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PRESS RELEASE: Family and Supporters Engaged in Pipeline Protest Seek Relief...
Ellen and Elise Gerhart at their homestead in Huntingdon County, PA | Photo credit: Jen Deerinwater FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Nathan Joseph (802) 922-8024 or King Downing (718) 915-4702...
View ArticlePress Release: Energy Transfer Partners’ Rover Pipeline Cited for Ongoing...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: overwithover@gmail.com Citation adds to long list of environmental damages along Energy Transfer Partners’ pipeline routes. Pinckney, Michigan — Today, the Michigan...
View ArticleReport: Norway sovereign wealth fund to review ethics of ETP investments
The Council on Ethics for Norway’s sovereign wealth fund is assessing whether Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) violated the fund’s guidelines for responsible investment, reported Reuters today. Similar...
View ArticlePress release: Pressure on Governor Edwards for Environmental Impact...
End Point of Bayou Bridge Site of Significant Oil Spill Already this Year (Baton Rouge) Louisiana residents’ calls for an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Bayou Bridge Pipeline intensified...
View ArticleBlog: Communities Pay The Price for Pipelines
Co-written by Waterkeeper Alliance Staff Attorney Larissa Liebmann and Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Staff Attorney Misha Mitchell In 2017, Sunoco Logistics Partners (Sunoco) merged with, and changed its...
View ArticleBreaking: Drilling Halt on Mariner East II Pipeline Upheld by PA Public...
Breaking news today out of the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, as reported on the website for the West Goshen Township: At their October 26, 2017 public meeting the PUC AFFIRMED Judge Barnes’...
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URGENT: Mariner East II Construction Crews Approaching Camp White Pine
URGENT: Construction crews are closing in on both sides of Camp White Pine. For nearly two years, Elise and Ellen Gerhart, along with many allies, have been holding tree sits on their property to...
View ArticleBreaking: Ohio Attorney General Sues Energy Transfer Partners over...
Today, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed suit against Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners Rover Pipeline, to collect $2.4 million in civil penalties remanded to his office by the Ohio...
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Press Release: Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Told to “Do Your...
(Baton Rouge) Days after yet another accident at Exxon, the beleaguered Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality came under fire from communities impacted by pollution throughout the state. The...
View ArticleJoint Statement on the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Approval of the Bayou...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 December 2017 CONTACT: Cherri Foytlin, Bold Louisiana, foytlinfam [at] gmail.com Dallas Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, goldtoothdallas [at] gmail.com Joint...
View ArticlePress Release: Mariner East 2 violations latest in reckless practices by...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 3, 2018 Contact: David Turnbull, Oil Change International, david@priceofoil.org Elise Gerhart, Camp White Pine, elisealcyone@gmail.com Mariner East 2 violations mark...
View ArticleWATCH: New mini-documentary highlights Rover pipeline struggle in Michigan
From Confluence Democracy: PINCKNEY/HELL, MICHIGAN – In the wake of Standing Rock, Energy Transfer Parters is currently building a 42″ inch fracked gas pipeline that will run through multiple states;...
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Construction of Bayou Bridge has begun!
Family, it has begun. The bulldozers have arrived and I have witnessed the sight of several hundreds-years-old trees ripped and shattered into toothpicks. #EnergyTransferPartners is preparing to...
View ArticleUnfree: My battle against Texas Oil & Gas
Blog by Lori Glover of the Big Bend Defense Coalition I now know what it feels like to be “unfree.” My husband Mark was arrested last Friday morning, Jan 19th, and incarcerated overnight in Marfa, TX,...
View ArticleUS Bank Quietly Joins $4B Deal with Dakota Access Owner
Desmog summarizes the latest developments with US Bank. At a shareholder meeting this past spring, U.S. Bank announced it would be the first large American bank to completely stop issuing loans for oil...
View ArticleUS Bank’s Empty Promise
When ETP announced it was going to refinance its debt last November, our ears perked up. Amid the resistance to Dakota Access, several of ETP’s lenders said they wouldn’t renew their loans. Now that...
View ArticleCorrespondence With US Bank
Here’s the letter we sent to US Bank outlining concerns about Energy Transfer Partners. US_Bank_Letter And here’s the response from the bank. US_Bank_Letter_Response The post Correspondence With US...
View ArticleSTATEMENT: Despite record fine, ETP should not be allowed to resume...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 2018 CONTACT: Elise Gerhart, elisealcyone [at] gmail.com, 707-499-3989 Karen Feridun, karen.feridun [at] gmail.com, 610-678-7726 STATEMENT: Despite record fine, ETP...
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Hundreds gather in Minneapolis calling on US Bank to #DefundETP
Last week, the national spotlight was on Minneapolis for Super Bowl Sunday, where the Philadelphia Eagles pulled out a close victory over the New England Patriots. But much of the local spotlight in...
View ArticleBREAKING: Federal judge blocks construction of Bayou Bridge pipeline
Pipeline construction would “irreparably harm” Atchafalaya Basin Original post by Waterkeeper Alliance BATON ROUGE, LA – Federal District Court Judge Shelly Dick halted the construction of the...
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