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<span>Constitution Pipeline Permit Denied</span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><div><em><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">- April 22, 2016, Energy Justice Network</span></span></em></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Accompanied by heavily armed U.S. Marshals wearing bulletproof vests, a Constitution Pipeline crew began cutting down the Holleran family’s sugar maple stand on March 1. North Harford Maple is a family business owned by Cathy Holleran that produces maple sap and syrup. Cutting was completed on March 4.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The chainsaws started up eleven days after U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion dismissed contempt charges against the landowners on February 19. That order condemned the property and several others in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania via eminent domain and gave Constitution Pipeline Company permission to cut without landowner permission. Energy Justice Network Director and attorney, Mike Ewall, assisted by National Lawyers Guild attorneys Terry Lodge and Larry Hildes, kept the property owners away from facing jail or fines that could have come with the pipeline company's contempt case.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The Constitution Pipeline is a joint project of the Williams Companies and Cabot Oil & Gas. On January 29 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a Notice to Proceed with non-mechanized tree cutting, but only for the Pennsylvania portion of the pipeline. </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The construction of the vast majority of the proposed Constitution Pipeline had been postponed until October 1, reports <a href="https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2016/03/11/williams-delays-construction-of-constitution-pipeline/">NPR</a>. </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Although the longer New York segment of the pipeline has not been approved by the state, the cutting has destroyed 90% of the family’s production. </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Energy Justice Network joined with the Holleran family that owns North Harford Maple, as well as other protesters, to oppose the tree cutting. Go <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S1_0x17WZB_yLKG73RMJeC47GR-P-inJ2v90vA9c3IE/edit">here</a> to read more about the campaign. The website for the shale gas program is <a href="http://energyjusticesummer.org">www.energyjusticesummer.org</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span>Fri, 04/22/2016 - 19:19</span>
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Fri, 22 Apr 2016 23:19:40 +0000Anonymous2442 at http://www.energyjustice.netHow To Fight a Pipeline
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<span>How To Fight a Pipeline </span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><div><em><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">- by Alex Lotorto, Energy Justice Network</span></span></em></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">It's a special organizing challenge to fight pipelines, as we're fighting a line, not a point, on the map. Companies and agencies won't release data listing all impacted landowners. In Pennsylvania, we have enhanced our outreach by using GIS to overlay company pipeline maps with 911 emergency addresses obtained from each county, allowing us to identify impacted landowners.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Along the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=z3Z9zrOjHn3E.kQB7F81-qiUA">Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline</a> in northeast Pennsylvania, we used this information to mass-mail and go door-to-door to over 200 landowners in three counties to inform them of their rights and build a landowner coalition that meets quarterly.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Our goal for landowner organizing is to have them each deny survey permission to the company (Williams Partners LLC) so that permit filing can't be completed. Then, we intend to support landowners through eminent domain proceedings by providing referrals to vetted attorneys and appraisers.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Media strategy is just as important and we have had a number of human interest stories published in local and national news about compelling cases where landowners are standing up against Williams and other companies.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">In Pike and Northampton Counties, we appealed the PA Department of Environmental Protection's air permits for twin <a href="http://www.nomilfordcompressor.org">compressor stations</a> meant to pressurize the Columbia Pipeline 1278 line that transports gas to the proposed Cove Point LNG export terminal. Both compressors emit the equivalent of a fleet of idling diesel school buses, making the local air quality especially dangerous for children's developing lungs.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">During the compressor appeals, Columbia Pipeline motioned to dismiss our case and Governor Tom Wolf's attorneys agreed. However, the judge dismissed their motion and is allowing us to proceed with our arguments regarding best available control technologies, health impacts, local zoning approval, and other important considerations.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Most urgently, we're leading the cutting edge battle against the 124-mile <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1519906745006626/">Constitution Pipeline</a>, a project of Williams and Cabot Oil & Gas, which is proposed to carry fracked gas from Susquehanna County, PA to Albany, NY and beyond.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">On January 29, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permitted tree cutting to begin in Pennsylvania that must be finished by March 31 to comply with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Endangered Species Act as enforced by the US Fish & Wildlife Service.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">We have landowners across Susquehanna County who have given our volunteers and staff permission to monitor the pipeline clearing for violations. On one property, where a sugar maple farm is producing syrup this season, we have set up a picket line where we've turned away tree crews for 16 days straight.</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The picket at North Harford Maple has drawn both the attention of national media organizations like NPR and the Associated Press and legal action in federal court by the company. We're pledging to stick to it for the long haul so stay tuned for more updates!</span></span></div>
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Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:52:33 +0000Anonymous2433 at http://www.energyjustice.netJuly issue of Energy Justice Now: Building Movement Solidarity
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<span>July issue of Energy Justice Now: Building Movement Solidarity </span>
<div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Are you ready for the <a href="http://www.energyjustice.net/files/biomass/EJNow/2014-07.html">July </a>issue of Energy Justice Network's new publication, <strong><em>Energy Justice Now</em></strong>?!</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">-"<a href="http://www.energyjustice.net/content/ten-commandments-movement-solidarity">The Ten Commandments of Movement Solidarity</a>" </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">-"<a href="http://www.energyjustice.net/content/cowardly-climate-report-urges-business-usual">Cowardly Climate Report Urges Business as Usual</a>"</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">...and <a href="http://www.energyjustice.net/files/biomass/EJNow/2014-07.html">more</a>!!!</span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Please share the <a href="http://www.energyjustice.net/files/biomass/EJNow/2014-07.html">July 2014</a> issue of Energy Justice Now with your friends, colleagues, neighbors, media, and elected officials!</span></span></div>
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Sun, 13 Jul 2014 01:56:28 +0000Anonymous2162 at http://www.energyjustice.netA New Kind of Pipeline…for CO2?
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<span>A New Kind of Pipeline…for CO2? </span>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;"><em>- by Russell Hubbard, April 12, 2014. Source: <a href="http://www.omaha.com/article/20140412/MONEY/140419599/1707">Omaha World-Herald </a></em></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Scott Hornafius, president of Elk Petroleum, said such a pipeline would buy some or all of the CO2 produced by the state’s 24 ethanol plants and ship it to Wyoming, where it is needed for injection into oil wells. The CO2 helps drillers extract almost as much oil as the initial strike, about 17 percent of the well’s total.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">For now, the CO2 pipeline is just a dream, without financial backers or cooperating ethanol plants. But Hornafius said the state’s ethanol plants produce about 5 million metric tons of CO2 a year as a natural byproduct of the process. Iowa, with 42 ethanol plants, should also be part of the pipeline, Hornafius said.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">“It is an enormously underutilized resource,” said Hornafius, speaking to people gathered for the Nebraska Ethanol Board’s 2014 conference in the Magnolia Hotel in Omaha.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The proposal envisions an underground pipeline stretching more than 1,000 miles through the Iowa/Nebraska ethanol trail. It would start in about the middle of Iowa, near the border with Illinois, moving across central Iowa. It would enter Nebraska at Omaha, then jog south for most of its Cornhusker journey before heading north into Wyoming.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Hornafius said it is not unreasonable for the project to get underway in three years. He said major financing would have to emerge, probably from the large oil producers operating in Wyoming.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Then there is the gaining of rights of way from landowners and the other legal concerns, followed by a one-year construction phase at a cost of $1 million per mile.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">The pipeline would be willing to pay about $10 a metric ton for the CO2, Hornafius said.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">“It is a phenomenal idea, very creative, just the sort of thing we need,” said conference attendee Brett Frevert, chief financial officer of Council Bluffs ethanol producer Southeast Iowa Renewable Energy. “But it is a long way from feasibility.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">More than a dozen such pipelines are already operating, bypassing Nebraska, but running in a crooked line from Texas to North Dakota, many of them sourcing CO2 from natural deposits. There is also one originating in Mississippi. Some have been around for decades. There has never been a leak, Hornafius said, other than from construction equipment digging where it wasn’t supposed to.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Even if there was, it wouldn’t mean much, he said. While CO2 is considered a harmful greenhouse gas, it is naturally occurring, exhaled by every living organism.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Hornafius said the injection of CO2 into oil wells is an old idea. He said the gas stimulates oil to move around and give itself up for extraction after all other methods have failed. “It is almost as good as a new well,” he said.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Oil producers, he said, will look warmly upon the idea for another reason: California has a low-carbon fuel standard that requires energy companies to reduce the carbon profile of the fuels they sell in the state. Oil produced via CO2 injection counts toward the goal, because more CO2 remains trapped underground than is given off by the fuel produced with it. There are significant financial incentives for oil producers.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">“Basically, it is sold in California for a premium price,” Hornafius said. “That premium price in turn pays for the pipeline.”</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:times new roman,times,serif;">Todd Sneller, administrator of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, said the CO2 idea is just one of many circulating on how to use corn and its byproducts in novel ways. “The CO2 pipeline is an interesting component,” he said. “The whole idea is to capture additional value.”</span></span></p>
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