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KeystoneXL Protester Seeks Lawsuit Over Police Brutality

January 7, 2015 By Benjamin Franklin Craft-Rendon 2 Comments

My faith calls me to express my values through my acts and my relationship with others. I took part in a nonviolent direct action campaign against the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline because these extreme extraction projects always harm those already marginalized the most.

I will not allow my inaction to read as consent. That’s why I locked down to halt construction of KXL South and that’s why I’m suing Wood County for the actions of their police officers. I doubt that my treatment was the first time these officers abused those under their power but hopefully my lawsuit can help make it one of the last.

Below is the story of my action, originally published on October 1, 2012:

Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Environment Tagged With: #NoKXL, ACLU, Alan Moore, American Civil Liberties Union, Christianity, civil disobedience, climate, climate action, Climate change, direct action, Dune, East Texas, eminent domain, Frank Herbert, Houston, Human Rights, Keystone XL, Keystone XL South, KXL South, land grabs, less lethal weapons, lockbox, lockboxes, Occupy Houston, Occupy Wall St., Occupy Wall Street, oil sands, OWS, pain compliance, pepper spray, pipelines, police, police brutality, Rain Beebe, religion, Shannon Beebe, stun guns, Tar sands, Tar Sands Blockade, tarsands, TarSandsBlockade.org, tasers, Texas, torture, TransCanada, Unitarian Universalism, Unitarian Universalist, V for Vendetta, Wood County, Wood County Sheriff’s Department

State Department Keystone XL Contractor ERM Bribed Chinese Agency To Permit Project

January 5, 2015 By Steve Horn Leave a Comment

Environmental Resources Management (ERM Group), the consultancy selected byTransCanada to conduct the environmental review for Keystone XL’s northern leg on behalf of the U.S. State Department, is no stranger to scandal.

Exhibit A: ERM once bribed a Chinese official to ram through major pieces of an industrial development project. ERM was tasked to push through the project in Hangzhou Bay, located near Shanghai.

Accepting the bribe landed Yan Shunjun, former deputy head of the Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, an 11-year prison sentence. Yan “allegedly took bribes of 864,000 yuan (126,501 U.S. dollars), 20,000 U.S. dollars and 4,000 euros from seven contractors,” explained Xiuhuanet. “Yan was also accused of illegally setting up a channel to speed up environmental impact assessment processes, which are essential for companies wanting to build factories.”

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alaska, Alberta canada, Alberta Tar Sands, bitumen, Bloomberg Businessweek, carbon web, Central Asia, China, communism, Copenhagen, Denmark, dilbit, diluted bitumen, Doug Hayes Sierra Club, environmental resources management, ERM Group, Hangzhou Bay, Heavy Oil, Hopenhagen, Keystone Pipeline System, Keystone XL, Keystone XL North, Keystone XL Northern Leg, Keystone XL South, KXL, KXL North, KXL South, London, oil sands, People's Daily, People's Daily Communist Party, Peru, Shanghai, Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Sierra Club, Sierra Club Doug Hayes, Sinopecerm, Sunday Times, Tar sands, TransCanada, U.N., unconventional oil, United Nations, Xiuhuanet, Yan Shunjunbp

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