OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma authorities say they
arrested eight people at a construction site for the Keystone XL oil
pipeline, including one man who locked himself to a piece of machinery.
Seminole County Sheriff's Deputy Chris Conn says
two women and six men were arrested Monday morning on trespassing
complaints at the site near the town of Schoolton.
Conn says one man who locked himself to a piece of
machinery was removed after a local fire department used a pair of bolt
cutters to free him.
A spokesman for Calgary-based TransCanada says the
incident was the second in Oklahoma in which protesters locked
themselves to a piece of equipment.
A group claiming responsibility for the protest,
Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance, cited environmental concerns and the
oil extraction's impact on indigenous people.
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