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Posted Mon Feb 4 2013: from EcoWatch:
BREAKING: Oklahoma Resident Locks Herself to Equipment to Protest Tar Sands Pipeline http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1360013370
Early this morning, Norman, Oklahoma resident Elizabeth Leja locked her neck to equipment used in constructing the Keystone XL pipeline. Citing concerns for Oklahoma's waterways and their importance for the health of future generations, her actions have halted construction at the site on Highway 62, just North of the North Canadian River, for the day. The Gulf Coast Project is the Southern segment of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion project by multinational TransCanada.... The tar sands mining project in Northern Alberta is the largest industrial project in the history of humankind, which when fully realized will have destroyed pristine boreal forest and left a toxic wasteland the size of New York State.
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This is not nearly as big as our main industrial project which is to wreck planet Earth!

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