Framingham minister among those arrested during peaceful pipeline protest at "The People's House"

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Unlike the previous times he was arrested during sit-ins during the 1970s and '80s, when he was released in the afternoon, Antal said he and the group were held as a deterrent to other pipeline protesters....While in custody, Antal said he was offered a balogna or cheese sandwich and a cup of water once every 12 hours.


For the Rev. Jim Antal, the two-day stint in a Washington, D.C., jail was worth it if it helps block a transcontinental oil pipeline that he and others say is an assault on the environment. Antal, a Framingham (Mass.) resident and the president of the Massachusetts Conference United Church of Christ, was among 65 people arrested Saturday during a sit-in outside the White House protesting the planned Tar Sands Keystone XL pipeline.

If the pipeline is approved and the tar sands, a thick mixture of crude oil and sand, are processed into oil, Antal said, the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere will raise the average global temperature by about 7 degrees.

"I care about God's creation," he said. "I recognize we are jeopardizing it."

The protesters want President Obama to deny a permit for the 1,700-mile $7 billion pipeline that would go through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas. "If these tar sands are mined and processed, then the amount of carbon in the atmosphere will go to 600 parts per million," Antal said. "We're already at 394 parts per million. The absolute limit for the Earth to remain at a stable temperature is 350 parts per million."

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1. A cup of water every 12 hours.

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2. And a cheese sandwich

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