Whether it was yet another police shooting, the war in Syria, or a pipeline protest, I felt powerless to make anything change. But Standing Rock seemed different, and events since then have confirmed that perception. It seems like the protest never died, just spread to other locations.
If Puget Sound Energy hadn’t already gotten the message, they have now: they have a gas problem.
Business as usual must end—especially when it involves new fossil fuel projects. So yesterday morning, three people hoisted themselves up 10′ in the air onto tripods at each gate of the proposed PSE liquefied “natural” gas (LNG) facility, to slow down construction for the second day this week.
Activists locked themselves to a crane for nine hours at the site of the proposed Puget Sound Energy (PSE) liquefied “natural” gas (LNG) facility at the Port of Tacoma yesterday—halting construction of an 8 million gallon storage tank all day.
The reality is that Seattle is failing to meet its targets–even though there is now consensus that those targets were inadequately bold.
With actions in over 60 cities, 10 countries and 4 continents, it was the largest-ever protest of bank investment in fossil fuels
This afternoon, people up and down Western Washington gathered outside 13 different PSE offices to demand that the company stop pushing fracked gas, abandon its Tacoma LNG plans, shut down the dirty Colstrip coal power plant in Montana (the dirtiest in the US), and move immediately to 100% renewable energy.
As May 8th turned into May 9th, I sat in a holding cell watching police officers shuffle papers and stride slowly through the booking facility of King County Jail.
Earlier this year, a broad coalition of Indigenous-led groups teamed up with 122 First Nations and tribes to launch Mazaska Talks: a campaign calling on organizations, governments, and individuals to remove their business from the 64 banks most guilty of funding the climate cr
The Paris climate deal wasn’t something we were ever excited about. As George Monbiot succinctly said, “By comparison to what it could have been, it’s a miracle. By comparison to what it should have been, it’s a disaster.”
