A U.S. Park Police officer handcuffs and arrests a protester over a proposed pipeline to bring tar sands oil to the U.S. from Canada, in front of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)(CBS/AP)
WASHINGTON - Arrests are beginning anew outside the White House as police remove dozens of protesters who are hoping to convince President Barack Obama to block TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline.
Fifty protesters remain in jail after being arrested outside the White House on Saturday, the opening day of a two-week civil disobedience campaign. They're expected to be released Monday night.
By noon today, police began arresting more demonstrators, including 68-year-old Patricia Warwick of Toronto.
A 65-year-old woman from Massachusetts who's celebrating her birthday was also arrested.
Protest organizers say a total of 46 will be arrested and will join their colleagues in jail by day's end.
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Dozens were arrested outside the White House on Saturday after staging a sit-in to protest the proposed $7 billion pipeline that would boost U.S. dependence on Canadian oil sands.
Thousands of opponents of the pipeline plan to get arrested, in protests over the next two weeks that they hope will help persuade the Obama administration to kill the project.
The State Department is set to issue a final environmental impact report this month on the Keystone XL pipeline project that would bring oil sands petroleum from Alberta to Texas refineries. The department hopes to make a final decision on the TransCanada Corp line by the end of the year.
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