Activists are gearing up for another rousing multi-pronged fight against the recently revived Keystone XL Pipeline.
Environmentalists such as Sara Shor have promised to “raise hell” and recruit millions of people to fight the multi-billion dollar project. Activists also intend to bring the fight directly to lawmakers at town hall meetings along the project’s nearly 1,200-mile route.
“We’re going to continue to make Keystone XL a political issue and push every elected official to come out against this project if they care about communities, local rights, eminent domain, air, water and climate,” Shor, the campaign director for anti-fossil fuel group 350.org, told reporters Thursday.
TransCanada, the Canadian company behind the project, encountered fierce opposition from landowners and activists during its initial proposed route and successive legal challenges over the legality of maneuvering around plots of land eventually brought the project to a standstill. Former President Barack Obama rejected the project outright in 2014, arguing it was not consistent with the country’s fight against so-called man-made warming.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January overturning his predecessor’s order allowing TransCanda to resubmit its pipeline application to the State Department for approval.
Some of the American Indian activists who fought against the equally as contested Dakota Access Pipeline are shifting their anti-pipeline furor to Keystone and the Trans-Pecos Pipeline, a 148-mile project transporting natural gas through the Big Bend region in Texas to Mexico.
“People are going to be mad at Trump for bringing Keystone back because it’s going to cause resistance for every single pipeline project across the country and it’s going to cause pressure for the banks that fund all these projects,” Shor said. “We are building an army of resistance. This fight is not over.”
Financial institutions investing in the DAPL such as Wells Fargo have become a target among those protesting the project ‚Äì the DAPL, like Keystone, is opposed by environmentalists and Indian tribes that worry the project could poison Standing Rock Sioux’s water supply.
Wells Fargo is not the only bank getting pounded. Citi Group, TD Bank of Canada, and others, are also being pressured by anti-fracking activists to halt any and all monetary backing of the company responsible for constructing the DAPL.
Oh puleeezz… just give it up already … Just like the Dakota Pipeline, the XL Pipeline WILL BE BUILT!! … stupid idiots just stop the stupid nonsense already. Go live in a cave or under a rock somewhere and get out of the way of the rest of humanity (the successful part of humanity)
Over 90 million vehicles produced per year, every one of them with a fuel tank. These activist fools pretend they’re going to get between the oil fields and the hundreds of millions of people who need their wheels. Or maybe they just like attention.