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

    Good grief, thanks Bob, there are folk here unaware. We were assured that nothing would happen 2 years ago... 😡😡😡
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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    I'm monitoring for reports on the pipeline issues.. of course the DAPL, and Keystone and other pipelines and key issues.. When there is a protest the actual reason that can't be poo poo'd by the Courts has to be discussed.. Not environmental warming from burning hydrocarbons, but the track record of the pipeline companies, the actual imminent danger posed to the local communities appears to be the proper presentation.. "appears" not totally certain, absolutely invite thoughts on that defense..

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

    Another pipe-line explosion - Libya

    The pipeline, operated by Waha Oil Company, Libya, carries crude to the Es Sider terminal. The blast occurred 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Sidra.

    Armed men blew up a pipeline pumping crude oil to Es Sider port on Tuesday, cutting Libya’s output by up to 100,000 barrels per day (bpd), military and oil sources said.

    The attackers arrived at the site near Marada in two cars and planted explosives on the pipeline, a military source said.

    End result? Oil prices ROSE.

    hmmm



    Libya's production region and infrastructure



    Oil and natural gas in pipelines is not safe when it can be accessed by those for any nefarious purpose it seems.. If valve and pumping systems (above ground) are accessible, then sabotage can happen (called monkey wrenching).. Oil shipping "pipeline" companies appear to be notorious for using pipelines until they break.. When they break damage happens..

    So what we are seeing here is a multi-pronged issue.. As long as crude, or refined products or natural gas is being shipped with a pipeline system (or other systems such as RAIL), there will always be somebody or something that tries to monopolize on the failings of the transport.. The same thing could happen with electrical high tension lines, if there were enough attention put on such, if monkey wrenching will happen it will happen, no matter what the product is that has leverage it appears.


    (image from RT dot Com)

    From RT dot Com their hit on the incident:

    Quote A military source told RIA Novosti that the “large” explosion at the pipeline was the result of a terrorist attack, carried out with the use of “an improvised explosive device.” The Libyan armed forces heard the blast from a distance of 20 kilometers and headed in that direction, while the militants retreated, the source added. “The fighters belonged to either (al-Qaeda-affiliated) Benghazi Defense Brigades or Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) as they are terrorists who carry out diversions to cripple oil production facilities.”

    The news of the Libyan blast saw oil prices spike to above $65 a barrel on Tuesday, trading close to its highest mark since mid-2015. Another factor contributing to the increase in price are the voluntary supply cuts by OPEC. Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, went up 10 cents to $65.35 a barrel, while US crude added 12 cents at $58.59, Reuters reported.

    The port of Es Sider changed hands on several occasions during the Libyan civil war, which started in 2011. It was severely damaged by the fighting, and remained closed between 2014 and 2016. This March Es Sider, which was shipping around 447,000 barrels per day when the conflict started, was recaptured by forces loyal to Libya’s eastern-based military commander, Khalifa Haftar, and resumed operations.
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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    DAPL legal issues have NOT gone away

    You will recall, earlier in this thread, that Chase Iron Eyes was arrested and others protesting the DAPL.. At this point the current Judge has decided that with holding discovery information is a "good thing" (basically that is type of slam in the face of criminal proceeding where a defendant has a right to see all the information that the prosecution has against them)..

    MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota judge on Wednesday limited the amount of information the governor's office can be asked to give attorneys for an American Indian activist accused of inciting a riot during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline

    Judge Lee Christofferson also said he plans to deny a defense motion to force prosecutors to obtain and turn over evidence from private security firms, after Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier testified that the two did not work together.

    The decisions could deal a blow to the efforts of Chase Iron Eyes to prove what he believes was a conspiracy by law enforcement in concert with private security to portray pipeline opponents as terrorists and violate their civil rights. Iron Eyes hopes to show that civil disobedience was his only option to resist a pipeline's incursion on his ancestral lands and to prevent the conspiracy.

    Iron Eyes is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux, the tribe leading the legal fight against the $3.8 billion pipeline because it fears a leak would contaminate its water source. The pipeline has been moving North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to Illinois since last June.

    Iron Eyes and 73 others were arrested Feb. 1, 2017, after erecting teepees on land in southern North Dakota that authorities said is owned by Texas-based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners. Protesters said they were peacefully assembling on land they believe rightfully belongs to American Indians under old treaties. Iron Eyes could face five years in prison if convicted.

    His attorneys subpoenaed Gov. Doug Burgum in March, making dozens of requests for information they hope might help his case. The attorney general's office objected on several grounds including the request being unreasonable.

    Christofferson during a Wednesday hearing limited the request to information regarding former Gov. Jack Dalrymple's emergency declaration, his activation of the National Guard and his triggering of a law officer-sharing agreement with other states. He also said he won't allow Burgum to be called to testify without his permission.

    The judge during the hearing criticized prosecutors for being slow to provide evidence requested by the defense as the two sides prepare for trial, and he set deadlines for some evidence to be turned over. However, he also called out defense attorneys, saying, "when you do a list, you seem to include everything but the Library of Congress."


    Chase Iron Eyes, right, sits next to his attorneys in a Morton County courtroom in Mandan, N. D., Wednesday, April 4, 2018, during a pretrial conference on charges of felony inciting a riot and misdemeanor criminal trespass related to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests on Feb. 1, 2017

    "Discovery" - (https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclope...-disclose.html)
    Discovery is the process through which defendants find out about the prosecution’s case. For example, through standard discovery procedure, they can:
    get copies of the arresting officers’ reports and statements made by prosecution witnesses, and examine evidence that the prosecution proposes to introduce at trial.

    Traditionally, the prosecutor wasn’t entitled to information about a defendant’s case. But in recent years, discovery has become more of a two-way street. Just as defendants can discover information from prosecutors, so too can prosecutors examine certain evidence in the hands of defendants.

    Modern Discovery Policy
    Pretrial disclosure of information through discovery can foster settlement and enhance the fairness of trials.

    Can prosecutors spring evidence on defendants like they do on TV?
    No. In the past, prosecutors could guard evidence from defendants with the same fervor toddlers show in protecting toy trucks and dolls from their siblings. Defendants couldn’t force prosecutors to hand over witness statements or even reveal the names of their witnesses. Now the view that advance disclosure will promote fairer trials has taken hold—if defense attorneys know ahead of time what to expect, they can better defend their clients.

    Surprise evidence may produce fine drama, but it leads to poor justice. Unlike prosecutors, defendants can’t call on police agencies to help them investigate and respond to evidence they find out about for the first time at trial. Thus, every jurisdiction (each state and the federal government) has discovery rules requiring prosecutors to disclose evidence to defendants prior to trial.

    Are discovery rules really intended to help defendants at trial?
    Not exclusively. Sure, advance disclosure promotes fairer trial outcomes, but it also promotes case settlement, which saves judicial time and resources. If a guilty defendant finds out before trial that the prosecution has a particularly strong case, that defendant will be more likely to plead guilty and save the government the hassle of trying the case. Discovery is likely a significant reason why at least 90% of criminal cases settle before trial.

    Issues regarding settlement aside, discovery is intended to help defendants in the sense that prosecutors must hand over certain information that's helpful to the defense.

    Does discovery mean that the prosecution has to reveal its case strategy?
    No. Discovery rules generally distinguish between raw information like names of witnesses, police reports, and drug or alcohol test results, and attorney theories and strategies. The latter is called “work product.” Prosecutors don’t have to turn over their work product to defendants—otherwise, it just wouldn’t be fair. Lawyers would be incentivized to hide their work or do less of it

    EXAMPLE
    Vy Tummin is charged with assault and battery on a police officer. Vy claims that she reacted in self-defense to the police officer’s use of illegal force. The prosecutor plans to show a videotape of the incident to the jury. The prosecutor also has prepared a file memorandum as a self-reminder about what portions of the tape to emphasize during the trial and why those portions are especially significant. Vy’s lawyer demands to see the videotape and all the prosecutor’s trial memoranda. Discovery rules allow Vy's lawyer to see the videotape. But the prosecutor won’t have to turn over the memorandum. The memo is the prosecutor’s work product because it contains strategic analysis.

    Is there a particular period of time prior to trial when the defense is supposed to engage in discovery?
    Not really. Prosecutors can’t disclose all discovery on the eve of trial, but on the other hand, they don’t have to divulge it all way ahead of time. Discovery can unfold gradually. For example, a defendant’s attorney might receive a copy of the police report at the first court appearance, but might not receive a prosecution expert’s written analysis of blood evidence until shortly before trial.

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

    DAPL is still in the news -

    Army Corps of Engineers were ordered last year by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg (Washington, D.C.) to do "another study" on the pipeline specifically because of the challenges made by at least 4 tribes, lead by Standing Rock Sioux attorney Jan Hasselman.

    The Judge also ordered the Corps to further review the pipeline's impact on tribal interests, including how a spill under the Missouri River in the Dakotas would impact water rights for the Standing Rock, Cheyenne, Yankton and Oglala Sioux tribes.

    The Corps expects the study to finally be completed by August this year.

    The study was originally expected to be wrapped up by April this year, but the Corps complained that the Tribes have repeatedly refused access to key pieces of information, slowing up the review and evaluation process.

    Generally this was the response from the Tribes: "We were never given access to any of the technical materials such as oil spill risk models that the government is relying on," he said. "We've done an excellent job preparing technical materials of our own explaining why the risk of this pipeline is much higher than the government has ever acknowledged, but we've had to do that with one hand tied behind our back."

    Texas-based developer Energy Transfer Partners has said the pipeline is safe.

    Source: AP

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    So pipelines are safe ?

    Another pipeline explosion - Firefighter, 4 others badly hurt in Oklahoma gas line blast



    If a pipeline is exposed, it can be physically damaged. If a pipeline has pressure weights on it holding it down, it can be damaged from stress. If a pipeline is in an area were there is ground movement (unstable ground) the overall damage can cause leaks and fractures by the movements...

    TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma firefighter and four other people have been injured in an explosion and fire after a natural gas line ruptured in Tulsa.

    Police say a tractor struck the gas line around 1:30 p.m. Thursday on the city's west side. A Tulsa Fire Department spokesman says an explosion and fire followed the rupture.

    Officials say the firefighter, a bystander and three Oklahoma Natural Gas employees were critically injured and taken to a hospital.

    None of the five hurt has been identified and authorities have not described their injuries.

    The natural gas line was shut off and the fire extinguished at about 4:30 p.m.

    Officials say no homes were threatened in the explosion and fire.

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

    The Standing Rock situation, from yesterday, update from Daniel Sheehan.
    Quote Depositions with law enforcement officials and witnesses are in full swing for the Chase Iron Eyes trial, and the truth is coming to light about what really happened during #NoDAPL at #StandingRock! Stay tuned, as this landmark trial could set precedents to protect the future of protest.
    This one from earlier in the month:

    Quote Lakota Peoples Law Project
    Published on Jun 2, 2018
    Chase Iron Eyes speaking in Soquel, CA at a Lakota People's Law Project and Romero Institute event.
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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    One reading this thread will soon see that pipelines really are not that safe. Some pipeline owners have very poor track records, where explosions and leaks happen, people are killed and a lot of damage happens. (there are posts in this thread describing some of the explosions)

    Well... Exxon is going to hook up with one of the poorer track-record companies XTO energy and ship a LOT of natural gas thru a section of TEXAS using that company's pipeline system. 2 billion $ is a bunch of money to burn, seems they and their stock-holders don't care I guess.

    ExxonMobil Corp. plans to support the proposed Permian Highway Pipeline (PHP) Project, signing a letter of intent for subsidiary XTO Energy to contract for as much as 450,000 dekatherms/day of capacity on the pipeline.

    The $2-billion PHP Project will provide an outlet for increased gas production from the Permian basin to areas along the Texas Gulf Coast and is designed to transport as much as 2 bcfd of gas through 430 miles of 42-in. pipe from the Waha to Katy, Texas areas, with connections to the US Gulf Coast and Mexico. The PHP Project is expected to be in service in late 2020.

    With 50-50 ownership of the project, Kinder Morgan Texas Pipeline LLC (KMTP) and EagleClaw Midstream Ventures LLC, a portfolio company of Blackstone Energy Partners, will be initial partners.

    Apache Corp. and EagleClaw will be weighty shippers, each planning to commit as much as 500,000 dekatherms/day. Apache will have the option to acquire equity from the initial partners. KMTP will build and operate the pipeline.

    Exxon-Mobil’s support is expected to accelerate the path to a final investment decision soon.
    If there is going to be a protest on this line, it seems like doing such soon could be in order. We'll see if anyone pays attention to this expansion project of Exxon-Mob-oil..

    ref - XTO - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/d...601exv99w1.htm SEC filing document


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    Third defendant sentenced for the DAPL protest
    U.S. District of North Dakota Chief Judge Daniel Hovland has sentenced the third of seven federal defendants indicted from the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.

    As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors from earlier this year, Michael Markus pleaded guilty to civil disorder, with the more serious crime of use of fire to commit a federal felony dismissed. Hovland sentenced Markus on Thursday in Bismarck's federal court to 36 months in federal prison followed by three years supervised release, under attorneys' joint recommendation.

    Markus likely won't serve all of that time. He will receive about two months credit for time served and will be eligible for release after serving 85 percent of his sentence. He will also serve at least a year of supervised release, depending on a potential recommendation from his probation officer to Hovland to lessen the three-year period of supervision.

    Markus was indicted with several others for starting a barricade fire on the Morton County Road 134 bridge on Oct. 27, 2016, one of the most chaotic days of the monthslong protests in southern Morton County. Law enforcement officers swept south along North Dakota Highway 1806, where protesters had erected a camp on a pipeline easement.

    Five people gave testimony in support of Markus, mostly individuals he met while at the Oceti Sakowin camp, including his wife, Olivia Bias. She and Markus recently married.

    Markus had been on pretrial release for the past year at a ranch near Cheyenne, Wyo. Hovland commended his compliance with pretrial regulations.

    The judge also allowed Markus to self-surrender after the federal Bureau of Prisons arranges his period of incarceration, likely in Minnesota. Markus must turn himself in to prison officials on or before Nov. 26.

    He spoke for several minutes in federal court in Bismarck, noting how his original involvement in the protests was to deliver supplies and food, but grew more "heavily" involved after pipeline construction bulldozed what protesters have said were sacred sites.

    "How would you feel if someone went through your family cemetery and plowed through? Or Arlington (National Cemetery)?" Markus said before Hovland. Markus wiped his eyes and said his role in camp was to protect people, be they protesters or police.

    "That is what I'm meant to do, protect people, no matter who they are," he told Hovland.

    Attorneys for Markus asked Hovland to allow him to serve the final 12 months of his sentence at a halfway house. Hovland said Markus could be placed in a halfway house while on supervised release.

    After moving testimony from Markus' friends and family, Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Delorme reminded Hovland of the consequences and potential harm of protest activities on Oct. 27, 2016, that police and protesters could have been hurt or "engulfed" by flames from the barricade fire.

    "There was never any thought about that. It was all wrapped up in this protest," said Delorme, who also noted Markus' apparent "safety net of family and friends."

    Hovland said Markus doesn't appear to be a flight risk and wished him the best.

    "I hope that you can weather this and move on with your life," the judge said.

    Two other federal defendants indicted from the DAPL protests have been adjudicated. Two more are set for sentencing later this year.



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

    I'm wondering how long a prison sentence was given to this terrorist at Standing Rock:



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

    More photos of the authorities 'following orders' - lest we forget..








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

    Don't mean this as a derail, but when I was a Outside Plant Engineer for fiber optics in Ohio in the 90s, one of the worst things we had to deal with was underground gas lines.
    I remember one incident around Athens, Ohio, if my memory serves me well, of two AT&T workers digging with a backhoe, in an area that was supposed to be marked by the gas company, and they ruptured a 4" natural gas line.
    Mind you the gas company had said there were no lines in the area.
    The resulting explosion blew a hole 25' in diameter and the fire melted the backhoe and killed the two workers.
    So my distrust of natural gas companies is enormous.
    It seems that no one in their company had filed the drawings indicating where the lines were, and unfortunately, I ran into this problem a lot, even with simple house feeds.
    I always ran into problems with unmarked or poorly marked gas and electric lines and spent a lot of my time following up on their marking crews to the point where I would conduct my own surveys and marking runs just to confirm their results.
    Usually they were accurate, but I had enough close calls to trust but verify.
    In one subdivision in my hometown of West Carrollton, Ohio, a builder was allowed to build a complete subdivision in an area with 2- 28" forced natural gas mains and 1-18" gas main. The problem was that some of the homes were within 8' of the mains, and the prospective homeowners were not told of the incredible blast hazards.
    If a 4" line could blast a hole 25' in diameter, imagine what a 28" forced gas line would do, let alone three.
    I hope the Sioux are successful in their defense of their homeland.

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

    The cops certainly lived up to their moniker "PIGS" here...
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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

    Cheyenne River: The Next Standing Rock
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    "Standing Rock was a beginning. It gave rise to a powerful alliance of Native activists and environmentalists around the world. It also showed us what we’re facing, and how to combat our adversary. Now pipeline resistance is moving to new fronts — to Louisiana with the Bayou Bridge fight and soon, with the coming of Keystone XL, to my own home next door to Standing Rock on the Cheyenne River reservation.

    The ACLU just revealed that, in preparation for KXL, authorities hosted an “anti-terrorism” training session in Montana. The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA are teaching the police riot control measures. State officials from Montana also met with their counterparts from North Dakota, and a pro-petroleum group hosted law enforcement representatives for a panel about confronting environmental activism.

    They’re all getting together to share TigerSwan’s methodology from Standing Rock on how to combat activists and cast us, once again, as “terrorists.” They’ve got their playbook — but we have one too.

    In our new video, our chief counsel Daniel Sheehan details how the evidence we collected for the Chase Iron Eyes trial exposes the police, the oil companies, and militarized security firms. We have them — on record, under oath — making stunning admissions. We have the complete blueprint for a successful necessity defense. Now, we’re compiling and making all of our legal tools available to everyone still on the front lines. This is a time consuming and expensive process, but it’s one that will prove invaluable to all arrested protesters going forward. Your gift today will pay high dividends for them and help ensure the success of their resistance.

    It’s imperative that, as the indigenous-led environmental movement rises again, we use the lessons learned at Standing Rock. I’m meeting with a group of dedicated allies regularly to discuss the strategy to resist KXL, and the Lakota People’s Law Project legal team won’t stop until it has assembled and distributed the playbook to help protesters win in court.

    The prosecutors in the Chase Iron Eyes case tried endlessly to block our collection of evidence, knowing it was mounting in Chase’s favor. Ultimately they dropped all substantial charges. Now, armored with our legal blueprint, activists can be confident while taking a stand to protect sacred water and land.

    Please continue to support our efforts, because when you do, you give all water protectors the tools to succeed. We remain on the front lines in the battle to save Unci Maka.

    Pilamaya — thank you for staying with us!"
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    Keystone Pipeline Does as Experts Predicted, Spills 383,000 Gallons of Oil in North Dakota

    By Ryan Schleeter Global Research,
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    Yesterday, the Keystone pipeline leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (9,120 barrels) of oil into wetlands in North Dakota. The leak is already the eighth-largest pipeline oil spill of the last decade. The tar sands oil transported through the Keystone pipeline is particularly hard to clean up because, unlike crude oil, it sinks in water.

    Keystone operator TC Energy’s (formerly TransCanada) alarming spill and safety record has come under scrutiny as it attempts to build the controversial and much larger Keystone XL pipeline through the midwestern United States and Indigenous treaty lands.

    In response, Greenpeace USA Senior Research Specialist Tim Donaghy said:
    “I wish I could say I was shocked, but a major spill from the Keystone pipeline is exactly what multiple experts predicted would happen. In fact, this is the fourth significant spill from the Keystone pipeline in less than ten years of operation. History has shown us time and again that there is no safe way to transport fossil fuels, and pipelines are no exception. In the last ten years, US pipeline spills have led to 20 fatalities, 35 injuries, $2.6 billion in costs, and more than 34 million gallons spilled. New pipelines are locking us into carbon emissions that will push our climate past safe limits. That is not the future I want for my children.

    “In the past decade, every proposed tar sands pipeline — including the Keystone XL pipeline — has been stopped or delayed by a powerful movement fighting for Indigenous rights, a clean energy economy, and our environment. It is past time to leave fossil fuels in the ground and begin a just transition to a Green New Deal and 100 percent renewable energy.”
    Greenpeace analysis from 2017 estimates that, if completed, the Keystone XL pipeline could expect 59 significant spills over a 50-year lifetime. With this latest spill, TC Energy has seen a total of 20 spills from its US pipeline network since 2010, which have released 696,276 gallons (16,578 barrels) of oil and hazardous liquids into the environment.

    While Donald Trump moved to “fast-track” the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines in his first month in office, multiple Democratic frontrunners have already come out against the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure.

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    Thanks Herve'. I saw an AP article on this yesterday.

    What caught my eye was the statement that the oil spilled, leaked was (only) about half of an Olympic style pool.

    Whew, sure glad it wasn't a "bad" spill.

    Ask us on the Gulf Coast how "little" the impact of these spills-leaks are. They never go into discussions about the very real impacts down the road.
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    Default Re: Standing Rock, Dakota Pipeline Protests...Who's gonna participate?

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    New pipelines are locking us into carbon emissions that will push our climate past safe limits.

    It is past time to leave fossil fuels in the ground and begin a just transition to a Green New Deal and 100 percent renewable energy.”
    Ahhh, yes. Have to get that plug in there for global warming and the need for a green new deal.
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