Kayaktivsts Protest Another TransCanada Project

TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline isn’t the only project drawing protests for the Canadian Company.

Environmental activists paddled across the Potomac River on Friday in western Maryland where TransCanada is trying to build a 3 and a half mile long pipeline under the river. It’s far from the Keystone XL pipeline project being fought by activists in Nebraska and far from the Keystone pipeline that’s been carrying out from Oklahoma to Texas for nearly two years.

They called themselves “kayaktivists” and held signs in opposition to the project that would carry gas from producers in Pennsylvania to manufacturers in West Virginia.

The “kayaktivists” are particularly upset that hydraulic fracturing is used in producing the natural gas. It’s a technique that is banned in Maryland as a result of a recent vote by state lawmakers.