Activists Arrested, Launch Hunger Strike in Protest of Keystone XL Pipeline

EcoWatch: Longtime Gulf Coast activists Diane Wilson and Bob Lindsey Jr., locked their necks to oil tanker trucks destined for Valero's Houston Refinery in solidarity with Tar Sands Blockade's protests of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Valero Energy Corp. is among the largest investors in TransCanada's toxic tar sands pipeline that will terminate near the community of Manchester, located in the shadow of Valero's refinery. Not only did Wilson and Lindsey blockaded the Valero refinery, the two lifelong...

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