5 Activists Just Shut Down Every Pipeline Carrying Tar Sands Oil into the U.S.

Tom Cahill | October 11, 2016

Five different pipelines carrying Canadian tar sands oil across the U.S. border have all been manually turned off as of 7:30 AM Pacific Time. Five environmental activists have taken credit for the action, posting video of the manual shutdown to Facebook.

Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, who is known for being jailed for making the final bid on land in Utah order to stop it from being sold to oil and gas developers, posted a statement from the 5 activists to his website, who claimed they had physically shut down five different tar sands pipelines in four states.

Leonard Higgins, Michael Foster, Annette Klapstein, Emily Johnston, and Ken Ward claim that on Tuesday morning, they collectively shut off Enbridge lines 4 and 67 in Leonard, Minnesota, TransCanada’s Keystone pipeline in Walhalla, North Dakota, Spectra Energy’s Express pipeline in Coal Banks Landing, Montana, and Kinder Morgan’s Trans-Mountain pipeline in Anacortes, Washington.

As of this writing, both Annette Klapstein and Emily Johnston have been arrested for their actions. In a statement issued prior to the action, Johnson said her fear of a rapidly warming climate was greater than her fear of being jailed for civil disobedience.

“For years we’ve tried the legal, incremental, reasonable methods, and they haven’t been enough; without a radical shift in our relationship to Earth, all that we love will disappear,” Johnston said. “My love for the beauties of this world is far greater than my love of an easy life.”

Jamie Henn of 350.org tweeted a map showing the location of the pipelines that were shut down Tuesday morning:

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