{"id":16168,"date":"2014-01-27T15:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T21:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=16168"},"modified":"2014-07-06T11:24:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T17:24:46","slug":"keystone-xl-pipeline-south-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/keystone-xl-pipeline-south-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Pipeline Watch Trains Cameras on Keystone XL Pipeline South"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we noted last week, the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline started transporting diluted bitumen (or tar sands oil from Canada)\u00a0<\/span><\/a>to the Gulf Coast on January 22nd. Activists did more than speak out: a new organization,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Texas Pipel<\/a>ine Watch<\/a>, announced its plans to “equip landowners and citizens with cameras to document every spill, leak, and disturbance along a pipeline they see as rife with risk potential.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Sound like a bunch of rabble-rousing radicals? Well, maybe, but TPW labels itself a “cross-partisan effort<\/a>” that joins environmentalists like Jim Hightower with concerned landowners like Julia Trigg Crawford. \u00a0The organization raises issues like water safety commonly associated with green organizations, but also property rights\/eminent domain abuse arguments that usually come from more conservative groups. Despite claims that opposition to Keystone XL<\/a> comes from only from greenie elitists, groups like this show that a diverse population is unhappy about this development, and that there’s hope for bridging ideological divides surrounding environmental issues.<\/p>\n

Take a look at the efforts they’re making, and then let us know what you think of their work… and the pipeline itself that’s brought these folks together.<\/p>\n

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