Category: Tar Sands

'Time' taps McKibben for his protest of the Keystone pipeline

Posted on December 19, 2011 |

• Ripton
• Bill McKibben
• Keystone pipeline
• Tar Sands

By Andrea Suozzo

RIPTON — It’s the year of the protester, according to “Time” magazine, and Ripton’s Bill McKibben fits the bill. So well, in fact, that he made it onto the “People Who Mattered” list in the magazine’s annual year-in-review issue.

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McKibben calls protest a success

Posted on September 15, 2011 |

• Vermont
• Bill McKibben
• climate change
• environment
• Tar Sands

By Andrea Suozzo

WASHINGTON, D.C. — To Ripton resident Bill McKibben, the best measure of success in the two-week Tar Sands Action protest in front of the White House was the 1,253 arrests of protesters.

People concerned about global climate change flocked to the Washington, D.C., from across the nation for a two-week protest that drew to an end Sept. 3, with 243 arrests happening on that final day, according to tarsandsaction.org.

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