2020-07-08 11:04:37

Activists Hail 3 Back-To-Back Pipeline Victories



Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with Tamara Toles O'Laughlin.

Within a 24-hour period, environmental activists saw not 1, not 2, but 3 major oil and gas pipelines face serious obstacles. The Keystone XL Pipeline, a transatlantic project bringing tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the US Gulf Coast is lacking a critical permit that the US Supreme Court refused to intervene in, leaving a lower court ruling in place against the permit.

Another court has ordered the shutdown of the Dakota Access Pipeline which cuts through South Dakota and a number of other states and which was the focus of sustained protests in 2016 in Standing Rock.

A third, lesser known project called the Atlantic Coast pipeline was canceled altogether.

Read Tamara Toles O’Laughlin’s article, ‘If you care about the planet, you must dismantle white supremacy,’ HERE.

Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, North America Director of 350.org.

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