Category: Capitalism / Globalisation

Honduran Army Kills Indigenous Leader of COPINH Who Resisted Dam in Rio Blanco

16 July 2013 On Mon­day July 15th, while the Lenca com­mu­ni­ty of Rio Blan­co, in Hon­duras, marked 106 days of resis­tance to the build­ing of Agua Zarca hydro­elec­tric dam, the Army indis­crim­i­nate­ly shot at the demon­stra­tors killing one of the l

16 July 2013 On Mon­day July 15th, while the Lenca com­mu­ni­ty of Rio Blan­co, in Hon­duras, marked 106 days of resis­tance to the build­ing of Agua Zarca hydro­elec­tric dam, the Army indis­crim­i­nate­ly shot at the demon­stra­tors killing one of the lead­ers of the resis­tance, Tomas Gar­cia, and seri­ous­ly injur­ing his son (pho­to).

Tomas was a Lenca indige­nous leader who was part of his community’s Indige­nous and Aux­il­iary Coun­cil and of the Nation­al Coun­cil of the Civic Coun­cil of Pop­u­lar and Indige­nous Orga­ni­za­tions of Hon­duras (COPINH).

The Hon­duran activist was shot dead while he was walk­ing with oth­er com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers to the project’s facil­i­ties owned by Desa and Sino­hy­dro com­pa­nies, while his son, who was seri­ous­ly injured by a high-cal­i­bre bul­let, is in hos­pi­tal and his life is in dan­ger, Berta Cac­eres, leader of COPINH, told Real World Radio.

Berta described the act as “a des­per­ate and crim­i­nal reac­tion” by the com­pa­nies that want to build a dam on Riv­er Gual­caeque, seri­ous­ly affect­ing the com­mu­ni­ties liv­ing there. The Hon­duran army sup­ports the com­pa­nies, said Berta, and they even pay for the trans­porta­tion and main­te­nance of troops deployed by the Hon­duran gov­ern­ment in Tegu­ci­gal­pa in Rio Blan­co.

On Mon­day night, COPINH report­ed of more mil­i­tary troops being deployed in Zaca­pa, San­ta Bar­bara, and there were fears of new shoot­ings against civil­ians dur­ing the wake of the mur­dered indige­nous leader.

“The com­mu­ni­ty is out­raged. We are in great sor­row, also because we believe we have to con­tin­ue our strug­gle”, said Berta dur­ing a phone inter­view. “As the elec­tions approach (in Novem­ber) they want to teach COPINH a les­son”, she explained and said the com­mu­ni­ty decid­ed to con­tin­ue occu­py­ing the access to the dam.

A few hours after the inci­dents, COPINH had report­ed that since Fri­day 12, top exec­u­tives of the com­pa­ny Desar­rol­lo Energéti­co Sociedad Anón­i­ma (DESA)- which is in charge of the project togeth­er with the orig­i­nal group Sino­hy­dro – trav­elled to meet with local hit­men, who are respon­si­ble for direct threats against sev­er­al mem­bers of the indige­nous coun­cil, includ­ing Tomas Gar­cia.

Before they start­ed shoot­ing at civil­ians, the mil­i­tary made no attempt to talk with the activists, said Berta.

The leader of COPINH was ille­gal­ly arrest­ed in May and sub­mit­ted to a tri­al for pur­port­ed­ly hav­ing an ille­gal weapon, some­thing that the court could not prove and the case was final­ly dis­missed.

The leader high­light­ed that in the new cas­es of repres­sion against res­i­dents of the com­mu­ni­ty of Rio Blan­co, we urgent­ly need inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty to report the civic and mil­i­tary author­i­ties and both com­pa­nies for mur­der.

“We are aware that we are con­front­ed with an impuni­ty strat­e­gy in a con­text that seems to be wors­en­ing”, said Berta. She said the com­mu­ni­ties’ deter­mi­na­tion to defend their ter­ri­to­ry is strength­ened in these sit­u­a­tions of state and pri­vate vio­lence.

In fact, riv­er Gual­car­que is con­sid­ered an essen­tial part of the Lenca spir­i­tu­al­i­ty and the com­mu­ni­ties are con­fronting the busi­ness projects as a trib­ute to their culture’s sym­bol­ic fig­ure: Lem­pi­ra.

“We con­tin­ue fight­ing, we are not afraid, we will not be prey to fear and we will con­tin­ue this peace­ful but strong bat­tle for life”, she con­clud­ed.

Daniel McGowan Loses Lawsuit Against Bureau Of Prisons

16 Jult 2013 A fed­er­al court has dis­missed an envi­ron­men­tal activist’s claims against the U.S.

16 Jult 2013 A fed­er­al court has dis­missed an envi­ron­men­tal activist’s claims against the U.S. Bureau of Pris­ons over a restric­tive prison wing he was housed in, but a law­suit filed by oth­er pris­on­ers against the gov­ern­ment over its restric­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion man­age­ment units con­tin­ues.

Daniel McGowan, 39, served sev­en years in fed­er­al prison for arson con­nect­ed with the Earth Lib­er­a­tion Front, four of them in the secre­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion man­age­ment units, or CMUs, dubbed “Lit­tle Guan­tanamo” by crit­ics.

Along with dozens of oth­er most­ly Mus­lim inmates, McGowan’s phone calls with the out­side world and phys­i­cal con­tact with his fam­i­ly were severe­ly lim­it­ed. Even after he was released to a halfway house, McGowan was briefly tossed back into prison this year for writ­ing a Huff­in­g­ton Post blog entry detail­ing his case.

McGowan’s lawyers at the Cen­ter for Con­sti­tu­tion­al Rights had argued that his re-jail­ing proved he was still at risk for re-incar­cer­a­tion in the CMUs. But the judge over­see­ing the law­suit dis­agreed, cit­ing a 1990s-era law that severe­ly restricts the rights of fed­er­al pris­on­ers to chal­lenge cru­el and unusu­al pun­ish­ment.

McGowan’s lawyers at the Cen­ter for Con­sti­tu­tion­al Rights said in a state­ment that they were “deeply dis­ap­point­ed” by Senior Judge Bar­bara J. Rothstein’s deci­sion, but that they would push on with the larg­er law­suit.

Residents raise sinkhole warning signs over Shell tunnel

sinkhole_1.jpgYes­ter­day (14th July), local res­i­dents and sup­port­ers raised signs on Sruwad­da­con estu­ary, warn­ing of the sink­holes that con­tin­ue to appear over Shel­l’s tun­nel.

sinkhole_1.jpgYes­ter­day (14th July), local res­i­dents and sup­port­ers raised signs on Sruwad­da­con estu­ary, warn­ing of the sink­holes that con­tin­ue to appear over Shel­l’s tun­nel. Res­i­dents first noticed the sink­holes begin­ning to appear in the spe­cial area of con­ser­va­tion on the 20th May and numer­ous sink­holes have appeared along the tun­nel route since then.

The warn­ing signs which read “Dan­ger Sink­holes: Keep Back” were erect­ed in order to warn users of the estu­ary of pres­ence of the sink­hole, which have been up to 8 foot deep. Res­i­dents were forced to put up the warn­ing signs after both Mayo Coun­ty Coun­cil and the Depart­ment of Ener­gy & Nat­ur­al Resources, despite being con­tact­ed, have failed to take any action.

The Nation­al Parks & Wildlife Ser­vice are also believed not to have inves­ti­gat­ed thus far the pos­si­ble dam­age that may be occur­ring to the ben­th­ic life in the estu­ary, despite the area being both a Spe­cial Area of Con­ser­va­tion and a Spe­cial Pro­tec­tion Area.

Shell to Sea spokesper­son Ter­ence Con­way stat­ed “When Shell experts were giv­ing evi­dence in the oral hear­ing, there was­n’t a word about sink­holes and the bub­bling up of pos­si­ble con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed mate­r­i­al to the sur­face of the spe­cial area of conservation”.[1]

Shell have pre­vi­ous­ly sent up to 10 work­ers with shov­els out on the estu­ary in a failed attempt to fill in the sink­holes.

Mr Con­way con­tin­ued “We can cur­rent­ly fol­low the path of the tun­nel by the trail of sink­holes that have appeared on the strand. Fail­ure to reg­u­late has caused alot of suf­fer­ing in Ire­land, yet the Gov­ern­ment are still allow­ing Shell to do what­ev­er they want. The sink­holes are fur­ther proof that the Gov­ern­ment con­tin­ues to aban­don their respon­si­bil­i­ty to reg­u­late Shell.”

Links

[1] YouTube Video: What’s hap­pen­ing in Shel­l’s Tun­nel? — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hvz2l27Ooc

[2] Reports of sink­holes above Cor­rib tun­nel inves­ti­gat­ed
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/reports-of-sinkholes-abo…54717

[3] Mid­west Radio Clip about third sink-hole in Sruwad­da­con estu­ary
http://www.shelltosea.com/content/midwest-radio-clip-ab…tuary

 

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Bubbling in the water in the foreground while people raise warning signs in the background of photo
Bub­bling in the water in the fore­ground while peo­ple raise warn­ing signs in the back­ground of pho­to

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New Tree Sit in Tasmanian Old Growth

15th July Anti-forestry activists have erect­ed a tree sit to halt log­ging in Tasmania’s far south.

15th July Anti-forestry activists have erect­ed a tree sit to halt log­ging in Tasmania’s far south.

Huon Val­ley Envi­ron­ment Centre’s Jen­ny Weber says the wood from the old growth is des­tined for tim­ber proces­sor Ta Ann Tas­ma­nia. 

”The tree sit struc­ture is attached to the log­ging machines, halt­ing them from con­tin­u­ing log­ging today,” Ms Weber said. 

The protest again involves mem­bers of the Aus­tralian Stu­dent Envi­ron­ment Net­work who also shut down Ta Ann’s Smith­ton mill on Fri­day. 

The Smith­ton action was con­demned by peak envi­ron­ment groups who nego­ti­at­ed the forestry peace deal which will lead to 504,000 hectares of forests being pro­tect­ed. 

How­ev­er, it is up to the Leg­isla­tive Coun­cil to approve a pro­tec­tion order for the future reserves. MLCs will make their deci­sion after con­sid­er­ing how effec­tive the leg­is­la­tion has been, includ­ing the impact of ongo­ing protests on Tasmania’s wood mar­kets. 

Ta Ann Tas­ma­nia has repeat­ed­ly denied using wood from old-growth forests.

Midnight Confiscation of Drilling Equipment at New Brunswick Anti-Fracking Protest

 

 

fra15 July 2013 Elsi­pog­tog First Nation, New Brunswick – ”We’ve tak­en it to the next lev­el,” said Grand Elder Ray Robin­son of last night’s events. “The bub­ble is about to burst, if it hasn’t already been burst.”

At approx­i­mate­ly 12 mid­night last night, locals began hear­ing boom­ing sounds char­ac­ter­is­tic of the South­west­ern Ener­gy (SWN) seis­mic test­ing trucks, or ‘thumpers,’ as well as oth­er less famil­iar indus­tri­al sounds near­by. After an online call-out express­ing con­cern that SWN might be attempt­ing to begin drilling under the cov­er of dark­ness, locals and camp mem­bers began to search for the source of the sounds.

Local Elsi­pog­tog war­rior Jason Okay recounts what fol­lowed: “We stopped to ask for direc­tions from a lady’s house that was near the sounds. We told her where we thought the sounds were, and she said ‘No way! That’s my [pri­vate­ly owned] land!’ We said ‘sor­ry ma’am, but your land’s get­ting drilled.’”

Camp mem­bers and locals entered the for­est on the woman’s prop­er­ty to find a crowd of RCMP offi­cers and pri­vate secu­ri­ty forces pro­tect­ing two SWN trucks. Pro­test­ers con­front­ed the RCMP, stat­ing that SWN was oper­at­ing on pri­vate prop­er­ty with­out con­sent and must leave imme­di­ate­ly.

Accord­ing to Okay and oth­er camp sources, pro­test­ers were fol­lowed onto the site by a group of indi­vid­u­als iden­ti­fy­ing them­selves as UN inde­pen­dent observers, who pro­ceed­ed to talk with the RCMP. Fol­low­ing dis­cus­sion, it is report­ed that the “observers” con­vinced the RCMP to escort SWN offi­cials off the prop­er­ty, aban­don­ing the trucks. Elsi­pog­tog res­i­dents con­fis­cat­ed the trucks, tow­ing them onto the Elsi­pog­tog reserve where they are still being held.

Fol­low­ing the aban­don­ment of the site by SWN secu­ri­ty and the RCMP, locals went deep­er into the for­est and dis­cov­ered what are report­ed to be unmanned SWN drilling trucks. Upon inves­ti­gat­ing the sur­round­ing area, a series of large holes in the earth were dis­cov­ered. War­riors and pro­test­ers remain camped out in the area await­ing means to trans­port the equip­ment to the reserve.

“Every­thing should halt,” said Okay of the sig­nif­i­cance of last night’s con­fronta­tion. “SWN should real­ize we don’t want them here … [If we would­n’t have con­fis­cat­ed the equip­ment] they’d be drilling right now.”

Police remain camped out near the entrance to the site of the drills, block­ing any attempts by pro­test­ers to trans­port the equip­ment off-site. Unmarked police vehi­cles dot the high­way near the camp site, and SWN secu­ri­ty vehi­cles have been sight­ed dri­ving past the camp fre­quent­ly. A Glob­al News crew attempt­ed to set up with­out con­sent in front of the camp at approx­i­mate­ly 5:00am this morn­ing, but were evict­ed by camp mem­bers before film­ing began.

Ques­tions about UN observers

 Chief Aaron Sock of Elsi­pog­tog states that he con­tact­ed the UN last week­end to request UN obser­va­tion, in order to main­tain peace between the RCMP and locals due to recent secu­ri­ty con­cerns. Two indi­vid­u­als iden­ti­fied by them­selves and local lead­er­ship as UN Inde­pen­dent Observers have been present on camp for two days since, con­duct­ing inter­views with camp mem­bers, col­lect­ing infor­ma­tion, and last night, pro­vid­ing a medi­at­ing role in con­fronta­tions.

How­ev­er, upon con­tact­ing Wilton Lit­tlechild, Chair­per­son of the Unit­ed Nations Expert Mech­a­nism on the Rights of Indige­nous Peo­ples (EMRIP), Lit­tlechild stat­ed that while he was con­tact­ed by Chief Sock in regards to secu­ri­ty con­cerns at the camp, he had not direct­ly deployed any observers as of yet.

Mean­while, a source in the office of the spokesper­son for the Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of the UN con­firmed to rabble.ca that there are cur­rent­ly no UN observers any­where in Cana­da.

Despite this lack of clear ver­i­fi­ca­tion, camp mem­bers and First Nations lead­er­ship hold that the indi­vid­u­als have a rela­tion­ship with the UN, point­ing to the RCMP’s respect for the observers’ role as medi­a­tors in last night’s con­fronta­tion as fur­ther evi­dence.

Update – 11:45pm EST: Upon fur­ther dis­cus­sion with local lead­er­ship and the indi­vid­u­als iden­ti­fied as ‘UN Inde­pen­dent Observers,’ it has been made clear that the term ‘Inde­pen­dent Observ­er’ was intend­ed to com­mu­ni­cate that the indi­vid­u­als were not direct­ly employed by the UN. They have been appoint­ed by local lead­er­ship to main­tain a peace­keep­ing role in the camp, and com­pile a report based on their obser­va­tions of the sit­u­a­tion to be inde­pen­dent­ly sub­mit­ted on behalf of the com­mu­ni­ty to the Expert Mech­a­nism on the Rights of Indige­nous Peo­ples (which has been con­firmed by the UN via Wilton Lit­tlechild, Chair­per­son of EMPRIP). The titles of the indi­vid­u­als have been switched to ‘Peace­keep­ers’ to avoid future con­fu­sion.

Claire Stew­art-Kani­gan is a writer from Mon­tre­al cur­rent­ly report­ing from the anti-frack­ing protest camp. See her first dis­patch here. 

Pho­to: Jason Okay

Activists Form Human Pipeline on Flatbush Avenue to Protest Natural Gas Pipeline

Activists say they’re con­cerned wildlife would be impact­ed if some­thing went wrong with the pipeline being built in Brook­lyn. (July 14, 2013)

Activists say they’re con­cerned wildlife would be impact­ed if some­thing went wrong with the pipeline being built in Brook­lyn. (July 14, 2013)

Dozens of activists formed a human pipeline on Flat­bush Avenue today in protest of a nat­ur­al gas pipeline that’s being built through parts of Brook­lyn.

Parts of the pipeline are already under con­struc­tion to con­nect Brook­lyn with a pipeline that goes up and down the East Coast. Activists say they’re con­cerned about the impact the under­ground flow­ing gas could have on the bor­ough, wildlife and the envi­ron­ment.

A rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Transco, the com­pa­ny behind the project, argued that oppo­nents are over­look­ing the fact that the envi­ron­men­tal ben­e­fits of nat­ur­al gas are exact­ly what is dri­ving the project. It is also the pri­ma­ry rea­son why the may­or specif­i­cal­ly cit­ed this project as key to help­ing the city achieve its clean air goals, Transco says.

The spokesper­son added that Transco has been safe­ly pro­vid­ing nat­ur­al gas to New York City for more than 50 years with­out inci­dent.

A pub­lic com­ment peri­od will be held to dis­cuss the project fur­ther.

Wisconsin Mining Company Hires Paramilitary Guards

9 July 2013 Min­ing com­pa­ny Goge­bic Taconite has hired para­mil­i­tary guards from Ari­zona firm Bul­let­proof Secu­ri­ties Force fol­low­ing a protest at its explorato­ry mine site in Wisconsin’s Peno­kee Hills in which some minor van­dal­ism occurred.

From Pop­u­lar Resis­tance:

Peo­ple who live near the large taconite mine in Peno­kee Hills, WI are grow­ing con­cerned about the pres­ence of mil­i­tary-style armed guards. The mine is not active yet, but pro­posed with drilling and sam­pling tak­ing place….

Dear Neigh­bors — GTAC now has men in mil­i­tary fatigues with auto­mat­ic weapons in the Peno­kee Hills– lands that you have legal access to as they are in Man­aged For­est sta­tus. IS THIS THE KIND OF BUSINESS we want in our com­mu­ni­ty?

The pub­li­ca­tion of pho­tos of the guards, bear­ing auto­mat­ic rifles while dressed in com­bat fatigues and some­times even masked, has stirred up a firestorm in Wis­con­sin, and two state leg­is­la­tors have already asked the com­pa­ny to remove the armed guards, not­ing that the guards have no legal author­i­ty to use force.

Reclaim the Power! Invite to protest camp

This sum­mer, a wide coali­tion of peo­ple and groups are com­ing togeth­er to Reclaim the Pow­er — join us.

This sum­mer, a wide coali­tion of peo­ple and groups are com­ing togeth­er to Reclaim the Pow­er — join us.

If you’re up for cre­at­ing a more sus­tain­able, equal soci­ety, we want you to join us. If you want to fight against the eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal crises that gov­ern­ments and big busi­ness have cre­at­ed, we want you to join us. If you want to meet, plan and take action with a diverse range of groups and indi­vid­u­als who have shared goals, we want you to join us.

Reclaim the Pow­er is going to be a 4 day action camp and protest at West Bur­ton pow­er sta­tion. West Bur­ton is the first of up to 40 new gas fired pow­er sta­tions that are cur­rent­ly being planned. If they are built, the UK will def­i­nite­ly fail to meet our mod­est car­bon reduc­tion tar­gets. This gives us a real oppor­tu­ni­ty to change the way our pow­er is gen­er­at­ed and con­trolled. The main­stream polit­i­cal par­ties want to tie us to fos­sil fuels for anoth­er gen­er­a­tion. They want to allow ener­gy com­pa­nies to get ever rich­er whilst more and more peo­ple are forced to choose between heat­ing and eat­ing. We want a sus­tain­able ener­gy sys­tem that pri­ori­tis­es peo­ple, not prof­it. This is a huge deci­sion and it’s hap­pen­ing now. Let’s Reclaim the Pow­er and stop this Dash for Gas.

Last Octo­ber, 21 envi­ron­men­tal activists shut down EDF’s West Bur­ton pow­er sta­tion for a week in protest at the government’s Dash for Gas. With your help, includ­ing a sol­i­dar­i­ty peti­tion signed by 64,000 peo­ple – they fought off EDF’s attempt to sue them for £5 mil­lion. 
And now we’re going back.

This sum­mer, from 16th-20th August, over 1000 peo­ple will gath­er on the doorstep of the pow­er sta­tion for a camp – includ­ing work­shops and action plan­ning – and a mass action. With your help, we will shut down the Dash for Gas.

Please share this call­out with your net­works.

Peru: police fire on Cajamarca protesters —again

8th July 2013 Nation­al Police troops in Peru’s Caja­mar­ca region opened fire July 6 on campesinos attempt­ing to attend the pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tion of an envi­ron­men­tal impact state­ment on the 

8th July 2013 Nation­al Police troops in Peru’s Caja­mar­ca region opened fire July 6 on campesinos attempt­ing to attend the pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tion of an envi­ron­men­tal impact state­ment on the Chadín II hydro-elec­tric project at the high­land town of Celendín, wit­ness­es said. Accord­ing to a state­ment from the group Tier­ra y Lib­er­tad, nine were wound­ed when the troops fired on the oppo­nents of the project who were try­ing to gain access to the pub­lic build­ing where the meet­ing was being held. Mar­le Libaque Tasil­la, a leader of the local ron­da, or peas­ant self-defense patrol, and an orga­niz­er for Tier­ra y Lib­er­tad, said that among the injured is the not­ed Peru­vian envi­ron­men­tal­ist Nicanor Alvara­do Car­ras­co.

The Chadín II project is con­ceived to speed the devel­op­ment of min­ing projects in Caja­mar­ca, and is slat­ed to pro­vide ener­gy to the Yana­cocha com­pa­ny which is devel­op­ing the con­tro­ver­sial Con­ga project. Thou­sands of local res­i­dents stand to be dis­placed by the Chadín II project, which would flood some 3,000 hectares along the Río Marañon, a major trib­u­tary of the Ama­zon. Protests against the hydro project were held in the affect­ed com­mu­ni­ties late last year. (Tier­ra y Lib­er­tad via Kaos en La Red, July 7; Noti­ci­asSER, Dec. 12)

The shoot­ing inci­dent occurred three days after Celendín held offi­cial com­mem­o­ra­tions for the five campesinos killed by Nation­al Police last July dur­ing protests against the Con­ga project. A spe­cial mass was held at Celendín’s church, fol­lowed by a pub­lic pro­ces­sion to the ceme­tery where the mar­tyrs lie bured. (Celendin Libre, July 4)

Hundreds Shut Down Chemical Supplier in NC Fracking Protest

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9238329523_b11d5ad684_h 8 July 2013 UPDATE: Many have been arrest­ed at today’s action for blockad­ing chem­i­cal ship­ments and in attempt­ed lock­downs. One activist is still up in a tri­pod and being denied sup­port. Please sup­port them by send­ing dona­tions to the Croatan Earth First! legal fund here 

More pho­tos of the action here

First tri­pod sit­ter and oth­er activists block Momen­tive facil­i­ty gate as pro­test­ers occu­py tanker

By halting delivery of fracking proppants protesters hope to stall fracking efforts in North Carolina. See bottom of article for list of Momentive facilities worldwide, and take action! 

Mor­gan­ton, NC – On the edge of the west­ern moun­tain range, pro­test­ers with Croatan Earth First! are cur­rent­ly occu­py­ing an indus­tri­al man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ty owned by Momen­tive and locat­ed at 114 Indus­tri­al Dri­ve.  North Car­olini­ans, who have been fight­ing to pre­vent hydraulic frac­tur­ing from com­ing to cen­tral North Car­oli­na are joined in this action by peo­ple from around the coun­try who also oppose shale gas extrac­tion nation­wide.  Momen­tive is one of the largest world­wide dis­trib­u­tors of “resin coat­ed prop­pants,”  a nec­es­sary com­po­nent for frack­ing.  Each frac­tur­ing stage requires approx­i­mate­ly 136 tonnes of prop­pants.   

 “We are here to send a mes­sage to the oil and gas indus­tries: we will not stand idly by as you destroy this land, or any oth­er, for your per­son­al prof­it. Respect exis­tence, or expect resis­tance,” said an Earth First! activist.

 

Second tripod blocking Momentive driveway

Sec­ond tri­pod block­ing Momen­tive dri­ve­way

The North Car­oli­na leg­is­la­ture plans to begin per­mit­ting frack sites as ear­ly as March 2015 in the Cum­nock Shale Basin locat­ed under­neath Lee, Moore, Chatham, and sur­round­ing coun­ties.  Frack­ing has been tied to water aquifer con­t­a­m­i­na­tion in Pavil­ion, Wyoming accord­ing to an EPA study and linked to high lev­els of methane in Penn­syl­va­nia water wells accord­ing to a study by Duke Uni­ver­si­ty.  Researchers with Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty found that frack­ing oper­a­tions nation­wide released mas­sive amounts of methane (a green­house gas) straight into the atmos­phere, and con­clud­ed that, if not curbed, would speed cli­mate change faster than car­bon emis­sions. 

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The NC leg­is­la­ture is nego­ti­at­ing on the pos­si­bil­i­ty of legal­iz­ing tox­ic waste­water injec­tion in state or trans­port­ing it else­where.  The process uses 1–8 mil­lion gal­lons of clean water each time a well is fracked.

  “We are under drought con­di­tions already, yet the oil and gas indus­try is allowed to pump mil­lions of gal­lons of water out of our streams.  This is dev­as­tat­ing life in our rivers and streams.  To make mat­ters worse they send this water back into the river­ways poi­soned with radioac­tive mate­ri­als,” said orga­niz­er Lydia Nick­les.  “Pre­serv­ing our waters is pre­serv­ing our lives and all life. We want an end to shale gas extrac­tion every­where.”     

Activists with the Earth First! Move­ment are call­ing on peo­ple nation­wide to resist frack­ing where they live and orga­nize sol­i­dar­i­ty actions. 

“Even if you don’t have a rig in your area to shut down, you can affect the indus­try.   Momen­tive and oth­er com­pa­nies that cre­ate prop­pants for the gas indus­try have facil­i­ties nation­wide as well as inter­na­tion­al­ly.  It’s time to dis­rupt the chain of sup­ply.  Go to www.frackindustry.org and orga­nize to take action now!” 

Momentive’s world­wide head­quar­ters are locat­ed in Colum­bus, Ohio and oth­er loca­tions can be found online at:  http://www.momentive.com/locations_home.aspx?id=293

A mes­sage from Croatan Earth First!:  “We are act­ing in sol­i­dar­i­ty with and take inspi­ra­tion from the coura­geous many who have been stand­ing togeth­er to take action in the North Car­oli­na cap­i­tal dur­ing Moral Mon­days, and we encour­age every­one to con­tin­ue to show our col­lec­tive pow­er, act­ing up against the repres­sive cor­po­rate and leg­isla­tive pow­ers for the lib­er­a­tion of all and the integri­ty of land, water and air.”

 

Croatan Earth First! encourages others to follow this example and take action against fracking and proppant manufacturing facilities. Find a location near you:

Momentive Worldwide Locations

Amer­i­c­as

Brazil

Cotia
Par­que Alexan­dre 502Cotia, SP06714–285 Brazil
Curiti­ba
 Rua Cyro Cor­rea Pereira,2525 – CICCuriti­ba, PR81450–090 Brazil
Itat­i­ba
Rodovia Engen­heiro Con­stan­cio Cin­tra Km 78,5
Dis­tri­to Indus­tri­al Alfre­do Rela
Itat­i­ba, Brazil
13255–846
Mon­tene­gro
 RS 124, esquina com via 2Mon­tene­groBrazil
Paulinia
 Fazen­da São Fran­cis­cos/n° CP 921,Paulinia, Sao Paulo13140–000 Brazil
 

Cana­da

Cal­gary
633 6th Avenue, SW, #400Cal­gary, ABT2P 2Y5 Cana­da
Edmon­ton
12621 156th St NWEdmon­ton, ABT5V 1E1 Cana­da
St-Romuald
675 Per­reaultSt-Romuald, QuébecG6W 7Z9 Cana­da
Stur­geon
305 Park RdFort Saskatchewan, ABCana­da

Colom­bia

Cali
Calle 154  #1–25Cali, Yum­boColom­bia

Mex­i­co

Mex­i­co
 Aveni­da Juarez No. 40
Int.206
Col. ExHa­cien­da San­ta Mon­i­ca
EDM 54050, Mex­i­co

Unit­ed States

Alaba­ma

Demopo­lis, AL
1700 Lock & Dam RoadDemopo­lis, AL36732 USA

Arkansas

Batesville, AR
2120 N. St Louis StBatesville, AR 72501
Hope, AR
185 North Indus­tri­al Dri­veHope, AR71801 USA

Cal­i­for­nia

Chi­no, CA
 4045 Cheyenne Court
Chi­no, CA
91710 USA
Fre­mont, CA
41100 Boyce RoadFre­mont, CA94538 USA

Flori­da

Lake­land, FL
2525 South Combee RoadLake­land, FL33801 USA
New Smyr­na Beach, FL
703 South Street 
New Smyr­na Beach, FL
32168–5867 USA

Geor­gia

Colum­bus, GA
6906 Dix­ie StreetColum­bus, GA31907 USA
Colum­bus, GA
1201 10th AvenueColum­bus, GA31901 USA

Illi­nois

Argo, IL
8600 West 71st StreetBed­ford Park, IL60501 USA
Ore­gon, IL
1449 Devil’s Back­bone RoadOre­gon, IL61061 USA
West­mont, IL
630 Oak­mont LaneWest­mont, IL60559 USA
 

Indi­ana

Gar­rett, IN
 500 North Tay­lor Road
Gar­rett, IN
46738–1846 USA

Ken­tucky

Louisville, KY
1800 Mei­dinger Tow­erLouisville,  KY 40216
Louisville, KY
6200 Camp­ground RoadLouisville, KY40216 USA
Louisville, KY(2)
6210 Camp­ground RoadLouisville, KY40216
 

Louisiana

Alexan­dria, LA
 3901 Sug­ar House RoadAlexan­dria, LA71302 USA
Baton Rouge, LA
 18167 East Petro­le­um Dri­veBaton Rouge, LA70809 USA
Geis­mar, LA
9288 Hwy. 75Geis­mar, LA70734 USA
Gon­za­les, LA
 9288 Hwy. 75 Riv­er RoadGeis­mar, LA70734 USA
Nor­co, LA
16122 Riv­er RoadWest Site Admin Bldg.Nor­co, LA70079 USA
 

Mon­tana

Mis­soula, MT
3670 Grant Creek RoadMis­soula, MT59808 USA

New York

More­au, NY
64 Far­nan RoadSouth Glens Falls, NY12803 USA
Tar­ry­town, NY
 769 Old Saw Mill Riv­er Road
Tar­ry­town, NY
10591 USA
Water­ford, NY
 260 Hud­son Riv­er Road
Water­ford, NY
12188 USA
 

North Car­oli­na

Acme, NC
 333 Neils Eddy RoadRiegel­wood, NC28456 USA
Char­lotte
 1950 Con­ti­nen­tal Boule­vard
Char­lotte, NC
28273 USA
Fayet­teville, NC
1411 Indus­tri­al Dri­veFayet­teville, NC28301 USA
High Point, NC
1717 Ward StreetHigh Point, NC27260 USA
Huntersville
 9930 Kincey Avenue
Huntersville, NC
28078–6468 USA
Lenoir, NC
Miller Hill RoadLenoir, NC28645 USA
Mor­gan­ton, NC
114 Indus­tri­al Blvd.Mor­gan­ton, NC28655 USA
Reigel­wood, NC
333 Neils Eddy RoadReigel­wood, NC 28456

Ohio

Colum­bus, OH
 180 East Broad  StreetColum­bus, OH43215 USA
Gahan­na, OH
630 Mor­ri­son Rd, Suite 300Gahan­na, OH43232 USA
Newark, OH
 611 O’Neill Dri­ve SE
Hebron, OH
43025–9680 USA
Rich­mond Heights, OH
 24400 High­land Road
Rich­mond Heights, OH
44143–2503 USA
Strongsville, OH
 22557 West Lunn Road
Strongsville, OH
44149–4871 USA
Tole­do, OH
 4243 South AvenueTole­do, OH43615 USA
Willough­by, OH
 4901 Camp­bell Road
Willough­by, OH
44094–3366 USA
 

Okla­homa

Okla­homa City, OK
4601 S. MacArthurOkla­homa City, OK73179 USA

Ore­gon

LaGrande, OR
62575 Ore­gon Hwy 82Island City, OR97850 USA
Port­land, OR
10915 N. Lom­bardPort­land, OR97203 USA
Spring­field, OR
470 South Sec­ond StreetSpring­field, OR97477 USA
Spring­field, OR
610 South Sec­ond StreetSpring­field, OR97477 USA
Spring­field, OR(2)
155 West “A” A‑1Spring­field, OR 97477
 

Penn­syl­va­nia

Mount Jew­ett, PA
253 Bor­den Dri­veMount Jew­ett, PA16740 USA

South Car­oli­na

Roe­buck, SC
200 Rail­road StreetRoe­buck, SC29376 USA

Texas

Bay­town, TX
8450 West Bay RoadBay­town, TX77520 USA
Brady, TX
45 Acfrac Rd. & Old Mason RoadBrady, TX76825 USA
Cle­burne, TX
3202 Wind­mill RoadCle­burne, TX76033 USA
Deer Park, TX
5900 High­way 225Deer Park, TX77536 USA
Diboll, TX
100 W. Bor­den Dri­veDiboll, TX75941 USA
Hous­ton, TX
12650 Direc­tors Dr, Suite 100Stafford, TX77477 USA
Hous­ton, TX
15366 Park RowHous­ton, TX77084 USA
Longview, TX
10 Robert Wil­son RoadLongview, TX75602–4886 USA

Wash­ing­ton

Belle­vue, WA
 520 112th Ave NE, Suite 220Belle­vue, WA98004 USA

West Vir­ginia

Sis­tersville, WV
3500 South State Route 2
Friend­ly, WV
26146–9750 USA

Wis­con­sin

She­boy­gan, WI
 2522 South 24th StreetShe­boy­gan, WI53081 USA

 

Asia Pacif­ic

Aus­tralia

Brim­bank
 Gate 3 – 765 Bal­larat Road
Deer Park, VIC
3023
Aus­tralia
Bris­bane
194 Paringa RdGib­son Island, Murar­rie, QLD4172 Aus­tralia
Somers­by
3 War­ringah CloseSomers­by, NSW2250 Aus­tralia
 

Chi­na

Nan­tong
Nan­tong Eco­nom­ic Tech Devel­op­ment ParkNan­tong, Chi­na
Shang­hai
No. 227 Lib­ing Road
Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Pudong
Shang­hai 201203
Chi­na

India

Ban­ga­lore
 The Mil­lenia, Tow­er B, 4th Floor, Mur­phy Road, Ulsoor
Ban­ga­lore – 560008
India

Japan

Kobe
Kobe Inter­na­tion­al Busi­ness Cen­ter, North5–5‑2 Mina­to­ji­ma Minami­machi,Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyo­go650‑0047
Kozu­ki
Kozu­ki580–39 Aza Koseno-uchiKuza­ki-cho, Sayo-gun, Hyo­go679‑5641
Ohta
 Ohta133, Nishi-shin­machiOhta, Gun­ma373‑8505
Japan
Tokyo
Akasa­ka Park Build­ing5–2‑20, Akasa­kaMina­to-ku, Tokyo107‑6109Japan

Korea

Seoul
Gu-Plaza Bldg, 8th Fl,63–14,  Sin­su DongSEOUL, 121–854, KOREA
Ulsan
580–3, Hwasan-ri, Onsan-eup, Ulju-gunUlsan,Korea

Malaysia

Sg. Petani
Petani Sdn Bhd (370808‑K)C 22 Susur Lencon­gan Timur Kanan, Kawasan Perindus­tri­an Cen­dana Sun­gai Petani0800 Malaysia

New Zealand

Horn­by
135 ‑147 Water­loo Road – Horn­by
Christchurch, Can­ter­bury
8042
New Zealand
Mountview
165 Totara Street
Mt. Maun­ganui
3118
New Zealand

Sin­ga­pore

Sin­ga­pore
100 Beach Road#20–01/02 Shaw Tow­erSin­ga­pore 189702

Tai­wan

Taipei
11F‑1, No. 171 Sung Der RoadTaipei11085 Tai­wan

Thai­land

Bangkok
3195/6, Vibulthani Tow­er 11st Floor, Rama IV RoadKlong­ton, Klong­toeyBangkok10110 Thai­land
Ray­ong
 1/2 M00 4 Asia Indus­tri­al Estate
Ray­ong
21130 Thai­land
Samut­sako­rn
84/2 Moo 4, Tam­bol Bang­torad Rama II Road, km 41Samut­sako­rn7400 Thai­land
 

 

Europe, Mid­dle East and Africa

Bel­gium

Lou­vain
Avenue Jean Mon­net 1Ottig­nies Lou­vain-la-Neuve,1348 Bel­gium
Zwi­jn­drecht
 Haven 1053 Nieuwe Weg 1
2070 Zwi­jn­drecht
Bel­gium

Czech Repub­lic

Par­du­bice
Are­al Uma53354 Par­du­bice SemtínCzech Repub­lic
Prague
 Luz­na 716/2
16000 Prague 6
Czech Repub­lic
Sokolov
Tovární c.p. 209335601 SokolovCzech Repub­lic
 

Fin­land

Puhos
Teol­lisu­ustie 20 BPuhos,FIN-82430 Fin­land

France

La Rochette
 41 Rue Corot
77000 La Rochette
France
Ribé­court
704, rue Pierre et Marie Curie60772 Ribé­courtFrance
Rouen
 3 et 5 Rue Bar­bet76250 Déville-les-Rouen,France
 

Ger­many

Duis­burg
Varzin­er Str. 4947138 Duis­burgGer­many
Frie­len­dorf
Glock­en­rain 234621 Frie­len­dorfGer­many
Geesthacht
 Bor­sigstraße 1–7
21502 Geesthacht
Ger­many
Iser­lohn-Let­mathe
Gen­naer Str. 2–458642 Iser­lohnGer­many
Leu­na
Am Haupt­tor, Bau 610106237 Leu­naGer­many
Lev­erkusen
 Chempark, Build­ing V 7
51368 Lev­erkusen
Ger­many
Stuttgart
Fritz Mueller Str. 114Esslin­gen am Neckar,D‑73730Ger­many
Wes­sel­ing, Ger­many
Bruh­ler Strasse 1450389 Wes­sel­ingGer­many

Italy

Sant Albano
Via Moroz­zo, 2712040 Sant Albano Stu­raItaly
Sol­bi­ate Olona
Via Mazz­i­ni, 104I‑21058 Sol­bi­ate Olona, VAItaly
Ter­moli
 Zona Indus­tri­ale, Calle Poste 79CP 79 86039 Ter­moli (CB)
Italy
 

Nether­lands

Cham­ber of Com­merce Num­ber 2429476

Bergen op Zoom
Plas­tic­slaan 1, 4612 PX
Bergen op Zoom
The Nether­lands
Moerdijk, Nether­lands
Chemieweg 254782SJ Moerdijk,The Nether­lands
Per­nis
Von­delin­gen­weg 601Har­bour no. 31903196 KK Hoogvli­et Rt, Per­nisThe Nether­lands
Rot­ter­dam
Seat­tleweg 173195 ND Rot­ter­dam, Port­parkThe Nether­lands
Rot­ter­dam, Botlek
Chemies­traat 303197 KB Rot­ter­dam, BotlekThe Nether­lands
 

Poland

Warza­wa
 Odd­zial w Polsce ul. Smolen­skiego 4/10
01 – 698 Warza­wa
Poland

Rus­sia

Moscow
 Ulit­sa Smol­naya 24 D125445 MoscowRus­sia

South Africa

South Africa
 10 Quark Cres­cent, Lin­bro Busi­ness Park, Sand­ton
2065 South Africa, Merid­i­an Com­mer­cial Tow­er
South Africa

Spain

Asua
Camino de San­groniz num 848150 Sondi­ka (Viz­caya)Spain
Bar­bas­tro
Pol.  Indus­tri­al Valle del Cina22300 Bar­bas­tro (Huesca)Spain
Lan­tarón
Pol. Ind. De Lantero cp 121301213 Lan­tarón (Ala­va)Spain
 

Turkey

Turkey
Beykoz, Kavacik Mahalle­si Cavus­basi Cad­de­si Yayabey
Sok­a­gi no. 12, c/o South­ern Chem­i­cals (Pty)
Turkey

UK

Bar­ry
Sul­ly Moors RoadSul­ly Penarth, South Glam­or­ganCF64 5YU Unit­ed King­dom
Chan­dlers Ford
School LaneChan­dlers FordUnit­ed King­dom
Clay­ton
Ash­ton New RoadClay­ton, Man­ches­terM11 4AT Unit­ed King­dom
Cowie
Sta­tion RoadCowie, Stir­lingFK7 7BQ Unit­ed King­dom
Lostock
 5, Cran­field Road, Lostock Indus­tri­al Estate, Lostock
Bolton BL 64QD
Unit­ed King­dom
Peter­lee
North West Indus­tri­al EstatePeter­lee, Co. DurhamSR8 2HR Unit­ed King­dom
Stan­low, Unit­ed King­dom
Stan­low Mfg Com­plexEllesmere PortCH65 4HB Unit­ed King­dom
 

Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates

Dubai
 PO Box 17193Jebel AliDubai