Three years, two months and two weeks ago, I was arrested in front of the White House as an act of civil disobedience in protest of the TransCanada Keystone XL Tarsands crude export pipeline. At that time, all of the experts said that the pipeline was a done deal and couldnt be stopped. 1245 of us over a two week period knew otherwise. For myself, four trips to DC, three times testifying at State Department hearings in Lincoln, Atkinson and standing in a blizzard in Grand Island to state my case against the KXL. A trip to the Sicangu Oyate Wahacanka Woecun Spirit Camp, a trip to NYC for the Peoples Climate March and a week later to Art Tanderups farm outside of Neligh, Nebraska for the Harvest the Hope concert. Ive made a lot of friends and met a lot of people along the way in this fight and in all sorts of situations and places - Tom Genung, Julia Trigg Crawford, Michael E. Dahl, Bill McKibben, Dr. James Hansen, Aldo Seoane, Greg Grey Cloud, Hoyekeyapi Win, Neil Young, Daryl Hannah, Tzeporah Berman, Jimmy Betts, Dave Warren, Chas Jewett, Alec Johnson, Alex White Plume, Rae Louise Breaux, and dozens, if not hundreds of people I consider friends, relatives and allies. But even though the Senate vote on cloture to bring the unconstitutional bill to override the Presidents authority to build the Keystone XL failed today by one vote the battle is far from over. President Obama MUST deny the permit once and for all. The Canadian People must not allow either the proposed Enbridge Western Gateway or the TransCanada Eastern pipelines to be built from the Alberta Tarsands to either the Pacific or Atlantic coasts respectively. You see, today we won a small battle, but in order to win the war we must ensure that not one more cubic meter of the Athebasca Bitumen deposits is excavated, nor one more fracking well drilled, one more mountain top removed to strip mine coal. The continued exploitation of Fossil Fuels is a one-way path to massive climate changes that will lead to the extinction of thousands upon thousands of species of plants and animals, most likely including the human species, as we make this planet inhabitable with the continued dumping of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. You see, our fight isnt just against TransCanada, its against the entire Fossil Fuels Industry to save our planet from irreparable and irreversible damage.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 03:28:11 +0000
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