OMNI
When
I gathered signatures at the protest of the pipelines, I said I would use them
to help us follow up and stay on the case.
Edward H collated his and my addresses and typed them up for us all. Dick
Contents
of Fossil Fuels Newsletter #5 at end
Contents of Fossil Fuels Newsletter #6,
October 4, 2016
Lay,
Pipeline Opposition Fundraiser
Fossil
Fuels Against All Creation
Resistance to Diamond
Pipeline Crossing Arkansas
Resistance to Dakotas Pipeline and
Oil Pipelines
The
Standing Rock Sioux and Supporters vs. Dakota Access Pipeline
Water: Oil Spills and Other Sources of Water
Pollution and Scarcity
The Standing Rock Sioux and Supporters vs. Dakota Access Pipeline
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Stand Up With Our
Protectors of Our Earth in Arkansas! And Special Fundraising
Concert!
Dear
Friend,
Your
Voice Matters!
Have Courage! Rise Up! Let's Go Together and Stand Up With Our Protectors of Our Earth!
The
Diamond Oil Pipeline is going to be constructed through our beautiful Natural
State of Arkansas and through our rivers!
Consequences
of Oil Pipelines to Our Earth and Water!
Plains
All American Pipeline LP and its subsidiaries (Diamond Pipeline) have
reported over 200 accidents across their lines since 2006. These accidents
resulted in a combined 864,300 gallons of spilled hazardous liquids, damages
topping $32 million and 25 enforcement actions by federal regulators.
And
also: The Ozark community will be
organizing a Huge fundraising special concert with a lot of bands, food and
art to raise money for our Protectors of our Earth against the oil pipelines,
both in Standing Rock and right here in Arkansas against the Diamond
Pipeline; all money raised will be for our Protectors of the
Earth.
The new scheduled date for this event is Saturday, October 29th. We have a beautiful two acre private land in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and we plan to have a stage with sound systems. Would you like to be a part of organizing this? Do you know of any local bands who would like to be a part of this event? Will you Please help spread the news about this event.
Please
feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like to help in
any way.
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Fossil Fuels Killing
the Planet
Michael Klare
Hooked! The
Unyielding Grip of Fossil Fuels on Global Life. Common Dreams (July 14, 2016)
Pg
11B Sept 3, 2016 NWA Dem-GazUsing up our planet
Every automobile dealer in the world wants to sell as many gasoline- powered vehicles as he can. Every big truck manufacturer in the world wants to sell as many diesel-powered trucks as he can. Every aircraft maker wants to sell as many jet fuel-powered planes as he can. The same is true for diesel-powered trains, ships and heavy equipment. Can you imagine how many millions of internal-combustion engines are started and run every 24 hours? In addition, we continue to operate power plants on fossil fuels and build new ones to do the same. We want to build cross-country pipelines to carry oil-saturated sands to refineries to make more fossil fuels. We are suspicious of wind farms, solar and nuclear-generated electricity. There are more humans on this earth than there ever have been. We would like to ignore the fact that we are using up the only planet we know how to live on. Heat, drought, high winds, wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, warm oceans, melting glaciers, heavy rains, flooding, sub-freezing temperatures, heavy snowfalls, lightning, hail, earthquakes. It doesn’t pay to mess with Mother Nature.
JACK C. McFARLIN
Little Rock
Dakota
Access Pipeline and Carbon: According
to Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth, and former VP
candidate for the Green Party, states that the proposed Dakota Access pipeline
will bring 250,000 tons per day of carbon into the environment. Former
editor of Scientific American Trudy Bell says there is a 57% chance of
catastrophic leak with this proposed pipeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kooD44norew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kooD44norew
RESISTANCE
DIAMOND PIPELINE CROSSING
ARKANSAS Compiled by Abel Tomlinson
Arkansas
Residents Discover They Can’t Stop Pipeline from Crossing Their Land
http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2014/04/18/arkansas-residents-discover-they-cant-stop-pipeline-from-crossing-their-land/
Diamond
Pipeline Project Ready, Some Call It A Flint Water Crisis In The Making
http://ualrpublicradio.org/post/diamond-pipeline-project-ready-some-call-it-flint-water-crisis-making
Coalition's fight against Diamond
Pipeline routing gets health department backing
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2016/03/18/coalitions-fight-against-diamond-pipeline-routing-gets-health-department-backing
Landowners Lose to Oil
Interests:
Protection on the War Path
Proposed Pipeline Project Concerns Some Residents
In Clarksville
Battling Big Oil: Property Rights Not Pipelines: http://hshotspots.com/battling-big-oil-property-rights-pipelines
/
Chronological
Collection of Additional Diamond Pipeline News Articles: http://gnoida.com/kw/Diamond+Pipeline+Project+Construction/2/
Organizations:
Events:
Petitions:
RESISTANCE TO Dakota Access Pipeline
The Standing Rock Sioux and Supporters vs. Dakota Access Pipeline
Protests: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Published 11:00 pm EDT, September 3,
2016 Updated 12:04 am EDT, September 7,
2016 140 Comments By Jessica McBride 
“In one day, our sacred
land has been turned into hollow ground,” the tribal chairman said,according to The Chicago Tribune.
1. Protesters Cried Out on Social Media Amid Reports of Attack Dogs,
Pepper Spray & Injuries
Social media filled with dramatic photos, videos and eyewitness accounts
of dogs being used against protesters on September 3, including reports of
injuries and pepper spray being allegedly directed at protesters.
The Wall Street Journal reports the protests against the $3.8 billion
pipeline have united “groups of Native Americans, landowners and
environmentalists.”
Private security used dogs at the protest on September 3. Both
sides claimed injury. The Native American tribe says the protests could endanger
water quality. (Getty)
2. The Native American
Protesters Said They Are Prepared for a ‘Long Battle’ & Have Taken Their
Case to Court
The Energy Transfer company says on its website that the company “is
developing a new pipeline to provide crude oil transportation service from
point(s) of origin in the Bakken/Three Forks play in North Dakota to Patoka,
Illinois.” The site contains additional details about the pipeline, including
safety.
VIDEO: Jill Stein Facing Possible Charges in Dakota
Access Pipeline Protest Spray Painting
Green Party presidential
nominee Jill Stein may face vandalism charges for spray painting at the Dakota
Access Pipeline Protests, ABC News says. Watch video.
3. A Texas Billionaire Is
Behind the Pipeline Project
4. Hollywood Celebrities
Such as Susan Sarandon Have Joined the Protests, & Leo DiCaprio & Stein
Also Showed Support
The tribe wrote in its lawsuit that it is concerned “with
impacts to the habitat of wildlife
species such as piping plovers, least tern, Dakota skipper, and pallid
sturgeon, among others. The Tribe has a particular concern for bald eagles,
which remain federally protected and play a significant role in the Tribe’s
culture, and which would be adversely affected by the proposed pipeline. The
Tribe is greatly concerned with the possibility of oil spills and leaks from
the pipeline should it be constructed and operated, particularly into waters
that are of considerable economic, religious, and cultural importance to the
Tribe.”
species such as piping plovers, least tern, Dakota skipper, and pallid sturgeon, among others. The Tribe has a particular concern for bald eagles, which remain federally protected and play a significant role in the Tribe’s culture, and which would be adversely affected by the proposed pipeline. The Tribe is greatly concerned with the possibility of oil spills and leaks from the pipeline should it be constructed and operated, particularly into waters that are of considerable economic, religious, and cultural importance to the Tribe.”
5. The Standing Rock Tribe
Is Concerned About the Impact on Water Quality for Millions [more on water: see
at end]
According to the Bismarck Tribune,
the tribe, located in North Dakota, fears the project “will disturb sacred
sites and impact drinking water for thousands of tribal members on the Standing
Rock Sioux Reservation and millions further downstream.”
The lawsuit says the reservation established in the 1851 Treaty
of Fort Laramie “included extensive lands that would be crossed by the proposed
pipeline. The Tribe has a strong historical and cultural connection to such
land. Despite the promises made in the two Fort Laramie treaties, in 1877 and
again in 1889, Congress betrayed the treaty parties by passing statutes that
took major portions of this land away from the Sioux.”
BLOCKADES AND
NATIVE AMERICANS IN CIVIL RESISTANCE: KLEIN, This Changes Everything
SAFEGUARD
CREATION! ADD POPE FRANCIS TO YOUR LIST
OF ALLIES
Pope
Francis has said, “Climate change is a problem that can no longer be left to
our future generations. I would say to you now or never. Every year the
problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I
would say that we are at the limits of suicide.”
In response to the Dakota people’s nonviolent direct actions, private security
guards have been allowed to brutalize, without warning, anyone resisting the
pipeline. Members of the Lakota tribe have been beaten, maced, thrown to the
ground, and attacked with dogs. Pregnant women and children trying to protect
their lands have been sent to the hospital after dog bites. Meanwhile Homeland
Security has removed medical trailers and water tanks. Local police, the
National Guard, and the FBI have allowed this brutality to continue, even to
the point of illegally putting up road blocks to stop anyone from entering the
camp. Civil liberties have been thrown out the window, all in the interest of
getting cheaper oil.
In response to the Dakota people’s nonviolent direct actions, private security guards have been allowed to brutalize, without warning, anyone resisting the pipeline. Members of the Lakota tribe have been beaten, maced, thrown to the ground, and attacked with dogs. Pregnant women and children trying to protect their lands have been sent to the hospital after dog bites. Meanwhile Homeland Security has removed medical trailers and water tanks. Local police, the National Guard, and the FBI have allowed this brutality to continue, even to the point of illegally putting up road blocks to stop anyone from entering the camp. Civil liberties have been thrown out the window, all in the interest of getting cheaper oil.
As Dakota Access Pipeline Fight
Grows, Where Are Obama and Clinton?
Green Party presidential
candidate Jill Stein may face charges for spray-painting construction equipment
at a DAPL site on Tuesday by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
"We know that to defeat a pipeline, it takes a
movement of people from all corners of the nation," 350.org wrote in its call to action. (Photo: Joe Brusky/flickr/cc)
"President Obama could step in any time and say 'no' to
this whole thing—like he did for Keystone XL."
—350.org
Watch below as
Stein tags a bulldozer with the words, "I approve this message":
But whereas Stein has been clear in her opposition to DAPL (as has former
presidential candidate Bernie Sanders), Obama and Clinton have been
absent—even as resistance has grown to include Indigenous people from
across the U.S. and activists face increasingly severe crackdowns.
Three weeks ago,
journalist and Oglala Lakota Nation citizen Simon Moya-Smith called on Clinton to weigh in, writing:
[B]ack in
February, the Clinton camp posted to its website the candidate's policy platform for Native Americans. In it, Clinton
declares that she "will continue to stand for Tribal sovereignty and in
support of Tribal resources and sacred sites."
Earlier
this year, Clinton stumped in Indian country,
vying for votes. But if she truly supports Native American sovereignty, and if
she is sincere about honoring the treaties and protecting sacred sites, then
she will take a stand against this ominous pipeline as well as the brazen
violation of our treaty rights.
two years ago,
the President and first lady Michelle Obama visited the very same reservation being threatened by the pipeline
today. They laughed and played with the children there at Standing Rock. They
listened to the kids as they sang in ancient languages once outlawed by
Christian invaders (popularly known as "settlers.") Will the Obamas
now be silent at a time when those same children they so affectionately
embraced need them most?
But on Tuesday,
he noted that
there has still been no word from Clinton or Obama.
(In the interim,
an investigation revealed the more than two dozen major banks
and financial institutions that are bankrolling the project—many of them
Clinton and Obama donors.)
Meanwhile,
climate group 350.org is circulating a petition urging Obama to "direct the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers to revoke the permits under 'Nationwide Permit 12' and
stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline once and for all."
Indeed, the
organization said in an email to supporters, "President Obama could step
in any time and say 'no' to this whole thing—like he did for Keystone XL."
"We know
that to defeat a pipeline, it takes a movement of people from all corners of
the nation," 350 wrote in its call to action. "This is Keystone all
over again. And like Keystone, we can stop this pipeline through massive public
pressure on the Obama administration to protect the land, water, and climate."
This echoes an open letter (pdf) sent last week from 350 and other environmental
groups to Obama, which described DAPL as "yet another example of an oil
pipeline project being permitted without adequate public engagement or
sufficient environmental review" and called for the president to
intervene.
Meanwhile,
similar demands rang out on social media:
Indeed, as
environmentalist and 350.org co-founder Bill
McKibben wrote in
a piece published Tuesday in the New Yorker, the silence from
politicians is deafening.
"Young
people on the [Standing Rock Sioux] reservation organized a run across the
country this summer to deliver more than a hundred thousand petition signatures
to the President asking him to stop the pipeline," McKibben wrote.
"They weren't received at the White House—disappointing, since Obama had
actually visited the reservation in 2014. 'My Administration is determined to
partner with tribes,' he told them then, but so far he's made no public
statement on the Dakota Access pipeline."
"All of
which is sad," McKibben continued, "because this case offers the U.S.
government the chance to make at least small amends for some of the darkest
parts of its official history—to demonstrate that it has absorbed at least a
few small lessons from that past."
Debra Hale-Shelton. “Spill Fine, Mandates Fought by Exxon.” NADG (9-5-16,
1A).
Gretchen Goldman
WATER (#5 of
FACTS above)
UN
for Clean, Fresh Water
United
Nations
Drought and Deserts
—350.org
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Text
of the Convention including all ... Leaflet about the 10-Year ...
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Former
Executive Secretaries ... The Executive Secretary ...
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Guidelines
and application form for Organizers of Side Events COP ...
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...
drought impacts and building resilience. 27/07/2016UNCCD ...
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National
action programmes (NAPs) are the key instruments ...
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Text
of the Convention including all Annexes - Table of Contents ...
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In 2015 UNCCD
published Land Matters for Climate:
Reducing the Gap and Approaching the Target
growingblue.com/implications-of-growth/
Because of population growth and economic
development, water resources in many parts of the world are pushed to their
natural limits. In turn, the ability of cities and countries to grow,
attract investment, meet the fundamental needs of populations and ensure
environmental ...
pai.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/PAI-1293-WATER-4PG.pdf
demand for water mounts and pressure
on finite water resources intensifies. ... that thepopulation will continue
growing, and this will impact water availability.
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/.../water-and-population-limits-to-growt...
Feb 3, 2012 - Water – essential, finite,
and increasingly scarce – has been dubbed “the new oil.” Experts debate whether
human societies are approaching ...
Agriculture
Here’s a paragraph from a 2012 UN Food and
Agriculture Organization study, “Coping with Water Scarcity” http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3015e/i3015e.pdf :
“Of all economic sectors, agriculture is
the sector where water scarcity has the greatest relevance. Currently, agriculture accounts for 70 percent of
global freshwater withdrawals, and more than 90 percent of its consumptive use.
Under the joint pressure of population growth and changes in dietary habits,
food consumption is increasing in most regions of the world.”
Also,
see the critiques of EPA
drinking water standards and radioactivity in Nukewatch
(Summer 2016 and Fall 2016). The
Fall report is by Diane D’Arrigo, Director of the Radioactive Waste Project at
Nuclear Information & Resource Service (NIRS).
Contents: Campaign against Fossil Fuels
Newsletter #5, Focus on Divestment #2
Divestment
Campaign
States
California
Colleges
Movement Growing
Anti-FF Students Forming Coalitions with Anti-Private Prison
Activists
La Sala and University of Maine: Not Only
Divestment, But Also Reinvestment
A Point of View from Yale U
Union Theological Seminary
Diane Rehm Show: Divestment Movement
Expanding Beyond Colleges
Organizations
350.org
Also
Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground for the People and the Planet
Affirmative
Government:
Obama, Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management Curb Arctic Drilling
Analogy to Philly Soft Drinks
Tax: Philly Soda Tax Gets Thumbs-Up From Council.
Use Taxes to Prevent Harms and Support Help, Increase Fossil Fuels Taxes and Use Revenue for Renewable Energy.
Use Taxes to Prevent Harms and Support Help, Increase Fossil Fuels Taxes and Use Revenue for Renewable Energy.
Law: Citizens Suing Corporations
Public
Service Organizations: Oil Watch, Latin
America and Africa
A Few Problems
Climate
Change Is Happening
Arid and
Semi-Arid Regions are Expanding
The Great
Regulator of Climate—the Forest Carbon “Sink”—is Fast Disappearing.
Naff, Renewables Not Enough, Ways to Reduce
C02
Climate
Change is $Denied$$
Oil
Industry’s Clean Air Fight Prepared for Its Climate Denial
END FOSSIL
FUELS NEWSLETTERS #6
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