Tar Sands Blockade

Tar Sands Blockade
Type of site
Nonviolent Direct Action, Environmental Campaign
URLtarsandsblockade.org
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Launched2012
Current statusActive
Four tree-sitters of the Tar Sands Blockade at their tree village in Winnsboro, Texas. The "You Shall Not Pass" banner is addressed to TransCanada's pipeline construction workers.

Tar Sands Blockade is a grassroots coalition of affected Texas and Oklahoma people and climate justice organizers who use peaceful and sustained civil disobedience to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Tar Sands Blockade used nonviolent direct action to stop construction of the pipeline throughout East Texas including banner drops, lockdowns, and tree sits.[1][2] They are best known for a large scale tree sit outside Winnsboro, Texas.[3][4][5]

Naomi Klein attributes the origin of the term Blockadia, which describes a global anti-extractivist movement to the hour-long documentary Blockadia Rising (2013) that Tar Sands Blockade produced to describe the dangers of tar sands extraction and highlight their direct actions.[6]

The group occupied blockades for 86 days in 2012, forcing TransCanada to reroute the pipeline.[6]

Political and environmental issues

TransCanada, a multinational corporation, was building the Gulf Coast Project section of the Keystone XL with the go ahead from the Obama administration in 2012.[7] This section of the pipeline passed from Oklahoma through East Texas into the Gulf. Anti-pipeline activists and environmental organizations claimed that probable pipe spillage would threaten groundwater, ecosystems, surrounding lands, employment, and the economy.[8][9] The pipeline would cross 631 streams and wetlands in Texas, including not the Sulphur River and the entire Carrizo-Wilcox Aquifer, which is the water supply for 12 million homes in East Texas.[10]

A whistleblower, Evan Vokes, came forward about TransCanada in mid-October, 2012, to confirm allegations of regulatory non-compliance.[11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tar Sands Blockade Drops Banners to Expose Keystone XL Construction". Cherokeean Herald. 2012-08-15. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  2. ^ Wilder, Forrest (2012-08-16). "Activists Launch Keystone XL Blockade in East Texas". Texas Observer. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  3. ^ Fabrikant, Mel (2012-09-24). "Eight People Climb Trees And Start Indefinite Tree Sit to Stop TransCanada's Construction of Keystone XL in Texas". The Paramus Post. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  4. ^ Shauk, Zain (2012-09-24). "Protesters in Texas climb trees to block pipeline work". The Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  5. ^ Frosch, Dan (2012-10-12). "Last-Ditch Bid in Texas to Try to Stop Oil Pipeline". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  6. ^ a b Bradshaw, Elizabeth A. (2015). "Blockadia Rising: Rowdy Greens, Direct Action and the Keystone XL Pipeline". Critical Criminology. 23 (4): 433–448. doi:10.1007/s10612-015-9289-0. ISSN 1205-8629. S2CID 254412504.
  7. ^ "Keystone XL Pipeline". The New York Times. 2012-03-22. Retrieved 2012-11-11.
  8. ^ Skinner, Lara. "Cornell GLI Releases Report on Employment and Economic Impacts of Tar Sands Spills". Cornell University Global Labour Institute.
  9. ^ Skinner, Lara. "The impact of tar sands pipeline spills on employment and the economy" (PDF). Cornell University Global Labour Institute.
  10. ^ Mitchell, Kenny (2012-07-24). "Tar Sands in the Basin: Politics and Protests". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  11. ^ Rusnell, Charles (2012-10-17). "Whistleblower forced investigation of TransCanada Pipelines". CBC News. Retrieved 2012-12-17.

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