RICHMOND – Police arrested two protesters blocking a gate at the Kinder Morgan Terminal in Richmond on Monday orning, during a demonstration against the company’s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline in Canada.
After the arrests at about 10 a.m., two other gates were still blocked at the facility on Canal Boulevard, but police said they would not be taking any others into custody.
RICHMOND – Police arrested two protesters blocking a gate at the Kinder Morgan Terminal in Richmond on Monday orning, during a demonstration against the company’s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline in Canada.
After the arrests at about 10 a.m., two other gates were still blocked at the facility on Canal Boulevard, but police said they would not be taking any others into custody.
The locales say that actions by oil, natural gas and coal companies intensified climate change
Two California counties and a city yesterday sued 37 oil, natural gas and coal companies and trade groups, saying their actions intensified climate change and exacerbated costly sea-level rise.
Dry spells are getting drier in the West as temperatures rise, creating a greater risk of wildfires.
Firefighters in the West are starting to see it every year: an earlier start to the fire season and millions of acres of forest and range burned or ablaze as the summer just begins to heat up.
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman calls ruling 'a significant victory'
A U.S. federal judge has handed a lifeline to efforts to block the Dakota Access pipeline, ruling Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers didn't adequately consider the possible impacts of an oil spill where the pipeline passes under the Missouri River.
