KXL Fight Is Boots on the Ground vs. Big Oil Money: 'The Boots Are Winning'

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/19/kxl-fight-boots-ground-vs-big-oil-money-boots-are-winning



"For six years family farmers and ranchers have stood up to TransCanada, a foreign oil corporation, as they tried to bully and swindle us for our land."

KXL Fight Is Boots on the Ground vs. Big Oil Money: 'The Boots Are Winning'
Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Published on
Friday, September 19, 2014

Friday, September 19 marks six years that climate activists have blocked TransCanada's attempts to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

Opposition to the pipeline has galvanized a national movement that unites environmentalists, indigenous groups, farmers, ranchers, and landowners; since 2008, more than 2,000 activists have gotten arrested in tar sands protests and over 50,000 have rallied against the proposal in Washington, D.C.

Close to two million metric tons of carbon pollution has been left underground as a result of the anti-pipeline mobilization, according to a release sent out by a coalition that includes 350.org, Bold Nebraska, the Center for Biological Diversity, Oil Change International, and the Energy Action Coalition.

"For six years family farmers and ranchers have stood up to TransCanada, a foreign oil corporation, as they tried to bully and swindle us for our land," Bold Nebraska director Jane Kleeb told Common Dreams. "Every day the pipe is not in our water is a victory for our livelihoods."

[rhett o rick]

1. Bravo. I hope the Democratic candidates can support this. nm