From the Earth First! Newswire: Tar Sands Re-route Coming to a Wetlands Near You by Russ McSpadden / Earth First! Newswire Back in 2011, when Gulf Coast residents were still reeling from the BP oil spill disaster, a pipeline company, Plains Southcap, LLC received a quiet approval to build a 45-mile pipeline in Montgomery Co. Alabama. [...]

Following the collapse of an I-5 highway bridge in Washington state (in which fortunately no one was killed), watch out for infrastructure apologists from liberals to energy companies to push for a massive increase in infrastructure spending. Bloomberg’s coverage raises the issue in the fourth paragraph: An interstate highway bridge in Washington state collapsed [Thursday], [...]

From El Paso Inc, via the Earth First! Newswire: The Energy Department on Friday conditionally approved a Texas company’s proposal to export liquefied natural gas, only the second such project allowed to move forward amid a production boom that has led to glut of domestic natural gas. The action would allow Freeport LNG Expansion L.P. [...]

Undaunted by a string of recent treesit evictions, opponents of the US-101 highway bypass in Willits, California are continuing the struggle. A treesit remains in place directly in the path where Caltrans plans to destroy a grove of wetlands trees. And on Monday, a lockdown by just two activists successfully disrupted construction work for a [...]

From Common Dreams: Stearing a lobster boat called the Henry David T., two climate activists on Wednesday attempted to blockade a shipment of West Virginia coal from arriving at Brayton Point Power Station in Massachusetts, New England’s largest coal-fired power plant. The coal freighter, the Energy Entreprise, is believed to be carrying coal from a [...]

From BBC News: Officials in Belize say a construction company has destroyed one of the country’s largest Mayan pyramids. Head of the Belizean Institute of Archaeology Jaime Awe said the Noh Mul temple was levelled by a road-building company seeking gravel for road filler. The Mayan temple dates back to pre-Columbian times and is estimated [...]

From Save Little Lake Valley: Bob Chevalier, a 67 year old Willits resident, locked himself to an excavator this morning and stopped Caltrans work [on the US-101 bypass in Willits, CA]. He did this to protest and bring attention the Army Corps of Engineers’ (ACE) failure to hold Caltrans accountable to the conditions ACE set forth [...]

Because if there’s one thing the recent spills and derailments have convinced us of, it’s that we want more oil by rail, right? From Earthfix: The Port of Vancouver in southwest Washington could start handling crude oil from North Dakota under an agreement announced Monday. Spokeswoman Theresa Wagner says the Port of Vancouver has been [...]

From Upside Down World: Written by Clayton Conn In 2001 and 2002 townspeople and ejidatarios of San Salvador Atenco, Mexico successfully halted a plan proposed by then President Vicente Fox to expropriate more than 1,100 hectares of their farmland and territory for the construction of an International Airport. Now in 2013, the deceased plan has [...]

From the Press Democrat: Despite the abrupt removal and arrest of five tree-sitters within the Willits bypass construction zone Thursday, a new protester took up residence in an oak tree Saturday night. The unidentified woman, who is going by the name “Owl,” is situated within a grove near the pine that housed tree-sitter Amanda Senseman [...]