Monday, February 10, 2014

Tar sands protest group appeals to Obama after 3 members jailed

Environmentalists face two-year sentences for protest against pipeline involved in 2010 Kalamazoo River spill

Pipeline protest  
Rod Sanford/Lansing State Journal/AP

President Barack Obama traveled to Michigan's Ingham County on Friday to sign the recently passed farm bill at Michigan State University, less than an hour's drive from the site of a major inland tar sands oil spill. A group of local environmentalists hopes to use the president’s visit to warn him of the potential dangers of tar sands oil ahead of his final decision on Keystone XL and other proposed pipeline projects.

Read the entire story here: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/7/anti-pipeline-groupappealstoobamaafterthreemembersjailed.html

More Info about MICATS in the Lansing Online News and the Earth First Journal and through their own website at: http://www.michigancats.org

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