Texas Man Takes Last Stand Against Keystone XL Pipeline
Hide caption David Daniel, an east Texas landowner, was so determined to block the Keystone XL pipeline from coming through his forest that he built an elaborate network of treehouses eight stories above the ground. Hide caption Daniel started building the tree village back in March and says that his background as a circus performer helped in creating the elaborate web of platforms and tension lines. This was Daniel's last stand in a long battle with TransCanada, the company that's building the lower portion of the Keystone XL pipeline. Hide caption The tree-sit didn't stop the pipeline but it did cause TransCanada to move the pipeline 100 feet away from the proposed easement. Hide caption The Tar Sands Blockade protesters hang banners from a 100-foot-long catwalk. There are a total of seven structures suspended in the canopy of the trees with more than 500 feet of wire connecting them.
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David Daniel
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| 0 | "It popped into my head a long time ago, actually," says 45-year-old David Daniel. |
| 0 | "It popped into my head a long time ago, actually," says 45-year-old David Daniel. "If I had to climb my butt on top of a tree and sit there, I would. It started with that." |
| 0.0369119 | Daniel this summer at his 20-acre spread outside the town of Winnesboro, he said he was learning that the tar sands oil the pipeline will carry is a "whole new monster." |
| 0 | "Not going to happen today," he says. ... |
| -0.190952 | "Not going to happen today," he says. "It's cloudy, murky, milky, nasty. Wouldn't drink out of it. Wouldn't let my dog drink out of it." |
| -0.343129 | "I don't think anybody would like to see the destruction of their home. That's what it is," he says. ... |
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Grace Cagle
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David Dodson
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| -0.0387897 | "Actually we learned from the air. We have an aerial patrol that flies the right of way, looking for any changes, and low and behold, one day there were blue tarps and wires up in the trees," says David Dodson, ... |
| 0.188048 | Dodson says, "to get him to allow us rightfully and lawfully onto the easement." |
| 0 | "America needs energy, and it needs energy security, and that's what this project is about," Dodson says. ... |
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Amy Jaffe
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| -0.562148 | "It feels very invasive, but the reality is that it happens all around the United States. It's not limited to just Texas," says Amy Jaffe, ... |
| -0.528676 | "It feels very invasive, but the reality is that it happens all around the United States. It's not limited to just Texas," says Amy Jaffe, an energy expert from the University of California, Davis. "The bottom line is, it's public good because we use so much oil in this country that we cannot afford in our current lifestyle to turn down infrastructure. We're all participating in that by getting in our car." |
| 0.20915 | "The young woman who went up in the trees should feel happy," Jaffe says. ... |
| 0.17639 | "The young woman who went up in the trees should feel happy," Jaffe says. "She might not have been able to stop the pipeline, but she certainly sent the message to Alberta producers." |
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President Obama
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The Keystone pipeline is supposed to carry tar sands oil from Canada to Texas — a route that runs right through David Daniel's land. To try to save his woods from bulldozers, Daniel built tree houses 80 feet in the air and protesters climbed up into them.
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