BISMARCK, N.D. — An environmental activist from Seattle has been sentenced to one year in prison for targeting an oil pipeline in North Dakota.
From the Crime Archives, Bismark ND KVRR Local News Men Sentenced for Shutting Down Keystone Pipeline The objective facts are provided by Alison Voorhees February 6, 2018
Michael Foster in October 2016 cut through a chain link fence near Walhalla and turned a shut-off valve on the Keystone Pipeline.
He was convicted last October of conspiracy, criminal mischief and trespass but acquitted of reckless endangerment.
Samuel Jessup of Vermont, who filmed Foster’s protest, was sentenced to two years of probation for conspiracy.
A more sympathetic report from Seattle Met Seattle Activist Who Shut Off Keystone Pipeline Sentenced to One Year in Prison Excerpts below with my bolds.
Foster, along with activists in three other states, in a coordinated effort turned the valves off the tar…
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