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The Infiltrator
THE INFILTRATOR How an Undercover Oil Industry Mercenary Tricked Pipeline Opponents Into Believing He Was One of Them A former Marine working for the private security firm TigerSwan infiltrated an array of anti-Dakota Access pipeline groups at Standing Rock and beyond. JESSE HORNE STILL struggles to talk about the day he was kicked out of […]
Energy Transfer, Banks Lost Billions by Ignoring Early Dakota Access Pipeline Concerns
Energy Transfer, Banks Lost Billions by Ignoring Early Dakota Access Pipeline Concerns Roughly four years ago, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) filed a federal application to build a 1,172 mile oil pipeline from North Dakota’s Bakken shale across the U.S. to Illinois at a projected cost of $3.8 billion. Before that application was filed, on September 30, 2014, […]
“Environmental Extremism” or Necessary Response to Climate Emergency? Pipeline Shutdown Trials Pit Activists Against the Oil Industry
Still: Steve Liptay “ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM” OR NECESSARY RESPONSE TO CLIMATE EMERGENCY? PIPELINE SHUTDOWN TRIALS PIT ACTIVISTS AGAINST THE OIL INDUSTRY AN ACTIVIST IN Montana was sentenced on Tuesday in a case that has become both a touchstone for industry-friendly legislators pushing to increase penalties for pipeline protest and a measure of the U.S. legal system’s […]
Federal Judge Halts Bayou Bridge Pipeline Installation, But Photos Show Damage Already Inflicted
Federal Judge Halts Bayou Bridge Pipeline Installation, But Photos Show Damage Already Inflicted There was an eerie stillness along the route of the Bayou Bridge pipeline in Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin the day after a federal judge halted work on the pipeline. A temporary injunction was granted two weeks after groups opposed to the pipeline had their […]
Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests
Wyoming Now Third State to Propose ALEC Bill Cracking Down on Pipeline Protests On the heels of Iowa and Ohio, Wyoming has become the third state to introduce a bill criminalizing the type of activities undertaken by past oil and gas pipeline protesters. One of the Wyoming bill’s co-sponsors even says it was inspired by the protests led by […]
Five Spills, Six Months in Operation: Dakota Access Track Record Highlights Unavoidable Reality–Pipelines Leak
Photo: Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg News/Getty Images FIVE SPILLS, SIX MONTHS IN OPERATION: DAKOTA ACCESS TRACK RECORD HIGHLIGHTS UNAVOIDABLE REALITY — PIPELINES LEAK REPRESENTATIVES FROM Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, traveled to Cambridge, Iowa, in October to present a series of $20,000 checks to emergency management departments in six counties. The […]
Dakota Access Pipeline Company Paid Mercenaries to Build Conspiracy Lawsuit Against Environmentalists
Photo: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket/Getty Images DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE COMPANY PAID MERCENARIES TO BUILD CONSPIRACY LAWSUIT AGAINST ENVIRONMENTALISTS Oil and Water The private security firm TigerSwan worked to build a RICO suit accusing Greenpeace, Earth First, and BankTrack of inciting protests to increase donations. VIEW MORE FROM THIS TIMELINE STORY THE PRIVATE SECURITY firm TigerSwan, hired […]
Dakota Access Pipeline Set For Completion After Army Approval
Dakota Access Pipeline Set For Completion After Army Approval With environmentalists already furious at Donald Trump for his recent executive orders to reincarnate the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, their anger is set to overflow following news that the completion of the latter may be just a matter of months, if not weeks. As […]
Breaking: Justice Department Overrules Court, Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Halted
Breaking: Justice Department Overrules Court, Dakota Access Pipeline Construction Halted (ANTIMEDIA) North Dakota — On Friday, a federal court sided with Energy Transfer Partners, allowing the company to continue construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline. The ruling came after the Standing Rock Sioux tribe attempted to halt the pipeline’s construction through the justice system because they claimed it would […]
