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Oklahoma Grandmother Locks Herself to Keystone XL Heavy Machinery Halts Construction
ALLEN, OK Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 9:00 AM Oklahoma grandmother Nancy Zorn, 79, from Warr Acres, has locked herself to a piece of heavy machinery effectively halting construction on TransCanadas Keystone XL toxic tar sands pipeline. This action comes in the wake of the disastrous tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower Arkansas, where an estimated 80,000 gallons of tar sands spilled into a residential neighborhood and local waterways.
Using a bike-lock Zorn has attached her neck directly to a massive earth-mover, known as an excavator, which has brought construction of Keystone XL to a stop. Zorn is the second Oklahoma grandmother this year risking arrest to stop construction of the pipeline, and her protest is the third in a series of ongoing civil disobedience actions led by the Oklahoma-based coalition of organizations, Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance.
Right now our neighbors in Arkansas are feeling the toxic affect of tar sands on their community. Will Oklahoma neighborhoods be next? asked Zorn before taking action today. I can no longer sit by idly while toxic tar sands are pumped down from Canada and into our communities. It is time to rise up and defend our home. It is my hope that this one small action today will inspire many to protect this land and our water.
Exxon Mobils recent Pegasus pipeline spill has forced local residents to evacuate their homes due to life-threatening toxins released into their neighborhood. Local families have experienced episodes of nausea, headaches, and respiratory problems due to acute exposure to deadly chemicals, like benzene, that are mixed in with the raw tar sands. Pegasus was carrying up to 90,000 barrels of tar sands a day before it ruptured and spilled. The Keystone XL pipeline is slated to carry over 800,000 barrels a day; an alarming 10 times the amount of tar sands.
The rest, with pictures: http://gptarsandsresistance.org/2013/04/09/3rd-action/
There is a link to contribute to her bail fund in the caption of the third picture.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Am I missing something here?
riqster
(13,986 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)"nay." Obama is a people-pleaser. He wants to make whoever gets to him happy. He dares not say no to the project because of the propaganda about jobs, etc. He dares not say yes to it because it will damage the environment.
So he has sad, well, maybe, somewhat, piecemeal.
Before you know it, the project will be done and Obama will put up his hands and say, "It's not my fault. I never said 'yes'."
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Wonder, he doesn't care about his children's future?
Perhaps they'll be insulated from the environmental destruction of the Keystone XL pipeline, somehow?
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cprise
(8,445 posts)...the houses "up on the hill" while the rest of us get flooded.
They think its impossible to take something like global warming too far.
Mr. Evil
(2,749 posts)In some luxury bunker underground for the rest of their lives. Sad existence either way.
The pipeline is expected to be completed by the middle of this year, with plans to have it in service by the end of 2013.
TransCanada opted to build Keystone XL's southern leg after the Obama administration refused to grant a permit for the full transcontinental pipeline last year.
The company has reapplied for a permit after changing the pipeline's route through sensitive wetlands in Nebraska.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-grandmother-arrested-in-pipeline-protest/article/3781425
freedom fighter jh
(1,782 posts). . . approval as the northern part does, because only the northern part crosses an international border.
RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)By the time most of us catch on to what they've done, they can always counter with, "Well you don't want us to just cut and run, do ya?"
(Come to think of it: It's exactly like invading a country under false pretenses!)
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)datasuspect
(26,591 posts)than obama has in his entire body.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Just sayin'.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)Just sayin'.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Nor does the lady in question.
boilerbabe
(2,214 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)(Actually, there's a good chance that she isn't. Most people -- regardless of their politics -- don't take kindly to having their land and their country stolen and despoiled by avaricious profiteers.)
frylock
(34,825 posts)knr
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)It takes a LOT of guts to chain yourself to construction equipment and risk some injury to yourself.
Good luck, Nancy Zorn. Your actions will be remembered fondly for generations to come.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Thanks to this lady and to everyone working to prevent this crime against humanity.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Go Granny go!
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)This one? Not so much.
http://www.kryptonitelock.com/Pages/ProductInformation.aspx?PNumber=180104
mtasselin
(666 posts)This is the type of action it is going to take to stop this insanity that has been going on in America, since these rwnj have taken hold.
jerseyjack
(1,361 posts)Owl
(3,629 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)a kennedy
(29,467 posts)Eyerish
(1,495 posts)Such a brave woman! Thank you Nancy.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Good on her.
joanbarnes
(1,715 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)...Among other things.