Posted on 01/01/2013 9:47:16 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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.
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."
...Staging A Tree-sit
For 80 days, a couple dozen protesters took turns living up in Daniel's treehouses. Some wore masks to hide their identities. TransCanada, in a lawsuit it filed against the protesters, calls them eco-terrorists and put 24-hour security guards around its pipeline route to protect its equipment.
Grace Cagle, a protester with the Tar Sands Blockade, has spent a total of 17 days up in the trees.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
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You wear them like a hat, right?
BQ would mandate that........
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