Seminole, Okla: Keystone XL Lockdown Blockade

BREAKING: Construction of Keystone XL pump station shut down in largest action yet by the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance

June 24, 2013 by GPTSR

By Great Plains Tarsands Resistance 

NINE PEOPLE ARRESTED
BREAKING: Construction of Keystone XL pump station shut down in largest action yet by the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance.

Four people are locked through the treads of an excavator

Seminole, OK: Early this morning, eight individuals blocked construction of a pump station for TransCanada’s controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Seminole land-by-treaty by locking on to equipment in the largest action yet by the Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance. The group took action today, physically halting the construction process, as a part of an effort to prevent the Great Plains from being poisoned by inherently dangerous tar sands infrastructure, as well as demonstrate the necessity for direct confrontation with industries that profit off of continued ecological devastation and the poisoning of countless communities from “Alberta, CA” to the Gulf. This action comes during the first day of a nationwide week of coordinated anti-extraction action under the banner of Fearless Summer.
MORE: http://gptarsandsresistance.org/seminolepumpstation-2/


BREAKING: Activist has Climbed Inside Enbridge Tar Sands Pipe in Michigan

by Rabb!t / Earth First! Newswire

Chris “The Whammer” at the pipe entrance.

Early this morning Chris “The Whammer” Wahmoff climbed inside a segment of Enbridge’s Line 6B Pipe south of Marshall, Michigan, to halt reconstruction of the line. Chris used a skateboard to slide-crawl his way deep into the pipe, where he has said he is prepared to stay until at least 5:00 PM tonight. Chris is part of the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands (MI-CATS), a grassroots group that seeks to stop all transportation and refining of tar sands in Michigan, and advocates against tar sands production and transportation everywhere.
 http://earthfirstnews.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/breaking-activist-has-climbed-inside-enbridge-tar-sands-pipe-in-michigan/