Daryl Hannah freed after arrest in pipeline protest
TYLER, Texas (AP) - Actress Daryl Hannah has been released from a Texas jail following her arrest as she protested an oil pipeline designed to bring crude from Canada to the Gulf Coast.
The Tyler Morning Telegraph reported Saturday that Hannah was freed on $2,500 bond Thursday night, but faces criminal trespass charges. Her release came hours after being arrested in Winnsboro, about 100 miles east of Dallas.
Hannah and 78-year-old Eleanor Fairchild were arrested after blocking heavy equipment in an attempt to halt construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through Fairchild's land. Fairchild was released on a personal recognizance bond.
Hannah has long opposed TransCanada's construction of the $7 billion pipeline, which is designed to transport heavy tar-sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas' Gulf Coast refineries. Known for roles in dozens of movies, including "Splash" and "Kill Bill," Hannah also was arrested in August 2011 while protesting the pipeline in Washington.
Her manager, Paul Bassis, said Hannah was meeting with Fairchild when they found out the equipment was operating on the Fairchild's 90 acres.
"When people engage in civil disobedience, it's a last resort," Bassis told the Telegraph. "They do it after local, state and federal agencies fail, after the courts fail, after everything else has failed."
TransCanada said in a statement Thursday that it's "unfortunate Ms. Hannah and other out-of-state activists have chosen to break the law by illegally trespassing on private property."
Pipeline opponents argue the project is unsafe because it would be carrying heavy, acidic crude oil that could more easily corrode a metal pipe, which would lead to a spill. They also say refining the oil would further contaminate the air in a region that has long struggled with pollution.
TransCanada says its pipeline would be the safest ever built, and that the crude is no dirtier than oil currently arriving from Venezuela or parts of California.
The company began construction of that portion of the pipeline this summer after receiving the necessary permits. Some Texas landowners, joined by activists, have tried through various protests to stop or slow down construction.
Fairchild complained to the newspaper about the "pushy, bullying" tactics used by TransCanada to take her land by eminent domain. She said she never signed a land agreement with the company.
"I don't think there is an even playing field for the landowners and the pipeline company," she told the Telegraph. "Most people can't fight these big companies so they take what they want."
When given the opportunity to go home and avoid arrest, Fairchild said she did not want to abandon her friend, Hannah.
"I am not a pro at protesting, but I think it makes more of a statement to be arrested," she told the newspaper. "They need to know landowners like me are being trampled."
The Tyler Morning Telegraph reported Saturday that Hannah was freed on $2,500 bond Thursday night, but faces criminal trespass charges. Her release came hours after being arrested in Winnsboro, about 100 miles east of Dallas.
Hannah and 78-year-old Eleanor Fairchild were arrested after blocking heavy equipment in an attempt to halt construction of the Keystone XL pipeline through Fairchild's land. Fairchild was released on a personal recognizance bond.
Hannah has long opposed TransCanada's construction of the $7 billion pipeline, which is designed to transport heavy tar-sands crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas' Gulf Coast refineries. Known for roles in dozens of movies, including "Splash" and "Kill Bill," Hannah also was arrested in August 2011 while protesting the pipeline in Washington.
Her manager, Paul Bassis, said Hannah was meeting with Fairchild when they found out the equipment was operating on the Fairchild's 90 acres.
"When people engage in civil disobedience, it's a last resort," Bassis told the Telegraph. "They do it after local, state and federal agencies fail, after the courts fail, after everything else has failed."
TransCanada said in a statement Thursday that it's "unfortunate Ms. Hannah and other out-of-state activists have chosen to break the law by illegally trespassing on private property."
Pipeline opponents argue the project is unsafe because it would be carrying heavy, acidic crude oil that could more easily corrode a metal pipe, which would lead to a spill. They also say refining the oil would further contaminate the air in a region that has long struggled with pollution.
TransCanada says its pipeline would be the safest ever built, and that the crude is no dirtier than oil currently arriving from Venezuela or parts of California.
The company began construction of that portion of the pipeline this summer after receiving the necessary permits. Some Texas landowners, joined by activists, have tried through various protests to stop or slow down construction.
Fairchild complained to the newspaper about the "pushy, bullying" tactics used by TransCanada to take her land by eminent domain. She said she never signed a land agreement with the company.
"I don't think there is an even playing field for the landowners and the pipeline company," she told the Telegraph. "Most people can't fight these big companies so they take what they want."
When given the opportunity to go home and avoid arrest, Fairchild said she did not want to abandon her friend, Hannah.
"I am not a pro at protesting, but I think it makes more of a statement to be arrested," she told the newspaper. "They need to know landowners like me are being trampled."
Its a special day when I learnt sumtin from KOMO news......I had no idea Mick Jagger was a blond.
Are you sure that is a photo of Daryl Hannah? It looks like a man in make-up.
 @DTMD I was thinking Nicollette Sheridan, but nice call.
Just another irrelevant has-been looking for attention. She needs to take lessons from Lohan.
Most people don't realize the Keystone XL is of very limited use for the people of Amerika. Its just transporting heavy crude from Canada to the refineries in Texas where it will not be old to Amerika but shipped overseas to maximize profits for the big oil companies. it supplies a couple thousand of temporary jobs for the pipeline building and then they disappear. It provides a few more longer term jobs in Texas. If the Canadians had been smart the public would have demanded that their natural resources be processed in their own country to allow more jobs there and then be sold to us or whoever they want to. All countries are horrible about allowing their natural resources to pilfered and the people itself do not benefit from the natural resources they own.
 @Blindman If you don't like AMERICA, please feel free to move to a country where you do not have the right to post what you have been with out the fear of imprisonment or death.
 @Blindman You spelled America with a K! That is so edgy and cool! I'm so impressed that I'm going to vote for Obama now! No, scratch that...I'm going to write in Angela Davis!
@Mumblix Grumph @Blindman   I spelled it that way first in my moniker thingy. Which makes me the edgyest and coolest one.
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 @bkburris  @Blindman  @DrAmerika By all means let's burn more oil and create more pollution and increase the temperature on the plant. It will create lots of jobs. Jobs drilling, jobs refining, jobs making cars & trucks that burn it, and lots more jobs in health care treating the resulting increases in all kinds of illnesses, allergies, autisms and plagues.
 @Blindman  @bkburris  @DrAmerika Do you have any idea as too what I am talking about?  AMERICA went to the moon.  A Palm Pilot had more computing power than the spacecraft did.  To recreate a CELL PHONE using vacuum tubes would create a device the size of the Empire State Building.  America needs transportation--cars and trucks.  Oh yes, we need one more thing-those same evil corporations.  Like the ones that built railroads, banks, planes and computers.  When we realize we need a government who will partner with business (and not by funding them or bailing them out) than we can move forward.  But back to the oil, the last refinery built was in 1976.  The oil is there, we need to get it BUT we need to balance that with moving away from using so much.  But the situation is not as dire as is being presented for political purposes. Â
We're going there anyway. All the cheap to get oil is gone. All thats left is the hard to get and refine poor quality crude. The only thing that will stop the rise of gas prices is for an economic depression to reduce demand. @bkburris  @DrAmerika
 @DrAmerika  @Mumblix Oh yes, be proud of your illiteracy.  Strive of mediocrity.  That explains so much.  The word is America.  The rest of it...do more research while we head toward $9.00 per gallon prices. Â
 @Mumblix Grumph  @Blindman I spell it that way also because I'm edgy and cool....until Amerika can keep out of other countries business then it shall be spelled this way!
WOW. Now youre just some mermaid that I used to know :(
@thatsjarrod Oh dear LOL, people do age ya know ---- that's if your lucky to live long enough and besides who wants to be injectged with plastic and fillers?
 @thatsjarrod She made mermaids sexy.... miss her!
We're going to need to have a lot more people arrested before the government will start paying attention to the people. Its either that or the violence will have to escalate. Not much different than some of the protests I was involved with in the late 60's. No one cared about race, war and sexual issues until the violence escalated. After Kent State things started changing rapidly.
 @Blindman Americans have become a bit sissified when it comes to kickin' up some dust to be heard.... Most of us are here typing away.... I know... pathetic.
The government and capitalism is good at keeping us poor and  occupied with trying to survive. Back in the 60's the economy was booming and we could afford to mobile, Transportation was cheap, fines were cheap and pot was legal back then.lol  It allowed time for people to think outside the box and see what things could be, not what they are. The revolution will be different this time because the younger generation is different. But once Generation X sees what has become of their future they'll be out in the streets raising hell, which is the only way a healthy democracy works. @Funky-Munky  @Blindman
The plastic has assumed control.......the plastic has assumed control......
Good to see people care enough about an issue to risk arrest to take a stand. She wasn't really trespassing. The land was stolen by imminent domain from the rightful owners who did not want to sell. Just for a pipeline that won't benefit Amerikans at all.
 @Blindman Twice in one day... holy smokes! You're takin' smart pills... I want one... could always use a boost.
Its called government weed.lol @Funky-Munky  @Blindman
 @Blindman Why can't we be friends.... I get high with a little help from my friends... Ha!