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9 arrested blockading Gas storage at Watkins Glen NY. Photo: @ShaleshockBreaking Story. Watgins Glen, New York, 18 March 2013: Media Release: Sandra Steingraber Risks Arrest with Local Residents and Students in Blockade of Watkins Glen, NY Natural Gas Storage Facility

'Funeral for Our Future': 26 Arrested Blockading TransCanada Office. Escalating resistance to Keystone XL: 'If President Obama will not reject the pipeline, we will stop it ourselves' Reposted from Common Dreams. By Common Dreams staff writer Jon Queally.

Climate activists in Westborough, Massachusetts were being arrested on Monday after blockading the entrance to corporate offices of the TransCanada corporation, the Canandian tar sands pipeline company hoping to receive approval for its controversial Keystone XL project. Calling it a "Funeral for Our Future" and carrying a coffin emblazoned with the words 'Our Future' the protesters held flowers and sang an elegy as they marched in procession. As supporters gathered outside - chanting and singing songs in unison—dozens of protesters were inside where they refused to move, despite warnings from local police.

Related: Funeral for our Future Blog | Tar Sands Blockade Blog: Over 100 Hold a "Funeral For Our Future" at TransCanada Office Outside Boston | Youtube Video of protest | Desmogblog: State Department Keystone XL Study Done by Oil Industry-Connected Firm with Big Tobacco, Fracking Ties | Ecowatch: Keystone XL petition to President Obama | Sign the Keystone XL Pledge of Resistance

A banner drop at a construction site for a new coal loader terminal at the Port of Newcastle in the New South Wales Hunter Valley in Australia ended when police instructed the 60 metre crane be lowered to the ground. The Protestors say they were not given warning of this action and alledged it imperiled their lives.

“We are dismayed with the actions of police here today.” said spokesperson Steve Phillips. “We conducted a peaceful protest, with trained and experience climbers, and safety as our priority. NSW Police responded with gross negligence and dereliction of duty, and placed two lives at risk. Our climbers were not even warned before the crane was lowered.”

Related: Australia: Climate activists do Banner drops in Boggabri and Melbourne against coal rush

16 October - OIL REFINERY BLOCKADED

Climate activists launch blockade of the UK's busiest oil refinery Hundreds of Crude Awakening protestors board trains to join the blockade. 12 climate activists have blocked the sole access road to Coryton oil refinery in Essex, the UK's busiest oil depot and the largest supplier of oil to London. The all woman group, affiliated to the Crude Awakening, are locked to immobilized vehicles on both lanes of the road, preventing oil tankers from leaving the refinery to deliver oil to London.

Related: UK Indymedia: Crude Awakening Blockade | UK Indymedia Climate Feed | Youtube video | Flickr photos

ALP policy on climate change action has been strongly criticised by environment and climate action groups with protests at Julia Gillard's climate change policy launch in Brisbane, and protests at Julia Gillard's Werribee electoral office and her Melbourne Treasury Place office.

Related: Climate activists lock on at Gillard's office to protest pathetic ALP policy | Photos at Treasury Place protest