{"id":211263,"date":"2012-09-06T12:07:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211263"},"modified":"2012-09-07T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T16:31:24","slug":"tar-sands-blockade-fights-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211263","title":{"rendered":"Tar Sands Blockade Fights Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=211264\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-211264\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/09\/thumb_Keystone-Pipeline-map2-150x118.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_Keystone-Pipeline-map2\" width=\"150\" height=\"118\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-211264\" \/><\/a>EAST TEXAS \u2014 The Tar Sands Blockade continues to shut down construction sites along the Keystone XL Pipeline route in Texas. The blockade describes itself as a coalition of Texas and Oklahoma landowners using civil disobedience to shut down construction along the route. Group organizer Ron Seifert says they have been chaining themselves to the construction equipment. Seifert says, \u201cIt\u2019s a threat to our Constitutional property rights; it\u2019s a threat to our neighbors\u2019 health, safety, and security; and it\u2019s simply untested. We have no idea how tar sands can be safely commuted through a pipeline system.\u201d They shut down construction in Saltillo, Texas, on Wednesday, and they plan to continue, as Seifert put it, \u201cas long as it takes.\u201d Plans call for the pipeline to run through much of East Texas on its way to Gulf-area refineries. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS \u2014 The Tar Sands Blockade continues to shut down construction sites along the Keystone XL Pipeline route in Texas. The blockade describes itself as a coalition of Texas and Oklahoma landowners using civil disobedience to shut down construction along the route. Group organizer Ron Seifert says they have been chaining themselves to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=211263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tar Sands Blockade Fights Keystone XL Pipeline<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 15:47:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211263"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211500,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211263\/revisions\/211500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}