Daryl Hannah Arrested Over Oil Protest

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Movies, Kind Acts, Legal Issues,

Daryl Hannah has been arrested in Texas. The Kill Bill actress was taken into custody for criminal trespassing and resisting arrest and held at the Wood County Jail after she and a landowner stepped in front of machinery to halt the construction of an oil pipeline.

Daryl and 78-year-old Eleanor Fairchild were hoping to stop the progress of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipe through the latter's farmland in Winnsboro - which was subject to a compulsory purchase order for the project - almost a hundred miles east of Dallas. The pipeline is deigned to bring crude oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

Daryl's agent, Paul Bassis, said the protesters were likely to be kept in jail last night, adding, "They've arrested Daryl Hannah and a rural Texas great-grandmother. The streets of Winnsboro will be much safer tonight now that they've gotten that 78-year-old great grandmother off the streets."

Daryl has previously been arrested for protesting against the pipeline in Washington D.C. in 2011.

Click to continue reading Daryl Hannah Arrested Over Oil Protest

• Tools:
• Permalink
• Share on Twitter
• Share on Facebook
• Comments (0)
• Email this story