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   (Reuters) - Police arrested dozens of young people protesting   
   the Keystone XL project on Sunday, as demonstrators fastened   
   themselves with plastic ties to the White House fences and   
   called for U.S. President Barack Obama to reject the   
   controversial oil pipeline.   
      
   Participants, who mostly appeared to be college-aged, held signs   
   reading "There is no planet B" and "Columbia says no to fossil   
   fuels," referring to the university in New York.   
      
   Another group, several of whom were clad in white jumpsuits   
   splattered with black ink that was meant to represent oil, lay   
   down on a black tarp spread out on Pennsylvania Avenue to stage   
   a mock spill.   
      
   Organizers estimated 1,000 people protested and said several   
   hundred agreed to risk arrest by refusing to leave the sidewalk   
   in front of the White House.   
      
   "If the Democratic Party wants to keep our vote, they better   
   make sure President Obama rejects that pipeline," said Nick   
   Stracco, a 23-year-old student at Tulane University in New   
   Orleans.   
      
   Canadian energy firm TransCanada Corp is behind the proposed   
   pipeline that would carry crude from Alberta's oil sands to   
   refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. Supporters say it would   
   create thousands of jobs.   
      
   The project already weathered a State Department environmental   
   review, which was required because the project would cross   
   international borders. Several other agencies also are doing   
   reviews, and Obama has final say.   
      
   Environmental groups, who fear oil spills along the pipeline and   
   say it could hasten climate change, have staged a number of   
   protests at the White House over Keystone.   
      
   Sunday's event, which was planned by students with support from   
   environmental groups 350.org and the Energy Action Coalition,   
   began with a rally at Georgetown University, where Obama   
   unveiled a new climate change plan last summer.   
      
   The group marched to the White House, where police began   
   arresting protesters, pulling them aside in small groups into   
   tents set up on Pennsylvania Avenue.   
      
   Organizers said they intended to remind the White House that   
   young people are a key voting demographic of the president's   
   party and their peers do not want to inherit environmental   
   damage caused by current leaders.   
      
   "Our future is on the line. The climate is on the line," said   
   Aly Johnson-Kurts, 20, who is taking a year off from Smith   
   College in Massachusetts. She said she had decided to get   
   arrested on Sunday. "When do we say we've had enough?"   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/02/usa-keystone-protest-   
   idUSL1N0LZ0GB20140302   
      
   Fine.  Cut off the oil and gas to the East Coast and let see how   
   these liberal brainiacs figure out surviving cold and getting to   
   their socialist indoctrination colleges.  That global warming   
   shit will go into the circular file real fast.   
      
       
      
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