TransCanada Messing with Texas Grandmom

http://boldnebraska.org/transcanada_mess

October 5, 2012, 12:45 PM
AUTHOR: Jane Kleeb

TransCanada is messing with the wrong Texas grandmom. Eleanor Fairchild, great-grandmother and wife to a retired oil scientist, has stood strong against the Keystone XL pipeline because of the way TransCanada treats landowners and because tarsands is not traditional crude oil. Tarsands is an extreme and risky form of energy headed to the export market.

The pictures and video are compelling of actress Daryl Hannah and landowner Eleanor Fairchild being arrested for "trespassing" on Eleanor's own land at TransCanada's orders. TransCanada is a bad actor, bullying American landowners to force them to sign land over using eminent domain for their private gain.

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When TransCanada arrived on Eleanor Fairchild’s Texas farm without prior warning to remove trees and clear land, she decided to take action to halt their progress. Fairchild, who has been bullied by the foreign pipeline company attempting to build the "southern leg" of the Keystone XL pipeline, was arrested on her own farm when she stood in front of their heavy machinery. Daryl Hannah, actress and activist, stood alongside Fairchild in taking a peaceful stand to block TransCanada's clearing of trees, the very trees TransCanada told Eleanor they will not replant.


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