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Keystone XL pipeline brings out the protest in locals
Posted by LA Times: Molly Hennessy-Fiske on October 19th, 2012
LA Times: Eleanor Fairchild, 78, a great-grandmother and retired homemaker, became an alleged "eco-terrorist" in the early hours of Oct. 4, crawling through brush on her farm about 100 miles east of Dallas in jeans and a button-down shirt to stop work on the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Her companion? The actress Daryl Hannah. Fairchild is one of several local landowners-turned-activists joining outside protesters in the fight to stop a Canadian company from building the pipeline across their properties....
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Drought-dry Texas driving its cattle north
Posted by LA Times: Molly Hennessy-Fiske on October 8th, 2011
LA Times: The cowboys rose well before dawn, stars still high in the West Texas sky. They strapped on spurs and leather chaps and climbed into their saddles for one last roundup.
They didn't have to do much to rustle the cattle from the dusty flats about 220 miles west of Dallas. Hundreds of hungry black Angus and Herefords, tired of foraging for scarce, drought-dry grass, came running - drawn by the hope of feed. The cowboys herded the youngest, thinnest and weakest animals into a separate pen, some with...