Washington, DC — More than a hundred protesters and “water protectors” held a rally at TransCanada’s corporate office on Tuesday followed by a Native American round dance in the middle of 13th St., stopping some late rush-hour traffic. Familiar Keystone XL pipeline signs and banners were deployed once again, some […]
Keystone XL Pipeline
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On Saturday, January 10, groups opposed to the Keystone XL pipeline rallied at the White House to urge the administration to stop it after the new Republican-led Congress made getting the pipeline built its first issue of business. On Thursday, the Senate Energy Committee passed a bill to expedite the […]
Washington, D.C.,- Environmental advocates used their bodies to block the entrances of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Monday and called for an end of the so-called rubber stamp polices of the agency that regulates interstate natural gas pipelines and gas compression stations. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) dispatched dozens of uniformed officers […]
Environmentalists carried an inflated faux pipeline around the U.S. Capitol grounds on January 28, calling on President Obama to reject the proposed cross-border section of the Keystone XL pipeline. In frigid eighteen-degree weather, activists paraded the giant tube which said, “Pipeline President or Climate Champion?” ahead of the President’s State […]