White House Keystone XL protest: first Sierra Club head in group's 120-year history is arrested for civil disobedience — with preapproval of group's board

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James Tarnick, (second from left), a Nebraska farmer and rancher who said TransCanada has bullied US landowners, is arrested after zip-tying himself to a White House fence in an attempt to help persuade President Obama not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Still zip-tied to the fence is Reverend Jim Antal, Minister and President of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ. The action, Wednesday, was organized by the Sierra Club, whose executive director, Michael Brune, became the first in the group's history to be arrested for civil disobedience. Photo: Mary Anne Andrei/Bold Nebraska

TransCanada has already admitted that the Keystone XL pipeline will raise gas prices in the US.
     The Keystone One pipeline, to which the Keystone XL will be an addition, leaked at least ten times in its first year of operation.
     Recently, Occupy activists in Texas who slept inside a brand new section of the Keystone XL pipe, awoke to discover that they could see daylight through a weld in the pipe, and took a photo.
     This, in a pipe which will carry an abrasive tar sands goo, thinned by carcinogenic solvents TransCanada will not specifically identify to landowners, pressurized up to 1600 PSI and heated up to 160 degrees in a pipe no thicker than those which carry conventional crude, made of metal often fabricated in India which TransCanada had to dig up in 10 places in Keystone One after government-ordered tests identified possibly defective steel that may have been used in the construction.
     Gee, what could possibly go wrong?
     Oh yeah, this: whistleblowers for a TransCanada subcontractor now claim that software engineers were told to raise the threshold at which the robot inspection "pigs" alert operators of possible problems in the pipe.
     Oh, and this: Keystone XL tar sands oil is even worse that Hillary Clinton and the US State Department have said it is. How much worse? 13%.