector Protest

    Quote Construction of the Sabal Trail Transmission pipeline has spurred mass protests in recent months by those who believe the pipeline and its contribution process are harmful to the environment and Floridan aquifer.

    An employee of a store near where Marker was accused of shooting the pipeline said Monday that customers are telling him they are concerned about protest violence.


    also - https://www.wuft.org/news/2017/02/27...er-identified/

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    Called the NEW PIPELINE PROTEST, something that is as large (or larger) as DAPL, the "Sabal Trail Resistance" says it is determined to block the pipeline which will bring natural gas from Alabama to Florida.

    The Sabal Trail Resistance identified the killed person (post above), as one of their resistance fighters.

    (Statement from http://earthfirstjournal.org - Update: The shooter his been identified. His name was James Marker. He was 66 years old when he was murdered by police.)

    Apparently James Leroy Marker took Earth First's statement literally as he shot at the pipeline (the "black snake as it is called") and pipeline construction equipment.

    The Earth First Statement is below from their webpage - http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswir...ion-equipment/

    Quote KILL PIPELINES NOT PEOPLE!

    We apologies for such short notice. This event is a first step in responding to this tragic incident.

    On the morning of 2/26 police killed a pipeline resistor in Marion County. [We are holding] a vigil from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. along State Road 200. We will meet at Halpata Tastanaki Preserve where the protest occurred on Wednesday, parking in public lot across from Golf Course. Please join us, bring flowers and signs. While there are not enough details to take a definitive position, we feel that its important to acknowledge that someone lost their life at the hands of the police in an effort to stop the pipeline.

    From what we have seen thus far, the person who was killed conducted a successful effort to sabotage pipeline construction this morning when he damaged equipment using a rifle at the site of a future compressor station on the edge of the Halpata Tastankai Preserve. In response, law enforcement agents initiated a chase into Citrus County that ended in him being killed. There has been no evidence that this person posed any threat beyond causing property damage.

    Statements from law enforcement mention of the individual “brandishing a weapon” but provide no evidence of a weapon being aimed or fired at them. If there is dash cam footage of this, it should be provided.

    In the meantime, we can only offer our condolences to the friends, family and community of this person.

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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    This is where the pipeline goes under the lake and river. Notice the high tension power towers in the left of the image also crossing the water.


    Federal Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday, March 14 denied a request by the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux to stop oil from flowing.

    The tribes are trying to appeal his earlier decision allowing pipeline construction to finish.

    This statement is the justification: "The critical factor here is Cheyenne River's lack of likelihood of success on the merits ... plaintiff does not have a strong case on appeal," Boasberg said in his ruling Tuesday.

    The tribes maintain an oil pipeline under the lake they consider sacred violates their religious rights, but Boasberg says the argument was made too late and is of questionable merit.

    The judge also said ETP would be "substantially harmed" by a delay, as it prepares to move oil through the pipeline as early as Monday.

    source - AP

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    Rick Perry resigned from ETP and Sunoco before joining Trump...

    ...Former Texas governor Rick Perry, president-elect Donald Trump's choice for Energy Secretary, resigned from his seat on the board of directors of Energy Transfer Partners, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing made public today.

    As The Dallas Morning News' Todd Gillman wrote last month, Perry was expected to face scrutiny over his ties to the energy industry. When he left office as governor, he joined the corporate boards of two companies run by Dallas billionaire Kelcy Warren, including ETP. http://www.dallasnews.com/business/e...mation-looming

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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    What's the beef with the DAPL pipeline? Religious reasons, potential contamination of Spiritual Sacred lands? Potential contamination of drinking and irrigation water?

    How come there are eight (8) existing pipelines that already go under Lake Oahe (that are not owned by the ETP group) that are and have been operating for 35 YEARS so far without incident?

    These older pipelines (which need maintenance) are only 9 feet under the lake bed. The DAPL pipeline is between 92 and 115 feet below the lake bed to ensure the water is protected.

    The shallower pipelines potentially are a problem. Why is nothing being done to check and verify the safety and integrity of those older pipelines? Why is there no focus on that?

    Here is a cross section of what it looks like:


    source - https://daplpipelinefacts.com
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    Once again you are showing off your Brilliance Bob, the pipeline is built and oil flows in a few days, so it is way too late for changes.

    They weren't complaining about fracking either, only that a money pipeline was crossing their lands and they weren't getting any benefit.

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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    As to the DAPL pipeline crossing reservation lands - no it does not. Not even one inch of reservation land it touched, as the pipeline crosses FEDERAL US government land and private land of which legal easements were obtained.


    As to legal merit - the arguments of the tribes "hold no merit" as 8 previously existing pipelines (non-contested) including a large dual pipeline right at the same crossing site the protesters were protesting has been there and operating for 35 years. Historically 35 years ago the “Northern Border Pipeline" owned and operated by TCPipelines LP was put in under the contested spot in the lake at a mere 9 feet below the lake bottom. The "adoption by measure" legal issue is, if the complaint has not been lodged, and the "concern" alleged has been "allowed", going back to say it should have been contested "holds no merit"...

    I've also referenced contamination happening from a natural gas pipeline south of Anchorage Alaska (which still is contaminating the water)... pipelines as old as this one can leak. An argument potentially could be raised about the older pipelines needing servicing (citing the current leaking Cook Inlet natural gas leak), and the location just happens to be in the location the new DAPL exists.
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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    North Dakota Oil Pipeline spill...



    Instead of fixing the old pipelines that were already in place, they ran a new pipeline and say oops, sorry as the old ones break.

    "December North Dakota Oil Spill More Than 3 Times Larger Than Initial Estimate
    With 530,000 gallons of oil believed to have leaked, it appears to be one of the biggest spills in state history.". http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58...03692bea55b42?

    Why is this just coming out and from Huffington post?

    Did I miss it?
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    DAPL now is filled with oil which is traveling under the contested Lake Oahe crossing point.

    The Dakota Access pipeline developer said Monday, March 27, that it has placed oil in the pipeline under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota and that it's preparing to put the pipeline into full service.

    The battle isn't over

    The battle isn't over. The Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes still have an unresolved lawsuit that seeks to stop the project. The Standing Rock chairman did not immediately return a call seeking comment on ETP's announcement.

    The tribes argue that a rupture in the section that crosses under Lake Oahe would threaten their water supply and sacred sites and would prevent them from practicing their religion, which requires clean water.

    The company disputes the tribes' claims and says the $3.8 billion pipeline is safe.

    The tribes in December held up the project by successfully pushing the U.S. government for a full environmental study of the Lake Oahe crossing, which is in southern North Dakota. But the Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the Missouri River for the government, rescinded the study and gave the company permission to complete the pipeline at the urging of President Donald Trump shortly after he took office.

    There were months of protests against the pipeline, mainly in North Dakota, where opponents set up a camp on Corps land between the Standing Rock Reservation and the pipeline route. At times it housed thousands of people, many of whom clashed with police, who made about 750 arrests between August and February. The on-the-ground protests waned after the Corps ordered the shutdown of the camp in February in advance of the spring flooding season.

    Monkey Wrenching

    The company on March 20 reported "recent coordinated physical attacks" on the pipeline without offering details.

    Authorities in South Dakota and Iowa confirmed that someone apparently used a torch to burn a hole through empty sections of the pipeline at above-ground shut-off valve sites.

    Tribes fighting the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline said Tuesday that the pumping of oil into the pipe under their water source is a blow, but it doesn't end their legal battle.

    Quote Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Harold Frazier said Sioux tribes in the Dakotas still believe they ultimately will persuade a judge to shut down the pipeline that they maintain threatens cultural sites, drinking water and religion.

    "My people are here today because we have survived in the face of the worst kind of challenges," he said. "The fact that oil is flowing under our life-giving waters is a blow, but it hasn't broken us."

    Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault called oil under the lake "a setback, and a frightening one at that." But he and Phillip Ellis, spokesman for the Earthjustice environmental law nonprofit, which is representing that tribe, said they are confident in the court case.

    "The flow of oil under Lake Oahe is a temporary reminder of the pain this pipeline has perpetrated to those that have stood with Standing Rock and the devastation it has wreaked on sacred tribal sites, but hope remains," Ellis said.
    ref - AP

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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    Apparently one of those who participated didn't make it.. His body was found floating in the CannonBall River this last Sunday.

    MANDAN, N.D. ( article originates from AP) — Authorities say the death of a Southern California man who was known to be at camps protesting the Dakota Access pipeline does not appear suspicious.

    The Morton County Sheriff's Office says a fisherman found the body of 35-year-old Damjan Nedelkovski of Glendale, California, floating near the shoreline of the Cannonball River in North Dakota on Sunday.



    An autopsy is said to have found no trauma to the body. Therefore they say the cause of death is "pending".

    It was stated that friends and family last had contact with Damjan in late October, 2016. His stepbrother filed a missing person report in November.

    Police identified the man by a Republic of Macedonia ID card located on his person.

    But it is still unclear when the man died officials say. Law enforcement said it could have been any time from Oct. 29 to Sunday.

    The Macedonian native and political science major was last heard from by friends and family on Oct. 29.

    The day before, he was stopped for speeding in South Dakota, according to police. There, he told police he was headed to the pipeline protest camps.

    Quote (Protesters staged months of demonstrations to try to stop the flow of oil through the four-state pipeline, saying the pipeline will pollute water and damage Native American sacred sites. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners says the line is safe.)
    Ah hum... "not suspicious found dead floating in a river.." and missing since late last October 2016.. I wonder then what those authorities consider suspicious?

    His facebook page apparently is:
    https://www.facebook.com/damjan.nedelkovski
    (search used https://www.facebook.com/search/top/...ki&init=public)


    Back in October, this was reported

    Oil pipeline protester accused of terrorizing officer, October 4, 2016 and earlier, in September, security guard attacked by protesters reported

    by AP network - A sheriff in North Dakota says a security officer working for the company building the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline suffered minor injuries after being assaulted by protesters.

    Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier says about 200 people confronted about 30 security guards at a construction site Sunday morning. The sheriff says all but three security guards left the construction site near St. Anthony.

    The sheriff says law enforcement officers witnessed one of the security guards carried by protesters for about 100 yards. The guard was treated for minor injuries by paramedics. No arrests were made.

    The construction site is about 20 miles from the so-called Red Warrior Camp where protesters have gathered.

    Camp spokesman Cody Hall says protesters are denying the sheriff's account and that anyone was hurt.

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    Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock film shown today by donation online
    Quote In ways never before seen in America, indigenous resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline brought the crises of indigenous rights and environmental justice to international attention. Mni Wiconi, which means “water is life” in the Lakota language, became rallying cries for millions of people across social media, in the United States, and around the world.

    To many of us, this story was told in flashes -- Water Protectors hit with tear gas in the night from militarized police forces and private security, dogs sicced on Native peoples gathered in peace and prayer at the Oceti Sakowin camp. Military veterans from across the country gathering to help protesters triumph over the greed of oil companies.

    The revolutionary story of the Water Protectors at Standing Rock and their resistance needed to be told, uninterrupted and in full. Indigenous filmmakers, director Myron Dewey, executive producer Doug Good Feather, and Oscar-nominated environmental filmmakers Josh Fox and James Spione captured the story of Native-led defiance in their film “AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock.” Our Revolution is proud to be a producer of the documentary and share it with you.

    AWAKE premieres at New York's Tribeca Film Festival this Saturday on Earth Day, April 22. Simultaneously, it will be available to you at AWAKEthefilm.org.
    Watch it here: https://awakeadreamfromstandingrock1...-standing-rock

    The film will stream worldwide for a limited time on a donate-what-you-can basis, with 100% of the proceeds going to an Indigenous Media Fund and a Pipeline Fighters Fund supervised by the film's creators and a council of indigenous leaders to support direct actions, indigenous filmmakers, and journalists.

    We believe that if we can all share the moment when this powerful film premieres, our movement will be brought even closer together in the fight against oppression in all its forms.

    Water Protectors have not rested in their struggle against the greed of the fossil fuel industry, and that struggle has revealed still more issues that must be addressed. Clean water, environmental racism, police militarization, and our government's relationship with Native people all came to a head at Standing Rock.

    Beginning on Earth Day, this revolutionary story can be streamed anywhere.

    Learn more about this incredible film at AWAKEthefilm.org.
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    When we lift up our voices, we have the power to change the world.

    In solidarity,

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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    This chapter of the Saga moves quietly to the end point - protests have accomplished nothing towards stopping the Bakken Crude oil (some of the purest hydrocarbon oil in the world) from flowing through this pipeline and off to refineries and tankers ready to ship it to China for instance, an eager buyer of US and Canadian natural resources..

    https://daplpipelinefacts.com/

    Filling was completed in mid-May, 2017. Flow under pressure started moving hydrocarbon on June 1, 2017.

    The Dakota Access Pipeline was designed to eliminate up to 500-740 crude oil rail cars, and/or 250+ tanker trucks which are needed to transport this large amount of crude every day.

    The "protest" for protecting Water -
    • For worries about transporting hydrocarbon under the "Lake", Lake Oahe already contains eight other pipelines uneventfully operating adjacent to the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline, as well as one high-voltage electric transmission line. DAPL crosses at least 95 feet below the bottom of Lake Oahe, and at points, up to 115 feet below. Those pipelines need to be monitored continually, and inspected for any leaks (there are discussions about older pipe-lines leaking, on this thread, and elsewhere on the sub-Forums).
    • The water source for Standing Rock Sioux will be over 70 miles from the pipeline by early 2017 and is not expected to have any contamination issues from the DAPL pipeline.
    • Pipeline opponents have published a "do-it-yourself" eco-terrorist manual to attack the "establishment", and attack the use of crude oil and natural gas hydrocarbons

    referenced from: https://daplpipelinefacts.com/pipeli...rorism-manual/


    Quote [..]
    one group of pipeline protesters is selling an ecoterrorism manual to instruct others on how to fight energy infrastructure projects:

    They call it DAM. That’s short for Direct Action Manual. Groups connected to the protest camp for the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Pennsylvania are selling copies for $25.

    Published by Earth First! — an openly radical environmentalist (sic) group and journal — the manual lays out protest techniques for use by environmentalists.

    Some of these approaches were even used at the pipeline protests in North Dakota last year.

    Earth First! supports violent actions against energy infrastructure development and the manual itself is essentially an ecoterrorist’s handbook, laying out techniques and approaches to stop various forms of energy infrastructure development.

    Now on its third edition, its publishers are supporters of the protest against the Mariner 2 pipeline in Pennsylvania and worked to stop the Keystone XL pipeline in the past.
    The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe vowed to continue fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) as oil started flowing through it. "Mar 28, 2017 - Just because oil flow is pending does not mean that it cannot be stopped by court order, and we have a strong, ongoing case.."

    The DAPL is going to be moving about 1/2 of the total output of production from North Dakota's Bakken formation oil. The oil is an extremely high grade pure hydrocarbon with minimal associated polluting substances (such as high sulfur which comes out of Venezuela, or Saudi Arabia and the Gulf oil region).

    The remainder of production will still be shipped by hazardous rail car, and tanker trucks.

    During the pressure-testing phase when the pipeline sections were filled, pumps activated, valves closed between sections, there was a 20 gallon leak, a failure of a weld in a section. That was cleaned up, the weld repaired and testing resumed. When all the segments showed then no leaks, the flow-line was opened from end to end allowing movement of oil from the source points in North Dakota to the destination points in Illinois.

    Quote The Bakken flow-line system includes the 1,172-mile, 30-inch diameter Dakota Access pipeline that runs from the Bakken/Three Forks hydrocarbon yielding formation in North Dakota to Illinois, as well as into a less well-known 700-mile, 30-inch diameter Energy Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline that lands in Texas.
    further references: http://www.willistonherald.com/news/...bf2851be5.html

    The input terminals which receive oil from the production fields in North Dakota consist of these:

    North Dakota has six terminals in the Bakken in the counties of
    • Mountrail,
    • Williams and
    • McKenzie

    Several pipeline companies have either already tied-in to Dakota Access, or have tie-ins underway.

    The companies include Oasis Petroleum, Hess, Caliber Midstream, Tesoro, which has two connections, and several others.


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    Thanks for the visual!

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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    Dakota Access Pipeline May Be Shutting Down



    Published on 2 Jul 2017
    Mike Papantonio is joined by Farron Cousins, Executive Editor of The Trial Lawyer Magazine,
    to talk about the impact of a judge’s recent ruling on the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    Post 383 above, mentioned the SABAL pipeline running on the gulf coast into Florida where a protester was shot and killed after challenging armed officers.


    Quote On July 3, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authorized Phase I of the Sabal Trail pipeline to begin full operation.

    Sabal Trail is a 515-mile interstate natural gas pipeline transporting natural gas from an interconnection with the Transco pipeline in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, to the Central Florida Hub in Osceola County, Florida.

    Sabal Trail is one part of the Southeast Market Pipelines, three pipeline projects designed to increase natural gas transport capacity to Florida.
    "Sabal Trail Phase I is designed to have a total capacity of 810 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d) and began partial service on June 14, with only two of three Phase I compressor stations operating. The next two phases will increase Sabal Trail’s total capacity to 1,050 MMcf/d. Phase II, when completed in 2020, will add 170 MMcf/d of capacity with the addition of two new compressor stations, and Phase III, scheduled for 2021, will add 70 MMcf/d of capacity through expansions to existing compressor stations.

    "Two other projects associated with the Southeast Market Pipelines are Transco’s Hillabee Expansion Project and NextEra’s Florida Southeast Connection. Phase I of the Hillabee Expansion added 800 MMcf/d of capacity to the Transco line in Alabama to provide natural gas to Sabal Trail. Phases II and III of the Hillabee Expansion Project will add 200 MMcf/d and 100 MMcf/d of capacity, respectively, in 2020 and 2021.

    "The Florida Southeast Connection receives natural gas from Sabal Trail at the new Central Florida Hub, where Sabal Trail also connects with the other major pipelines in central Florida in order to increase regional natural gas deliverability. Florida Southeast Connection has the capacity to transport 640 MMcf/d of natural gas to Indiantown in southern Florida."

    Protesters to date, did nothing to effectively hinder nor stop that project for this Phase.

    Energy moves on.

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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    Apparently even buried pipelines are not safe from leakage and/or damage. Some residents of a suburb of Austin Texas found that out.

    BASTROP, Texas (AP is the source for this material below)

    Authorities have now allowed residents to return to homes evacuated after about 50,000 gallons (189,000 liters) of crude oil spilled from a cut underground pipeline in Central Texas.

    Cleanup crews worked all day Thursday to clean up the oil spilled after a contractor accidentally cut the Longhorn pipeline near Bastrop. That's about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Austin.

    A spokesman for Magellan Midstream Partners of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bruce Heine (hyn), says no one was injured by in the spill.

    About 15 households were displaced by the spill.

    Getting back to the DAPL, the ND governor requested a "disaster" fund relief payment from the Federal government to help the State pay for the 38 MILLION $ in costs incurred by Police to deal with the DAPL protesters' activities. Trump said no.

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    Apparently 18 pages of paper are being objected to by the Tribes.

    The 18 pages of documentation comes from national trade groups citing damages that would be done to jobs throughout the Nation, should the Tribes succeed in getting a temporary stoppage of oil flow in the DAPL while a Judge reviews the complaints by the Tribe.

    The trade groups are these: American Petroleum Institute, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, Association of Oil Pipe Lines, national Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers.

    Tribal attorneys Jan Hasselman and Nicole Ducheneaux say the groups' 18-page argument is too long..


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    It's Not Over. Shut Down DAPL
    https://www.lakotalaw.org/our-actions/its-not-over


    Quote Published on Aug 5, 2017
    Daniel Sheehan gives an overview of the legal battle ahead for the Dakota Access pipeline protesters and the deep political and military ties behind the pipeline.

    Thanks to Mikki Willis and Elevate for the powerful film. Visit their channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/elevate
    Quote PETITION
    It's not over!
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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the pipleline company says 'enough is enough' time to go after the TERRORISTS..

    From Oil and Gas News -

    ETP sues environmental groups over Dakota Access pipeline campaign

    WASHINGTON, DC, Aug. 24
    08/24/201


    Energy Transfer Partners has sued Greenpeace International, Earth First, and other environmental organizations opposed to construction of the Dakota Access crude oil pipeline for manufacturing and materially disseminating false information about the project.

    The Aug. 22 complaint in US District Court for North Dakota also alleged that the groups incited, funded, and facilitated criminal and terrorist acts that violated federal and state racketeering laws.

    The action called the organizations “a network of putative not-for-profits and rogue ecoterrorist groups who employ patterns of criminal activity and campaigns of misinformation to target legitimate companies and industries with fabricated environmental claims and other purported misconduct, inflicting billions of dollars in damage.”

    The suit charges that the network’s criminal and other misconduct includes:
    • Defrauding charitable donors and cheating federal and state tax authorities with claims that they are legitimate tax-free charitable organizations.
    • Cyberattacks.
    • Intentional and malicious interference with their targeted victim’s business.
    • Physical violence, threats of violence, and the purposeful destruction of private and federal property.

    The groups conducted an organized campaign with attacks that were calculated and thoroughly irresponsible, causing enormous harm to people and property along the pipeline's route, ETP’s lawsuit charged.

    The Dakota Access pipeline was a legally permitted project that underwent nearly 3 years of rigorous environmental reviews, it said.

    The groups’ misinformation campaign was predicated on a series of false, alarmist, and sensational claims that ETP, as the project’s sponsor, encroached on tribal treaty lands, desecrated sacred sites of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in building the pipeline, constructed it without consulting with and over objections of the tribe, and used excessive and illegal force against protesters, according to the suit.

    It said the groups also claimed that the pipeline inevitably would result in catastrophic oil spills, poisoned water, and massive climate change, while ironically, their own members deliberately and maliciously attempted to cut holes in the pipeline with torches which, if successful, would have caused significant environmental damage and possibly taken lives.

    Greenpeace reportedly has said that the suit is politically motivated and without merit.

    (US President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at reviving the project soon after his inauguration after the Barack Obama administration ordered the US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) to withdraw a permit for an unconstructed segment under Lake Oahe in North Dakota following protests by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. )

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