Karla Land settled in Channelview, Texas in 1979. She was born and raised in Texas, leaving the state for college and to pursue her passion for scuba diving in the Bahamas. She returned after marrying her husband and together they own and operate Land Cycles, a motorcycle repair shop and garage in town.
The Keystone XL pipeline, if approved, will not be the first pipeline to run crude through Channelview, Texas. Channelview is located…
David Daniel is a 43-year-old carpenter living in Winsboro, Texas, a small community of a couple thousand people in East Texas. Daniel fell in love with the community for its natural beauty and purchased some land shortly after seeing it for the first time. He found the perfect spot, a rectangular tract of 20-acres with spring-fed creeks, century-old hardwoods and more. He eventually got married on the property and built his own house there.
Now…
François Paulette is a member of the Smith's Landing Treaty 8 Dene First Nation and lives 200 miles downstream from the tar sands industry site in Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada. François was previously chief and vice-chief of the Dene Nation and is currently a commissioner with the Assembly of First Nations, a national organization representing 630 First Nations across Canada.
As both a father and grandfather, François believes that the way of life for…
Kim Marcel is a long-term resident of Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada, the home of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations. She has always been interested in the environment and is concerned about what the tar sands industry is doing to destroy it. The following is a transcript of an interview between Kim and Friends of the Earth about her story and why she is compelled to fight back against the Keystone XL pipeline.
We're fighting the Keystone XL pipeline in solidarity with people who are already impacted by tar sands oil extraction and who would be directly impacted by this tar sands oil pipeline. We have compiled some of their stories to share with you. These interviews speak directly to the environmental and personal impacts the pipeline could have on many communities.
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The campaign to stop the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline has been growing as communities that would be impacted by the pipeline team up with groups like Friends of the Earth, grassroots activists across the country, and decisionmakers in Washington, D.C. to halt this environmental disaster in the making.