Monday, September 28, 2026

Tag: Dakota Access Pipeline

The growing danger of force for hire

Energy Transfer Partners are just one of the recent companies to utilize private military and security contractors. Looks like the private security genie is out of the bottle.

Dakota Access Pipeline begins service the same day Trump announces withdrawal...

This decision is not the first – nor will it likely be the last – from the Trump administration to move the United States backwards in climate action.

Newly leaked documents reveal insane counterterrorism tactics used against Standing Rock...

Surveillance tactics used by the company include social media information harvesting, aerial surveillance and radio eavesdropping and infiltration of camps and activist circles.

Dakota Access Pipeline is already springing leaks

“This is what we have said all along: Oil pipelines leak and spill.”

Feds halt new drilling on Rover Pipeline after massive spills destroy...

ETP said the pipeline will enter service in two phases in July and November.

The race to stop Tar Sands pipeline financing before loans are...

Efforts to defund Keystone XL target same banks that supported DAPL. “If you stop the flow of dollars, you stop the flow of oil.”

Climate-denying group led by Trump strategist lobbied for Dakota Access, Keystone...

This climate denial–tobacco connection is not unusual.

In heat of Dakota Access protests, National Sheriffs’ Association lobbied for...

Standing Rock and the role of the Sheriffs’ Association serve as a case study of broader policing trends seen during social movements.

Newspaper owned by fracking billionaire leaks memo calling pipeline opponents potential...

“We will not be deterred. We will continue to move forward to raise awareness to what is happening in Oklahoma."

#DAPL mogul cut $250,000 check to Trump’s inauguration

Several other companies that later benefited from executive actions taken by President Trump also donated to the inauguration.

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States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger

Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy

The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
A press briefing at the White House. Photo: The White House

Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico

The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
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The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...

If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
The Knesset, Israel's parliament building, in Jerusalem. Photo: Gary Todd, via Wikimedia Commons

Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?

New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.