{"article":{"id":247547,"heading":"BTL:Protests Pressure Obama to Reject Proposed Alberta-to-Texas Tar Sands Oil Pipeline","author":"Distributed by Squeaky Wheel Productions http","created":"2011-08-28 09:57:14","modified":"2013-11-11 01:06:37","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:06:37","article":"

Protests Pressure Obama to Reject Proposed Alberta-to-Texas Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

Interview with May Boeve, executive director with the environmental group 350.org, conducted by Scott Harris



Beginning on Aug. 20, climate activists launched a two-week protest and nonviolent civil disobedience action at the White House to focus attention on the environmental impact of the proposed 1700-mile Keystone XL pipeline that would bring oil from Alberta, Canada’s tar sands operations to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries in Texas. More than 2,000 people have committed to participate in the White House protest sit-in and risk arrest, in what is expected to be one of the largest environmental protests in a generation. Author and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben was among the first activists arrested of 162 detained in the first three days of the action.

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