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The Keystone has become a problem for Obama, elected as a choice between the environment and the economy
Several thousand demonstrators, some of his shoulders a large inflatable black shadow of a pipeline, formed a human chain around the White House on Sunday to try to convince Barack Obama to block the controversial project Keystone XL.
The event, which had been weeks of preparation, had intended to put pressure on Obama to stop the pipeline that transports crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta through the heart of America.
organizer Bill McKibben describes Obama as submitting to arrest symbolic.
"This is the second largest pool of carbon on the planet. If the U.S. government goes ahead and makes it easier to develop the oil sands project, then it credible to insist that they are working hard on climate change, "he told the crowd McKibben.
Not that Barack Obama was there to notice. As the protesters gathered outside the White House, took advantage of a glorious autumn day to go golfing, back as the event draws to a close.
A number of demonstrators carried banners quoting Obama's campaign promises 2008 Blue to act on climate change. Other borrowed her campaign slogan chanting. "Yes you can, stop the pipeline,"
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