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  1. Among the Pipeline Fighters in Central Iowa
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Iowans protest the Bakken pipeline, fighting against Big Carbon and 21st century petro-capitalism.
  2. Canadians Choose a Clean Start: Bury the Tar Sands Along With Harper's Tenure
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The ousting of the Conservative Government from Ottawa by the Canadian public in Monday's election is also a repudiation of the continued, unrestrained development of the Athabasca tar sands.
  3. Communities and Organizations Respond to National Energy Board Decision on Line 9
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Communities and Organizations Respond to National Energy Board Decision on Line 9. WHO: Sarah Harmer, NEB intervener and musician, Vanessa Gray, Aamjiwnaang First Nations and Sarnia Against Pipelines, Marilyn Eriksen, Resident of Toronto Ward 24
  4. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  5. Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline.
  6. DAM LINE 9! Concert! Saturday Afternoon August 9
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Blockaders have arranged for 'Tunes Against the Tar Sands' to take place from 5pm until 7:30 pm Saturday, August 9. Activists Have Confirmed Several Musical Acts to Play Show at Blockade Site.
  7. DAM LINE 9! Occupation of Line 9 Construction Site Begins
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Individuals from affected communities throughout south-western Ontario have interrupted work on a section of Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline. Activists stopped the work this morning, asserting that Line 9 poses a danger to people, animals, land, and water
  8. Dene Nation Becomes Part of International Accord Opposed to Keystone XL Pipeline
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Dene Nation Becomes Part of International Accord Opposed to Keystone XL Pipeline.
  9. 84-year-old ex-librarian arrested protesting Kinder Morgan, calls NEB a "sham"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Barbara Grant criticized the NEB hearings of the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion as a "sham" and spoke out about the danger before crossing the police line to be arrested. At 84, she's the oldest person arrested on Burnaby Mountain so far.
  10. Environmental justice activists successfully shut down Line 9 construction site in Toronto
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    At 6am this morning, members of Rising Tide Toronto successfully shut down construction for Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline in North Toronto. Five people, including two priests, locked down to equipment to prevent further work on this project.
  11. Fake grassroots advocacy part of TransCanada's plan to silence Energy East critics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Documents show plans to "pressure" pipeline critics by working with third parties and industry-funded grassroots advocacy groups in favour of Energy East.
  12. Forest Service's 'Independent' Report on Atlantic Coast Pipeline Written by Pipeline Company Contractor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The U.S. Forest Service recently published an assessment of the proposed Atlantic Coast pipeline, calling the report "independent." In reality the assessment was performed and written by none other than a contractor working for the pipeline company.
  13. Former NDP Comms Director Key Strategist on Edelman Energy East Astroturf Strategy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    TransCanada has bought some unlikely support for the company’s public relations astroturf offensive aimed at winning support for the Energy East pipeline.
  14. How do you stop a pipeline when one family owns both the oil and the media?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Pipeline opponent’s op-ed rejected by Irving-owned newspaper in New Brunswick.
  15. NEB's green light for Line 9 sacrifices waterways, public health and the climate
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The National Energy Board (NEB) gave the green light to Enbridge Inc.'s contentious Line 9B pipeline on Feb 6, 2015, despite the company's failure to make necessary safety improvements. The decision means that critical safety measures will not be implement.
  16. Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS field analysis report points to lessons from policing the Dakota Access pipeline, saying they can be applied to the ongoing controversy over the Diamond pipeline, which, when complete, will stretch from Cushing, Oklahoma to Memphis, Tennessee. While lacking "credible information" of such a potential threat, DHS concluded that "the most likely potential domestic terrorist threat to the Diamond Pipeline … is from environmental rights extremists motivated by resentment over perceived environmental destruction."
  17. Oil and Water
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  18. Pipeline follies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    There are many of us Canadians who are totally outraged by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's policies on the environment - and particularly the tar sands devastation of the indigenous peoples.
  19. Pipeline Rights vs Private Property Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The U.S. natural gas industry views private property with less reverence than it did when the shale gas revolution began 10 years ago. Companies are chomping at the bit to build new pipelines that will move natural gas and natural gas liquids to profitable markets. However, building a single long-haul pipeline is a timely and costly endeavour that often requires working with hundreds of individual private property owners to create a right of way.
  20. Rising Tide Toronto launches "Line 9 Pledge of Resistance"
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Rising Tide Toronto launches Line 9 Pledge of Resistance. Group encourages civil disobedience to stop pipeline approved by NEB.
  21. Six Nations and allies Interrupt work on Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Individuals from Six Nations and their allies have interrupted work on a section of Enbridge's Line 9 pipeline. The work stoppage began around 10am Thursday morning. Individuals involved asked workers to leave.
  22. Toronto Council Moves to Protect City's Water from Pipeline Spills
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Toronto City Council's motion asking for emergency shut-off values on either side of the City of Toronto's major watercourses reflects increased resident pressure on the city to defend us all against environmental hazards.
  23. The Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMX): Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and the Russians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    There has long been fierce opposition to the TMX project (owned at the time by Texas-based Kinder Morgan), which will nearly triple the pipeline’s capacity to bring Alberta diluted bitumen (dilbit) to the West Coast.
  24. 'We've got a real divide in the community:' Wet'suwet'en Nation in turmoil
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    The battle over the CGL pipeline in British Columbia both on social media and in the press is dividing the Wet'suwet'en Nation some members say. The two opposing sides have been in a very public dispute over Coastal GasLink's (CGL) 670 km pipeline that will carry fracked natural gas from Dawson Creek, B.C., in the northeast, to Kitimat on the coast.


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