Relating to both clean/renewable energy and fossil fuel energy.
On July 14th, XRPDX held an action outside the KOIN Tower, criticizing them for the fact that they haven’t covered the Zenith expansion since September 2019. Much like an oil train, it was a blast!
Do you walk to the bus? To the store? Do you take afternoon walks with friends? Make it count! We need help hanging door hangers in the blast zones in North, NE and NW Portland; … Read more
Fossil fuels explode, which means fossil fuel trains can explode too, creating a blast zone of destruction. Unfortunately, we have a potential blast zone right here in Portland. Thousands of Portlanders live in Zenith’s blast … Read more
This week, Cedar Green, a coalition fighting fossil fuels in Oregon, is asking folks to write Mother’s Day cards and send them addressed to Dan Ryan and other City Commissioners urging them to: deny the … Read more
This month the City of Portland has the chance to deny Zenith a Land Use Compatibility Statement (LUCS) as part of their application to Department of Environmental Quality for an air quality permit. Unfortunately, the … Read more
Before the spring thaw approaches, it’s a critical time to Stop Line 3, as Enbridge will start drilling under the waterways, wild rice wetlands, and the headwaters of the Mississippi.
Something became crystal clear to me: Fossil fuel pipelines are not a climate change issue taking place on Indigenous soil. They’re an Indigenous issue with global consequences.
On St. Patrick’s Day, March 17th, people from several local organizations organized by Cedar.Green (formerly Stop Zenith Collaborative), gathered at the stinky, polluting, ever-expanding Zenith Energy site. We then ran a car caravan, led by … Read more
In many respects, our second performance on Friday, March 12 proceeded as our first on Monday, March 8, but we had quite a few more actors this time, which made the performance all the more … Read more
Illegal pullovers, surveillance, and other harassment actions by county Sheriffs, state troopers, and Enbridge security forces were commonplace. Outside one of the Water Protector camps we visited, there was 24/7 surveillance by two to four local sheriff cars at any time.