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'Funeral for Our Future': 26 Arrested Blockading TransCanada Office. Escalating resistance to Keystone XL: 'If President Obama will not reject the pipeline, we will stop it ourselves' Reposted from Common Dreams. By Common Dreams staff writer Jon Queally.

Climate activists in Westborough, Massachusetts were being arrested on Monday after blockading the entrance to corporate offices of the TransCanada corporation, the Canandian tar sands pipeline company hoping to receive approval for its controversial Keystone XL project. Calling it a "Funeral for Our Future" and carrying a coffin emblazoned with the words 'Our Future' the protesters held flowers and sang an elegy as they marched in procession. As supporters gathered outside - chanting and singing songs in unison—dozens of protesters were inside where they refused to move, despite warnings from local police.

Related: Funeral for our Future Blog | Tar Sands Blockade Blog: Over 100 Hold a "Funeral For Our Future" at TransCanada Office Outside Boston | Youtube Video of protest | Desmogblog: State Department Keystone XL Study Done by Oil Industry-Connected Firm with Big Tobacco, Fracking Ties | Ecowatch: Keystone XL petition to President Obama | Sign the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance

Members of Red Lake Band protest Enbridge pipeline which runs illegally through their tribal land. (Photo: Monte Draper/ Bemidji Pioneer)Day seven of blockade: Group hopes to slow down the flow of Canadian tar sands oil

Reposted from Common Dreams. Written by Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams staff writer

Braving frigid temperatures and intense snowfall, a group of Red Lake Nation tribal members are now on their seventh day of a blockade of an Enbridge oil pipeline, which they say passes illegally through their sacred tribal land in northern Minnesota.

Related: Youtube video: Red Lake Direct Action to stop illegal Enbridge pipeline

The occupation utilizes a pipeline safety law which states that if a person or thing remains situated above a pipeline for over 72 hours the pipeline must be shut off. The protesters hope that the demonstration will slow down the production of tar sands in Canada.

The encampment began on February 28th, with the 72 hour mark passing days ago. Though Enbridge has not yet "stopped the flow," Cobenais said in an email, the group "continues to stand the line."

Form Nottingham Indymedia, 26 Feb 2013:  Energy giant EDF have taken out civil proceedings against a group of activists who scaled chimneys at their West Burton plant last October.

From the RAMPS website:

St. Louis is home to five coal companies (including Arch, Patriot and Peabody) agri-giant Monsanto and leading frack sand provider (Mississippi Sands)–just to name a few.

Will Shell’s grounded drilling rig impact US energy policy in Arctic?

By Alex DeMarban and Suzanna Caldwell,

Opposition to coal export from the US Northwest is growing with a number of Environmental Impact Statement Scoping Meetings being held and citizens making an active stand against coal export and to take action on climate change. More information from Power past Coal

Radio: NPR: Is It Morally Wrong For U.S. To Export Coal?

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Dec 13 Seattle - Gateway Pacific Terminal -- Cherry Point Environmental Impact Statement Scoping Meeting: Dignitaries from Coal Scoping Seattle | Bellingham Scoping Hearing Oct 27, 2012 Playlist | Ferndale Scoping Hearing Nov 29 2012 Playlist | Mount Vernon Scoping Hearing Nov 5, 2012 Playlist |

[From Think Progress]:<http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/12/02/1253931/ipccs-planned-obsolescence-fifth-assessment-report-will-ignore-crucial-permafrost-carbon-feedback/>

By Joe Romm on Dec 2, 2012 at 12:24 pm

 [ By Roger Harrabin BBC  Environment analyst, Doha, Qatar]