Dozens of Activists Halt Keystone XL Pipeline Construction

Four people locked themselves to heavy machinery used along the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline route this morning and several others formed a human chain to block the movement of heavy machinery.

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How Safe Are America's Pipelines?

Over the last few years a series of incidents have brought pipeline safety to national attention. “It's inevitable that as pipelines age, as they are exposed to the elements, eventually they are going to spill.”

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SLAPPed, Arrested, Deemed Eco-Terrorists: TransCanada Blockaders Persevere

Nonviolent blockaders of the Keystone XL pipeline have been met with pain compliance tactics, felony charges, a SLAPP suit which uses the language of "eco-terrorism" and what amounts to a police state surrounding their tree village in Winnsboro, Texas.

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In Canada, Late Efforts to Measure Environmental Hazards of Tar Sands

The Alberta government said Wednesday a new scientific agency to monitor the environmental impacts of oil sands production will provide "credible" and "arms-length" analysis. But Greenpeace fired back about the province's "flawed data and incomplete information."

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Daryl Hannah Arrested Protesting Keystone XL Pipeline in Texas

The actor Daryl Hannah was arrested in northeast Texas on Thursday, along with a landowner as the pair protested against an oil pipeline designed to bring crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

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A New and Unusual Alliance Fights Tar Sands in Texas

In the tradition of forest defenders in the Northwest and mountain defenders in Appalachia, the Texas campaign to block the Keystone XL pipeline has embraced escalated direct action performed by people across the social and political spectrum.

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Time for a Revolution

"In all of history, no tyrannical power has ever conceded peacefully."

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BREAKING: Pipeline Construction Begins, with Protests, in Texas

Blockaders braved a wall of bulldozers early Thursday morning and unfurled banners that warned TransCanada to expect resistance the size of Texas if the company proceeds with construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through the state.

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Dear Secretary Clinton: Reject the Keystone Pipeline

The nation’s top climate scientists sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stating that approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline could cause irreparable climate impacts.

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