Saturday, October 20, 2012

Keystone XL pipeline brings out the protest in locals

LA Times: Eleanor Fairchild, 78, a great-grandmother and retired homemaker, became an alleged "eco-terrorist" in the early hours of Oct. 4, crawling through brush on her farm about 100 miles east of Dallas in jeans and a button-down shirt to stop work on the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline. Her companion? The actress Daryl Hannah. Fairchild is one of several local landowners-turned-activists joining outside protesters in the fight to stop a Canadian company from building the pipeline across their properties....

URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-texas-pipeline-20121020,0,1638530.story?page=2
Enclosure: http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-10/72962496.jpg

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