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The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning
Colorado’s high court today struck down the rights of Coloradans to enact local fracking bans. It’s no surprise, given the massive sway of the oil and gas industry in the state. The suit was brought against Longmont (which passed a popular fracking ban in 2012) by Gov. John Hickenlooper and his industry cronies. While it’s easy to be discouraged by this decision, the fact is, it will help activate citizens to pass statewide ballot measures to ban fracking in November.
And let’s not forget: The movement to stop fossil fuel development just keeps winning.
On Earth Day, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo put a stop to the Constitution pipeline, a dangerous project to shipped fracked gas from Pennsylvania into New York, intersecting almost 300 bodies of water. His action sent a clear message that protecting the safety of the state’s drinking water was more important than expanding Big Oil’s profits. And the move didn’t come out of nowhere; the same grassroots pressure that successfully pushed Cuomo to ban fracking in 2014 pushed him to reject this dirty fracked gas pipeline.
It wasn’t just Earth Day that brought good news for the planet. Two days before, the Kinder Morgan energy behemoth canceled a gas pipeline that would have run through parts of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The company faced stiff opposition from activists and residents of the towns where the pipeline would have been constructed.
While it’s good to see Big Oil pull the plug on a bad idea, citizens must put pressure on their elected officials to make sure fossil fuels stay in the ground. That’s what the residents of Prince George’s County in Maryland did this month, convincing the county council to pass a resolution banning fracking. The vote was unanimous.
Even government regulators that are accustomed to green-lighting dirty energy projects are changing their tune. Last month in Oregon the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said no to a massive liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Coos Bay. The battle against the Jordan Cove terminal and more than 200 miles of pipeline goes back over a dozen years—proving once again that dedicated, sustained activism is what will win the fight against corporate greed. And then the Oregon LNG company announced that it’s ending its plan to build an export terminal and pipeline in the state.
The fact is, activism—when we apply enough pressure to our decision makers—works. We’ve seen it in New York, where Gov. Cuomo banned fracking in 2014 and stopped the Port Ambrose LNG facility. While Cuomo has emerged as a climate hero, other Democratic governors haven’t been as responsive to their constituents on climate matters, even though the Democratic establishment is feeling the activist pressure to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Despite his rhetoric, Gov. Jerry Brown in California continues to frack even in the face of the huge climate disaster in the Porter Ranch community. In addition to Governors Hickenlooper in Colorado, Tom Wolf and Gina Raimondo (Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island, respectively) continue to support the fracking industry and related infrastructure despite mounting opposition in those states.
While some politicians and regulators are finally catching up with the science, Big Oil isn’t going to give up without a fight, of course, but they are clearly worried that the narrative on dirty energy is shifting.
What’s the next step? Keep up the pressure—and amp it up a few volts. The March for a Clean Energy Revolution will hit the streets of Philadelphia during the Democratic National Convention this summer—where Democratic leaders around the country will convene—to call for a ban on fracking, to keep fossil fuels in the ground, to stop dirty energy and make a swift, meaningful transition to renewable energy.
We’re winning—and we plan on continuing to do so. We’ll see you in Philadelphia.
31 Comments on "The Movement to Stop Fossil Fuel Development Is Winning"
dave thompson on Sat, 7th May 2016 6:39 am
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dave thompson on Sat, 7th May 2016 6:45 am
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Davy on Sat, 7th May 2016 6:51 am
These people are deluded into a false narrative of a transition to something other than fossil fuels. If they really believed in what they are doing they would turn a real green color. Real green is not driving, eat only local, no AC, no consumerism, and dump the electronic gadget we connect with. In today’s world without preparations this true green color is destitution and poverty. It will take these protestors 10 years to transition to a truly green color with a quality of life. It will take money and education. It will take a complete transformation of their lives and even then they will face a bottleneck of human misery in the pike.
Nope, these dumbasses want their cake and eat it. They want a free get out of jail pass for their protesting how awful our existential catch 22 predicament trap without an exit is. They don’t understand this existential reality hence the blind protesting of fossil fuels. Guns don’t kill people do and the same is true with fossil fuels. Until these angels with iron wings get a grip on the reality of a collapse process and the real reasons for it they will live in denial.
There is no transition to a carbonless world except through a bottleneck of excess deaths over births that will start soon. The transition is a collapse process not a transition. These efforts at ending fossil fuel use are useless and actually counterproductive because they enhance this lie. This lie is we can transition off fossil fuels and remain whole. We can’t transition off fossil fuels and grow, prosper, and continue modernism. The exact opposite is true. We are going to crash and burn as a civilization without fossil fuels.
I want to see us go off fossil fuels but don’t make it a lie. This is a life or death situation that must be handled properly or many people are going to die needlessly from irrational policies and dysfunctional crisis management. There is a right way to self-destruct. We can adapt and mitigate a collapse process but to do this properly we must be in touch with reality. If you are not in touch with reality bad things happen. Bad things are going to happen regardless but we can make this bad more or we can make it less. We can’t make it go away.
onlooker on Sat, 7th May 2016 7:02 am
“I want to see us go off fossil fuels but don’t make it a lie. This is a life or death situation that must be handled properly or many people are going to die needlessly from irrational policies and dysfunctional crisis management.” So true.
JuanP on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:09 am
I think that stopping the use of fossil fuels at this point would only make things worse. I want to keep burning as much as possible for as long as possible. The planet’s biosphere is beyond salvation and catastrophic Climate Change is completely certain and totally irreversible.
I have no patience for deluded insane ignorant fools who think we can still prevent this global biosphere wreck. Total destruction is the only solution.
makati1 on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:13 am
dave T, you got it right. If corporate bullshit and political bullshit were real fertilizer, there would be enough to cover the entire Us at least 10 feet deep.
The American sheeple are giving up their future, their freedoms and their health to the corporations that run their government. I see the denial here, and even some of the people who should know better seem to have begun sipping the cool-aid.
Perhaps it is the inability to accept that the Us is NOT what they were taught (brainwashed) to believe. And the fairy tale they think they live in is showing its dirty side more and more every day. All you have to do is look at the current joke they call the presidential election event to see proof that the Us is finished. Liars, grifters, and war mongers are all that the Us can find to play the part of teleprompter reader for four years. Not an intelligent, honest one in the bunch.
Yes, I live in Asia and I am happy to be here. Asia is not immune to the coming chaos or devastation, but at least I am around good people and don’t have to worry about freezing to death or being shot when I visit a mall. My activities are not being tracked by the NSA as they would be in the Us. I made the decision based on the pros and cons and decided that the pros outnumbered the cons by multiples. Eight years here has not proven me wrong.
makati1 on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:18 am
JuanP, you are correct. The train has left the station. There is no turning back. The only question is how fast the train is traveling, not its destination. We set that 40 years ago at least. The train seems to be picking up speed so the destination may be closer than we think. I do not waste, but I do enjoy life. I am impatient with dreamers who believe that the train can change direction and save us all. I actually feel sorry for them.
Davy on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:41 am
Asia is the first station for the collapse train to stop.
penury on Sat, 7th May 2016 9:52 am
O,K, stop the development of fossil fuels. Heck stop all pipelines, stop the train traffic, protect the ocean by banning oil tankers, That would all be wonderful, Heck why don”t we pass a law that after the election only Unicorns and Fairy dust will be allowed in the U,S,
onlooker on Sat, 7th May 2016 10:22 am
Yes Penury. “Total destruction is the only solution.” I would not call that a solution more like that is the default destination the collapse train is headed for.
Kenz300 on Sat, 7th May 2016 10:29 am
New Documents Show Oil Industry Even More Evil Than We Thought
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oil-cover-up-climate_us_570e98bbe4b0ffa5937df6ce
Climate Change is real….. we will all be impacted by it.
Oil Giants Spend $115 Million A Year To Oppose Climate Policy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oil-companies-climate-policy_us_570bb841e4b0142232496d97
The Kochs Are Plotting A Multimillion-Dollar Assault On Electric Vehicles
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/koch-electric-vehicles_us_56c4d63ce4b0b40245c8cbf6
Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire | Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924?page=2
Boat on Sat, 7th May 2016 11:30 am
JuanP on Sat, 7th May 2016 8:09 am
“I think that stopping the use of fossil fuels at this point would only make things worse. I want to keep burning as much as possible for as long as possible. The planet’s biosphere is beyond salvation and catastrophic Climate Change is completely certain and totally irreversible.
I have no patience for deluded insane ignorant fools who think we can still prevent this global biosphere wreck. Total destruction is the only solution”
That is the stupidest post I have ever read.
regardingpo on Sat, 7th May 2016 11:41 am
Boat posted: “That is the stupidest post I have ever read.”
That’s because you never read your own posts.
peakyeast on Sat, 7th May 2016 1:19 pm
I am totally with JuanP – trying to save “humanity” is beyond madness besides being totally inhumane to all life on earth.
We are at the point where we might as well enjoy the spectacle falling down the chasm we have driven full speed into.
We are having our Wile E. Coyote moment. So DONT LOOK DOWN.
Boat on Sat, 7th May 2016 3:03 pm
peak,
It’s one thing to speculate about the demise of humans but it’s another to wish and want it.
so·ci·o·path
ˈsōsēōˌpaTH/Submit
noun
a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience.
JuanP on Sat, 7th May 2016 3:50 pm
Boat, If it came down to being a sociopath or letting people like you exist, I would be very proud to be a sociopath. As far as I am concerned, you are not worth the air you breathe, and you are right to think that it wouldn’t bother my conscience none to live in a world in which jerks like you didn’t exist.
peakyeast on Sat, 7th May 2016 3:59 pm
@boat: You really shouldnt use terms like that when you really dont know what they mean.
I can see that most other commenters talk very badly to you. Now you have shown me why.
Stupid and antisocial behavior – that is a bad combination, boat. I advice you to get a guardian and some professional help.
GregT on Sat, 7th May 2016 4:56 pm
“It’s one thing to speculate about the demise of humans but it’s another to wish and want it.”
And entirely another to cheerlead for the very things that are causing that demise, like you do Boat. Economics, capitalism, the markets, fossil fuels, and greed.
Apneaman on Sat, 7th May 2016 5:00 pm
Boat, what is the difference between speculating on the demise of the humans and wishing for it? What are the consequence of someone wishing the “wrong” thing?
Are you with the thought police?
Apneaman on Sat, 7th May 2016 5:03 pm
Boat, do you ever hang around bus benches and tell people that, “life is like a box of chocolates”?
Just wondering.
onlooker on Sat, 7th May 2016 5:19 pm
“And entirely another to cheerlead for the very things that are causing that demise, like you do Boat. Economics, capitalism, the markets, fossil fuels, and greed.” I wish for a different world without the things mentioned above. Does that make me a psychopath?
James Tipper on Sun, 8th May 2016 1:11 pm
It also doesn’t hurt that the price of oil per barrel is $45 which makes fracking uneconomical as well. But I’m sure that is unrelated.
Unfortunately for the cornucopians the peak in fossil fuel net energy is going to happen at roughly the same time as peak renewable energy. Without massive fossil fuel infrastructure and maintenance, renewables will be dead in their tracks. I’m not arguing we shouldn’t do it, but it’s like holding your arms out to stop a moving train.
Apneaman on Sun, 8th May 2016 9:08 pm
The only successful movement there will be is the one where the cancer monkeys collectively shit themselves when it sinks it what they have done. In the meantime the denial and malignancy shall continue. Up here in the great white north they have actually kicked the denial up into a whole new gear. It’s a clown show watching the press, politicians and public fumbling around with their pathetic rationalizations, minimizations and “alternate explanations” for the McMurray fire. Anything but the reality of what they have unleashed.
Last time I was in Calgary there was this billboard funded by a fake science organization that is in turn funded by the cancer denial industry:
“The sun is the main driver of climate change. Not you. Not CO2.”
Tell Yourself.
It’s me and you and most certainly CO2 as the main driver of climate change. The Sun does play a part in that more of it’s radiation cannot reflect back into space because CO2 traps it. That is a fact.
Daily CO2
Mauna Loa Observatory | Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations
May 7, 2015
403.96 ppm
May 7, 2016
407.38 ppm
https://www.co2.earth/daily-co2
Atmospheric CO2 Rocketed to 405.6 ppm Yesterday — A Level not Seen in 15 Million Years
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/02/05/co2-rockets-to-405-6-ppm-a-level-not-seen-in-15-million-years/
http://wp.production.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/files/im/gNwshlf.jpg
Apneaman on Sun, 8th May 2016 9:26 pm
Warm North Pacific Winds Predicted to Usher in Brutal Arctic Heatwave this Week
“Extreme Fires, Sea Ice Loss in a Context of Ever-Worsening Climate Change
Beneath the high, much warmer than normal airs have settled in over the Northeast Pacific, over Western Canada, and over Alaska. These much hotter than typical temperatures have provided fuel for a raging start to fire season in such far northern regions. In Canada, nearly a hundred and fifty fires now burn. Sparked by never-before-seen heat and dryness, the worst of these blazes has now consumed 620 square miles of land and more than 1,600 structures around the city of Fort McMurray — forcing about 90,000 people to evacuate and threatening Canada’s hothouse gas emitting tar sands production facilities. Meanwhile, in Alaska, the heat has been lighting off forest fires since as early as February. A month that once only featured a climate of deep chill and heavy snow — but one that in the new, greenhouse gas warmed, world features an ominous winter burning.
The high has also extended it atmospheric influence up into the Polar zone — joining a powerful ridge that has torn away and shattered sea ice across the Central Arctic since at least mid-April. Opening wide areas of dark, heat absorbing water and contributing to never-before-seen low levels of sea ice extent and volume for May.”
more
https://robertscribbler.com/2016/05/09/warm-north-pacific-winds-predicted-to-usher-in-brutal-arctic-heatwave-this-week/
makati1 on Sun, 8th May 2016 9:40 pm
Ap, is it true that this fire could burn on for months? I saw that in an article yesterday. That would be horrific!
GregT on Sun, 8th May 2016 10:51 pm
mak,
At this point in time, it appears highly unlikely that this fire will die out before the fall. If you think this is horrific, just wait, we ain’t seen nothing yet…..
Apneaman on Sun, 8th May 2016 11:21 pm
mak, greg is correct. The McMurray fire could burn for that long. There are many fires happening elsewhere too. I would not be surprised if records fall like dominoes all through the entire northern hemisphere by the time fire season is over.
Russian offer to send water bombers to fight Fort McMurray fire in limbo
Ottawa hasn’t responded to the Kremlin’s offer to help ‘Canadian partners’ battle Alberta blaze
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/russia-water-bombers-alberta-wildfires-1.3572825
Oh those Russians are clever little PR monkeys. LMAO.
I can envision the neocon propaganda spin for the patriot sheeple tomorrow.
“Russians threaten to bomb Canada!”
JuanP on Mon, 9th May 2016 7:43 am
I estimated in 2007 that the Arctic Ocean’s ice would basically completely melt by the summer of 2014 or 2015. It seems I missed it by a year as it is very likely to happen in the coming months. Ten years ago scientists were saying this couldn’t happen before the end of the century! LOL!
I can’t understand the people that still believe the propaganda.
Kenz300 on Mon, 9th May 2016 10:17 am
The oil companies and the auto companies need to get their collective heads out of the sand and realize that the world is changing with or without them. Climate Change is real….. it will impact all of us…
It is time to move away from fossil fuels and embrace alternative energy sources like wind, solar, wave energy, geothermal and second generation biofuels made from algae, cellulose and waste. They need to change their business models and move from being OIL companies to ENERGY companies. The auto industry needs to move from just building compliance vehicles to embracing electric vehicles and start putting development and advertising behind them..
The world is moving to embrace alternative energy sources…….. the fossil fuel companies can transform themselves into “energy” companies or they can die a slow death. As Climate Change impacts more people there will be a bigger backlash against fossil fuels.