[TheClimate.Vote] April 22, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Sun Apr 22 10:41:02 EDT 2018
/April 22, 2018/
["They're trespassing on their own property"]
*Perched on a platform high in a tree, a 61-year-old woman fights a gas
pipeline
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/perched-on-a-platform-high-in-a-tree-a-61-year-old-woman-fights-a-gas-pipeline/2018/04/21/3b8284b4-435e-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html>*
Washington Post
By Gregory S. Schneider April 21
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. - When the trees started coming down, Theresa "Red"
Terry went up.
Now, the 61-year-old mother of three is perched on a platform 32 feet in
the air between two oak trees, trying to stop a natural gas pipeline
from coming through land granted to her husband's family by the king of
England in Colonial times.
For three weeks, she has endured rain, snow, hail, nighttime
temperatures in the 20s and high winds. Her body is stiff and sore. When
she huddles under a tarp to stay warm, it's usually too dark to read.
She's bored.
- - - -
To them, the pipeline seems like a violation because it doesn't appear
to yield local benefits. When the county first brought in electricity,
Coles Terry III said, the family was happy to give up land for power
lines to help their whole community. The gas that will flow under their
property originates in West Virginia and will pass almost to the North
Carolina line.
Invoking eminent domain, the pipeline builders offered to compensate the
Terrys for using a stretch of their land. The family rejected the money
and instead filed suit to stop the project. A federal judge ruled
against them early last month.
That's when Red, as everyone knows her, took note of the tree-sitters
blocking the pipeline route in West Virginia and decided she would do
the same.
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Pipeline officials are frustrated by the stalemate. They say that 86
percent of landowners in the route of the pipeline have accepted
settlements to permit construction. The pipelines won erosion and
sediment permits from the state in December, clearing the way for
construction to begin.
The project has gone through extraordinary review. State officials agree
that both gas pipelines have been subjected to the most detailed study
they've ever seen.
But opponents are outraged that detailed review of stream-by-stream
crossings was left to federal officials, despite a promise last year
from Northam - when he was running for office - that the state would
conduct its own review.
- - -
And Red Terry had a bad day not long ago when she discovered that of all
the supplies she and her husband had stockpiled on her platform, there
was one crucial thing they forgot: cigarettes.
A heavy smoker, she called down to police that she needed BC Powder for
pain and cigarettes to keep her calm. The police sent up a few aspirins,
but said she'd have to come down to get smokes.
So she dumped out her waste bucket. Luckily, police weren't hit, because
that could've meant an assault charge. But they expanded the crime tape
to keep supporters farther away.
"I guess if I ever get too weak to give 'em a hard time they'd probably
have to come get me," she said last week.
Her husband toggles between pride and fear.
"I can't say I married a level-headed, calm woman," he said. But it's no
wonder, he added, that his wife and daughter are the ones up those
trees, drawing a network of local support that's also largely female.
"They're protecting their families. They're women - mothers, daughters,
sisters - and they're protecting what they hold dear. Try to pull a cub
away from a mother bear and you'll understand what I'm saying."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/perched-on-a-platform-high-in-a-tree-a-61-year-old-woman-fights-a-gas-pipeline/2018/04/21/3b8284b4-435e-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.596afb623a64
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[do the math]
*For 15 Years, Energy Transfer Partners Pipelines Leaked an Average of
Once Every 11 Days: Report
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/17/energy-transfer-partners-pipelines-leaked-once-every-11-days-greenpeace-report?utm_source=dsb%20newsletter>*
By Sharon Kelly - April 17, 2018
5,475 days, 527 pipeline spills: that's the math presented in a new
report from environmental groups Greenpeace USA and the Waterkeeper
Alliance examining pipelines involving Dakota Access builder Energy
Transfer Partners (ETP). It's based on public data from 2002 to 2017.
All told, those leaks released 3.6 million gallons of hazardous liquids,
including 2.8 million gallons of crude oil, according to data collected
from the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA).
That doesn't include an additional 2.4 million gallons of "drilling
fluids, sediment, and industrial waste" leaked during ETP's construction
of two pipelines in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan.
Also left out: air pollution and leaks from natural gas pipelines, which
were beyond the scope of the new report but which play a significant
role in climate change and can cause explosions.
Across the entire industry, hazardous liquid pipelines spilled a total
of 34.7 million gallons during the past decade, directly causing 16
deaths and $2.7 billion worth of damage. More than one in ten of those
gallons came from ETP.
"That's a red flag for a company that has an extensive network across
the country and is building even more pipelines as we speak in
Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and other states," said Greenpeace USA research
lead Tim Donaghy, PhD. "ETP and Sunoco's track record of spills,
including several striking examples of big spills, are indicators of a
constant threat to communities and water. This could happen again to
communities along the pipeline routes."...
Contact: Carolyn Reilly (540) 929-1143, CarolynReilly3 at gmail.com
more at:
https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/04/17/energy-transfer-partners-pipelines-leaked-once-every-11-days-greenpeace-report?utm_source=dsb%20newsletter
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[Press release]
*Resistance against the Mountain Valley Pipeline Grow
<https://www.facebook.com/LittleTeelCrossing/>*
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 19, 2018
*Tree Sits Launched on Family Farm in Franklin County*
[FRANKLIN COUNTY, VIRGINIA] In the farmlands of Franklin County, a new
stand against the Mountain Valley Pipeline has begun. Three tree sits
loom directly in the path of the pipeline's destruction, making it
impossible to clear the way without severely injuring the inhabitants of
those trees. The sits tower over 75 feet off the ground of a small
family farm's livestock pasture, overlooking Little and Teel creeks,
home to the endangered Roanoke Log Perch.
The tree sits build upon two other blockades to construction- a stand
one hundred miles West, on Peters Mountain, and twenty miles West, in
Bent Mountain, VA. One tree sitter stated, "The other tree sits show us
that there are still effective ways to interrupt the violence of this
proposed pipeline. We are celebrating their spirit of resistance in the
mountains and bringing it down to the farmlands, where so much remains
at stake. The fire truly is catching."
Local farmers Ian and Carolyn Reilly have been fighting the pipeline for
their family's future and to protect the soil and water. Using
restorative practices, the Reilly's are stewards of the earth. Ian
Reilly said, "Launching Little Teel Crossing is an act of protection for
our family's home, land and water. This farm has been free from
chemicals for decades. As farmers seeking to renew the land, we intend
to keep it that way."
MVP's 125-foot limits of destruction cuts through several family farms
in Franklin County-places where local beef, honey, poultry, and produce
are cultivated. According to the Roanoke Times, Precision Pipeline, the
company contracted to construct the MVP, has a history of environmental
violations and lawsuits for construction of several other pipelines.
"There are too many ways this pipeline would destroy the ecosystem
that preserves peoples' livelihood here. The pipeline will not just
jeopardize Virginia's way of life, but also the food systems that so
many lives depend on," stated Carolyn Reilly. She continued, "For what?
To fill the pockets of these fossil fuel fiends and corporate elites. We
won't let that happen here."
The first stage of construction began with tree clearing in Franklin
County in late March. Today, MVP security personnel taped to the trees a
notice of violation of Judge Dillon's Federal Court Order stating tree
sitters "should vacate the property immediately." The occupants of the
trees at Little Teel Crossing are self-described as "young Virginians,"
and are prepared to remain as long as this pipeline threatens family
farms, land, and water.
Ian Reilly shared, "This is about taking a stand. This is about choosing
for ourselves when the fight is over. MVP thought we would just resign
when pipeline tree clearing began. But the fight has just begun and we
still believe we can stop this destructive project. We will win."
https://www.facebook.com/LittleTeelCrossing/ ###
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[And there's Canada Pipelines]
*Pipeline battle escalates as Alberta prepares to turn off taps
<https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/04/17/Pipeline-Battle-Escalates-Alberta-Turn-Off-Taps/>*
thetyee.ca - Apr. 17
B.C. vows to fight back; protestors face tougher legal response.
Andrew MacLeod 17 Apr 2018 | TheTyee.ca
The interprovincial battle over Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline
escalated Monday as Alberta introduced legislation that allows the
province to restrict oil and gas exports, and British Columbia vowed to
fight back.
At the same time, the stakes rose for pipeline protesters as prosecutors
said charges would be upgraded from civil to criminal, and Grand Chief
Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, said in a
statement that the pipeline will never be built.
B.C. Attorney General David Eby said the government would fight any
discriminatory actions aimed at the province.
"We've seen over the past number of weeks statements by everybody from
cabinet ministers to the Premier herself of Alberta saying they were
going to introduce a bill in an attempt to 'punish' British Columbians
by restricting the flow of oil and gas into our province," he said...
-
"We know, as I'm sure they know, that the constitution forbids
discrimination around energy between provinces," Eby said. "If there's
anything in this legislation that even suggests a possibility of
discrimination against British Columbians, we will take every step
necessary to protect the interests of British Columbians because it
would be completely illegal."...
https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/04/17/Pipeline-Battle-Escalates-Alberta-Turn-Off-Taps/
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[Deadlock at Pipeline Summit]
*Horgan to press ahead with court case; Notley, Trudeau pledge pipeline
will be built.
<https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/04/16/Pipeline-Summit-Deadlock/>*
https://thetyee.ca/News/2018/04/16/Pipeline-Summit-Deadlock/
(video)
[No, not the US EPA - the EPA of Ireland]
*EPA: Climate Change Communication - Scale, Complexity, Urgency (October
2017) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wR2JBc0WI4>*
Climate State Published on Nov 1, 2017
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in conjunction with the
National Dialogue on Climate Action, hosted a public lecture on the
challenging issue of the communication of climate change on 26 October 2017.
Video by EPA Ireland https://www.youtube.com/user/EPAIreland/videos
The speaker, Professor Chris Rapley CBE, is Professor of Climate Science
at University College London and has specialised in climate
communication issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wR2JBc0WI4
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[The EPA of Ireland video channel]
*EPAIreland <https://www.youtube.com/user/EPAIreland/featured>* YouTube
Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/EPAIreland/featured
[Ice melts]
*AMERICANS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: ALL TALK, LITTLE ACTION
<https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/americans-on-climate-change-all-talk-little-action/86170>*
Project scientist Nathan Kurtz and senior support scientist Jeremy
Harbeck walk on their way to survey an iceberg locked in sea ice March
26, 2017, in Pituffik, Greenland.
Because a new OZY poll shows many are unwilling to make tough choices in
favor of Mother Earth.
By Daniel Malloy
Tim Whitley gets it; he really does. The founder of the environmental
nonprofit Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) is wary of coming
off too preachy when it comes to reducing people's carbon footprints.
Whitley admits that even he is delaying putting solar panels on his roof
until a home remodel, and, hell, if he had the means, he'd fly in
private jets - if only to avoid the customs line at Kennedy airport.
"Life is hard enough as it is [before] you think about climate change,"
he says. "A lot of the actions that one would take are hard to do."
------
And most people aren't doing the hard stuff. In a new, exclusive
nationwide survey conducted by OZY with SurveyMonkey ahead of Earth Day,
80 percent of Americans say climate change is at least a somewhat
serious problem - with 34 percent saying it's extremely serious. But
concern doesn't always translate into action. About three-quarters of
Americans said they recycle, turn off the lights when they leave the
room and use energy-efficient appliances. But popularity plummets when
remedies get less convenient. When asked if they had done any of the
following to help the environment, 23 percent compost, 17 percent had
fewer or no children, 15 percent use public transit and 8 percent are
vegetarian....
https://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/americans-on-climate-change-all-talk-little-action/86170?
------
[Try making vegetable soups]
*Americans waste 150,000 tons of food each day - equal to a pound per
person
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/18/americans-waste-food-fruit-vegetables-study?CMP=share_btn_link>*
Research shows people with healthy diets rich in fruit and vegetables
are the most wasteful and calls for better education for consumers.
Americans waste about a pound of food per person each day, with people
who have healthier diets rich in fruit and vegetables the most wasteful,
research has found.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/18/americans-waste-food-fruit-vegetables-study?CMP=share_btn_link
----
*report, by the Center for Biological Diversity
<http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/grocery_waste/>*
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/grocery_waste/
------*
<http://www.endfoodwaste.org/ugly-fruit---veg.html>**"Ugly" Fruit and
Veg Campaign <http://www.endfoodwaste.org/ugly-fruit---veg.html>*
http://www.endfoodwaste.org/ugly-fruit---veg.html
------
[Video Channel]
*Stop Food Waste <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaN8xqTr1ZdDdhFMpgPLhow>*
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaN8xqTr1ZdDdhFMpgPLhow
-----
[European Environment Agency video channel]
*Tricky Waste <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCII_6TPyf8QHiEZzm8ruStQ>*
Europe can create jobs and encourage innovation by using resources more
efficiently. Waste is a resource that we want to hold on to!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCII_6TPyf8QHiEZzm8ruStQ
[The Revelator]
*'Instability, Uncertainty and Chaos' - How Climate Change Threatens
National Security
<http://therevelator.org/climate-change-national-security/>*
by Francis Flisiuk
Anyone who disregards the threats of climate change "is stupid," says
retired Lieutenant General John G. Castellaw.
How does the U.S. military and intelligence community perceive the
threat of climate change? Last week I sat down with retired Lieutenant
General John G. Castellaw of the U.S. Marine Corps to explore this and
other questions.
----
Lt. Gen. Castellaw is a member of the Center for Climate & Security
Advisory Board and also sits on the board of the American Security
Project. Because of his affiliation with these nonpartisan
organizations, Castellaw was adamantly tight-lipped on the topic of
President Trump dramatically slashing the budget for environmental
programs across the country, including ones for which Castellaw himself
has voiced support.
----
Castellaw represents a minority of conservative thinkers that recognizes
climate change as a serious threat, but believes that the free market is
equipped to solve the crisis. Considering that major corporations are
the some of the largest accelerants of climate change, and that a former
coal industry lobbyist was recently appointed as deputy administrator to
the Environmental Protection Agency (right behind Scott Pruitt, a
climate-change denier who is actively dismantling environmental
regulations), it's understandable why some might reduce Castellaw's
stance to mere wishful thinking...
http://therevelator.org/climate-change-national-security/
[16 min video instructional ]
*Nitrogen and Climate Change explained
<http://climatestate.com/2018/03/14/nitrogen-and-climate-change-explained/>*
March 14, 2018
In this 2015 talk, David Reay from the University of Edinburgh talks
about nitrogen, and how it effects climate change.
Watch the full lecture https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_w5t832ln
Nitrogen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen
http://climatestate.com/2018/03/14/nitrogen-and-climate-change-explained/
[Go high or good-bye]
*Increase of plant species on mountain tops is accelerating with global
warming <https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180402110733.htm>*
Over the past 10 years, the number of plant species on European mountain
tops has increased by five-times more than during the period 1957-66.
Data on 302 European peaks covering 145 years shows that the
acceleration in the number of mountain-top species is unequivocally
linked to global warming.
It is not as lonely at the top as it used to be.
At least not for plants which, due to global warming, are increasingly
finding habitats on mountain tops that were formerly reserved for only
the toughest and most hardy species.
A large international research team has not only ascertained a
considerable increase in the number of plant species on 302 European
mountain peaks over the past 150 years; they have also found that this
increase is accelerating. Moreover, it is certain that this development
is linked to rises in temperatures; changes in precipitation and
nitrogen input could not explain the increase.
Therefore, the researchers have demonstrated that the flora is trying to
keep pace with the consequences of accelerating anthropogenic impacts on
all the Earth's system.
During the decade from 1957-66, the number of species on each of the 302
mountain tops increased by 1.1 species on average. Since then, the trend
has accelerated: From 2007-16, on average 5.5 new species moved up to
the 302 summits.
The researchers have only been able to count the plant species that have
already responded to the temperature rise and actually have moved
upwards. They have not studied the number of species that might be on
the way upwards.
*Competitive immigrants*
However, the results of the new study, which has recently been published
in the journal Nature, has not prompted researchers to sound the alarm. Yet.
The study does not show how much the increase in new plant species on
summits has displaced existing species that have been growing at these
heights for centuries. However, the figures do indicate that this might
be happening or will happen in the future.
"Some of the species which have adapted to the cold and rocky conditions
on mountain summits will probably disappear in the long term. They have
nowhere else to go, and they can't develop rapidly enough to be able to
compete with the new arrivals, which are taller and more competitive
under warmer climates," explained the main author of the study, Manuel
Steinbauer...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180402110733.htm
[YouTube videos - 1970 TV news]
*This Day in Climate History - April 22, 1970 <http://earthweek1970.org/>
*http://earthweek1970.org/*
*Faced with an embarrassment of riches—more speakers than there were
Earth Week events in Philadelphia at which they could speak, the Earth
Week Committee enlisted other area Universities and colleges in the
region, including Swarthmore, Temple and Villanova, each of which agreed
to hold several public events during Earth Week where speakers could
appear. The first Earth Week was an unqualified success.
The only city that had an Earth Week in 1970 was Philadelphia, but many
communities now celebrate a full week of activities focused on
environmental issues, usually starting, as happened in Philadelphia
forty years ago, on April 16th and culminating on Earth Day, April 22
more at: http://earthweek1970.org/*
**[1970 Videos from CBS]
Earth Day 1970 Part 1: Intro (CBS News with Walter Cronkite)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbwC281uzUs>*
http://earthweek1970.org - Original broadcast of CBS News Special Report
with Walter Cronkite about the first Earth Day, 1970. Also known as
Earth Week 1970.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbwC281uzUs
*Earth Day 1970 Part 2: Gaylord Nelson's Speech
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RCPAtmpv8>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3RCPAtmpv8
*Earth Day 1970 Part 3: Washington D.C.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEPtJAT_jCY>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEPtJAT_jCY
*Earth Day 1970 Part 4: Albion, Michigan
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6mGdgwywCw>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6mGdgwywCw
*Earth Day 1970 Part 5: Council Bluffs, Iowa
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfk4TfXvZI>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfk4TfXvZI
*Earth Day 1970 Part 6: Boston, NYC, Chicago, LA
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPzq2rckxHo>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPzq2rckxHo
*Earth Day 1970 Part 7: G.E. and Minneapolis
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zzUJzrfT6w>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zzUJzrfT6w
*Earth Day 1970 Part 8: Albuquerque
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwGGMwpt2HU>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwGGMwpt2HU
*Earth Day 1970 Part 9: Interlude
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XhhE0y42ws>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XhhE0y42ws
*Earth Day 1970 Part 10: Earth Week 1of3 Philadelphia
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6grUk-IcLM>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6grUk-IcLM
*Earth Day 1970 Part 10: Earth Week 2of3 Philadelphia
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ojtnw5lwaQ>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ojtnw5lwaQ
*Earth Day 1970 Part 10: Earth Week 3of3 Philadelphia
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyDY9Yvnb1c>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyDY9Yvnb1c
*Earth Day 1970 Part 11: White House Reaction
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqw8uwr0C7w>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqw8uwr0C7w
*Earth Day 1970 Part 12: Science
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvlq-LPYTV4>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvlq-LPYTV4
*Earth Day 1970 Part 13: Conclusion (CBS News with Walter Cronkite)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUtM_LTyIw>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HUtM_LTyIw
http://earthweek1970.org/
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