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Article

8 Jun 2015

Author:
Adam Federman, Guardian (UK)

USA: Environmental advocates placed on FBI watchlist for protesting against major oil & mining projects

"Keystone protesters tracked at border after FBI spied on 'extremists", 8 June 2015

An activist was placed on a US government watchlist for domestic flights after being swept up in an FBI investigation into protests of the Keystone XL pipeline, linking a breach of intelligence protocol with accounts of continued tracking that environmentalists fear could follow them for life. Twenty-five-year-old Bradley Stroot is one of several campaigners to go public, after the Guardian revealed an FBI investigation that labeled them "environmental extremists", with new allegations of a continued crackdown...[A]ctivists say law enforcement has tracked them from a peaceful Texas protest of the highly contentious oil project in 2012 and 2013 to the tony suburbs of Indianapolis...The FBI's investigation into anti-Keystone activists was closed in June 2014 due to a lack of credible intelligence regarding threats to the pipeline and extremist activity...Once an individual has been placed on the selective screening watchlist, there is very little he or she can do to get removed from it, said Handeyside of the ACLU, or even find out why he or she was put on it in the first place."There's no due process for these people," he said. [Also refers to TransCanada]