Yaahh, Tar Sands Direct Action on the Front Page of the NY Times! Boo, Obama Inching Towards a Spinless Position on the Keyston XL Pipeline.
U.S. to Allow Canadian Pipeline
www.nytimes.com
Final approval of the project will not come before the end of the year, but the agency’s report gave every indication that the administration was prepared to see the Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico proceed.
Today would have been anti-MTR movement leader Judy Bonds’ 59th birthday. As we organize tree sits in West Virginia against coal extraction and sit ins at the White House against tar sands pipelines, we remember her words– “Fight Harder!”
Anyone Up for Blockades and Lockdowns Along the Pipeline Route?
State Department’s Environmental Analysis Gives Pipeline an Initial Green Light
www.commondreams.org
WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department says TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline poses no major risks to the environment and will not spur further oilsands production in Alberta, moving the controversial project one step further to a final decision by the Obama administration.
Woot! Wild Idaho Rising Tide Blocks Tar Sands Megaloads Bound for Alberta! Four arrested in non-violent civil disobedience.
Breaking: Idaho Residents Arrested Blocking Tar Sands Megaloads Bound for Alberta « It’s Getting Hot
itsgettinghotinhere.org
Hundreds have been arrested sitting in at the White House this week and Alberta’s Indigenous communities have been fighting Big Oil’s development of tar sands for quite some time , but today residents in Moscow Idaho crossed a line of their own.
