"Splash" and "Kill Bill" actress Daryl Hannah was one of nearly 100 people who were arrested in Washington D.C. on Tuesday for again protesting the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, according to a press release from Rainforest Action Network. Over 500 activists have been arrested since August 20 for staging a stand against the potential environmental hazard, camped outside of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Associated Press reports that Hannah sat by the White House sidewalk and refused to move under orders from U.S. Park Police, shouting, “No to the Keystone pipeline” while she was being restrained and removed. "The planned pipeline will run from the Canadian tar sands in Alberta to refineries on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. It is currently waiting on approval from the White House," according to The Huffington Post. The State Department has officially declared that the pipeline would have "no significant impact" on the environment and suggested that the project move forward, however a New York Times editorial piece still vehemently opposed the pipeline. "We have two main concerns:" it read, "the risk of oil spills along the pipeline, which would traverse highly sensitive terrain, and the fact that the extraction of petroleum from the tar sands creates far more greenhouse emissions than conventional production does." The Natural Resources Defense Council website also presents a pretty compelling argument. "TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would be the third new dedicated tar sands pipeline, and could import as much as 900,000 barrels per day of costly and polluting fuel, locking the United States into a dependence on hard-to-extract oil and generating a massive expansion of the destructive tar sands oil operations in Canada."Tar sands developments are already wreaking havoc on both people and wildlife in the region. For aboriginal peoples, the mining reduces local water supplies and increases exposure to toxic substances. Expanding tar sands operations also heightens the risk for NRDC's Peace-Athabasca Delta BioGem -- just downstream from these developments.""In addition to the extraction impacts, the proposed pipeline would stretch 2000 miles from Alberta, Canada to Texas, threatening to contaminate freshwater supplies in America's agricultural heartland and increase refinery emissions in already-polluted communities of the U.S. Gulf Coast."Is protesting the risk that the pipeline presents a worthwhile endeavor?
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