A Colorado newspaper asked The Daily Caller News Foundation Saturday why Americans believe it is morally justifiable to bomb Syria but wrong to ask anti-fracking activists to blow up oil and gas wells. Boulder Daily Camera Executive Editor Kevin Kaufman believes conservatives and liberals who support President Donald Trump’s decision to bomb Syria should also consider allowing anti-fracking activists the right to blow up oil and gas wells. He told TheDCNF that the two issues are essentially one [Read more]
Officials Say 240 Dumpsters Of Trash Have Been Hauled Out Of Pipeline Protest Site
Environmentalist activists left behind enough trash and debris at the Dakota Access Pipeline campsites to fill hundreds of dumpsters, government officials said Tuesday. Army Corps of Engineers officials say about 240 dumpsters towed out of the anti-DAPL opponent’s main campsite. Each of the dumpsters is chocked full of debris of old food stores, tents, building materials and abandoned personal belongings. Officials estimate they’ll need another 240 loads or so to clean out the remaining section [Read more]
Trump Says Companies ‘Have To’ Use US Steel When Making Pipelines
President Donald Trump said Thursday energy companies are now required to use U.S. steel if they want to construct future projects like Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines. Trump has refrained from suggesting companies should be required to use U.S. steel on pipelines, but he is now mandating companies build the lines with American-based raw materials as opposed to steel from other countries. “And you’re going to be doing pipelines now, you know that, right?” Trump told United States [Read more]
The Dakota Protest Campsites Are Officially Emptied Out
Only a handful of stragglers remain at campsites in North Dakota set up for activists protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican, said during a news conference Wednesday there are only 25 to 50 protesters left at the Riverside campsite. He said the anti-DAPL activists were still free to leave if they don’t interfere with sanitation crews scheduled to enter the site at 9 a.m. Thursday. “We’ve very firm that the camp is now closed,” Burgum said at the news conference. [Read more]
North Dakota Officials Haggle Over How To Pay For Pipeline Camp Cleanup
North Dakota public officials want to focus on cleaning up trash at campsites near the Dakota Access Pipeline before determining how to pay for the cleanup. Officials are worried warm weather and rapid snowmelt could cause floods around the campsites dotting the controversial project. They think the thousands of pounds of trash could pollute the Missouri River, among other waterways – officials are not concerned about how to pay for the cleanup. “With the amount of people that have been [Read more]
Anti-Exxon Crusade On The Ropes After Failing To Stop Rex Tillerson’s Confirmation
A months-long campaign targeting ExxonMobil was dealt a potential death blow Wednesday after activists failed to convince Democrats to vote against confirming the company’s former president as secretary of state. Activists associated with the so-called “ExxonKnew” movement suggested they would use the confirmation hearings as an opportunity to hold the former CEO responsible for his company’s supposedly poor climate record. They also hoped to browbeat Senate Democrats into voting against [Read more]
Company Behind Dakota Pipeline Wants Judge To Block Obama’s Delay
The company behind a contested oil pipeline in North Dakota wants a federal judge to block the Obama administration’s attempts to thwart the multi-billion dollar Dakota Access Pipeline. Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) requested U.S. District Judge James Boasberg prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from publishing its intent to conduct an environment impact study on the project. Any future studies on the controversial pipeline, the company said, should be scuttled until Boasberg rules on whether [Read more]
Energy Insider Says ‘Fake News’ Turned Public Against Dakota Access
The prevalence of “fake news” in social media contributed to the public turning away from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), according to one of the energy insiders lobbying for the multi-billion project. Tech-savvy DAPL opponents used a heavy dose of phony news in a multi-thronged campaign to turn the public against the multi-state pipeline, Craig Stevens, the spokesman for Midwest Alliance for Infrastructure Now, wrote Sunday in an editorial for the Washington Examiner. “We saw fake news play [Read more]
Enviros Launch Lawsuit Against Justin Trudeau-Approved Oil Pipeline
Environmentalist are attacking a Canadian oil pipeline approved by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a self-proclaimed climate change warrior. Activists with the Oceans Society and Raincoast Conservation Foundation filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans-Mountain pipeline, a $6.8-billion project tripling the capacity of the northern Alberta-to-Burnaby pipeline system to nearly 1 million barrels of oil a day. The group believes that the project [Read more]
US Energy Industry Launches First Of Its Kind Social Media Blitz Against Anti-Oil Activists
The United States nergy industry kick-started a social media campaign Thursday targeting claims that fossil fuel investments are morally evil and should be purged from all college campuses. The Independent Petroleum Association of America’s forum at the University of Denver marked the beginning of a national social media campaign against 350.org, an activist group focused on fossil fuel divestment issues founded by environmentalist Bill McKibben. The campaign is aimed at using a viral [Read more]