New Englanders Converge: 'No Tar Sands Pipeline'

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/26-0



Opponents of a proposed pipeline project that would bring Canadian tar sands oil through New England gathered in Portland, Maine Saturday for a regional protest against the scheme by oil pipeline companies to use existing lines to transport what experts call the "world's dirtiest fuel".

Regional allies from across the northeast and Canada took to the streets of the small, coastal city to protest proposed plans to bring toxic tar sands oil from Montreal, Canada to Portland, Maine through an existing pipeline system.

Opposition has been growing in the northeast on both sides of the border against the oil giants behind the toxic plan—Canada's Enbridge and the US-based ExxonMobil.


n the largest rally against tar sands ever seen in the region, more than two thousand people braved the sub freezing weather, marching to the Maine State Pier for a rally overlooking Casco Bay where the proposed pipeline from Montreal would end at an export terminal. Saturday's Portland rally was the culminating event which followed a week-long series of smaller actions in towns and cities in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and other places.

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1. great article! I applaud these people for taking this action.

Even in the freezing weather.