Thursday, October 4 - Actress and activist Daryl Hannah was arrested today alongside East Texas farmer, Eleanor Fairchild while defending her farm from the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
Daryl’s involvement in the Fairchild Farms story brought a lot of attention today when the duo peacefully stood in front of TransCanada’s heavy machinery, which was burning piles of once-majestic trees from Eleanor’s beloved farm and delicate wetlands. Eleanor is a feisty 78-year-old great-grandmother who was arrested for “trespassing” on her own land after being inspired by Tar Sands Blockade to take action.
UPDATE OCT 5th 3:00AM - Both Daryl and Eleanor have been safely released from jail. After their courageous action to defend Eleanor’s farm, TransCanada’s construction crews worked all night long to speedily bulldoze and burn piles of her precious trees. More photos can be found here.
UPDATE 6:30PM - Photos and video of the action are coming soon. Follow us on twitter and facebook to be the first to see them.
UPDATE 4:30PM - TransCanada has arrested Eleanor for “trespassing” on her own land.
UPDATE 3:40PM – Daryl has been arrested for helping Eleanor defend her farm from toxic tar sands. Eleanor defiantly standing her ground with arms raised to halt TransCanada’s machinery.
UPDATE 3:35PM – Police officer trying to push Daryl and Eleanor out of the way! Yes, we got it on video.
UPDATE 3:30PM – Eleanor and Daryl defiantly step out in front of an excavator, a large piece of heavy machinery, to keep it from tearing up Eleanor’s land. TransCanada’s machinery operator refuses to turn off engine despite peaceful protestors a few feet in front of them.
Daryl brave’s fire and Keystone XL machinery to defend Eleanor’s farm.
UPDATE 3:15PM – Eleanor and Daryl march from Eleanor’s home down to the Keystone XL path of destruction that cuts through her 300 acre beloved farm and wetlands.
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Daryl Hannah Risking Arrest Protesting Keystone XL at the White House. Photo Credit: Ben Powless
How can you be arrested for “trespassing” on your own land? Well, anything can happen when a multinational corporation comes in and expropriates your farm for their profit.
That’s why actress and activist Daryl Hannah has joined forces with East Texas ranch owner Eleanor Fairchild, 78, to stage a protest against Keystone XL construction on Mrs. Fairchild’s farm. The actress is intent on defending Mrs. Fairchild’s home and business, Fairchild Farms, a portion of which has been expropriated by TransCanada, for its toxic tar sands pipeline. The duo claim their action is inspired by our ongoing tree blockade happening on a neighboring property.
On Thursday afternoon, Hannah marched across Fairchild Farms with the ranch owner to block bulldozers from continuing to clear large swaths of Mrs. Fairchild’s land along the toxic tar sands pipeline’s route. Keystone XL will permanently bisect Mrs. Fairchild’s 300 acre ranch, which includes undeveloped wetland areas and natural springs producing over 400 gallons of fresh water per minute from her property. Hannah, whose outspoken anti-Tar Sands position dates back many years, expressed pride to be able to stand with Mrs. Fairchild who is watching her home and its delicate ecosystems be destroyed in front of her eyes.
Eleanor Fairchild, East Texas Farmer & Great-Grandmother
“I am standing in solidarity with the farmers, ranchers, and landowners who have been bullied, coerced, and threatened by TransCanada. Texans do not want this toxic export pipeline coming through and compromising their land and water,” she shared. “Texas has already experienced a tragic and epic drought. We cannot afford to compromise our water supply for a multinational corporation’s profits.”
Mrs. Fairchild, a great-grandmother, has been staunchly opposed to TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project since she was first informed that it was to cross her land many years ago. She never signed a contract with the Canadian pipeline company, who, in turn, proceeded to expropriate her ranch through Texas’ lax eminent domain legal proceedings. Violated by TransCanada, all but abandoned by elected officials, and legally unrepresented, Mrs. Fairchild took action by other means during last year’s Tar Sands Action protests at the White House, which resulted in 1253 arrests during the two week long civil disobedience.
Unwilling to take further action since then, she found herself inspired yet again due to the bravery exhibited on a neighboring property by the tree blockade. Mrs. Fairchild explains, “We’re all neighbors here and everyone knows everyone’s business, really, so I knew the group was up to something at the tree blockade, but hearing about the young girl, Maggie, on the 40-foot tall pole all alone the other day, I knew I had to do something myself. I can’t climb a pole like her, but if I can raise hell by sitting down, I’m going to! What this foreign corporation’s doing just isn’t right.”
“I couldn’t be prouder to take a stand with my new inspiration, Eleanor,” Hannah said. “We’re rising up to defend homes here and now, because if a multinational corporation like TransCanada can come in and steal private property from Texans, then they’ll do it to anyone.”
TransCanada is currently embroiled in several lawsuits from landowners challenging the legality of their use of eminent domain to take land for the tar sands pipeline project. Property owners who initially signed contracts but who have since come to unequivocally oppose the fraudulent nature of the dangerous project have been silenced through ruthless legal threats. Fairchild, however, is undeterred.
“Tar sands is the dirtiest fuel on the planet, and I want the world to know that Texans do not want this pipeline forced through their homes.” She continued, “From the White House to my house, I don’t want this pipe threatening anyone’s house anywhere in the world!”
Come learn how to take a stand against Keystone XL with East Texas landowners at our Direct Action Training Camp, October 12-14th and a public action on the Monday the 15th.
The photo below is just the beginning of the destruction on Eleanor’s land. See more photos in our flickr set.
Keystone XL's Destruction Through Eleanor's Land
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Jason Eldrige
October 4, 2012 at 10:57 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Take the same picture a year after the pipeline is built…you wont even know a pipeline had been built there….
Jan Shelton
October 4, 2012 at 11:40 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Jason, would you want that running through YOUR back yard? Seems everyone who is for these things are fine with them when they affect someone else’s land.
Rowdy
October 5, 2012 at 4:56 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Oh for pete’s sakes, Jan Shelton…if you live in town most likely you are living within 50 feet of a gas pipeline that you’ve never seen in your life! And by the way, those gas pipelines are hooked up to every building, school, hospital, and home that subscribes to it. I have an oil pipeline running across my farm for 30 years, and I don’t even know it’s there, and I haven’t so much as lost a bug. It’ll be interesting to learn whether Fairchild turns down that check she’ll be getting from the pipeline every six months that she can use help pay the taxes on her farm.
Tracy
October 5, 2012 at 6:34 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Amen Rowdy. Well said.
Gabriel Kent
October 5, 2012 at 6:48 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Hear hear Rowdy
Shawn
October 5, 2012 at 2:12 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Rowdy, that seems reasonable, you are pointing out that carriers of public utilities run lines through your neighborhood and to your house. So this “public carrier” Trans-CANADA will not be piping the highly corrosive tar sands that are virtually guaranteed to leak ( the only dispute is how much and how often ) to the Gulf Coast in order to refine and export this oil tax free to the world market all while being subsidized by US taxpayers between $1.0 and $1.8 billion in order to maximize their profits, and provide no service to the United States other than saturating a few more barrels in to the global market? That is obviously a factual and well researched opinion.
Shawn
October 5, 2012 at 8:05 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Hopefully my sarcasm read in my statement….
Fracked
October 6, 2012 at 5:26 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I’d like to see their burn permits.
Kate Gillenwater
October 7, 2012 at 3:35 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Thank you Shawn a voice of enlightenment!
Steve
October 7, 2012 at 10:58 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Exactly Shawn, but far be it for people like Rowdy, or those like him, to further research the underlying agenda of these wolves in sheep’s clothing. Is it any wonder America is collapsing around us and doing so in large part as a result of this sort of ignorance. Nah, not us. Not in America. Well put my man.
cheri
October 5, 2012 at 2:49 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Considering the profit the company makes I would hope that the check amounts to more than somethng to help pay the taxes on the property.
Jennifer
October 6, 2012 at 11:03 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Why does this company or any petroleum company require corporate well-fare (tax breaks) from anyone? I agree with you Cheri, that the check better amount to much more than the taxes!!
Karen
October 5, 2012 at 3:57 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
You have no clue what you are talking about. NO CLUE. These folks were offered a ONE TIME settlement – which some took and some, like Eleanor, DIDN’T. AND this is no ordinary pipeline – like all the ones supposedly running around us all the time – this pipeline is THREE FEET in diameter – the size of a hula hoop – pressurized to be able to carry 900,000 barrels a day of BITCHUMEN, not just crude oil. PIPELINES BREAK! IT’S WHAT THEY DO. Just look at Enbridge in Michigan on the Kalamazoo River – that the FDA has just had to go back in and declare not clean – BECAUSE YOU CAN’T CLEAN IT UP!! Do your research and get out of this site.
Kate Gillenwater
October 7, 2012 at 3:36 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Tell em Karen!!
Steve
October 7, 2012 at 10:59 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
There ya go girl! Rock the house with some straight up and in your face truth!
Matt Koegler
October 5, 2012 at 4:14 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
So Jason, you’re cool with government snatching land for the profit of private industry?
Lazy Edna
October 5, 2012 at 4:57 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Bingo! WELL SAID.
Joyce
October 5, 2012 at 5:37 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
And not just a private company but a foreign private company that is going to export the oil so all they need America for is a pathway to export their oil. When the pipeline leaks it will ruin everything it touches, land, water, and will cause cancer and other illnesses just like it has in Michigan. So are we supposed to just stand by and just let them take and destroy our private property so the foreign company can make billions of dollars of profits and we get the dangers? Yes Rowdy it is thick tarsands bitumin that has to be heated and toxic chemicals (which they refuse to tell anyone what they are) added to it to make the sludge flow in the pipe. Then it is moved by high pressure Do you want those chemicals in your drinking water? Jason there is no way that the beautiful trees will ever grow back in a year if ever. because they are not allowed to plant anything back on that area. So they are supposed to be happy about a big swath of nothing in the middle of their free filled land?
Alienpigkiller
October 6, 2012 at 4:53 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
that is if they pay her…. I live in michigan and if they want to put a pipeline threw my yard I have no say about it. Just because I own the last does not give me the rights to say what the goverment will let go threw there. last year I was told they were cutting down a 10ft wide patch of trees so the utilities could get to the poles and transformers I had to pay for, but are theres, and ended up with a patch wide enough for a 6 lane Hwy in my front yard lost all of my privacy not to mention the noise. So well see what happens.
Woody
October 6, 2012 at 4:53 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Rowdy:
You mean like the one that exploded in San Bruno, CA in 2010, killing 8 people and leveling 35 homes? By the way, go check out the articles on how much faster Arctic sea ice is melting than predicted by climate change models.
Muriel
October 6, 2012 at 8:03 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
That dirty oil is going overseas with all profit going to the corporation that TAKES away people’s freedom of/to their land. And I suppose you are supporters of the candidate who will push this If he wins (we Americans lose) believe he wants freedom for American people………OH THAT’S RIGHT CORPORATIONS ARE NOW PEOPLE………so there will be freedom for SOME people.
Marcus
October 6, 2012 at 11:58 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Well done Rowdy the slave to the system and a communist government. lol You people deserve to be slaves. It is not that that pipeline is going through this woman’s land, it is the trespass and seizure that should be condemned. What will they trespass and seize next is the question you should be asking. Recently this was argued in US v. Jones – reasonable expectation of privacy. You idiots keep saying this is okay, then everything else after will be okay. Honestly, what’s next? The chinesse coming over, breaking through a couple of suburbs, a couple more farm lands destroyed to make way to a chinesse corportation, the list can go on and on and on. It is not today, it will be tomorrow. You idiots keep consenting to this type of government. You deserve to be slaves. Keep looking for government to protect you lazy scums, leave the people that want to be free alone.
Steve
October 7, 2012 at 1:17 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Some of these houses were within 50 feet of a PG&E pipeline. Some were further away.
Sue
October 8, 2012 at 4:43 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
This is a oil pipeline and not gas. They leak. The oil companies dont care if they leak. Do you care about drinking clean water and breathing clean air? That your children have the same? No respect given this earth and we treat it with disreguard.
Ronda
October 5, 2012 at 2:52 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 31, 2012 (ENS) – An oil spill from a broken Enbridge Energy pipeline in Wisconsin has been contained, the company says, but it could not have come at a worse time for the Canadian company, which is trying to get approval for new pipelines in Canada and the United States.
Two years ago this month, an oil pipeline burst in Michigan, contaminating 38 miles of the Kalamazoo River. It didn’t get much national notice because everyone was focused on the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
But the mess created by that Michigan spill was so great that it’s become the costliest onshore spill in history — with a price tag of more than $800 million. On Tuesday, the National Transportation Safety Board blamed the spill on the failure of the pipeline operator, Enbridge Inc., to follow its own safety rules.
The NTSB said the federal government is culpable, too, because its Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration does not have the staff or regulatory muscle to safeguard the public.
Enbridge Energy is planning to replace an old pipeline that runs through Michigan.
It’s called Line 6B. That’s the same line that broke in Marshall nearly two years ago. The Environmental Protection Agency says more than one million gallons of tar sands oil spilled into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
Tar sand spills prove even more toxic and difficult to clean up than typical oil spills. That’s because the heavy mixture of oil sand sinks in water, which means that tactics like skimming the surface can’t be used. Instead, remediators must try to recover the oil from the bottoms of rivers, reservoirs, or wherever it has spilled — a far more difficult task. Tar sands already contain high concentrations of heavy metals, and chemical diluents mixed in for transport are also known to be carcinogenic. EPA lab tests following a December 2011 oil leak in Colorado found concentrations of cancer-causing benzene as high as 2,000 parts per billion in the creek where the leak occurred — well above the 5 ppb national drinking water standard.
ELK POINT, Alta. – There’s been another oil spill in Alberta, this time northeast of Edmonton.
The Energy Resources Conservation Board says the leak of heavy crude oil happened Monday at a pumping station on Enbridge Inc.’s (TSX:ENB) Athabasca pipeline about 24 kilometres southeast of Elk Point.
Enbridge estimates about 230,000 litres has leaked, but the ERCB’s Darin Barter said Tuesday that amount hasn’t been confirmed.
“It’s a significant size spill,” said Barter. “Any amount of crude oil out of a pipeline is significant to us. Obviously we’ve had a number of pipeline incidents in the past short while and we’re monitoring cleanup on them and we have a number of investigations underway.”
Mara
October 6, 2012 at 3:27 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
http://ehstoday.com/environment/epa-more-work-needed-clean-enbridge-oil-spill-kalamazoo-river
kellye
October 6, 2012 at 3:53 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Thank You Rhonda I hope this article will help some of these nasayers understand the Truth and gravity of these pipelines due to your post of this article. again THANKS
Leo
October 4, 2012 at 11:43 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Doesn’t matter if the foliage grows back, she has to shut down her farm. Toxic waste and food don’t mix. TransCanada has no right to destroy her farm
r
October 6, 2012 at 5:09 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
? She’s 78, avg life of pipeline before repairs = ?….you really think she has to shut down her farm?
Joy
October 8, 2012 at 2:37 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
r,
what makes you think that a 78-year-old woman wouldn’t have family or friends to whom she would leave a beautiful farm?
Wouldn’t you want to leave a beautiful world – NOT contaminated by highly corrosive bitumen – for your children and grandchildren?
bdw
October 8, 2012 at 6:35 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Perhaps she’s not okay with the thought of her heirs having to shut down the farm. Also, she has her principles regarding her rights and the environment.
Mindy
October 9, 2012 at 6:50 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I thought Eminant Domain siezures didn’t apply to private companies. And why can’t they refine in Canada?
Ali
October 9, 2012 at 11:09 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
They can’t refine in Canada because they don’t want the pollution and toxicity to affect their beautiful lands and poison their citizens.
Trey Capnerhurst
October 4, 2012 at 11:47 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Until it leaks, which for corrosive tar sands is a When, not an If.
Tired
October 4, 2012 at 11:53 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The only thing that will be different is the land owner’s bank accounts will have a cushion.
Joyce
October 5, 2012 at 5:40 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
There will not be much of a cushion with the small amounts they are paying. Will never repay the damage.
kay mae
October 5, 2012 at 12:04 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
You can’t really truly believe your comment—In SD there is land that TransCanada is still struggling to fix since 2009. The native prairie reclamation has not went as they planned.Most native prairie is still a mess and it’s been 3 years!
Cstrick
October 5, 2012 at 12:10 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Oh it will look like nothing happened after a year, other then the large swath of trees that they cut down will still be missing.
ThereAreNoJobsOnADeadPlanet
October 5, 2012 at 12:13 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
According to the PHMSA, there were 603 reported pipeline incidents last year, resulting in 17 deaths, 70 injuries, and just shy of $326 million in property damage. Approximately 139,000 barrels of hazardous liquid spilled over the course of the year. This doesn’t even decribe the amount of damage and pollution to the land, water, aminals, plants and insects. But yes, I’m sure that won’t happen with this one, the other 603 “reported” leaks where just freak accidents.
cheri
October 5, 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
^_^……….. nice job
Mikeleep
October 5, 2012 at 12:16 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
So how fast do you think trees grow Jason?
TERRAH
October 5, 2012 at 12:49 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Apparently Jason you have never seen a pipeline…it’s there FOREVER!
Jan Joroff
October 5, 2012 at 10:48 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Let them chop up your back yard and ruin your water supply and see how you feel
Holly Bond
October 5, 2012 at 1:42 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Jason, go pick up a book, if you can read, and educate yourself. You are what is sick and wrong with America.
Crash
October 5, 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Jason– One, TransCanada will not allow the trees to regrow in the easement. Two, the other native species will not thrive becasue the distrubed environment will be over taken by envasive species that outgrow and replace the native plants. You might not notice a difference, but that does not mean there is not one. Three, the damage to the springs, surface water and wetlands remains. Four, the threat of contamination remains. Five, it’s not your land or TransCanada’s land. Your belief is incorrect and, really, immaterial.
candace lange
October 5, 2012 at 4:02 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Right on target Crash! Flying over Texas last spring I saw so much horrific damage to the land it made me sick and I cry real tears just remembering the thousands of drill holes and roads cut in the grass to get to these drill holes…old ones and new ones, and it will take a century for nature to repair all this destruction. For what? It appears from the air that most of these holes were dry……no visable activity on any of them…….
Jean
October 5, 2012 at 5:35 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The same feeling I had when I flew over West Virginia and thought I was
flying over a desert. I asked the pilot what was that we were flying over. He didn’t know. It was mountaintop removal mining. Sickening
Sandy Frost
October 5, 2012 at 3:54 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Wrong
candace lange
October 5, 2012 at 3:58 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
crazy people defend the Tar Sands projects because they think that oil is the only way to live. They are stupid and uncaring. I am watching my beloved Northwest in flames because of Global Warming and see that everyone has a dog in this fight….next time Darryl, bring a big mean dog or two!
RSheppard
October 5, 2012 at 4:20 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Only one word to describe this post…Ignorant.
Chris
October 5, 2012 at 9:36 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
You won’t notice except for the cleared and regularly mowed ROW and the line delineators. Have you never seen a transmission pipeline ROW in Texas? However, it is just one more needle in the needlestack.
Camille
October 6, 2012 at 12:27 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
BULLSHIT you won’t know it’s there!!!! Do you have any running through YOUR property? Do you have it mucking up YOUR soil? Do you have it mucking up YOUR water supply?? No?? I didn’t think so…. so shut the fuck up!!! Have you seen the endless footage of leaks occuring at the sites of other pipelines???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FALOXK2cZYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq6ExV9WNvg&playnext=1&list=PLB4AA00114A67703E&feature=results_main
Now…. tell me again… how invisible that fucking pipeline will be? You’re either a govt/corporate plant or you’re a complete ignoramus.
NOT TO MENTION…. the illnesses, the illegality of it all…. wake up you sheeple!!!
Vikki
October 6, 2012 at 7:52 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Regardless of whether the land will rehabilitate itself or the pipe will or will not fracture, it is her land and land ownership should be absolute. They are the trespassers. If they are so confident of the safety of the pipeline, why not build an overhead aqueduct for it, at least any leaks in the future will be easily identified and not leach into acres of soil. Too expensive??????? Must keep the shareholders happy, to hell with the environment.
Denise
October 6, 2012 at 3:05 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
It seems to me before we get to a debate over what the pipeline is going to cause or not cause we need to ask ourselves how a government of the people and for the people can simply dictate to take over private property. The owner declined but the company still pursued and the payment gratuity was not to her in her best interests.The fact is rights of landowners are being infringed on is the main topic and secondary to why the owner doesn’t want to have this pipeline on her property. Freedom in this country is not free and probably never was but we didn’t have to notice until money, greed and politics got so big it wants to take whatever it sees fit to take from all. I understand we all need natural resources and we benefit daily from abundance in this country. If i got to vote on whether or not the owners rights were paramount over companies rights it would be a strong vote for her not them.
This company can find a different route I am sure and be most likely welcomed by other land owners who want the dollars for taxes, or it cannot, either way is fine because other alternative energy exists and needs to be explored!
Larry. Rice
October 6, 2012 at 5:18 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I am 77 years old and have been working in the energy business since 1951 both in pipeline construction and in operation a,nd maintenance. In all of those years I am convienced that pipelines are the safest and most efficient way to transport products than any other means of transportation. Leaks are extremely rare and believe me that in over 60 years in this business I am quite sure I am correct in what I have experienced.
Mitt Romney
October 6, 2012 at 6:08 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
It will not look the same in a year. Trees take longer than a year to grow. Besides it doesn’t matter. It was her property. The gov’t took it from her, and gave it to a private company, for a song.
JAC
October 6, 2012 at 9:20 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Jason, It doesnt really matter if you believe that the gas line is safe or that the area will look the same after the pipe line has been put in. The point is, this is thier land and they do not want anyone disturbing the area. If that were your land wouldnt you be pissed off?
Ed Lindsay
October 7, 2012 at 1:42 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I really admire people who stand up for What Is Right! If everyone did that, we would have a much better country today. This is something that I’m trying to do by running for Congress in Texas District 33.
Go Green!
Ed Lindsay
Joy
October 8, 2012 at 2:28 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
but the animals and plants that used to live there will know…if they are still alive.
longfelo
October 9, 2012 at 3:18 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
agreed. they did the same on my dads land. messed up the driveway a bit but they came after the work was done and paved it for him. would have cost 2000 to do it himself. however, imminent domain or not, you can arrest someone for impeding this process but you cannot legally charge someone with trespassing on their own land. so ….. nothing is going to come out of this. but mildly news worthy regardless of the involvement of an actress.
Sarge
October 9, 2012 at 3:41 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Did you see the destruction on her property. She should take this to court they did not notify her she can press a lawsuit.
Anne Franklin
October 10, 2012 at 4:21 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
a year later you won’t have trees that are 50 years old
John Thomas
October 4, 2012 at 10:59 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Unbelievable that they can simply walk in and take the land.
Naively thought the US had laws against that sort of thing.
Sean Power
October 4, 2012 at 11:49 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Eminent domain law allows the government to seize your property for federal projects (such as highways and such). The government must pay the owner fair market value for the property seized. It’s a shitty law, but that’s what it is.
Gumboz1953
October 5, 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
But isn’t it amazing that eminent domain lets a corporation seize your land.
Lord, this country is hosed. Priorities are all F’ed up.
Lynn
October 5, 2012 at 5:24 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The Supreme Court ruled that a developer can take property for development is the property is considered a blight on the neighborhood. Depending on who is hired to make the judgement, the White House could be considered a blight.
Jean
October 5, 2012 at 5:40 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Afraid not. They took mine for a bike trail. Organic farm land that they sprayed with herbicide. After I had two cats and a dog die of cancer and then I got skin cancer, I finally convinced them to stop spraying. I just don’t know for how long!
Bduncan
October 4, 2012 at 11:29 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Share button please. A like button is less effective.
Mike
October 4, 2012 at 11:43 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I can’t believe people are stupid enough to blame this on the big evil “corporation” rather than their government who is suppose to uphold laws. But it’s a lot easier to go after a someone’s company than the big ol’ government.
Trevor
October 5, 2012 at 2:13 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Mike,
The bi gov. is supposed to uphold laws but they are only the shadow that we dance with. They are there to distract us from what the corporations are really doing, that being the exploitation of people and planet.
c1234
October 5, 2012 at 3:23 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
agreed^
Brett
October 5, 2012 at 5:01 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
They are owned and operated by the same folks, Mike. Wake up to the apathetic multinational apartheid happening, not just in other countries, but (literally) in your own backyard!! The frequency is increasing as the battle and attainment of ALL natural resources is underway with pretty much nothing to stop the flow. Welcome to the new millennium.
RSheppard
October 5, 2012 at 4:20 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Who do you think owns the government? Do you folks really think there is such a thing as democracy. Monsanto, BP, Exxon, Pfizer, Bayer, etc…that’s who runs the show…that’s who makes the decisions of our every day lives.
David Leviton
October 5, 2012 at 9:00 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Not for long. Wait and see what the Lucifer Project has in stall for the world. No more oil.
palle
October 5, 2012 at 10:17 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
1,000,000,000 percent right
Kitty Antonik Wakfer
October 4, 2012 at 11:54 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
“the Canadian pipeline company, who, in turn, proceeded to expropriate her ranch through Texas’ lax eminent domain legal proceedings.”
All the east Texas landowners real beef is with the government, since IT has taken the land. This pipeline company couldn’t do anything on its own. It is the government – of Texas in this case, though maybe the Feds are helping out – that has created the words of this “lax eminent domain” law and similar takings legislation. BUT it is the enforcers of this and every law, regulation, edict, mandate, etc that make all those words more than ignorable. Consider if the enforcers in Texas refused to enforce this (or any similar “law”) on their own or after persuasion by their neighbors, maybe using negative Social Preferencing if reasoned logic was not sufficient….. Keep in mind that legislators, executives, judges and bureaucrats are simply word-mongers and are totally dependent on the government enforcers (both domestic and military), those willing to threaten and actually initiate physical force, to put those words into effect – to do the physical HARM.
jeb
October 5, 2012 at 2:17 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
a coupla million dollars donation into one’s campaign war chest couldn’t hurt.
peoplesunitedassembly
October 4, 2012 at 11:54 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The post was by way of forwarding information to U2 and their fans.
The reason Bono’s real name was used, (one would guess) was to allow him to respond as himself and not his alter ego.
Let’s face it, the band within their live gigs, music, message and involvement with ONE have always urged people to communicate and seek the truth, to ask questions of ourselves and others motives, to head for positive change.
Or did we miss something?
Stop Deforestation
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Return the lands to the people and the people to the lands
We as free people must not pull back from seeking the truth and consistency in any plans concerning our race, the planet and its species.
If we look at the world, we are all sharing it as the whole, the one, and, at present, there is no other.
The bottom line is, you cannot get off.
It is each and everyone’s responsibility to ensure that industry, Governments and corporate’s do not destroy the environment and species any more.
There are no excuses for the wanton destruction of the planet, it’s species and habitats to date.
You/we/I have only to look to see the massive environmental damage that big companies and governments have already created with their insatiable greed and their need for cash, control of people, energy and resources.
The truth is they must be stopped from destroying any further.
Alternative energy is not a fantasy, there is an inexhaustible amount of information readily available.
Conservation of energy must also be fully realized, utilized and practiced.
Do not be fooled into thinking bio fuels, or hydro electric dams are an answer.
They serve no sustainable purpose, resulting once again in the destruction of habitats and the displacement of wildlife and indigenous people’s.
As a race, we must not allow any to destroy our environment.
We must not allow corporate, industry, or regimes to force us to be separated from interacting with our environment.
Nuclear power is a demon seed with nuclear waste having a half life of 25,000 years.
This means that it will still be 100% toxic to all forms of cellular life in 25,000 years time.
Chernobyl in Russia and Fukushima in Japan has shown that no nuclear power plants are 100% safe, and once an accident happens, the species and environmental impact is both far reaching and devastating.
People must pluck the sickness of greed and corruption from their Nations
You only get one chance, make that chance, one of a future for all People, species and planet.
People must oppose tyrants, regimes and oppressors and those who commit crimes against peace, genocide, and ecocide. Everyone is on the same Planet, we need to acknowledge that we are also on the same page in our History and Future.
send the corrupt and unscrupulous to jail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLg9W2y6qww
We must not allow those who would wish nothing for us, to control our association with all people’s. We (using a majestic plural) must not be divided, People are ALL People. Those who seek to control you would like to turn brother against brother, sister against sister, we must take the time not only to know ourselves, but also each other.
Mikeleep
October 5, 2012 at 12:19 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
So, how fast do you think a tree grows Jason? 1 year, two, maybe 20?
Storm Petrol
October 5, 2012 at 12:21 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
TRANS CANADA ARRESTED ELEANOR?! ff
How is it that they have jurisdiction, whether it is her land or not? Is this an error in reporting, perhaps?
John
October 5, 2012 at 12:30 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I just don’t understand why we would do this Isn’t it 2012??… Why do we need more oil or any ways to get it, we need it gone, we have plenty NON harmful AND renewable fuels, corn, hemp, water, wind…. green fuel is the future, this is like tearing down a movie theater for a coliseum..
pipelinegypsy
October 5, 2012 at 3:28 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
John, do you think if we got rid of oil you can make a computer out of hemp? A cellphone? An ink pen to write your protest signs? Tires to run your little electric car down the road to the charging station powered by coal because wind energy just doesn’t cut it? Do you even realize the products that are made from petroleum? Look it up!
ZimmDawg
October 5, 2012 at 5:15 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Really!?! Hemp seed oil can make plastics, many kinds and hemp fiber is stronger than carbon fiber. I’ve seen a car made from hemp. Check it out … Google it.
bg
October 5, 2012 at 12:20 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
All kinds of products can be made from cannabis. It would create competition in almost every major sector of our economy by the likes of you, me and Eleanor, from pharmaceuticals to plastic to fuel to paper to synthetics to building materials, etc. That is why it has to remain illegal. Marijuana would cut into big pharma’s profits, but industrial hemp, oh boy, that would really hurt the big boys.
As far as needing fossil fuels, we never needed it. The wonderful Mr. Lincoln gave petroleum its first real big break by taxing alcohol out of the lighting fuel market (camphene). Alcohol (plants) was petroleum’s only competition for about 100 years (and you thought Prohibition was enacted to stop drinking). Rockefeller’s money bought up all the solar companies back in the 70s and Ronnie Regan put the nail in the industry’s coffin- but it is back.
The study, just out, “A Clean Electricity Vision for Long Island” by Synapse Energy Economics stated that it is “technically feasible for Long Island to have a 100% renewable and zero-carbon electricity supply by 2030.” If we, on this right-wing, conservative, business-is-best, no-one-is-telling-me-what-to-do island can do it, anyone can.
As the editorial in our local paper ended so will I: “It will probably only happen if people demand it.”
Jan Joroff
October 5, 2012 at 10:54 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Germany uses 50 % altertenative energy sources and we use 2% . Something is wrong wwith our country. The governement has sold out to the Koch brothers and their friends..
TrudiCMT
October 5, 2012 at 1:06 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Ford’s new C-MAX has an interior made of renewable resources. It uses plant-based plastics and even a rubber material made from dandelion milk. It’s fascinating what scientists can accomplish without oil.
Coconutisland
October 5, 2012 at 2:19 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
You should check out Henry Fords Hemp body’d car. There is a video of him slamming a fender with a sledge hammer leaving no dent…. Cheaper than steal, stronger than plastic AND renewable hemp!
Wall Dodger
October 5, 2012 at 1:15 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
To Jason and others of like mind… please read this..
.http://www.yorknewstimes.com/editorial/this-just-in-it-s-not-even-oil/article_4fc4c748-e5bd-11e1-95e5-001a4bcf887a.html
Joana Zegri Soder
October 5, 2012 at 1:20 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
eminent domain should not be used so some company,corporation or other person can make profit…..this is wrong and unconstitutional……..eminent domain was set up to be used for common good only, like a highway, hospital or school
Joyce
October 7, 2012 at 7:07 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
TC and checked common good on the for they submitted and they won;t make them prove it.
Greg
October 5, 2012 at 4:18 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Remember folks… Mitt Romney said he will bring this to the U.S.A. he has no respect for land owners.
They burn the wood rather than let the land owner sell it as firewood or lumber to recoup cost.
Eduardo Gonzalez Ortega
October 5, 2012 at 4:50 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The only ones that benefit from this are corporations. All the oil that would be moved will be for exports
this is a real Plutocracy
Lisa
October 5, 2012 at 5:00 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The most corrupt industry next to the drug cartel. If you don’t know this your a fool!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipeline_accidents_in_the_United_States
Russell Henry
October 5, 2012 at 5:07 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
What you “YAY” sayor’s are trying to have us believe is that their land hasn’t been violated and there’s no way this project will ever affect their drinking waters. In fact this entire assault has effected an 83 year old land owner by claing eminent domain by a “For Profit” company & no consideration is being given to these taxpayor’s. this isn’t right nor fair. Just having the possibility of having something horrific happen on a once quiet and peaceful property is so over the line my heart goes out for her safety and her sanity in these most precious of years! I have no idea why this Corporation thinks it’s all powerful but you’re crossing the line and creating the next great civil war.
Daniel J. Prendergast
October 5, 2012 at 5:14 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Who the heck do these companies think they are coming on peoples property and destroying these trees? They should be able to protect their property with force if need be. I am outraged to see police arrest people on their own land trying to protecting it from these Money Crazed people!
peter stanley
October 5, 2012 at 5:21 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
why didn’t she use guns? Every Texan knows that trespassers can be shot on sight.
Princepts
October 5, 2012 at 8:05 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Not true
jd
October 5, 2012 at 9:31 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Just a washed up b-movie actress trying to get a little attention.
eaglesfanintn
October 5, 2012 at 1:55 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Just another internet troll trying to show he’s an idiot.
James T. Hartman
October 5, 2012 at 3:46 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
jd – that was a really ignorant thing to say.
Victor
October 5, 2012 at 5:53 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
JD hates Tarsands Blockade, but makes sure to post negative things on every single page. Paid troll, me thinks. I mean, TransCanada is paying private security to roam the woods at the tree sit, they have been buzzing the tree sitters with helicopters for over a month, they bought off the Winnsboro newspaper, they bought off the mayors of various towns, they bought off the sheriffs, it doesn’t seem unlikely that they would pay a couple of yahoos to troll the web pages of resistance activists.
Princepts
October 5, 2012 at 10:00 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
They havn’t bought off ****, Get a grip
RSheppard
October 5, 2012 at 4:17 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
You are an idiot. She is fighting for her rights…all of our rights. You folks who support this…you remember when your day comes…and if we don’t stick together that day will arrive faster than you wish it had.
Doug Grandt
October 5, 2012 at 10:48 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Eminent domain to keep refineries fed with tarsands feed stock … or eminent domain for the good of all humanity. The former can be solved by retiring and dismantling refineries. The latter by replacing refineries with carbon-free energy technology. Let’s get started. Stop the extraction of tarsands … leave the tarsands in the ground. THAT IS THE CORRECT EMINENT DOMAIN. CONFISCATE TARSANDS AND REFINERIES = EMINENT DOMAIN.
Wolfgang V Untertstein
October 5, 2012 at 1:44 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
You Americans want your big SUVs and wonder trucks and cheap food and all the rest of it, well, this is the price some of you will have to pay. The corporations will keep on doing this til there is no more oil left to move because the demand is there. I’m at the point in my life where I don’t care anymore, I’ll be dead in a few years anyway. But your kids will care and they will curse you til the end of time for allowing this to happen and for enabling it by demanding cheap gas for the “American Way of life”. Who was it that said that is non-negotiable? Oh yeah, George Bush. So enjoy your life style while it lasts, someone else will pay the bill for it.
Wolf
Alastair L
October 5, 2012 at 2:42 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The worse thing about this pipe is that if those tar-sands are mined for low grade oil and it is burnt we can kiss a safe climate goodbye for millennia. Equivalent to an 8m sea level rise probably by end of this century. Many unforeseen positive feedback loops to be discovered yet, like those causing the Greenland Icemass to melt exponentially — not linearly — like the tradition climate models used by ICCC have assumed. Tragedy on an unprecedented scale is this pipeline and what will flow from it, literally and resultantly.
Marti
October 5, 2012 at 3:08 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Eleanor’s rights were violated by her own government – that is pathetic! The Tarsands Refineries are corporate bullies and shouldn’t be tolerated. What can we do as individuals to help to stop this type of violation of our human rights? People lets become aware and help do something. not just roll over to corporate – government – a nd local law enforcement bullying. I don’t see how men can call themselves that by arresting peaceful protesters protecting their own land. There’s plenty of petroleum already – how much more do we really need.
jd
October 5, 2012 at 3:52 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
No eaglesfanintn you do a real good job of that yourself.
RSheppard
October 5, 2012 at 4:15 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Damn right her rights were violated. How about I come into any of your homes, destroy and built my own pipes for my own purposes? This is not government land, it’s not Transcanada land…it belongs to Eleanor. For those of you who don’t think this is wrong, just what more of YOUR own rights are you willing to give away? keep drinking the kool aid kids…keep drinking it up.
Chris Watson
October 5, 2012 at 8:13 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I live near Bellingham, Washington. Afew years ago a gasoline pipe line broke near a major stream that goes through the center of town.
the people were killed. 2 ten year old boys were burned to death. An eighteen year old fisherman was sofficated by the fumes and died. The fire burned over a mile of stram bank. If it had gone any further it would have burned up the city center.
A few years before that, a natural gar pipeline broke an ignited on the side of a mountain. There were house just below it on the mountain. As I’m over the crest, all I could see was hugh flames.
Don’t tell me they are safe!
Outraged
October 5, 2012 at 9:28 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
It should not matter what the line is being used for, first and foremost once again our government is screwing over the ones (citizens of the US) who pay them (the government) to benefit another country (Canada). It is HER land!!!
Denise
October 6, 2012 at 3:17 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Outraged 2!
TheBoss
October 5, 2012 at 11:35 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
how can u trespass on ur own property? thats bull shit
sstop
October 6, 2012 at 3:09 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
i cant believe that anyone is surprised by this,and if everyone care about land and ownership so effing much then why dont you start by correcting the atrocities committed against the tribes that occupied this country FIVE HUNRED YEARS AGO,oh i guess thats off topic right,and yes what there doing now is wrong too.
Mara
October 6, 2012 at 3:23 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Yes…no body cares…until is breaks in your back yard. http://ehstoday.com/environment/epa-more-work-needed-clean-enbridge-oil-spill-kalamazoo-river
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October 6, 2012 at 5:04 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
To all of you people who are defending this pipeline & the corporation,I want to see a company come in & tell you they are going to claim a portion of your land & you have no say in the matter.They are going to make trillions of $$$’s per yr off of the land they steal from you & they are not going to give you one penny….not even for the land they stole from you!
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October 6, 2012 at 7:33 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
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October 7, 2012 at 5:56 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
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fedup
October 10, 2012 at 7:08 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
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Red
October 7, 2012 at 4:56 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Have any of you defenders of this filth seen the devastation that it has already caused in Alberta? There are whole towns with no clean drinking water, mountain tops blown off, all in the name of this filthy fuel. How and why does this foreign company get to force itself on landowners, destroying the land, and reducing the value of the land that they worked their whole lives to call home? And to you Vector – Native America has a word for the likes of those who want to use up every available resource to fuel your greed – washichu – he who takes the fat. You call them selfish, but the selfishness lies totally with those who would destroy everything to preserve their “way of life”, a way of life that has polluted our air and water beyond reason. Tell you what! Kindly offer up your land and your way of life for this filth, let them take from you whatever they wish, then speak. Take what you need and leave the rest. I have children and grandchildren and they will have the same. There will be nothing left for them if the likes of you continue to decimate everything. Another idea since you think the people who live here should travel off to other lands. GO BACK TO WHEREVER YOUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM!!! The land was clean, the water pure and the skies clear before the likes of your ancestors came here to destroy it.
Birdy
October 7, 2012 at 6:51 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
I am happy and thankful to see that a public persona like Daryl Hannah has taken up this issue. We have such a pathetically long way to go to educate the public – such as some who have written here – about bitumen/tarsands and how it is NOT like crude oil and TransCanada has no business calling it that. It is one of the many flaws in our system that has allowed TC to label it in such an innocuous way.
Our landowners are NOT getting large sums of money or any monthly checks. And some have been advised by the company to get liability insurance just in case there should be a spill on their property…well if you care to read the abundant information out there you cannot help but arrive at the conclusion that a spill will happen – with such high pressures to push such a thick mass (like cold molasses with particles) through such a thin pipe. I have seen shock in the faces of folks who work in the oil industry when they have become familiar with the facts!
We are not talking about Gramma’s sweet crude and we are not talking about the generally accepted etiquette shown by oil companies in the past – this is completely new turf and what we do now sets the tone for future dealings with this highly corrosive, toxic, deadly TARSANDS! It is obvious that a lot of people are making a lot of money off this stuff, but it’s not the landowners! The Chinese are EXTREMELY heavily invested (according to a Houston Chronicle article in August 2011 to the tune of $20 BILLION – and this was over a year ago) in this project which should wake people up since the US owes China amounts of money so ENORMOUS that most of us would be unable to even count! This brew is going to a tax-free zone on the Gulf Coast so it can be shipped all over the place – YOU ARE DREAMING IF YOU THINK IT IS FOR THE ENERGY SECURITY OF THE US!! The Chinese are in need of LOTS of energy to keep their factories humming!
The bottom line is: THIS IS NO ORDINARY PIPELINE!!!!
jess
October 7, 2012 at 7:23 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The thing is, they’ll take what they want from anyone and that’s not what this country is about. Building more pipelines is just another step backwards and furthering our reliance on oil. We need to seriously ween ourselves off oil.
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October 8, 2012 at 3:28 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Bottom line is $$$$. Doesn’t matter that you bought and paid for the land, that you love and care for the land. Someday Mother Nature will take a huge stand and we will be left with nothing but unusable waste lands.
Scott K
October 8, 2012 at 6:20 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
If no one else will say it I will. The “police” and TransCanada personnel should have been shot. If “just doing my job” wasn’t an excuse for nazis why does anyone think it is for this? That would be “self defense” or “defense of property” – NOT murder. Does it matter that a bunch of guys in suits get together and decide a corporation can do this, because they call themselves our “leaders” and “representatives”? If they’re our representatives then they either represent us or they’re not legitimate, so no it does not matter. It’s the same as if any gang trespassed on your property, bulldozed your trees, etc. NOT ONE BIT different.
And before anyone denounces me for “advocating” violence, what do you think the “police” who were trying to push them out of the way were doing. Or for that matter, what do you think the ones in New Orleans in 2004 were doing when they herded people into warehouses that were once used to store PCBs? And did you know the land along there just happens to be the Gulf Coast land that Exxon-Mobil wants to expropriate to build refineries, etc? Why is violence okay when “the authorities” use it and claim it’s a matter of law? It isn’t, and it isn’t any more wrong for anyone else to treat them like the scummy thugs they are.
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October 10, 2012 at 4:35 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
The pipeline will actually produce far few jobs – and mostly temporary ones related to construction, not operation – than the same investment in alternative energy (wind, solar, and biomass) would, and it is just adding further investment into technology that is past its time. Oil is a finite resource the exploitation of which will only get more and more expensive, and the burning of which is causing more and more problems – no matter where that oil comes from. Being a successful country means building investment on sustainable technology, and creating jobs that will carry into the future. Being sustainable means getting us off of all oil, not just foreign oil! We’re smarter as a nation, we can innovate out of this dependence we have gotten ourselves into! What I don’t understand from this story is why this portion of the pipeline is being built when permits have been denied for other parts. ?? Further, despite eminent domain, they have to have federal permits under the Clean Water Act for any impact on wetlands or waterways. If they haven’t obtained those, that’s one way to halt construction. I hope someone has looked into that?
Judith Lyde Malone
October 10, 2012 at 9:03 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
Link TV recently aired a program on the Koch brothers who are the leasers of the tar sands in Canada. They have had them leased for years for a huge expense because they thought the Republicans would stay in power after Bush, and McCain would not veto the pipeline as Obama has tried to do. Regardless of the the presidential stand, the money is too great. The pipeline is being built as we speak. A woman in Oklahoma fought them in court to keep them from going across her lands. She spent every cent she had…which was considerable wealth fighting the pipeline. After she was broke, they diverted the pipeline to the ranch next door. She won, but did she? Why did she have to spend her life savings to keep what was hers.
Be sure to check out LINK TV on Direct TV. It is hard hitting journalism and truly reveals what the Koch brothers have done to become the wealthiest men in this country. The Koch brothers’ PR department paint them as philantropist..as long as no one…private landowners or elected officials GET IN THEIR WAY. The law of eminent domain has been fought on many fronts..all the way to the Supreme Court. Poor people have been forced to sell their homes for a fair-market price in order for a new neighborhood to be built around a shopping development. ONLY problem.. there were no home available in the area where their families lived and they worked that could be purchased for the fair market value of their wooden dwellings. Money talks…bullshit walks..until we change it…the poor are just spouting bullshit.
Björn Holmdén
October 13, 2012 at 6:32 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
“The land of the free”?
Unfortunately Sweden is copying USA in their way of thinking: Money is the top issue, if there is a environment and people issue its no.2. If money isn’t the issue, environment and people is no.1
For whom is the law written, and written by whom?
Björn -Bear- Holmdén
North of Sweden trying to fight killing of forest and big limestone quarries.
Breaking: Daryl Hannah joins tar sands blockade « TexasVox: The Voice of Public Citizen in Texas
October 4, 2012 at 10:56 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
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AnimalFarm.org » Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested With East Texas Great-Grandmother for “Trespassing” on Her Own Farm http://t.co/RBvmGT0Z #saveourplanet #OWS
October 4, 2012 at 11:42 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] Daryl Hannah Arrested With East Texas Great-Grandmother for “Trespassing” on Her Own Farm http://tarsandsblockade.org/darylandeleanor/ … #saveourplanet [...]
Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested With East Texas Great-Grandmother for “Trespassing” on Her Own Farm | OccuWorld
October 5, 2012 at 3:40 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] land. See more photos in our flickr set. Keystone XL's Destruction Through Eleanor's Land Source RELATED NEWSVideo: Eleanor Reacts to TransCanada Destroying Her LandEnvironmental Justice: Why I [...]
http://tarsandsblockade.org/darylandeleanor/ -KP | Occupy Wall Street Info
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Texas grandmother arrested for trespassing on her own land to protest Keystone | Grist
October 5, 2012 at 3:59 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] tar-sands pipeline. But the more interesting story is that Eleanor Fairchild was arrested, too. Tar Sands BlockadeEleanor Fairchild, a 78-year-old grandmother and [...]
Les Pièces Du Puzzle « Mylène Bolduc
October 5, 2012 at 5:39 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] http://tarsandsblockade.org/darylandeleanor/ [...]
Texas grandmother arrested for trespassing on her own land to protest Keystone | "Global Possibilities"
October 5, 2012 at 5:48 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] Tar Sands Blockade Eleanor Fairchild, a 78-year-old grandmother and [...]
Drill Baby Drill…The Fallacy of American Energy Independence « K2 Global Communications LLC
October 6, 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] Daryl’s involvement in the Fairchild Farms story brought a lot of attention today when the duo peacefully stood in front of TransCanada’s heavy machinery, which was burning piles of once-majestic trees from Eleanor’s beloved farm and delicate wetlands. Eleanor is a feisty 78-year-old great-grandmother who was arrested for “trespassing” on her own land after being inspired by Tar Sands Blockade to take action -Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested With East Texas Great-Grandmother for “Trespassing” on Her Own Far… [...]
Coming to A Farm or Forest Near You–the Eastern Pipeline « The Harbinger
October 6, 2012 at 11:54 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] http://tarsandsblockade.org/darylandeleanor/ [...]
Your Rights As A Landowner – Repub-ALEC-an Style | The Penn Ave Post
October 7, 2012 at 12:39 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] Rights As A Landowner – Repub-ALEC-an Style Posted at 8:45 on October 6, 2012 by capper This is just disgusting: How can you be arrested for “trespassing” on your own land? Well, anything can happen when a [...]
Reactions | Pearltrees
October 7, 2012 at 3:07 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] pearl Actress Daryl Hannah Arrested With East Texas Great-Grandmother for “Trespassing” on Her Own Far… <b>UPDATE 4:30PM </b> – Eleanor has been arrested for “trespassing” on her own [...]
Actress Daryl Hannah, Texas Great-Grandmother Eleanor Fairchild Arrested in Tar Sands Blockade | FavStocks
October 7, 2012 at 8:44 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] Tar Sands Blockade: UPDATE OCT 5th 3:00AM – Both Daryl and Eleanor have been safely released from jail. After [...]
AnimalFarm.org » RT @TheAndreaGail: RT @TheAndreaGail: Daryl Hannah Defends Land vs #KXL http://t.co/awiNqxJw @infocyde @NeilYoungSaveUs @PennyWall |#NWO #OWS #OccupyWallSt …
October 7, 2012 at 1:16 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] Hannah Defends Land vs #KXL http://tarsandsblockade.org/darylandeleanor/ … @infocyde @NeilYoungSaveUs @PennyWall |#NWO #OWS #OccupyWallSt Eminent Domain [...]
Remember FU Money–Above It All yes them people where 2+2=26 then if caught a fine better known as chump change but just how deep does the rabbit hole go for all these law abiding citizens? « Pulled from the wreckage of your silent reverie
October 7, 2012 at 7:35 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] reached a new height in Texas. On Thursday, Eleanor Fairchild, a 78-year old great-grandmother, was arrested for trespassing after she stood in the path of bulldozers and machinery on her 300-acre ranch [...]
Keystone Kops: During Pipeline Protest, Texas Woman Arrested For Trespassing — On Her Own Property! | News 47News 47
October 7, 2012 at 10:02 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] a new height in Texas. On Thursday, Eleanor Fairchild, a 78-year old great-grandmother, was arrested for trespassing after she stood in the path of bulldozers and machinery on her 300-acre ranch [...]
Join Our Direct Action Training Camp (Oct 12-14) » Tar Sands Blockade
October 7, 2012 at 10:07 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] watched as actress and activist Daryl Hannah got arrested with landowner Eleanor Fairchild while defending Fairchild Farms from Keystone [...]
Join Our Direct Action Training Camp (Oct 12-14) | OccuWorld
October 8, 2012 at 3:46 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] watched as actress and activist Daryl Hannah got arrested with landowner Eleanor Fairchild while defending Fairchild Farms from Keystone [...]
Keystone Kops: During Pipeline Protest, Texas Woman Arrested For Trespassing — On Her Own Property!
October 8, 2012 at 5:44 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] a new height in Texas. On Thursday, Eleanor Fairchild, a 78-year old great-grandmother, was arrested for trespassing after she stood in the path of bulldozers and machinery on her 300-acre ranch [...]
Open Thread–10/8/2012 » Politics Plus
October 8, 2012 at 6:35 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] a new height in Texas. On Thursday, Eleanor Fairchild, a 78-year old great-grandmother, was arrested for trespassing after she stood in the path of bulldozers and machinery on her 300-acre ranch [...]
NewsLink | Intrepid Report.com
October 10, 2012 at 4:12 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] a new height in Texas. On Thursday, Eleanor Fairchild, a 78-year old great-grandmother, was arrested for trespassing after she stood in the path of bulldozers and machinery on her 300-acre ranch [...]
Keystone Kops: During Pipeline Protest, Texas Woman Arrested For Trespassing — On Her Own Property! | News Talk One
October 16, 2012 at 8:59 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] a new height in Texas. On Thursday, Eleanor Fairchild, a 78-year old great-grandmother, was arrested for trespassing after she stood in the path of bulldozers and machinery on her 300-acre ranch [...]
Occupy the Pipeline Shuts Down Spectra Construction in NYC | "Global Possibilities"
October 17, 2012 at 3:48 pm (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline when she engaged in civil disobedience in defense of a feisty 78 year old great grandmother in East Texas who was arrested for “trespassing” on her own [...]
Tree Blockade Sustains an Entire Month of Resistance! » Tar Sands Blockade
October 24, 2012 at 4:22 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] Day 12 – Friday, Oct. 5: Eleanor Fairchild, 78-year-old great-grandmother and landowner, and actress and activist Daryl Hanna are arrested on Eleanor’s land after stand in front of machinery to stop clear cutting on Fairchild Farms. Both are arrested. TransCanada charges Eleanor with criminal trespassing on her own land. [...]
‘Tree-sit’ direct action blocks Keystone XL tar sands pipeline in Texas | Christine Leclerc
November 3, 2012 at 12:15 am (UTC -6) Link to this comment
[...] Fairchild was arrested for “trespassing” on her own farm with celebrity Daryl Hannah. Fairchild and Hannah blocked an excavator operated by a TransCanada employee who would not turn it off. But activists [...]