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Blocking Pipeline Carries Legal Risk in E. Texas

Downstream News -- Protesters trying to save the world by sitting in trees or blocking equipment used to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline are learning that environmental activism can be a ticket to lengthy jail time in East Texas.

Matthew Almonte, Glen Collins and Isabel Brooks landed in jail in Tyler on Dec. 3, charged with misdemeanour criminal trespass, resisting arrest and illegal dumping, following efforts to stop work on the TransCanada Corp. pipeline. Each has asked for a reduction in the $65,000 (U.S.) bond that must be posted to get out pending trial, without success.

The trio joined more than 30 others arrested since October near Tyler and Nacogdoches as they tried to halt work on the $7.6 billion (U.S.) pipeline that would bring products of Alberta oilsands to Houston-area refineries.

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Submitted Dec 21, 2012 By: GasPasserAB

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Bearcat500 Champion Author Cincinnati Posts:9,720 Points:1,630,300 Joined:Nov 2005	Message Posted: Dec 23, 2012 10:41:08 AM Ignore Bearcat500 Report Abuse OK
honda0105 Champion Author Tallahassee Posts:18,609 Points:1,608,545 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Dec 23, 2012 12:15:30 AM Ignore honda0105 Report Abuse Greenpeace, PETA as well as the tree huggers in WA and OR all know that they face possible jail. It's the risk one takes when expressing one's opinion as part of one's civil rights (for those who would rather manure pile the rights of non-whites in the US, let it be said, these are rights that are applicable to all in the US of A).
LetemEatCake Champion Author Oklahoma City Posts:5,596 Points:1,204,605 Joined:Mar 2008	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 11:10:50 PM Ignore LetemEatCake Report Abuse Interesting article GasPasser...thanks for posting.
Gnusman53 Champion Author San Diego Posts:7,003 Points:1,111,445 Joined:Feb 2004	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 1:27:21 PM Ignore Gnusman53 Report Abuse And using 10k logic ...... the BP spill was a terrorist attack on the Gulf Coast....
Gnusman53 Champion Author San Diego Posts:7,003 Points:1,111,445 Joined:Feb 2004	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 1:25:08 PM Ignore Gnusman53 Report Abuse So 10k ... does that make the other side corporate terrorists..... and the politicians they "pal around with" or support "domestic terrorists"?
honda0105 Champion Author Tallahassee Posts:18,609 Points:1,608,545 Joined:Nov 2008	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 8:31:36 AM Ignore honda0105 Report Abuse not the first time that protesters face jail or any other legal consequences.
kgbellman Champion Author Ann Arbor Posts:2,703 Points:730,640 Joined:Mar 2011	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:52:45 AM Ignore kgbellman Report Abuse Be safe and don't screw the land owners
boldrph Champion Author Topeka Posts:18,371 Points:3,449,915 Joined:Oct 2002	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:50:03 AM Ignore boldrph Report Abuse texas is an evil place [Edited by: boldrph at 12/22/2012 12:51:13 AM EST]
OGW Champion Author London Posts:5,324 Points:1,531,150 Joined:Sep 2005	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:36:09 AM Ignore OGW Report Abuse It doesn't matter if they are activists or not, it is time the courts started coming down hard on anyone breaking any law for whatever reason.
NemoIL Champion Author Illinois Posts:3,020 Points:1,312,245 Joined:Aug 2008	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:36:00 AM Ignore NemoIL Report Abuse Don't mess with Texas; you liberals should know this by now.
heartbroken2010 Champion Author Ottawa Posts:4,339 Points:896,560 Joined:Aug 2010	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:32:04 AM Ignore heartbroken2010 Report Abuse good laugh for me 10k , your post(22/12/12). too funny.love it.
CollegeMan21 All-Star Author Colorado Posts:838 Points:457,160 Joined:Sep 2006	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:29:56 AM Ignore CollegeMan21 Report Abuse I am all for the pipeline and there is a saying of "Don't Mess with Texas".
10k Champion Author North Carolina Posts:21,240 Points:2,253,045 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:28:01 AM Ignore 10k Report Abuse the appropriate name for "environmental activism" is "enviro-terrorists"..
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radiorumor Champion Author Texas Posts:2,802 Points:752,660 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:18:58 AM Ignore radiorumor Report Abuse A lot of workers, 50 miles north of Tyler, will soon be gone forever. The pipe is in the ground
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jimmy544 Champion Author Boston Posts:4,104 Points:652,880 Joined:Feb 2011	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:15:17 AM Ignore jimmy544 Report Abuse What about the 4% that did not want the pipeline on their properties?
texasvet Champion Author Texas Posts:3,823 Points:360,120 Joined:Jul 2009	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:15:12 AM Ignore texasvet Report Abuse Enviro-nuts aren't much welcome in Texas - even if they aren't outsiders. The fuss over the pipeline is silly anyway. I've got a gas line on my property. If it wasn't marked, you wouldn't know it was there. The cattle couldn't care less.
madison8359 Champion Author Cleveland Posts:9,012 Points:1,592,320 Joined:Apr 2008	Message Posted: Dec 22, 2012 12:14:23 AM Ignore madison8359 Report Abuse Sometimes it makes sense to fight the man.
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preacherjohn Champion Author Modesto Posts:3,982 Points:1,917,850 Joined:May 2006	Message Posted: Dec 21, 2012 11:53:25 PM Ignore preacherjohn Report Abuse Thats no different than trying to save a tree..
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