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Judge orders removal of blockade against northern Alberta pipeline construction
TransCanada’s headquarters in Calgary, Alberta.
‘Strict adherence to the construction schedule is essential,’ says TransCanada Corp.
By David Thurton, CBC News, Jan 25, 2017
A Fort McMurray judge has issued an order that authorizes the RCMP to remove a blockade set up to protest construction of a natural-gas pipeline.
Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Keith Yamauchi issued the order for demonstrators with the Chard Métis Society to dismantle their protest camp by 4 p.m. Wednesday.
For the past week, as many as 15 protesters have been gathering outside the pipeline’s construction site. Read the rest of this entry
Chile: Mapuche resistance carry out Incendiary Attack Against Real Estate Company
One of several pieces of heavy machinery burned in an arson attack carried out by Weichan Auka Mapu (Mapuche Resistance Group).
translated by Earth First! Journal, January 12, 2017
During Sunday’s dawn, a new incendiary attack was registered in the Padre Las Casas commune of La Araucanía.
An unknown number of people arrived there, and burned a cistern truck, four backhoes, one roller, and one motor grader which had been used for work by the real estate company Del Sur… Read the rest of this entry
Mohawks block trains carrying oil from passing through Kahnawake
A group of Mohawks from Kahnawake is preventing freight trains carrying oil or other dangerous materials from passing through the territory for 24 hours in solidarity with those protesting a pipeline project in North Dakota. Steve Rukavina/CBC
Unclear how many trains will be affected, commuter trains will be allowed to pass
By Steve Rukavina, CBC News, December 1, 2016
A group of Mohawks from Kahnawake is preventing freight trains carrying oil or other dangerous materials from passing through the territory on a Canadian Pacific Railway line for 24 hours.
The protest is in solidarity with Indigenous groups protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline project in North Dakota. Read the rest of this entry
The Tactical Activists
by Sakej, November 21, 2016 (via Facebook)
The “battlefield” for political, social, economic and environmental justice issues is shifting.
The opposition (government and industry) has been gearing up for a huge conflict with their own population for decades now. They have planning, re-writing their operations manuals, recruiting, re-organizing, re-equipping, and re-training their law enforcement agencies to effectively suppress domestic political dissidence. There is no doubt about it nation-states have domesticated war.
Video: How Turkish rebels deal with water cannons
Turkish police storm Taksim square in Istanbul, in 2013, in an effort to dislodge a protester encampment. This water cannon was disabled with a Molotov cocktail.
Standing Rock pipeline protest leader draws a crowd in Vancouver
Tara Houska. Photo: CBC News
Tara Houska shared tactics used in North Dakota where she’s been living at the Standing Rock protest camp
CBC News, November 18, 2016
Hundreds of pipeline opponents packed a meeting in Vancouver Thursday night to hear from a leader of the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota.
Nearly 500 people have been arrested in North Dakota at the ongoing protests against the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, and the encampments show no sign of breaking up for the winter. Read the rest of this entry
Kahnawake Mohawks block train line in solidarity with #NoDAPL
Anti-pipeline protesters camp near a railway crossing in Kahnawake. They’re refusing to let trains pass, causing the Agence métropolitaine de transport’s Candiac line to be suspended for the morning rush hour Nov. 16, 2016. Phil Carpenter / Montreal Gazette
by Jason Magder, Montreal Gazette, November 16, 2016
Train service is expected to be interrupted into Wednesday evening as protesters blocked the CP rail line in Kahnawake, used by freight trains and the Candiac commuter train.
The protesters launched a 24-hour demonstration, starting Tuesday at 6 p.m., in support of opponents of the Dakota Access Pipeline, an oil pipeline that is scheduled to be built under a reservoir on the Missouri River in North Dakota. Anti-DAPL protesters in the U.S. are based in Standing Rock, N.D. Read the rest of this entry
All emergency vehicles permitted to pass through Muskrat Falls gate: protesters, Nalcor, police agree
An injured worker was transfered from the Muskrat Falls project to a hospital Friday morning with an apparent broken leg. (Katie Breen/CBC)
Agreement follows worker’s transfer from worksite to hospital Friday
By Anna Delaney, CBC News, October 21, 2016
Despite the current blockade at the Muskrat Falls worksite in central Labrador, protesters say they’ve reached an agreement with Nalcor and police to let all emergency vehicles pass through the gate. Read the rest of this entry
Blockade continues at Muskrat Falls main gate, protesters let workers out but not in
Blockade at Muskrat Falls, Oct 20, 2016. Photo by Ossie Michelin, Facebook.
Nalcor cancels day shift, says workers being financially affected by protest
By Anna Delaney, CBC News, October 20, 2016
Protesters are letting workers at the controversial Muskrat Falls project leave the site Thursday, but are not letting them enter.
Nalcor announced early Thursday morning the day shift at the hydroelectric project in central Labrador was cancelled due to the protesters preventing workers access to the site. Read the rest of this entry
Arson suspected in latest Dakota Access pipeline fire
Arson attack in Iowa in early August, 2016.
Associated Press, October 17, 2016
REASNOR, Iowa
Authorities suspect arson in the latest burning of heavy equipment being used in the construction of the four-state Dakota Access pipeline in central Iowa.
The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office says the blaze late Saturday near Reasnor, Iowa, caused about $2 million damage to an excavator and three bulldozers. The equipment is operated by a contractor for Dakota Access, a subsidiary of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners.
Opponents have for months been protesting the $3.8 billion, nearly 1,200-mile project pipeline, warning its construction could jeopardize water supply and damage cultural artifacts.
Another suspected arson of construction equipment happened on Aug. 1 at the same site, about 30 miles east of Des Moines.
No arrests have been made in either fire. The Iowa Fire Marshal Division and the FBI are investigating.
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