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Keystone opponents vow civil disobedience, vigils starting Monday
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Posted on 02/01/2014 2:24:31 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Keystone opponents vow civil disobedience, vigils starting Monday

Published February 01, 2014 FoxNews.com

Environmentalists and other opponents of the Keystone XL Pipeline are ramping up their opposition to the project following the release Friday of a largely favorable State Department report -- vowing to hold vigils, jump into the November elections and even perform acts of civil disobedience.

The report raising no major environmental concerns bolster the hopes of the oil industry, some union groups, congressional Republicans and others that President Obama will soon approve the $7 billion project, after a roughly five year wait.

They say the Canada-to-Texas pipeline will create tens of thousands of jobs and make the United States less dependent on foreign oil.

However, within hour of the release of the report, opponents were pressing forward with a lawsuit to challenge the project, public protests and an effort to inject the issue into this fall’s elections.

Among the critics is a coalition of landowners and environmentalists that says there is still cause for denying a federal permit.

And farmers and ranchers in Nebraska are planning to run for seats on a state board that regulates power stations that are needed along the project’s route.

Meanwhile, national activists say they have recruited more than 75,000 volunteers willing to participate in civil disobedience, should Obama approve the project.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; keystonexl; oil; pipeline
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Folks, it's just a pipeline.......
1 posted on 02/01/2014 2:24:31 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Some days, you’re the claw hammer. Some days, you’re the thick skull of a tree-hugging stinking hippie.


2 posted on 02/01/2014 2:29:27 PM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: Sub-Driver

Counter-protesters with PA systems blaring Rush Limbaugh at 100dB.


3 posted on 02/01/2014 2:29:56 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

good idea...


4 posted on 02/01/2014 2:32:55 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Sub-Driver

-——Folks, it’s just a pipeline.......-—

No, that is incorrect

The Keystone is a line the wackos have drawn in the sand...... .It will not be crossed at any cost

Moonbats will fight to the death to prevent it


5 posted on 02/01/2014 2:33:12 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Sub-Driver
Let the arrests begin.

"May I suggest you use your baton, Officer?"

6 posted on 02/01/2014 2:33:38 PM PST by red-dawg (<<< click.)
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To: Sub-Driver

I think the affected States should get together and just go through and build the thing and just tell the Feds and greenies to STFU.


7 posted on 02/01/2014 2:34:21 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: Sub-Driver

I always wonder, from whom do these slobs get the money to support themselves with food and shelter?


8 posted on 02/01/2014 2:34:22 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Sub-Driver

Dirty hippies who live off of public grant money and too lazy to work. Run em up a tree and let’s get to work!


9 posted on 02/01/2014 2:34:23 PM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: bert

They want to keep this country pristine but think it’s okay to pollute other countries.


10 posted on 02/01/2014 2:38:45 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: Sub-Driver
So in other words, when we get what we want, it's justice and "the System" works. When we don't get what we want, we cry and pout and stomp our feet and protest like whiny babies because justice isn't served and "the System" is broken.

Somebody needs to take a few of these sniveling punks to the woodshed.

11 posted on 02/01/2014 2:43:03 PM PST by IronJack
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To: ladyjane

I have come to believe there power is slipping away. They need a major win badly


12 posted on 02/01/2014 2:45:27 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Sub-Driver
they have recruited more than 75,000 volunteers willing to participate in civil disobedience I call BS. There are millions of people in this country that want the pipeline. If these a holes want to make this an issue in the election they will lose big time.
13 posted on 02/01/2014 2:45:47 PM PST by lardog ( Obama should be locked up.)
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To: Sub-Driver

NIMBY has been replaced by BANANA.


14 posted on 02/01/2014 2:47:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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Meanwhile, national activists say they have recruited more than 75,000 volunteers willing to participate in civil disobedience, should Obama approve the project.

Not going to happen...the union thugs they normally bus in and get paid to protest are pissed they are getting screwed by Obamacare...

15 posted on 02/01/2014 2:49:28 PM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

George Soros! He backs these foreign creeps! They need to be made an endangered species and buried on the back forty!


16 posted on 02/01/2014 2:49:34 PM PST by lu shissler (ecause)
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recruited more than 75,000 volunteers willing to participate in civil disobedience

Can they be for something a bit more useful? What I really have in mind is using them as plug fodder for when the new pipeline needs to be flushed of construction debris.

17 posted on 02/01/2014 2:50:17 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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national activists say they have recruited more than 75,000 volunteers willing to participate in civil disobedience, should Obama approve the project.

What a load of horse pucky. They may have 75K soccer moms, moonbat shoppers, and greenies, that signed a petition or something, but there is no way there are 75K people willing to engage in civil disobedience because of a pipeline.

18 posted on 02/01/2014 2:53:33 PM PST by Fzob (Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
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To: bert

Moonbats will fight to the death to prevent it....

That would sure be a pity if they went and committed suicide like that.....a dirty rotten shame......


19 posted on 02/01/2014 2:54:36 PM PST by Nekman (The Dems are SocialistCommunistUtopianMarxists...SCUM for short...it FITS!)
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To: Nekman

———moon bats will fight to the death ——

: )


20 posted on 02/01/2014 2:56:39 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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