Environmental activists have been putting their bodies on the line for
months — both in the form of physical blockades in Texas and rallies in
Washington — to halt the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which
would carry crude oil from Alberta’s tar sands to the Gulf Coast. The
TransCanada pipeline extension requires Obama’s approval, and experts
believe he will give it — a State Department survey of the project (
written by contractors with ties to the oil industry)
has already given the pipeline the green light. On Friday, 150 of the
president’s most prominent donors, including Vinod Khosla, one of the
founders of Sun Microsystems; Rob McKay, the heir to the Taco Bell
fortune and chairman of the Democracy Alliance; Blythe Danner, the actor
and mother of Gwyneth Paltrow; and Susie Tompkins Buell, co-founder of
the Esprit clothing, wrote to the president urging he reject the
pipeline...
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