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North Dakota Landowner Wins Easement Battle Against Oil Company
The disruptive phone calls came at dinnertime, and were not the usual telemarketing solicitations. The caller identified as a representative from a multinational oil company wanting to run a 24-inch pipeline through farmland owned by James and Krista Botsford. The caller was not selling anything, but wanted the Botsfords to sell a right of way through their North Dakota land. This pipeline would push 300,000 barrels of oil a day to ports in Superior Wisconsin. The crude oil, pumped straight from the Bakken Oil Fields, could not be sold on the world market until it was processed at refineries on Lake Superior.

Every time that James Botsford answered the persistent ringing of the phone, he told the caller in no uncertain terms that he and his wife were not interested. They did not want to participate in a private enterprise that would increase global warming and threaten the lives of his heirs. This was a moral imperative and no amount of persuasion, including money, would make him change his mind.

James Botsford in August 2015 speaking to filmmaker Keri Pickett for the documentary "First Daughter and the Black Snake"

But that was almost two years ago.

The Botsfords stood their ground and today the oil company lost in an appeal to the Supreme Court of North Dakota.

In an email statement, the Botsfords thanked their legal team at Baumstark Braaten in Bismarck and issued an impassioned plea for the environment and those fighting similar battles.

My wife and I are so pleased with this outcome. It is a complete victory for our case. Once Enbridge abandoned their interest in taking our land and agreed to pay our attorney fees there was really nothing left to fight about in our case. However, there are many more property owners out there in the path of giants like Enbridge. People who want to stop this horrible rush to extract the worst of the fossil fuels and the spewing of unheard of amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. And people who just simply believe a corporation should not be able to take your private property for their for-profit purposes. In our case we had firm commitments on both issues. We hope this victory will encourage others who want to take a stand on one or both of these important issues. David can beat Goliath.

North Dakota Pipeline Inc., a joint venture of Enbridge Energy Partners, L.P. and Williston Basin Pipe Line LLC., was ordered to abandon an easement on the Botsford's farmland. In addition the company must reimburse the Botsfords $82,581.25 in attorney and other fees.

The Sandpiper Pipeline, a project that would carry Bakken crude oil from western North Dakota to refineries in Superior, Wisconsin was recently scuttled in Minnesota. Native American tribes, Minnesota landowners, and citizens banded together to fight the project before the Minnesota Utilities Commission and other regulatory agencies. Botsfords' lone holdout in North Dakota was the western lynchpin for the Sandpiper pipeline, which is now a moot question.

In an early September filing with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Enbridge said "it will no longer pursue the regulatory approvals necessary to construct Sandpiper in Minnesota."

Enbridge is now pushing its investment in the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and along with its parent company, Energy Transfer Inc., facing stiff opposition from Native American tribes at the Standing Rock protest near Cannonball North Dakota.

The stakes could not be bigger for both sides, but with oil behemoths banding together, the fight will be even more difficult for the Sioux Nation. They might want to take a page from the Botsford playbook and realize that it is possible to win. As the Botsfords said, David can indeed beat Goliath.

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Security Firm Guarding Dakota Access Pipeline Also Used PSYOPs Tactics for BP

Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlog

G4S, a company hiring security staff to guard the hotly contested Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), also works to guard oil and gas industry assets in war-torn Iraq, and has come under fire by the United Nations for human rights abuses allegedly committed while overseeing a BP pipeline in Colombia and elsewhere while on other assignments.

Recently, the UK-based G4S placed job advertisements on its website, announcing it would be hiring security teams to work out of offices in Mandan and Bismarck, North Dakota. These two locales are only a 45-minute drive away from the ongoing Standing Rock Sioux Tribe-led encampment unfolding along DAPL's route in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. First among the list of required experience for both locations is service related to military police, elite military forces, or "any support role in a combat zone."

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Monica Lewman-Garcia, Director of Communications for G4S Secure Solutions in North America, told DeSmog, "G4S Secure Solutions is providing fewer than 10 security officers, assigned to remote sites and providing limited short-term unarmed patrol services."

Lewman-Garcia also stated that G4S was not on the scenes at the now-infamous Labor Day weekend incident in which private security forces used pepper spray against and allowed their dogs to bite Dakota Access pipeline protesters, adding that the company had not deployed its K9 units and that those involved worked for a different company. G4S also said it could not comment on whether it was hired to be in North Dakota by Dakota Access LLC, by another company altogether, or by one of the local police departments.

"Chaos Company"

Dubbed the "Chaos Company" in an April 2014 Vanity Fair article, G4S is often brought into the stickiest situations, such as overseeing security for the Basrah Gas Company, an Iraqi natural gas company which Shell, Mitsubishi, and South Oil Company jointly own.

G4S touts its expertise in doing high-risk security work for the oil and gas industry in a company pamphlet:

"In Nigeria, for example, its services include the provision and manning of emergency vessels operating in the Niger Delta for Chevron. It also has a considerable presence in Iraq where it is well placed to assist in the protection of the war-torn nation's oil production which could make that country the third largest oil exporter within a few years."

An article published by The Telegraph (UK) detailed that G4S had been hired to bring 500 personnel and 220 armored vehicles to protect Basrah Gas Company properties in Iraq. Those properties include two gas plants, a liquefied petroleum gas storage facility, a shipping terminal, and — paralleling the Dakota Access situation — the pipelines between them.

G4S also has security contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense at both Guantanamo Bay Detention Center and the controversial U.S. military base in Diego Garcia. The British human rights group Reprieve called for an investigation of G4S as it pertains to human rights abuses which took place at Guantanamo.

Oil and Gas Roots

In 2008, G4S acquired the company ArmorGroup International PLC as a wholly-owned subsidiary. This company has been on the public radar in recent years for being mired in a human trafficking scandal in Afghanistan while guarding the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on a U.S. State Department contract. The U.S. Department of Justice had sued ArmorGroup for allegedly violating the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, settling the lawsuit in 2011 for $7.5 million.

Less well-known is that ArmorGroup has roots connecting it to other human rights abuses and controversial tactics on behalf of multinational oil and gas companies through its precursor, Defense Systems Limited (DSL), a firm founded in 1981, according to a company fact sheet no longer online acquired by DeSmog. ArmorGroup purchased DSL as a wholly-owned subsidiary in 1997.

"The company defended gold and diamond mines in Africa from thieves, and oil pipelines in Latin America from guerrillas," wrote The Financial Times in a 2005 article. "It guarded U.S. and British embassies in the Middle East and elsewhere. Often, DSL would use former British special forces troops to train foreign forces in counterterrorist tactics."

BP Pipeline Human Rights Abuses

In the late-1990's, DSL found itself in a human rights-related quagmire, revealed first in the 1997 documentary, BP's Secret Soldiers, and then in a 1998 investigation published by The Guardian (UK) and El Espectador of Colombia.

The joint inquiry by the newspapers demonstrated that oil giant BP "bought and supplied military equipment to a Colombian army brigade" to police its Ocensa Pipeline, a 500-mile-long tube which at that time exported oil to the United States. That brigade had "been implicated in two massacres by rightwing death squads under its control during the civil war" in Colombia and was said to deploy psychological warfare (PSYOPs) and counterinsurgency techniques in the attempt to win over general public support for constructing the project and to marginalize "subversives."

DSL's tactics received criticism from the human rights advocacy group Amnesty International. Furthermore, a United Nations Special Rapporteur on the question of the use of mercenaries also expressed concern about DSL in a letter published in October 1998 for the company's alleged use of intimidation and torture in Colombia.

"Spies for Hire" Under Investigation

G4S is not the only private contractor identified on the ground in or around the Sacred Stone Camp related to the Dakota Access pipeline protests.

The show "Democracy Now!" revealed that a man who is employed by the firm Torchlight USA, LLC, but is appearing as a freelancer, also showed up in North Dakota. And court documents from the ongoing case in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia pitting the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reveal that another firm, 10-Code LLC — founded and run by a former Bismarck Police Department detective named Paul Olson — also has entered the fold.

It's a phenomenon author and journalist Tim Shorrock calls "Spies for Hire" in his 2009 book by the same name, a tome dedicated to chronicling the outsourcing of U.S. intelligence.

"G4S and other companies like it have one motive only: profit. Its work for governments and energy corporations — particularly at the pipeline this week — shows it has no respect for ordinary people or human rights," Shorrock told DeSmog. "Whoever hires them should be investigated for malfeasance, because their shoddy record in security is a mile long."

In that vein, the North Dakota Private Investigation and Security Board announced that it has opened up an investigation into the private security firms deployed to patrol the pipeline protests led by the Standing Rock Sioux and whether those firms were even licensed to work in the state. In addition, a local county sheriff's office has begun a similar investigation with the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigations, exploring the Labor Day weekend clash between security firms and protesters at a DAPL site.

The North Dakota Private Investigation and Security Board said it could not comment on which companies have fallen under the purview of its ongoing investigation.

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Forty-five years of people power

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After forty-five years, countless campaigns and stories - one thing remains central to the Greenpeace identity, and that is people. People are at the heart of who we are and what is needed to create the green and peaceful world we need.

Greenpeace began with a handful of men and women in the port city of Vancouver on Canada's Pacific coast who volunteered their time, energy and creative skills and courageously took on something greater than themselves. This small group worked together to protest a planned nuclear test on Amchitka Island off the Alaskan coast.

After raising funds and securing a boat, known as the Phyllis Cormack, which was re-christened the Greenpeace, the small group of activists set sail on their voyage. Unfortunately, the US authorities intercepted the boat and the crew returned home.

Though a simplified version of the story, that was the beginning of a much bigger journey. The tenacious efforts of that small group of activists who set sail in the face of great adversity helped to raise public awareness, and opposition against nuclear testing grew.

What their story demonstrated is that small groups of people can bring communities together, in ways they never thought possible, toward a common goal. This type of collaboration can reveal people's similarities, which, in this case, were their collective concern for our environment.

Since that day in 1971, the Greenpeace network has had many victories and losses. Today, on our forty-fifth anniversary, we celebrate those victories even as we continue to learn from our losses.

We want to acknowledge and thank all the people who were involved from the very beginning; those who have spent nearly a lifetime working tirelessly to protect our planet.

Without the activists and cyber-activists, ships crews and campaigners, volunteers, scientists, lawyers, political lobbyists and researchers, Greenpeace is just a word. Greenpeace is made up of people driven by the same idea. It is our supporters, donors and allies.

Greenpeace is the more than 36,000 active volunteers strong, across the globe who share their skills, energy and time to organise in their local communities - all these people are Greenpeace.

We celebrate these people who are a positive force of nature because we face significant environmental issues that threaten to radically alter the planet and all the life that call it home. The hope that we can collectively change the course we are on is unflinching and necessary.

Climate change is arguably the biggest global issue of our time. The Paris Agreement is a major step to bring into force and drive far more ambitious international action to hold us at 1.5C and move us toward 100% renewables and safe, secure energy for all. Greenpeace is working to shift the world away from a fossil fuel-based economy, to one built on clean and renewable energy, in ways that bring local benefits to people. To do that we need to shift the power away from the fossil fuel industries.

Connected to climate change, ocean acidification is a direct effect of oceans absorbing excessive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions which is already affecting marine life. Greenpeace wants more marine protected areas, less illegal fishing and is collaborating with a group of organisations and already making strides in stopping our oceans from becoming a giant rubbish dump for plastic.

Progress, made together with communities and groups, to keep our old growth forests and tropical rainforests standing is critical. This work both supports the unique biodiversity found only in these great forests and helps protect our climate because of the role forests play in balancing our global environmental systems.

Greenpeace is campaigning for growing our food in ways that are good for the planet and people, including farming that helps cope with climate change. And we are working toward a toxic-free future where dangerous chemicals are no longer produced, used and released into our environment.

Today, we continue to fight vigorously against nuclear power, and although full-scale nuclear testing has slowed thanks to the people who stood up against it, nuclear-armed states continue to possess, develop and modernise nuclear weapons. We need a UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons.

The health of the planet depends on the health of all of its parts. These interconnected issues are complex and the solutions may sometimes feel far out of reach. Today, as it did those forty-five years ago in Vancouver, it will take people to give voice to our environmental issues and take action toward solutions.

Martin Luther King, Jr said: "Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."

Today, there is a greater urgency to protect our communities and our planet. People power is needed now more than ever. People taking non-violent direct action, bearing witness, exposing environmental crimes, investigating and highlighting environmental issues and driving the solutions.

More and more people believe and are willing to dream big so that our green and peaceful world can be realised.

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." - Arundhati Roy

Happy Anniversary Greenpeace

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Supple creates visual identity for app aimed at ex-prisoners

Supple Studio has worked on the the branding for Straightline, a new video and podcast app from the Prison Radio Association (PRA).

The charity which previously developed the National Prison Radio station has targeted the beta app and website at people who have recently been released from prison, as well as those at risk of getting into trouble with the law.

Phil Maguire, CEO of PRA, says: “On leaving prison people often receive little or no support. In an age where technology and new media channels are developing with pace, the audio and video content of the app represent a straightforward, sharable and accessible way of communicating information to hard-to-reach audiences. This is the logical next step for us.”

Identity centred around a “simple straight line”

Supple was briefed to create a “simple and cool” brand identity which would appeal to a largely young target audience. “Our solution was to create a rebus-based identity around a simple straight line,” says director, Jamie Ellul.

“Clean, unfussy and easily recognisable, the logo also works as a sting on video content, revealing the Straightline name in a glitchy way.”

Digital agency Mud also designed and built the app and website, which include videos and spoken word programs featuring stories from people who have been in prison.

“No nonsense” app and website design

The user experience was designed to be really straightforward, according to founder and creative director, Matt Powell. “We knew we'd be communicating with people with varying levels of computer literacy so it was key that everything on the website and the app was no nonsense and easily accessible,” he says.

“But equally we were keen to build the brand where possible such as devices like the Sounds feature on the website, which interprets a Soundcloud histogram file and outputs a completely ownable, unique and on-brand audio player.”

The app and website have now launched in beta form.

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Redesigned “water-resistant” £5 note enters circulation

The redesigned £5 note featuring Winston Churchill enters circulation today, with 440 million of them being initially distributed.

It is made from polymer, a thin flexible plastic, making it resistant to dirt and moisture and able to last 2.5 times longer than paper, according to the Bank of England

It adds that the note contains new security features, which make it harder to counterfeit.

A polymer £10 note featuring Jane Austin arrives in summer 2017 followed by the J.M.W Turner £20 by 2020.

The sizing of the new notes will be tiered, and they will feature bold numerals and similar colour palettes to the current notes, which aim to help visually impaired people distinguish between them.

The new £10 and £20 notes will have a series of raised dots making them distinguishable from each other and from the £5 note, which doesn't have any.

Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney says: “The use of polymer means it can better withstand being repeatedly folded into wallets or scrunched up inside pockets and can also survive a spin in the washing machine.”

The old paper £5 notes will remain in circulation until 5 May 2017, when they will no longer be legal tender.

"27340601551_eb803a8043_k" — Victoria Cleland, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England

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London Design Festival 2016 5 must see installations

"the-smile-ahec-aba-tulipwood-clt-1" — The Smile

LDF has come to be known as much for its large-scale public installations as it has for its trade shows, talks and launches.

We've picked out five installations to look out for.

The Smile, by Alison Brooks

A regular favourite is the installation created with the American Hardwood Council. In recent years we've seen dRMM Architects' Escher-inspired Endless Stair and Amanda Levete's Endless Wave.

This year, The Smile has been created by architect Alison Brooks. It's a 34 metre curved wooden structure that you can walk in and around.

Its two ends sitting three metres off the ground will offer viewing platforms and a new perspective to see surrounding buildings.

Created from cross laminated tulipwood timber, it has been designed so that even if 60 people were to run to one end of the structure, it wouldn't see-saw.

The Smile has been anchored with a cradle of 20 tonnes of steel counterweights.

The Smile can be found outside the Tate Britain from 17-25^th September.

Mini Living, by Asif Khan

Asif Khan has created a three-part exploratory piece for Mini that looks at architectural solutions for urban living challenges.

Three locations have been identified as underused public spaces or “third places” a term originally defined by sociologist Ray Oldenburg as places which “host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals beyond the realms of home and work”.

Each of the new “forest” environments contain plants which visitors can take home during the festival. Located on the busy streets of Shoreditch, the spaces offer new areas for people to convene and socialise.

At the Square next to Shoreditch Fire Station a long communal table has been installed, in Charles Square new stepped seating becomes a place for people to work and where Old Street meets Pitfield Street an elevated room offers a secluded green space.

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Asif Khan says: “There is a Japanese phrase ‘shinrin yoku', which literally means ‘forest bathing'. It means every sense switches to absorb the forest atmosphere, what you hear, what you smell, even the feeling underfoot.

“At another scale we use plants as a tool to assert our personal space at its boundary with public space, whether on our desk at the office or at the perimeter of our home. The project brings these two ideas together for visitors to experience new sensations within the city.”

Mini Living runs from 17-25 September and these are the exact locations: Vince Court N1 6EA; Charles Square Gardens N1 6HS; and the corner of Pitfield Street and Charles Square EC1V 9EY.

Beloved, by Tabanlıoğlu Architects

Beloved is a 13-metre long mirrored black box designed for the Victoria & Albert Museum's (V&A) Medieval and Renaissance Galleries.

It is a response to Turkish author Sabahattin Ali's 1943 novel Madonna in a Fur Coat.

Murat Tabanlıoğlu of Tabanlıoğlu Architects says: “We wanted to introduce the book to a new audience in London, as the book has recently been published in an English translation for the first time in its 73-year history.”

Visitors can look inside the structure where they will witness scenes from the novel playing out as film, physical objects, text, light and sound.

“The installation is a physical, multi-sensory realisation of the way the human mind imagines scenes from a book as they read,” says Tabanlıoğlu, who adds: “It's a very intimate experience that celebrates literature, passion and the human condition.”

Beloved will run from 17-25 September at the V&A, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL.

Split Shift installation, by Bert & May and Darkroom

Design store Darkroom has collaborated with tile brand Bert & May to create the Split Shift tile collection, which will be part of an installation on Bert's Barge a barge, with an interior installation created by Darkroom director Rhonda Drakeford.

Tiles, fabrics and painted surfaces help frame an onboard pop-up shop where the new A/W collection of Darkroom products has been set up.

An installation has been created using three tiles highlighting three shapes and “limitless permutations”, which can be set out to appear structured or randomised.

Darkroom-designed interior accessories and jewellery are also for sale on the barge, which will be afloat from the 17-30 September and you can find it canal-side of this address: 67 Vyner Street, E2 9DQ

London Design Biennale

Not technically part of London Design Festival, but curated by the team that puts LDF together, is the London Design Biennale a series of installations from design representatives of countries around the world.

It's the inaugural event and sees the theme of Utopia addressed by design teams who have interpreted it broadly with some looking at how global problems might be solved through design, and others conjuring more abstract utopian and dystopian visions.

You can read more about what we thought about it here.

The London Design Biennale takes place at Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA from 7-27 September. Tickets are £15 with an additional £2.35 booking fee if booking online, or £11.85 concessions. Buy tickets here.

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Addison Lee unveils new service-focused branding

Ad agency Whistlejacket London has worked on a new brand identity and ad campaign for Addison Lee, with the aim of positioning it as the “leading service orientated brand in the private hire car sector”.

Whistlejacket London was commissioned to work on the campaign and rebrand in January, and was briefed to move the identity on from the original design completed in the 1970s, according to creative director, Kathy Kielty. The rebrand features an updated logo, made up of a bright yellow AL symbol.

“The yellow is a visual shorthand for taxis,” says Kielty, “and because the brand is often seen on the streets on cars that are passing by quickly, we also wanted something that stands out and grabs your attention.”

References original logo

The division between the A and the L also represents the two sides of a road, in a nod to Addison Lee's original logo, says Kielty.

Whistlejacket London has also redesigned Addison Lee's website, which now includes less black and more soft greys and white, in order to “breath a bit of light and fresh air into the brand,” according to Kielty.

“Addison Lee had been perceived for a long time as really masculine and it was our intention to make it a more unisex brand, and much more appealing to both men and women,” she says.

£5 million marketing campaign

The rebrand and website redesign are part of the brand's £5 million marketing campaign over the next 12 months, which also includes a new advertising campaign emphasising the services it provides such as free wifi, courier services and pet-friendly vehicles. All communications now also feature the strapline: “Addison Lee for me”.

The rebrand and advertising campaign rolled out today.

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Venturethree designs visual identity for new video production company MX1

Consultancy Venturethree has created the branding for a new video production company set to work with clients such as Sky, Disney, Facebook and the Premier League.

MX1 is a new project created by international satellite company SES, and will offer digital video and media services to companies through its own 360°video platform, over satellite, fibre and online.

Avi Cohen, CEO of MX1, says the new business hopes to “bring linear and non-linear” video together.

The branding for MX1 includes a paintbrush-style cross with a dot above it, a symbol which aims to replicate the “human form”, says the consultancy, to emphasise the company as a “people-centred brand”.

Creative director at Venturethree Stuart Jane, says: “In creating the brand our aim was to reflect MX1's focus on the end user experience. It's about giving people really rich, entertaining or compelling experiences.”

The name MX1 was constructed around the idea that the company “puts experience (X) at the centre of its purpose”, while it aims to portray itself as a “one-of-a kind (1) media (M) brand”, says Venturethree.

The name also hopes to align the brand more closely with “Silicon Valley” and tech start-ups, rather than “traditional media and broadcasting”, it adds.

The new brand rolls out this month.

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DesignStudio creates new branding for e-commerce site Snapdeal

DesignStudio has rebranded Indian shopping website Snapdeal, basing it on the idea that purchasing products unpacks “opportunities”.

The new visual identity is based around an icon of a red box, alongside a bespoke typeface created by studio Atipo, which is a custom version of Bariol.

The typeface is based on Snapdeal's original rounded typography, but has been specifically built for digital, with the company's website and app in mind, according to the studio.

The strapline “Unbox zindagi”, which translates to “Unbox life”, has been used in the new brand campaign, which aims to present the idea of buying as an “opportunity”, says DesignStudio, from “an everyday set of candles to decorate the dinner table, to a guitar that starts a child's journey in music”.

The red box emblem has been carried forward into the brand's physical packaging, as customers are delivered their items in red boxes emblazoned with a white version of the new logo.

DesignStudio says the brand needed to exaggerate the idea of “unboxing”, with the box people receive acting as a “physical representation of the brand”.

Paul Stafford, CEO at DesignStudio, says: “The new brand harnesses the possibilities that unboxing every new product brings. Our hope is that as India grows, Snapdeal's red boxes will appear across the country as a…manifestation of its progress.”

The new branding rolls out this month.

A video from Snapdeal on the new branding:

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