Tar sands blockade in Texas and Oklahoma unites land rights and environmental...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now It’s often assumed that Texans, like the majority of their lawmakers, favor oil drilling and the expansion of the oil industry. And it’s often true. But a small,...
View ArticleSeven protesters of the Keystone XL pipeline arrested in Texas
From Green Right Now Reports Texas residents who oppose the Keystone XL pipeline were arrested after they chained themselves to pipeline construction equipment in Polk County on Tuesday. The seven...
View ArticleTar Sands Blockade members force another work stoppage in Texas
From Green Right Now Reports Landowners and activists have again forced a temporary work stoppage on the Keystone XL pipeline in Texas. This morning three members of the Tar Sands Blockade group...
View ArticleTar sands pipeline protesters take to the trees in Texas
From Green Right Now Reports A Tar Sands Blockade tree house. Tree sitters have brought West Coast-style civil disobedience to the heart of the Lone Star state. Starting bright and early Monday, and...
View ArticleWork on Keystone pipeline comes perilously close to activists’‘tree village’
From Green Right Now Reports Tar Sands Blockade tree house occupants are protesting the Keystone XL pipeline, part of a series of civil disobedience actions in East Texas. (Photo: Laura Borealis)....
View ArticleTree-sitting is catching on in Texas
From Green Right Now Reports Another protestor of Keystone XL pipeline has taken to the trees in East Texas. Kevin Redding Inspired by a handful of kindred spirits who’ve been expressing their...
View ArticleTexans opposed to an oil pipeline?
From Green Right Now Reports A major standoff over the Keystone XL pipeline in unlikely East Texas is becoming more than just a nuisance to pipeline operator TransCanada, as protesters have repeatedly...
View ArticleGreen Party presidential candidate Jill Stein arrested in Texas while...
(Update: Wednesday p.m.: Dr. Stein has been released from Wood County Jail after being charged with Class B Misdemeanor Criminal Trespass for helping resupply the tree sitters participating in the Tar...
View ArticleA dozen Keystone XL protesters arrested in East Texas as civil actions...
From Green Right Now Reports Tar Sands Blockade, a coalition of landowners and environmentalists opposed to the tar sands pipeline, reported that police have arrested 12 protesters in East Texas for...
View ArticleTar Sands protesters hit corporate offices and financiers of Keystone XL...
From Green Right Now Reports Tar Sands Blockade, the group that’s been fighting the progress of the Keystone XL pipeline through Texas, fanned out across the country on Monday, launching protests in...
View ArticleTexas residents question the integrity of Keystone XL pipe
From Green Right Now Reports After the Tar Sands Blockade, a group that’s trying to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, reported about welding issues on the newly installed project, Texas Public Citizen...
View ArticleThis relatively small oil spill will cost $1 billion to clean up
Green Right Now Reports The total tab for cleaning up Enbridge Oil’s Kalamazoo River spill is expected to be a whopping $1 billion, counting the costs of clean up and penalties for violating...
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