No, Republicans Did Not Expose Efforts by Russia to Fuel Pipeline Protests

A report by Republicans recycles unsubstantiated news suggesting the Russian government was behind anti-fracking activism in the U.S.

Kevin Gosztola
作者 Kevin Gosztola

A “staff report” from Republicans on the United States House Science, Space, and Technology Committee offers little evidence to prove allegations of Russian efforts to influence U.S. energy markets through “social media propaganda” to incite pipeline protests. Nonetheless, the report, pushed by Republican chairman Representative Lamar Smith,

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Beyond Dakota Access: Energy Transfer Partners Pipelines To Ferry Fracked Gas To Mexico

Even as pipeline protests swelled in North Dakota and other states, the Obama administration quietly approved two international pipelines to be built into Mexico by the same corporation behind the Dakota Access pipeline.

Kit O'Connell
作者 Kit O'Connell
fracking pipelines explode

AUSTIN, Texas --- Even as Native American activists continue to block construction of the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota and the three other states along its planned 1,100 mile trail, U.S. energy pipeline infrastructure -- and opposition to it -- is expanding elsewhere. In May, the Obama administration approved two pipeline projects by

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