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Willamette Week
March 22, 2018
Oregon Activist Who Shut Off Oil Pipeline in Montana in 2016 Will Evade Jail Time ... In October, 2016, a group of five activists, dubbed the "Valve Turners," simultaneously shut off the valves to crude oil pipelines in Washington, ... The act temporarily halted the flow of tar sands from Canada to the U.S..
The Intercept
March 21, 2018
On October 11, 2016, while the Dakota Access pipeline protests were in full force, climate activists approached above-ground valve sites on five tar sands pipelines in Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, and Washington state. After calling the pipeline companies to give warning, they turned the valveÃâà...
AlterNet
March 21, 2018
Climate activists covered in oil hold pickets outside of the White House during a Keystone XL Pipeline protest on September 20, 2011. ... These “valve turners” selected those pipelines because tar sands is the most carbon-intensive, climate-damaging form of oil, and thus for them, burning it constitutes anÃâà...
Common Dreams
March 21, 2018
These “valve turners” selected those pipelines because tar sands is the most carbon-intensive, climate-damaging form of oil, and thus for them, burning it constitutes an emergency. ... Higgins and his fellow activists live streamed their actions and then waited calmly for police to arrive and arrest them.
U.S. News & World Report
March 20, 2018
An Oregon climate change activist has avoided jail time and been ordered to pay $3,775 after he was convicted of illegally shutting down a crude oil ... in Washington state, North Dakota and Minnesota, using civil disobedience to urge a halt to the use of tar sands crude — the most carbon-intensive, climateÃâà...
Greenpeace International
March 20, 2018
Yesterday, ten activists peacefully blocked the entrance to a Kinder Morgan construction site in Coast Salish territory near Vancouver, Canada for several hours. Their bold action further delayed the construction of a tar sands oil pipeline that would violate Indigenous rights, threaten clean air and water forÃâà...
Billings Gazette
March 20, 2018
BILLINGS — An Oregon climate change activist, who was convicted of illegally shutting down a crude oil pipeline as part of a multi-state protest, avoided jail time ... Environmentalists and scientists say tar sands crude could exacerbate climate change due to the carbon dioxide released when it's burned.
Duluth News Tribune
March 13, 2018
Tantoo Cardinal, an award-winning actress and Metis environmental activist, talks with a reporter Tuesday, March 13, in Bemidji before speaking at Red Lake's Seven Clans Casino. Cardinal grew up in the tar sands region of Alberta, Canada, and addressed the dangers of oil pipelines in her talk. CardinalÃâà...
E&E News
March 8, 2018
The government of British Columbia is fighting Kinder Morgan Inc.'s plan to expand a pipeline carrying oil sands crude from western Alberta to the port of ... "Talk about someone who needs to be removed from the gene pool," Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners LP, said of one activist whoÃâà...
New Republic
March 8, 2018
The recent success of the gun control movement in the corporate space is instructive for progressive activists of every stripe today. ... JPMorgan Chase hasn't issued a statement on the TransCanada loan, but the bank is the top U.S. funder of tar sands oil, according to a November report released by aÃâà...
KIRO Seattle
March 8, 2018
Alberta, which has the world's third-largest oil reserves, needs infrastructure in place to export its growing oil sands production. ... Environmental activists in Washington also oppose the pipeline. ... Cantwell said the problem is the type of oil coming from the tar sands, a heavy crude called diluted bitumen.
EcoWatch
February 19, 2018
This sentiment was repeated in an article in Oil Sands Magazine: "The solid pellets are also likely to be exempted from the federal Liberal's crude tanker moratorium off BC's northern coast, although Transport Minister Marc Garneau says more testing is needed to confirm the consequences of a spill.".
Minnesota Public Radio News
February 16, 2018
On Thursday, a lawyer for the activists told the appeals court judges that climate change is an emergency, and that through the coordinated action by activists, 15 percent of the country's oil supply was temporarily stopped. Andy Pearson, Midwest tar sands coordinator with MN 350, said other less extremeÃâà...
EcoWatch
February 7, 2018
Michael Foster, the valve turner who temporarily halted the flow of tar sands oil in TransCanada's Keystone pipeline in October 2016, called for future ... "TransCanada and the State of North Dakota had both pushed for a harsh sentence to deter other climate activists (the prosecution recommended fiveÃâà...
The Missoulian
December 31, 1999
BILLINGS — An Oregon climate change activist, who was convicted of illegally shutting down a crude oil pipeline as part of a multi-state protest, avoided jail time ... Environmentalists and scientists say tar sands crude could exacerbate climate change due to the carbon dioxide released when it's burned.
DeSmog (blog)
December 31, 1999
Thursday's injunction also applies to the pipeline's construction site at Westridge Marine Terminal, the Sun reported. According to 350 Seattle, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project aims to triple the amount of Alberta tar sands oil carried from the Canadian Rockies to Burnaby, BC and Anacortes,Ãâà...
KING5.com
December 31, 1999
The group called the company's transportation of "tar sands" crude oil through Washington's waters "reckless," and called attention to the threat posed by their Trans Mountain Pipeline and Tanker Project. The group claims 900,000 barrels of crude oil would be delivered from Alberta to British ColumbiaÃâà...
Energy Collective
December 31, 1999
Based on the initial description of this product, it appears that it could alleviate many of the risks involved with moving tar sands oil by rail. ... The Globe and Mail reported that “the technology could give oil-sands producers who lack pipeline access a new way to reach refineries in North America, Asia, andÃâà...
