#oil pipeline

[jamesadomian]

It remains unreported that the far-right Heritage Foundation thinktank behind Project 2025, is also the most violently anti-Armenian and pro-Turkish/ pro-Azeri/ pro-oil thinktank in the entire DC establishment.

Heritage was a loud and gleeful cheerleader of Azerbaijan’s recent total genocide in Artsakh, and their guys openly favor the extermination of all Armenians in the region, because pipelines.

No news has done any basic reporting on this, like even summarizing what the Heritage Foundation death champions have publicly written about Armenia, because there is a broad political consensus to ignore and suppress anything related to Armenians across left right and center. 🤪

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the LA Times:

Nine years ago, when an aging oil pipeline ruptured near the coast of Santa Barbara County, an inky darkness spread over the waters. The massive slick of oil engulfed and killed hundreds of marine animals, including seals, dolphins and pelicans. And the acrid smell of petroleum polluted the coastline’s air.

On May 19, 2015, a corroded section of an oil pipeline burst and released more than 140,000 gallons of oil near Refugio State Beach. The incident — which revived memories of a massive 3-million-gallon spill almost 50 years earlier — sullied some of the state’s most pristine beaches and a rare stretch of undeveloped coastline. Oil migrated as far away as Orange County, closing fisheries and costing hundreds of millions of dollars to clean up.

Soon after the spill, Exxon Mobil halted operations at its three offshore oil platforms while Plains All American Pipeline idled the connected pipelines. This year, Sable Offshore Corp., a Houston-based energy company, purchased the mothballed equipment and announced plans to restart oil extraction by the end of the year — including the failed pipeline.

Most recently, the California Coastal Commission has repeatedly admonished the company for performing unauthorized work on the pipeline in an attempt to ready the equipment for transporting oil. This week, environmentalists carrying homemade signs and a large banner reading “Fight Offshore Drilling” protested at a commission meeting in San Diego.

The potential restart and accelerated pace of construction have heightened fears of another catastrophic oil spill.

Environmental groups contend that federally mandated corrosion protection was not effective on the 30-year-old pipeline, and say it will never perform safely. Also, when Santa Barbara County considered a plan to build a new pipeline, an environmental report estimated that the existing line could suffer a spill every year, and a major rupture every four years. These releases, it concluded, could result in a disaster even larger than the 2015 spill.

“It’s just old and corroded, so it feels like a ticking time bomb to continue letting this infrastructure operate and to restart it after such a severe spill without additional environmental review,” said Julie Teel Simmonds, senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity. “It seems too risky to even contemplate.”

In the nine years since the spill, the damaged pipeline was “evacuated, cleaned and preserved with inert nitrogen to maintain a corrosion-free state,” according to Steve Rusch, Sable’s vice president of environmental and regulatory affairs. He said work crews have already started the process of repairing about 100 “anomalies” — areas of corrosion, cracks or other defects — to ensure that the pipeline will be in an “as-new” condition.

[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Link to call your senator.

-fae

[inariedwards]

Reading rec. I really enjoyed this one.

[sergeant-macho-nacho]

Here's a throwback from 2016 when "Obama" was president and the Dakota Access Pipeline was starting construction.

Environmental protesters and Native Americans on their own land in Standing Rock North Dakota had Grenades thrown at them by the *several* different law enforcement agencies present. Many people were injured with one person almost losing their arm (pictured).

[sinister-yet-satisfying]

If this is allowed to happen humanity is doomed

Capitalists and the politicians they own think they’ll be insulated from the impacts of climate change.

They haven’t realized yet that they’ll burn right along with us.

[plethoraworldatlas]

Climate action groups are vehemently rejecting the Biden administration's claim that the approval of a new offshore oil terminal—planned to be the largest in the U.S.—is in the "national interest," after the U.S. Department of Transportation announced the project had met several federal requirements and could begin operations by 2027.

The agency's Maritime Administration said last week that Enterprise Product Partners, a Houston-based pipeline company, had been granted a deepwater port license to build the Sea Port Oil Terminal (SPOT) near Freeport, Texas following a five-year federal review process.

The federal government determined the $1.8 billion terminal project had undergone sufficient environmental impact reviews and would overall benefit the country—even as it was projected by the Sierra Club, which has fought SPOT for several years, to emit greenhouse gases equivalent to those of nearly 90 coal-fired power plants.

"The evidence is clear that SPOT would be catastrophic to the climate, wildlife, and frontline communities of the Gulf," said Devorah Ancel, senior attorney with the Sierra Club. "It threatens the future existence of the endangered Rice's whale with a population of less than fifty, and its ozone pollution would compromise the health of thousands of Gulf residents who have endured decades of fossil fuel industry pollution. Make no mistake, SPOT is not in the national interest."

The project is expected to include two pipelines that would carry crude oil to the deepwater port each day, enabling the export of 2 million barrels of crude oil, loaded onto two supertankers at once, daily.

"Nothing about this project is in alignment with Biden's climate and environmental justice goals," said Kelsey Crane, senior policy advocate at Earthworks. "The communities that will be impacted by SPOT have once again been ignored and will be forced to live with the threat of more oil spills, explosions, and pollution. The best way to protect the public and the climate from the harms of oil is to keep it in the ground."

[awaywithworms]

Over 50,000 Pages of Documents Reveal Private Security Methods Against Standing Rock Protesters

Over 50,000 pages of internal documents reveal methods of surveillance used at Standing Rock, coordination with the National Sheriff’s Association, and profit model of Tigerswan itself.

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[potsiefaerie]

Oh gods damnit

It’s giving “let’s make up some info about aliens to distract people while we commit war crimes” or perhaps some other awful action around the climate

[godallaswriter]

An Unknown Alaska

[paddysnuffles]

An honest tourism ad for Canada (that's also a high-key ad in support of the Wet'suwet'en)

[boanddonatetoblacktranspeople]

Read up, sign, support, mobilize, get angry, listen to indigenous people, pay into their funds, Act Act Act Up <3

If you’re not supportive of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline, you can help First Nations like Tsleilwaututh Nation who are taking Kinder Morgan and the Canadian Federal Government to court, by donating.

Donate here.

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[afrotumble]

East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) - NS Energy