Gulf of Mexico Archives

Tell President Biden and the Coast Guard to stop SPOT – the Sea Port Oil Terminal

by DrewAction, allies, Home December 10, 2021December 10, 20210 comments

Fossil Fuel companies are racing to build a new generation of fossil fuel export terminals in the Gulf of Mexico, already and for too long a sacrifice zone to pollution and fossil-fueled white supremacy. One of these projects is the Sea Port Oil Terminal (SPOT) proposed by notorious oil giants Enterprise & Enbridge off the …

Tell the Army Corps of Engineers to Defend the Gulf!

by DrewAction, allies, Home December 6, 2021December 6, 20211 comment

For far too long the Gulf of Mexico has been a sacrifice zone to fossil fuels. Communities on the Gulf coast face some of the highest rates of pollution, poverty, and extraction – and are also hit year after year by climate fueled super storms. The Gulf was the first place that President Biden sold …

No new Federal Fossil Fuels rally at COP26

Tell Biden: Keep your promise. Stop the Gulf lease sale!

by DrewAction, allies, Home November 10, 2021November 10, 20213 comments

President Biden and his Interior Department need to act fast to cancel next week’s Gulf lease sale – known as sale 257. Despite promising climate action, Biden’s Department of Interior is scheduled to sell more than 80 million acres of the Gulf for oil and gas drilling and fracking. To add insult to this grave injury …

The Time is now to Rise for Climate, Jobs & justice

In Five Days, We Rise, We Burn, Or we Drown

by DrewAction, allies, Home September 4, 20184 comments

We live in dark times, climate-wise. California and the West are on fire. The first tropical storm of the season is rolling into the Gulf of Mexico – and the last homes and business Puerto Rico just got power back a few weeks ago. But Donald Trump and team just keep on trucking: appointing climate deniers …

Video still from Charlotte #RiseTogether

About to go live in Raleigh for #RiseTogether day 2

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 31, 2018July 31, 2018Comments are Disabled

I’m about to start another live stream at the Raleigh #RiseTogether rally, so I’ll get right to the point: Can you donate to support these solidarity actions in North Carolina and our ability to help organize them? Yesterday, I got up super early and drove to Charlotte for the first North Carolina #RiseTogether Action. I’m not a …

North Carolina #RiseTogether to stop all pipelines!

by DrewAction, allies July 26, 20181 comment

North Carolina is ready to #RiseTogether in solidarity with our allies in the Gulf. Things are getting dangerous for our brothers and sisters fighting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Earlier this week Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Bayou Bridge (BBP) and Dakota Access Pipelines (DAPL), leap frogged ahead of their scheduled pipeline construction to …

Update from Louisiana: Rise together to stop the pipelines

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 26, 2018July 26, 20181 comment

Things are getting dangerous for our brothers and sisters in Louisiana fighting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline. Earlier this week Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the company behind the Bayou Bridge (BBP) and Dakota Access Pipelines (DAPL), leap frogged ahead of their scheduled pipeline construction to begin cutting trees near a group of water protector tree sits. Along …

Rise together – Divest, no new pipelines, clean energy now.

by DrewAction, allies, Home July 19, 2018Comments are Disabled

All week we’ve been glued to the news – not the news from Helsinki (well, ok, that too) but the news from Louisiana where our friends fighting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline are entering a critical phase of the campaign. In case you need a refresher, the Bayou Bridge Pipeline (BBP) is the tail end of …

VIDEO: Last week to comment on the BOEM proposal

Last week before comments go BOEM!

by DrewHome, Opinion March 6, 2018March 7, 20182 comments

I recorded a short video to explain what we’ve been doing for the last 50+ days as part of the comment on the Bureau of Ocean Energy management (BOEM) comment period on the Trump administration’s proposal to open more than 90% of US Coastal waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. I wanted to explain …

BOEM goes the dynamite – your comments in action

by DrewAction, allies, Opinion February 20, 2018February 20, 20184 comments

When the Bureau of Ocean Energy management (BOEM) came to my town, there was already a great plan in place with rallies, lobby days,and speak outs planned by partners. But I wanted to make sure we did more than show up and record your comments (and mine) as opposed to the Trump administration’s plan. There’s …