Saturday, October 15, 2016

Water Protectors Shut Down Five Tar Sands Pipelines in US Simultaneously


Source: Unicorn Riot

Published 

Early this morning, five water protectors successfully shut down five pipelines across the northern United States that were delivering tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada. The action was in support of the call for International Days of Prayer and Action for Standing Rock.

The individuals used manual safety valves and bolt cutters to access and shut down the flow of tar sands oil into the US. They are “calling on President Obama to use emergency powers to keep the pipelines closed and mobilize for the extraordinary shift away from fossil fuels now required to avert catastrophe.”



The five pipelines that were shut down are as follows:

1) Enbridge line 4, Leonard, MN

2) Enbridge line 67, Leonard, MN

3) TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline, Walhalla, ND

4) Spectra Energy’s Express pipeline, Coal Banks Landing, MT

5) Kinder-Morgan’s Trans-Mountain pipeline, Anacortes, WA

The actions were undertaken by Emily Johnson, 50, and Michael Foster, 52, of Seattle, WA, Annette Klapstein, 64, of Bainbridge Island, WA, Ken Ward, 59, of Corbett, OR, and Leonard Higgins, 64, of Eugene, OR.

Read the press release sent to Unicorn Riot about their actions:

“192 nations have agreed that average global temperature should not increase 1.5C° above baseline in order to avert climate change cataclysm. This objective cannot be met, and any hope of keeping temperature below even 2.0°C depends on a total ban on new fossil fuel extractions and an immediate end to oil sands and coal use. In the absence of any political leadership or legal mechanisms for accomplishing this, these individuals feel duty bound to halt the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels by personal direct action.” ~ press release



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Below you can read more about the individual water protectors that undertook the direct action:

Ken Ward, 59, of Corbette, OR said,

“There is no plan of action, policy or strategy being advanced now by any political leader or environmental organization playing by the rules that does anything but acquiesce to ruin. Our only hope is to step outside polite conversation and put our bodies in the way. We must shut it down, starting with the most immediate threats — oil sands fuels and coal.“



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Emily Johnston, 50, of Seattle, WA said,

“For years we’ve tried the legal, incremental, reasonable methods, and they haven’t been enough; without a radical shift in our relationship to Earth, all that we love will disappear. My fear of that possibility is far greater than my fear of jail. My love for the beauties of this world is far greater than my love of an easy life.”



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