Keystone XL

Petroleum Front Group Push Tar Sands On Earth Day

April 23, 2014 Steve Horn, www.desmogblog.com Educate! Environment, Keystone XL

Former Obama National Security Adviser Pushes Keystone Pipeline at Phony Earth Day Event The political carnival that is the prelude to the Iowa caucuses has started over a year and a half early. At the center of it this time around: a game of political hot potato over the northern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. American Petroleum Institute (API) deployed one of its paid consultants — former Obama Administration National Security Advisor General James “Jim” Jones — to deliver an Earth Day address in the home state of the presidential caucuses at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. James Jones used his time on the podium to promote the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which another James — retired NASA climatologist James Hansen — once called a “fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the planet.” “General James Jones…will discuss the benefits of the pipeline initiative, including more jobs, less dependence on foreign oil, and cheaper energy costs for Americans,” explained an April 15 Drake University press release promoting the event.

Cowboy Indian Alliance Camp Comes To Life On National Mall

April 22, 2014 John Zangas and Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Keystone XL, Protest

Set-up of the campsite by the Cowboy Indian Alliance for a week-long protest against the Keystone XL pipeline began on the National Mall in Washington, DC today. “Reject and Protect” officially begins tomorrow with an opening ceremony at the Capitol Reflecting Pool at 11am. So far seven tipis standing 20 feet tall have been assembled with one in progress and more to go up tomorrow. Several will be painted with ceremonial tribal designs as the week progresses. Ranchers, farmers and members of native communities along the pipeline route formed the Cowboy Indian Alliance to stand against energy company TransCanada’s efforts to acquire land under eminent domain. Cyril Scott, President and Tribal Leader of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, watched over the camp while other tribal leaders and elders met nearby. “We are here to stop the Keystone XL and protect our people and water,” he said.

Cowboy Indian Alliance Stands The Line In DC Against Keystone XL

April 21, 2014 DC Media Group, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Indigenous Rights, Keystone XL, Protest

On Earth Day, April 22, ranchers and members of native communities along the proposed route of the Keystone XL Pipeline will arrive in Washington, DC to reject the pipeline and protect their land. The coalition, called the Cowboy Indian Alliance, will set up an encampment on the National Mall through April 27 to oppose the pipeline that would transport dilbit from the tar sands of Canada to the refineries of the Gulf Coast. “Reject and Protect,” as it is called, promises to be yet another major anti-Keystone XL protest. The builder of the Keystone XL, TransCanada Corp., has applied to the State Department for a cross-border permit. Final approval rests with President Obama. “We want to tell the President that this is much bigger than protecting unions or environmentalists. It’s about protecting land, water, and homes,” says Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska, one of the sponsoring organizations. Over a dozen tribes—including Sioux, Rosebud, Crow, and Yankton—will pitch fifteen tipis in front of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. A covered wagon will represent ranchers.

Jimmy Carter Urges Rejecting Keystone

April 17, 2014 Paul Koring, www.bnn.ca Resist! Keystone XL

Jimmy Carter wants Barack Obama to block Keystone XL, the controversial pipeline to funnel Canadian oil-sands crude to Gulf Coast refineries. Carter is the first former U.S. president to urge the current occupant of the Oval Office to reject TransCanada’s long-delayed $5.5-billion project. Carter – who is outspoken on human-rights issues – added his voice to nine other Nobel Peace Prize winners as political pressure for Obama to decide the project's fate ramps up. As the President decides on “the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, please do not underestimate its importance,” the Nobel laureates’ open letter urges. Other signatories include South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero, Desmond Tutu, and Jody Williams, who, along with the Canadian government, led the global campaign to ban land mines. Rejecting Keystone, they said, would show whether Obama was serious when he pledged to act against global warming in the interests of future generations.

Cowboy And Indian Alliance Plan Anti-Keystone XL Protest In DC

April 17, 2014 Reno Berkeley, www.allvoices.com Resist! co, Keystone XL, Protest

In American history, cowboys and Indians have always been enemies, fighting against one another for control of the land. Today, their descendants have teamed up to fight an enemy that seeks to destroy them both – the Keystone XL pipeline. On April 22, members of the Cowboy Indian Alliance, a group of farmers, ranchers and tribal communities who live along the route of the proposed pipeline, will ride and march on Washington, setting up a camp for five days outside of the White House. On the Bold Nebraska site, the Reject and Protect event describes what will occur during the demonstration: “Four days after the Cowboy Indian Alliance tipis first go up on the Mall, we’ll gather at 11 a.m. on Saturday the 26 at an encampment to make our closing argument against the pipeline. As we gather, everyone there will be asked to make their thumbprint mark on a tipi. Then we’ll hear from the farmers, ranchers, tribal leaders and refinery community members who will be directly impacted by Keystone XL and the tar sands – and who have pledged to lead the resistance should it be approved.”

Ranchers And Indians Unite To Challenge KXL Pipeline

March 24, 2014 Brian Ward www.truth-out.org Educate! Keystone XL, Native Indians

Many of those participating in the Cowboy Indian Alliance are fighting to defend land originally theirs under the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 and 1868; a legally binding agreement between the Lakota (Sioux) and the U.S. government that was to create the “Great Sioux Reservation.” The territory includes all of South Dakota west of the Missouri River, hunting grounds in Northern Nebraska (the location of the Ogallala Aquifer), North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. The treaty stated that “no white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy any portion of the [territory]; or without the consent of the Indians, first had and obtained, to pass through the same.”

FBI Held Strategy Meeting with TransCanada in 2012

March 14, 2014 Adam Federman, www.earthisland.org Educate! Energy, Keystone XL, Tar Sands, TransCanada

The FBI meeting with TransCanada suggests that concerns over opposition to the pipeline had reached the highest levels of the law enforcement community. Terry Brannon, Cushing Police Chief at the time, says it was an information-sharing meeting. “I think it was important that law enforcement and the oil companies worked hand in hand together to make sure that if something did happen, that law enforcement wasn't playing behind the eight ball,” he told me. He said the biggest concerns raised at the meeting were opposition to the pipeline as well as terrorism and environmental activism.

Open Letter to the KXL Movement – Are We Doing Enough?

March 12, 2014 Hayden, www.earthfirstjournal.org Strategize! Keystone XL, Stop KXL

Rather than appointing ourselves representatives of frontline communities, let’s start listening to the people most affected and supporting their struggles–not just by paying lip service and not just by offering a few minutes of stage time at Powershift. Other communities have much more at stake here than we do and if we’re going to say that we’re standing in solidarity then we need to start acting like it. If you have the privilege to travel across the country to get arrested, use it to take some pressure off people of color fighting for their lives instead of helping some big non-governmental organization put out another press release.

First Nations Begin Fight Against Keystone XL

March 12, 2014 Alfred Walking Bull, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Energy, Environment, First Nations, Keystone XL

With the release of a U.S. State Department environmental impact study of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline that reported no significant impact, tribes and environmental groups across the Northern Plains rallied against the project’s advancement. Over the next 90 days, during which, the federal government begins its final review process for approval of the pipeline, an alliance of Lakota, Dakota and Nakota tribes in South Dakota and Nebraska – known as the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires), analogous to the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe – have gone on a defensive campaign against TransCanada, the company responsible for the proposed pipeline.

Over 20 Arrested Protesting Keystone XL in Philadelphia

March 10, 2014 Earth Quaker Action Team, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Energy, Keystone XL, Stop KXL, Tar Sands

Protesters in Philadelphia, PA, targeted the corrupt process that produced the U.S. State Department’s final analysis claiming the Keystone XL pipeline would not cause any “significant” climate damage. The formal public comment period on the pipeline decision came to a close Friday, so today Keystone XL opponents turned from words to actions, saying “No” to the pipeline by putting their bodies on the line. In front of the Federal Building activists brought brooms, to “sweep out” the corruption of the State Department’s Final Environmental Impact Statement, underwritten by a firm with close ties to TransCanada and the oil industry.

Arch-Bishop Desmond Tutu Leads Global Call for Kerry to Reject Keystone XL

March 9, 2014 Staff secure.avaaz.org Resist! Keystone, Keystone XL

Supporting Desmond Tutu in signing the letter were Dr James Hansen who was the former head of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Yeb Saño - Climate leader, Philippines, the actress Daryl Hannah and director Fernando Meirelles together with 4 leading environmental politicians from across the world. The letter was coordinated by the global civic movement Avaaz which saw 930,000 people from every country across the planet call on Kerry not to back the deal. The group also released a hard-hitting ad campaign across the DC Metro which can be seen here below and will be joining the protests outside the State department today.

Deadline: Take Action Now To Oppose The KXL Pipeline

March 6, 2014 Occupy Network Team, occupynetwork.com Resist! Government, Keystone XL, Occupy, Tar Sands

The evidence is in: if the Keystone XL pipeline proceeds it will be “game over for the climate” as NASA scientist James Hansen says. If we want a livable climate, an ‘all of the above’ strategy is not an option. The notion of Occupy The Pipeline has never been more important. The Occupy Network is standing in solidarity with our friends at 350.org and all those who are now engaged in the middle of the last official public comment period for the State Department’s Final Environmental Impact Statement on the Keystone XL. This is one of the very last steps before President Obama makes his decision on the pipeline, and the final opportunity to give your input in an official way.

Breaking: Judge Sides With Landowners On KXL Pipeline Path

February 19, 2014 Mark Hefflinger, www.boldnebraska.org Resist! Environment, Keystone XL, Nebraska, Pipelines, Tar Sands

Lancaster County District Court Judge Stephanie Stacy today sided with three Nebraska landowners and ruled that LB 1161 — the law passed by the Nebraska legislature in 2012 that granted the power of eminent domain to Gov. Dave Heineman, and in turn TransCanada for its Keystone XL pipeline — is declared unconstitutional and void. The ruling includes a permanent injunction preventing Gov. Dave Heineman, and the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality from taking any further action to authorize or advance the pipeline under the unconstitutional law. Jane Kleeb, director of Bold Nebraska said: "Citizens won today. We beat a corrupt bill that Gov. Heineman and the Nebraska Legislature passed in order to pave the way for a foreign corporation to run roughshod over American landowners.

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