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Sierra Club leader to risk arrest in protest against Keystone XL oil pipeline
2013-02-13 04:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Prominent environmental leaders, including the head of the Sierra Club and the organizer of a public campaign to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, are planning to risk arrest Wednesday at a protest outside the White House. Executive director Michael Brune would be the first Sierra Club leader to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history as a way to oppose the pipeline, which would carry oil derived...
Lifelong Oklahoman Youth Pastor Locked to Machinery in Protest of Keystone XL
2013-02-11 17:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Earlier this morning, Stefan Warner, a youth pastor who was born and raised in Harrah, OK, locked himself to machinery being used to build the toxic Keystone XL tar sands pipeline through Creek land near Schoolton, OK. Warner is taking action to protect the health of the North Canadian River, communities and land that this pipeline would run through from being irreversibly damaged by diluted bitumen (tar sands) leaks and spills. He is sending a clear message that the current day colonialism and...
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Oklahoma Resident Locks Herself to Equipment to Protest Tar Sands Pipeline
2013-02-04 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Early this morning, Norman, Oklahoma resident Elizabeth Leja locked her neck to equipment used in constructing the Keystone XL pipeline. Citing concerns for Oklahomas waterways and their importance for the health of future generations, her actions have halted construction at the site on Highway 62, just North of the North Canadian River, for the day. The Gulf Coast Project is the Southern segment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion project by multinational TransCanada. It is slated...
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United Kingdom: Chainsaw massacre: felled trees after Combe Haven road protest eviction big picture
2013-02-01 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Campaigners spent weeks camped out at three sites in East Sussex to protest against a new 5.6km link road between Bexhill and Hastings. The Combe Haven Defenders group say that the case has national significance because it is one of more than a hundred major new roads planned across the country. On 30 January, the last protesters were evicted by police and bailiffs from the third and final remaining camp, many of whom were tens of feet high in trees. On the same day, the trees were felled by chainsaw...
Hybrid car owners protest at Capitol over planned tax
2013-01-31 22:35:59| Paper - Topix.net
The Chesapeake Climate Action Network protested today in Richmond over the plan to tax hybrid car owners $100 a year.
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