Yehuda TurtleIsland.social<p>The Keystone oil pipeline was shut down Tuesday morning after a rupture in North Dakota halted the flow from Canada to U.S. refineries.</p><p>“Our primary focus right now is the safety of onsite personnel and mitigating the risk to the environment.”</p><p>He noted there was a “fairly good volume” spilled but there have been “much, much bigger spills” in the past and he did not think it was going to be “that huge.” 👀</p><p><a href="https://turtleisland.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> <a href="https://turtleisland.social/tags/Native" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Native</span></a> <a href="https://turtleisland.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a><br><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5238593-keystone-oil-pipeline-rupture/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehill.com/homenews/state-wat</span><span class="invisible">ch/5238593-keystone-oil-pipeline-rupture/</span></a></p>
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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1940794/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1940794/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Czech Republic should end use of Russian oil, minister says <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/%C4%8Cesko" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Česko</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/CzechRepublic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CzechRepublic</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/czechia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>czechia</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Druzhba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Druzhba</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DruzhbaPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DruzhbaPipeline</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/IndustryMinisterLuk%C3%A1%C5%A1Vl%C4%8Dek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndustryMinisterLukášVlček</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/RussianOilSupplies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussianOilSupplies</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/zpr%C3%A1vy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zprávy</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>The Circus is Coming to Town -- The Bizarre Lawsuit of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a> v <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RedWarriorSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RedWarriorSociety</span></a></p><p>by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CensoredNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CensoredNews</span></a>, January 1, 2025</p><p>"It's the most bizarre lawsuit -- Energy Transfer v Greenpeace and Red Warrior Society, eight years later.</p><p>"There are loads of documents hidden away with 'confidential' stamps in the court records, and a whole lot of players -- governors, Congressmen, and law enforcement, in the shadows.</p><p>"The fragments, , between the blackouts of 'redacted,' show that the head of Energy Transfer hasn't been answering all the questions in depositions. Other snippets show that the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> doesn't want to reveal its spills, and whether there's been contamination already into the water at <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRock</span></a>.</p><p>"Meanwhile, there's a 'newspaper' tainting the potential jurors, attorneys say, which promotes the sheriff.</p><p>"And where are all the files on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TigerSwan</span></a>, the paid <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> informants, and the military <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SpecialOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SpecialOps</span></a>? Tens of thousands of documents of TigerSwan were gained by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheIntercept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheIntercept</span></a> in another court battle.</p><p>"Where are the files on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drone</span></a> being shot down by law enforcement, the U.S. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BorderPatrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BorderPatrol</span></a>'s surveillance plane, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BIA</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> van parked at the casino, with undercover officers wandering around inside?</p><p>"The judge, appointed by the governor, won't recuse himself.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnicornRiot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnicornRiot</span></a> media is in Minneapolis Supreme Court fighting the pipeline's subpoena to seize its confidential media records.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> and media have been served with third party subpoenas by the pipeline for this fishing expedition for their info. </p><p>"And it's all coming to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MandanNorthDakota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MandanNorthDakota</span></a>, at the end of February, to North Dakota's District Court,<br>home to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MortonCountySheriff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MortonCountySheriff</span></a>.<br> <br>"It's a $300 million <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPP</span></a> lawsuit to shut them down, says Greenpeace. Greenpeace said there was a large dump of records into the case. </p><p>"Stay tuned, and dig through the files -- good luck."</p><p><a href="https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-circus-is-coming-to-town-bizarre.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/the-circus-is-coming-to-town-bizarre.html</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReaderSupportedNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReaderSupportedNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SLAPPsLawsuits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SLAPPsLawsuits</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>1.4M gallons of fluid leaked from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DakotaAccess</span></a> [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DAPL</span></a>] drilling, report says</p><p>The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> Tribe, which wants the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> shut down, says spills near <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeOahe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LakeOahe</span></a> were <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> violations.</p><p>By Mike Soraghan<br>10/01/2024 06:45 AM EDT</p><p>"The tribe at the forefront of fighting the Dakota Access oil pipeline has found evidence that more than a million gallons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrillingFluid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrillingFluid</span></a> leaked as construction crews tunneled under the lake that is the tribe’s main source of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DrinkingWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrinkingWater</span></a>.</p><p>"Authors of an engineering report filed last year in a North Dakota lawsuit estimates that 1.4 million gallons of drilling mud escaped the confines of the tunnel in 2017 — at the same time authorities above ground were breaking up the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protests</span></a> about the pipeline.</p><p>"The report found no indication in the records of pipeline developer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnergyTransfer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransfer</span></a> that anyone checked to see if it had reached the lake, called Lake Oahe.</p><p>"The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe says that amounts to violations of the environmental rules laid out for the construction project. Among other things, those rules called on construction crews to stop drilling and investigate when there were signs of leaks.</p><p>"Tribal officials say the Army Corps of Engineers, which controls the lake, never disclosed them."</p><p>Original article:<br><a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/1-4m-gallons-of-fluid-leaked-from-dakota-access-drilling-report-says/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eenews.net/articles/1-4m-gallo</span><span class="invisible">ns-of-fluid-leaked-from-dakota-access-drilling-report-says/</span></a></p><p>Archived article:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/VOism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/VOism</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KelcyWarren" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KelcyWarren</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRock</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Of course, now we know who was behind <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Stuxnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stuxnet</span></a> -- <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> -- thanks!</p><p>Why the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StuxnetWorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StuxnetWorm</span></a> is like nothing seen before</p><p>By Paul Marks<br>27 September 2010</p><p>"Stuxnet is the first worm of its type capable of attacking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalInfrastructure</span></a> like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PowerStations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PowerStations</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectricityGrids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectricityGrids</span></a>: those in the know have been expecting it for years. On 26 September, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a>’s state news agency reported that computers at its <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Bushehr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bushehr</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlant</span></a> had been infected.</p><p>Why the fuss over Stuxnet?</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ComputerViruses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerViruses</span></a>, worms and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/trojans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trojans</span></a> have until now mainly infected PCs or the servers that keep e-businesses running. They may delete key system files or documents, or perhaps prevent website access, but they do not threaten life and limb.</p><p>"The Stuxnet worm is different. It is the first piece of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>malware</span></a> so far able to break into the types of computer that control machinery at the heart of industry, allowing an attacker to assume control of critical systems like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pumps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pumps</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/motors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>motors</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/alarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alarms</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/valves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>valves</span></a> in an industrial plant.</p><p>"In the worst case scenarios, safety systems could be switched off at a nuclear power plant; fresh water <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> with effluent at a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SewageTreatmentPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SewageTreatmentPlant</span></a>, or the valves in an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> opened, contaminating the land or sea.</p><p>“'Giving an attacker control of industrial systems like a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dam</span></a>, a sewage plant or a power station is extremely unusual and makes this a serious threat with huge real world implications,' says Patrick Fitzgerald, senior threat intelligence officer with Symantec. 'It has changed everything.'</p><p>Why is a different type of worm needed to attack an industrial plant?</p><p>"Industrial machinery is not controlled directly by the kind of computers we all use. Instead, the equipment used in an industrial process is controlled by a separate, dedicated system called a programmable logic controller (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PLC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PLC</span></a>) which runs supervisory control and data acquisition software (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SCADA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SCADA</span></a>).</p><p>"Running the SCADA software, the PLC controls the process at hand within strict safety limits, switching motors on and off, say, and emptying vessels, and feeding back data which may safely modify the process without the need for human intervention – the whole point of industrial automation.</p><p>So how does a worm get into the system?</p><p>"It is not easy because they do not run regular PC, Mac or Linux software. Instead, the firms who sell PLCs each have their own programming language – and that has made it tricky for hackers to break it.</p><p>"However there is a way in via the Windows PC that oversees the PLC’s operations. Stuxnet exploited four vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows to give a remote hacker the ability to inject malicious code into a market-leading PLC made by German electronics conglomerate Siemens.</p><p>"That’s possible because PLCs are not well-defended devices. They operate for many years in situ and electronic access to them is granted via well-known passwords that are rarely changed. Even when Stuxnet was identified, Siemens opposed password changes on the grounds that it could cause chaos as older systems tried to communicate using old passwords.</p><p>Where did the initial Stuxnet infection come from?</p><p>"It appears to have first arrived in Iran on a simple <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USBMemoryStick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USBMemoryStick</span></a>, says Fitzgerald. His team in Dublin, Ireland has been analysing Stuxnet since it was first identified by a security team in Belarus in June.</p><p>"The first of the four Windows vulnerabilities allowed executable code on a USB stick to spread to a PC. The USB may have been given to an Iranian plant operative – or simply left somewhere for an inquisitive person to insert into their terminal.</p><p>"Says Fitzgerald: 'It then spreads from machine to machine on the network, exploiting a second vulnerability to do so, and reports back to the attacker on the internet when it finds a PC that’s running Siemens SCADA software. The attacker can then download a diagram of the industrial system set-up the SCADA controls.'</p><p>"The next two Windows vulnerabilities lets the worm escalate its privilege levels to allow the attacker to inject Siemens PLC format computer code – written in a language called STL – into the PLC. It’s that code which is capable of performing the skulduggery: perhaps turning off alarms, or resetting safe temperature levels.</p><p>How do we know where Stuxnet is active?</p><p>"Symantec monitored communications with the two internet domains that the worm swaps data with. By geotagging the IP addresses of Stuxnet-infected computers in communication with the attacker, Fitzgerald’s team found that 58.8 per cent of infections were in Iran, 18.2 per cent in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indonesia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indonesia</span></a>, 8.3 per cent in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a>, 2.6 per cent in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Azerbaijan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Azerbaijan</span></a> and 1.6 per cent in the US.</p><p>Who is behind the worm? </p><p>"No one knows. It is however very professionally written, requiring what Fitzgerald calls 'a broad spectrum of skills' to exploit four new vulnerabilities and develop their own SCADA/PLC set-up to test it on.</p><p>"This has some commentators suggesting that a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NationState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationState</span></a> with plenty of technical resources may have been behind Stuxnet. But computer crime is a billion dollar business so such an effort is not beyond extortionists.</p><p>"Stuxnet comprises a 600-kilobyte file and it has not yet been fully analysed."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19504-why-the-stuxnet-worm-is-like-nothing-seen-before/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscientist.com/article/dn195</span><span class="invisible">04-why-the-stuxnet-worm-is-like-nothing-seen-before/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StuxnetVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StuxnetVirus</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MalwareAttack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MalwareAttack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cyberattack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cyberattack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CyberWarfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CyberWarfare</span></a></p>
PhoenixSerenity<p>*This was a bad/evil investment from start! Canada violated <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/NativeSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeSovereignty</span></a> when buying it. RCMP sent to arrest/harass native activists.*</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> is amending regulations on how it manages state-owned <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TransMountain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransMountain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> in order to facilitate its sale to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/IndigenousGroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousGroups</span></a>, according to official government notice published Weds.</p><p>Ottawa plans to sell the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pipeline</span></a> now that it is complete & wants to enable <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> communities along the route to buy a stake.</p><p><a href="https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canada-amending-trans-mountain-ownership-174821052.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cana</span><span class="invisible">da-amending-trans-mountain-ownership-174821052.html</span></a></p>
BakersRelay<p>From Los Angeles Times: Exxon scraps plan for new pipeline after 2015 spill — but may try to resurrect old one </p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/Exxon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exxon</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-31/exxon-scraps-plan-to-replace-oil-lines-from-2015-refugio-spill-but-may-try-to-salvage-old-lines" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/california/story/2</span><span class="invisible">023-10-31/exxon-scraps-plan-to-replace-oil-lines-from-2015-refugio-spill-but-may-try-to-salvage-old-lines</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>‘They <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/criminalize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>criminalize</span></a> us’: how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/felony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>felony</span></a> charges are weaponized against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PipelineProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PipelineProtesters</span></a> </p><p>Twenty states have passed laws that criminalize protesting, including on infrastructure including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pipelines</span></a>. In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a>, at least 66 felony theft charges against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Line3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Line3</span></a> protesters remain open</p><p>Alexandria Herr for Floodlight<br>Thu 10 Feb 2022 </p><p>"Last summer [2021] Sabine von Mering, a professor of German at Brandeis University, drove more than 1,500 miles from Boston to Minneapolis to protest against the replacement of the Line 3 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> that stretches from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TarSands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TarSands</span></a> down to Minnesota.</p><p>"Along with another protester, she locked herself to a semi-truck in the middle of a roadway, according to a filed court brief, as a means of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/peaceful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>peaceful</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a>. But when she was arrested, she was charged with a serious crime: felony theft, which carries up to five years in prison.</p><p>"'It’s very scary that they criminalize us like that, and to face jail time,' said Von Mering, 54, of her June arrest. 'But what can I do? I feel responsible to my kids and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FutureGenerations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FutureGenerations</span></a>.'</p><p>"The felony charges come as more than a dozen states have passed laws to criminalize <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> protests, and as the federal government has ramped up its own tactics for surveilling and penalizing protesters.</p><p>"Von Mering is one of nearly 900 protesters who were arrested in Minnesota for protesting against the pipeline’s construction, with the vast majority of arrests taking place during the summer of 2021, and one of dozens facing felony charges. Construction on the Line 3 pipeline was finalized in October 2021 and carries 760,000 barrels of oil per day across northern Minnesota. But its construction for years has stoked fierce protests and legal challenges, led by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> activists in northern Minnesota who worried about potential impacts of oil spills and the pipeline’s threat to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/treaty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>treaty</span></a> rights to gather wild rice. While most of the arrests have led to misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor charges for crimes including 'disturbing the peace' and 'trespassing', felony charges like Von Mering’s mean protesters are facing years of jail time.</p><p>"Legal advocates say that in Minnesota the elevated charges are a novel tactic to challenge protest actions against pipeline construction. They see them as furthering evidence of close ties between Minnesota’s government and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuelIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuelIndustry</span></a>. It follows reporting by the Guardian that the Canadian pipeline company <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enbridge</span></a>, which is building Line 3, reimbursed Minnesota’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> department $2.4m for time spent arresting protesters and on equipment including ballistic helmets. Experts say the reimbursement strategy for arrests is a new technique in both Minnesota and across the US, and there’s concern it can be replicated.</p><p>"'I do a lot of representation for people in political protests and I’ve never seen anything like that,' said Jordan Kushner, a defense attorney representing clients charged in relation to Line 3 protests.</p><p>"Two of Kushner’s clients were charged with felony 'aiding attempted suicide' charges for crawling inside a pipe. The charge is for someone who 'intentionally advises, encourages, or assists another who attempts but fails to take the other’s own life', according to Minnesota law and carries up to a seven-year sentence. Authorities alleged that the protesters were endangering their lives by remaining inside the pipeline."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/10/felony-charges-pipeline-protesters-line-3" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2022/f</span><span class="invisible">eb/10/felony-charges-pipeline-protesters-line-3</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopEnbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopEnbridge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLine3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoLine3</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protestors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Judge dismisses <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pipeline</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protest</span></a> charges against 3 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Native" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Native</span></a> women</p><p>Kirsti Marohn<br>Brainerd, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a> <br>September 18, 2023 3:45 PM</p><p>"Opponents of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Line3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Line3</span></a> oil pipeline are celebrating an Aitkin County judge’s decision to dismiss charges against three Native women related to a 2021 protest.</p><p>"Activists <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WinonaLaDuke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WinonaLaDuke</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaniaAubid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaniaAubid</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DawnGoodwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DawnGoodwin</span></a> helped lead rallies as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enbridge</span></a> began work on a new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OilPipeline</span></a> across northern Minnesota more than two years ago.</p><p>"The charges against them stemmed from a rally on Jan. 9, 2021, when a large group gathered at a pipeline construction site near the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MississippiRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MississippiRiver</span></a> in Aitkin County. </p><p>"The opponents, who called themselves <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> carried signs and walked down a county road. Some Native women danced in jingle dresses, a healing tradition. </p><p>"Some group members later moved to another Aitkin County location, where they walked along U.S. Highway 169 and refused to leave a Line 3 construction site.</p><p>"LaDuke, Goodwin and Aubid were not arrested on Jan. 9. Authorities charged them weeks later by summons after identifying them in social media posts. They faced gross misdemeanor charges of trespassing and harassment, as well as misdemeanor unlawful assembly and public nuisance.</p><p>"A jury trial was scheduled to begin this week. But in a forceful opinion filed Sept. 14, District Court Judge Leslie Metzen dismissed all the charges.</p><p>"Metzen’s order noted the government’s historical mistreatment of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> people. </p><p>"'In the last 20 years I have come to a broader understanding of what we, the now dominant culture, did to try to eradicate our indigenous neighbors,' she wrote. 'We moved them by force and power and violence off the land where they lived for thousands of years. To make peace, we signed treaties with them that promised many things they never received.'</p><p>"Metzen wrote that she finds it 'within the furtherance of justice' to protect the defendants who were peacefully protesting to protect the land addressed in those treaties.</p><p>"She wrote that as respected members of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anishinaabe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anishinaabe</span></a> tribes, LaDuke, Aubid and Goodwin were exercising their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> rights and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/spiritual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spiritual</span></a> beliefs, including 'their heartfelt belief that the waters of Minnesota need to be protected from damage that could result from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pipeline</span></a>.'</p><p>'To criminalize their behavior would be the crime,' she added."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/09/18/judge-dismisses-pipeline-protest-charges-against-3-native-women" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">mprnews.org/story/2023/09/18/j</span><span class="invisible">udge-dismisses-pipeline-protest-charges-against-3-native-women</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaDuke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaDuke</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopEnbridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopEnbridge</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLine3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoLine3</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protestors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protestors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RespectTheTreaties</span></a></p>
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