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Dozens Arrested as Keystone XL Protests Erupt Across the U.S
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on March 22nd, 2013
EcoWatch: One month after the largest climate rally in U.S. history urging President Obama to deny the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline’s northern segment, protesters in dozens of cities throughout the U.S. are confronting Keystone XL`s corporate backers directly.
Thirty-seven have been arrested over the last 10 days for disrupting business as usual at TransCanada and their investors’ offices, with more actions planned over the next couple of days.
The March 16-23 Week of Action to Stop Tar Sands...
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Oklahomans March Onto TransCanada Easement to Protest Keystone XL Pipeline
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on January 11th, 2013
EcoWatch: Oklahomans from across the state, and indigenous and environmental activists came together and walked onto an easement where pipe for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline was being laid through Sac & Fox land. In solidarity with the international Idle No More movement, the Unis’tot’en Camp, impacted communities throughout the pipeline route and an Oklahoma branch of Tar Sands Blockade have come together to take nonviolent action against the dangerous pipeline and demand that tribal sovereignty,...
Protests Ignite Nationwide Targeting TransCanada’s Keystone XL
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on January 7th, 2013
EcoWatch: Eight youth climate activists staged a sit-in today at the TransCanada Corporation’s office in Westborough, MA to protest the Keystone XL pipeline.
More than 100 blockaders stormed the lobby of TransCanada’s Keystone XL office in Houston this morning. Protesters danced, spilled black ‘tar sands’ balloons and hung neon orange hazard tape to highlight the deadly effects of TransCanada’s corporate greed on communities and ecosystems.
After being forced out of the lobby by police, the protesters...
New Tree Blockade Halts Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on January 3rd, 2013
EcoWatch: Late last night, blockaders set up two “dump platforms” in trees outside of Diboll, Texas which would otherwise be cleared to make way for TransCanada`s Keystone XL toxic tar sands pipeline. These special “dump platforms” are shielded by an unprecedented 80-100 foot perimeter of life-lines arranged, which if disturbed would certainly dump the two blockaders nested in them roughly 50-60 feet in the air. The blockaders are sitting in soldarity with the now global Idle No More campaign for First Nation`s...
Activists Arrested, Launch Hunger Strike in Protest of Keystone XL Pipeline
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on November 29th, 2012
EcoWatch: Longtime Gulf Coast activists Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Jr., locked their necks to oil tanker trucks destined for Valero’s Houston Refinery in solidarity with Tar Sands Blockade’s protests of TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. Valero Energy Corp. is among the largest investors in TransCanada’s toxic tar sands pipeline that will terminate near the community of Manchester, located in the shadow of Valero’s refinery. Not only did Wilson and Lindsey blockaded the Valero refinery, the two lifelong...
40 Communities Worldwide Organize Actions to Protest Dirty Energy
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on November 16th, 2012
EcoWatch: Solidarity actions are taking place in more than 40 communities around the world protesting dirty energy and spotlighting an urgent need to address the climate crisis during the week of action Nov. 14 to Nov. 20. Following a summer of unprecedented extreme weather and the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy the Tar Sands Blockade, a sustained direct action campaign based in Texas against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, has called for this week’s actions.
The closing of the hottest year...
Green Party Presidential Candidate Detained After Helping Keystone XL Tree Sitters
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on October 31st, 2012
EcoWatch: Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein has been detained while resupplying Keystone XL tree sitters.
As Hurricane Sandy pushes further inland to devastate Appalachia and Canada, three women from New England, including Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein, are risking arrest to highlight the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline`s connection to extreme weather events and climate change. Dr. Stein, a Massachusetts resident, is resupplying tree sitters in Winnsboro, Texas as two...
: 50+ Rally in Support of Keystone XL Tree Sitters, 3 Arrested
Posted by EcoWatch: Tar Sands Blockade on October 15th, 2012
EcoWatch: Following a weekend of nonviolent civil disobedience training in North Texas by Tar Sands Blockade, dozens of protesters and supporters are rallying today at the site of the largest and longest tree sit in Texas history to stage the largest walk-on site protest and civil disobedience in the history of Keystone XL pipeline construction. Several individuals are defending the tree sitters and the trees by locking themselves to construction equipment being used in proximity to the forest blockade. Solidarity...