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on it's a pleasure to welcome ron c for two years from tarzan
whole blockade dot org uh... ronnie there
yes i am an end-run edges that what's what's your title with uh... tar sands
blockade dot org
amit amit coax person for the campaign okay great well uh...
so sometimes up to speed here uh...
they know there's been basically direct action uh... four what i think is going
on weeks now right um... tell us what's happening their and in where r
but many people texas right now and that is correct our chance pocket is running
a rolling
nonviolent civil disobedience campaign to stop literally stopped keystone excel
pipeline construction here in east texas extend mind-blowing simply august
so if it hadn't been much national fanfare regarding the construction
process but i can't guarantee it in full swing construction sites
are all over the place to put in oklahoma and texas
and the blockade it's been successful in multiple occasions in bringing
folks
uh... who are interested in adopting this new construction site and
they have done various things to shut construction could cite down for days
the highland all that it's our ongoing every blockade we have the largest tree
village intercut treats it
action in texas history
where the trash is over five hundred feet of the i've packed that keystone
right of way involved multiple burt doesn't trees
as well as a a timber wall along with the cattle being dock of the force
itself
at the top of which at the catwalk catalog which
pocketed skin
can protect the that the finance welfare okay
there is over half
alright surender you were telling us about the uh... this distri blockades
meet let's back up just a moment here uh... to speed
boleyn understanding as to why uh... this pipeline is still being built in
texas and oklahoma how is it that the case um... while you know where there
was a uh... sense that uh...
dearie basically been a moratorium put on the building book but why is it going
forward in the states
becker great question form so ultimately what's going on a quickie checkup ipods
been divided into to pregnant crichton bargain fragment southern segment
in northern pregnant they've been is what's being put on hold about requires
approval from the president and from the state department
that because the crocodile federal border with canada
uh... the southern fragment that they were running through oklahoma and texas
doesn't need approval from the state department
and in fact up
obama himself last march
uh... issue didn't
executive order to expedite construction updates southern leg of the cuban exile
pipeline so he ordered his administrative
body could regulators like the e_p_a_ to quote-unquote cut through the red tape
you get this pipeline online fast as possible
of alex
if we try to have it both ways he's
tried to appease environmental faxing is postponed it denied prometric you
connect up i think i need
expediting construction of the appetite climate between ongoing trip back
contacts
so-and-so
in the will win this land is taken by eminent domain
is it is this done by the state by the state of texas by the state of oklahoma
by the federal government who
morning fact is
taking this land because people should understand this is not the keystone
pipeline buying people's land um...
all by eminent domain alright
that record i experts take printout or not indicate to the program
leg of the keystone pipeline oklahoma and texas
uh... have granted trend canada
extraordinary power of eminent domain of power that usually only forty two states
and federal government
so ultimately this
its foreign corporation that's multinational corporation
uh... allowed to unilaterally condemned property in expropriate land from
american citizens
this process actually began several years ago
and ultimately landowners receive letters and yet another shanghai work
and canada were building a pipeline we have the power of decatur land we're
gonna give you a avail o prices for your property if you don't like that word in
the condemn it issue to court
and you're going to lose
fremantle take our money anyway
so allot of people
under prejudice interact sign lend agreement for trent kanika they thought
they had no other choice interlude that one way or another state dot a much work
to get a few bucks out of it in the process
but over a hundred landowners in texas alone refused even sign the contract
they thought that this was wrong
that that's what that their competition we protected land rights ought not be in
payroll to obstruction onslaught salon
but they refused to me how about that sure enough
paid their populist condemns the pipeline being rammed right through
uh... their their homes their ranch is their farms
and if they're paying could directly in harm's way when they want it absolutely
nothing to do with this project from the outset
and this is pretty stunning had to start an email you know
uh... i don't know if you're an attorney but i don't understand
and how by wife
highlander domain is in place your when in fact it's quite possible
i mean at this point um... there's no evidence anyways it is actually danny
india pipeline right i mean
from a political sense in our intuition maybe that um... if uh...
uh... the president has given the ok for the southern lady ultimately will okay
the northern light but it doesn't exist there
and so on
arstan how there is any type of state interest involved in taking this land
right excuse gargle wearing legal issues with the chemical name battle
first this what you referred to that
entitlement of eminent domain which granted to transplant a before they get
even recieved any of the necessary permits to build the pipeline
for the for the pipeline with even permitted or approved by
any agent v
the state given the power take went for a project that on paper didn't even
agree that get which is really unconscionable
but that in addition to that
but the whole idea of them being a
common carrier you can only be
that is not intended for the public good and the public interest
it's one of the necessary conditions for this assignment domain entitlement
and that domain isn't sposed to be used for private gain so it was to be used in
the public interest in what you're doing service is good but the general public
exit ramp and i have made that claim that this key typed up i find it for the
public good for the public interest that they are a common carrier of petroleum
and i've just read a bald-faced by doing out here and the public good of a
or because hahaha fear is your any evidence has anybody even asserted that
any love this uh... petroleum is going to
and in the united states
whether crimea
you know sound bites
from trent canada
uh... p_r_ people that make let's make that claim but there's no factual
evidence trench and they have yet to authenticate
or verify any of its claims that there's going to be any benefit to america or to
make a difference who's landed is being expropriated
to ultimately the only evidence that we do have points to be exact opposite like
you mentioned that it is going to be in export pipeline in fact last december
trends candidates president out scored a and hearing
uh...
energy future in america was questioned by congressman edward markey
that exchange include documented that video evidence i mean he'd pregnant rats
can do that
clearly stated
we cannot guarantee that this
product list in the united states we've already
signed contracts with shippers
and they can do whatever they want with it
and then the shipping company petri finer they're claiming that all the
money committed balloting world they're anxious to export more and more
that's where the market's going
so i'll find point org that's being a private
for-profit project to enrich the multinational corporation
at the expense of home training
of ranches and farms here in practice in oklahoma
uh... bryant
i've seen reports uh...
some people landowners of uh... protesters coming to protect
uh... landowner
chaining themselves to some of the machinery that is being used to guest
boulder
succeeds in other
of aspects of
land to build this uh... pipeline
uh... and
while they've been chained up to
these machines
leeson's kaminin actually taste them
pepper spray in the
beaten them is this is is the case are you aware of these incidents
thanks for bringing that up we are well aware that in fact it out
there's one in cancun particular working where to block leader
who were um... rock creek out there they had their armed block together uh...
speaking through the frame of a piece of machinery say what you want to check out
the to each other through a training
were approached by police dot the prairies only after trans canada
supervisors huddled with them and whether appear to be instructed them on
what they wanted to keep happen
the creek dr then put these um... protesters in extract decision you know
i quenching arms behind their backs
uh... day then reached remained uh... the protesters with handcuff hand
cupping their arm sediment to the heavy equipment itself
while any extracted patients
and then while that both the protesters were restrained narrowly lost to each
other but
if rearmed block
that into the machinery
if if he did put the protectors intro cold
they pepper spray them
they uh... comported there at the locks on their arms tool graders
and they came to that multiple cod
all while being restrained
so different
because brutality at its worst
and this is all going on while trans canada to provide this glad to be
watching what happened
after the protectors finally gave up in relief themselves
uh... tranquillity provider congratulated the queen kong
high-quality job well done
and encouraged that the tactics being used again in the future
his so circle
now before i could happen police ran off off spectators with cameras evacuated
everyone up from the cream because no one could watch what was going on
that's not the first infant that police uh...
had taken cameras from the power
spectator spending on private property just watching blockade take great
watching people dot construction
you'd be justina can't buy standard to pad their cameras and equipment taken
and have not done under separate yet to be returned
it is unbelievable and what makes matters worse to delight republicans are
working on train tenants dot and
trent kenneth hired uh...
there aren't they cute insecurity ariba sheriff's department he's really texas
counties
but they've mandated the prefab series who uh... arrest anyone except what on
their property
even though that's not what you think contract allows them to do
there you have cleopatra trickling state issued uniformed state issued weapon
stated to you
utility belt
but are working private security for trent canada
there
well uh... ron working people
support these uh... these actions where the quickening get more information
but our website is part and pocket dot below are key
and there is no pink are there for anyone and everyone i want to
participate in this campaign to stop the pipeline
uh... sign up sheet they're all different levels of participation
and effective calming a weekend
about short look at this point there is a training camp
an action camp provoked their interest me coming to attack it could be on the
ground to participate
more directly with the campaign
but the scope of what we're doing is becoming national it's uh... litigation
moving forward again current canada we're trying to organize
uh... landowner that
in the inner class against the defendant domain abuse
we've got a lot national support from national allied so with the campaign is
a growing and there is room and plan for everyone to get on board now's the time
we still have time to about the pipeline if we all get together on same direction
well iran thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us about this uh...
really appreciated and i wish you the best of luck