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发帖数: 16484 | 1 Dozens of environmental activists showed up in front of the White House
Thursday to get arrested in a peaceful protest against a proposed oil
pipeline that would cut across the American Midwest.
Organizers said that over the past 10 days, about 800 people have been
handcuffed and bused off to a police station in this ongoing action.
At issue is a proposed pipeline that would connect oil resources in Alberta,
Canada, to refineries on the Texas coast. The 1,700-mile long Keystone XL,
as it's called, would help our friendly northern neighbor expand development
in one of the largest, but dirtiest, sources of oil on the planet. It's
bound up in hardened formations called tar sands, and it's not easy to
extract.
The State Department has issued an environmental review giving the
transnational Keystone pipeline a green light. Some state governors and high
-profile climate scientists say building the pipeline would be a mistake.
The Obama administration says it will decide by the end of the year whether
to approve this pipeline. And environmental groups are making that decision
a test of the administration's resolve to move away from fossil fuels and
toward cleaner sources of energy.
A Message To The President
About 100 environmental activists protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline
in front of the White House on Thursday.
Enlarge Maggie Starbard/NPR
About 100 environmental activists protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline
in front of the White House on Thursday.
About 100 environmental activists protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline
in front of the White House on Thursday.
Maggie Starbard/NPR
About 100 environmental activists protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline
in front of the White House on Thursday.
And that's where the White House protests come in.
"We're trying to send a message to Barack Obama and America that we got to
get off the dirty energy treadmill, because catastrophe is looming if we don
't,"said Jim Sconyers, 67, who came in from West Virginia to take part in
the protest.
He had $100 in his pocket, which is the fine he expected to pay once he gets
arrested at the highly choreographed sit-in. He said tar sands are much
worse for the environment than what we pump out of the ground elsewhere.
"Oh, my God, it's tremendously dirtier," said Sconyers. "The sands
themselves are, you know, it's sand, listen to the name — it's not just
liquid oil that comes flowing out like in a regular oil well." The tar sands
get cooked with natural gas burners to liberate the oil, so producing the
oil adds emissions to the atmosphere.
Liz Barratt-Brown, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, was also at
the protest. She said that emissions from producing oil for the Keystone XL
pipeline would be about the same as building seven new coal-fired power
plants.
"When you think about bringing a pipeline in that's the equivalent of seven
new plants, I actually think that's quite significant," she said.
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Alberta,
,
development
【在 w*p 的大作中提到】
: Dozens of environmental activists showed up in front of the White House
: Thursday to get arrested in a peaceful protest against a proposed oil
: pipeline that would cut across the American Midwest.
: Organizers said that over the past 10 days, about 800 people have been
: handcuffed and bused off to a police station in this ongoing action.
: At issue is a proposed pipeline that would connect oil resources in Alberta,
: Canada, to refineries on the Texas coast. The 1,700-mile long Keystone XL,
: as it's called, would help our friendly northern neighbor expand development
: in one of the largest, but dirtiest, sources of oil on the planet. It's
: bound up in hardened formations called tar sands, and it's not easy to
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发帖数: 11737 | 3 在美国被逮捕是很光荣的一件事，真是个神奇的国家
Alberta,
,
development
【在 w*p 的大作中提到】
: Dozens of environmental activists showed up in front of the White House
: Thursday to get arrested in a peaceful protest against a proposed oil
: pipeline that would cut across the American Midwest.
: Organizers said that over the past 10 days, about 800 people have been
: handcuffed and bused off to a police station in this ongoing action.
: At issue is a proposed pipeline that would connect oil resources in Alberta,
: Canada, to refineries on the Texas coast. The 1,700-mile long Keystone XL,
: as it's called, would help our friendly northern neighbor expand development
: in one of the largest, but dirtiest, sources of oil on the planet. It's
: bound up in hardened formations called tar sands, and it's not easy to
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