Protests against controversial pipeline project will heat up this summer
Posted Jun 24, 2011 7:40 am.
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A number of Hollywood celebrities and high-profile Canadians will gather in Washington D.C. this August for a series of protests against the Keystone XL Pipeline project.
A vote on the multi-billion dollar 2,700-km pipeline that would ship Alberta oilsands crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast is expected this fall.
The executive director of Sierra Club Canada says a revolution is needed to stop the project.
John Bennett says it’s great to see the likes of Hollywood actor Danny Glover and Canadian Scientists David Suzuki promising to take part.
In an open letter published Thursday, the pipeline is being described as, “a horror that would light the fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent.”
Protest participants are being urged to dress in business suits and wear their 2008 Elect Obama campaign pins to remind the president about his promise to green things up.
