TEXAS—TransCanada recently broke ground on the southern segment of the Keystone XL pipeline despite more than four years of contention by farmers, ranchers, and local communities in Texas and Oklahoma. The tar sands giant quietly began setting up staging areas for construction, and today, in response, members of the grassroots organization Tar Sands Blockade are launching a nonviolent civil disobedience campaign to stop this dangerous pipeline. The Blockade is working with landowners to prevent the Keystone XL from carving up their homes and permanently scarring thousands of acres of private lands.

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