Hannah and about 100 other people sitting on the sidewalk in front of the White House to protest against a proposal for a Canadian pipeline in Texas and was arrested after he repeatedly refused requests to move, a violation White House demonstration .
"We want to be free from dependence on foreign oil and fossil fuels," Hannah told the ABC shortly before his arrest. "If Obama accepts the tube Keystone XL would be a disaster .... These pipelines, is not" if "will be held, is" when "he will lose. We can not run the risk of these valuable resources and we can not stop this type of destructive energy in the future, when we have the solutions available to us. We are American-made, American grown, clean and secure energy ".
On Friday, the State Department issued its final statement on the environmental impact of the proposed pipeline, known as the Keystone XL Pipeline, which concluded that the project would have "limited adverse environmental impact." The State Department now has 90 days to review the project and determine if the "national interest". President Barack Obama will ultimately make the final decision.
Militants have regularly sitting in front of the White House to protest against the project. The New York Times, critics of the plan say that "the extraction of oil would have a devastating impact on climate and of a leakage or rupture in the pipeline 36 inches in diameter, could cause an ecological disaster."
The issue appears to be a potential gap between the Obama administration and environmentalists, something Hannah suggested Tuesday.
"There are powerful forces who want things to go ... to go out of their way and are the ones who are the loudest voices," Hannah told the ABC. "If [President Obama] not only American citizens, does not come back again in this office."
Hannah, who is known for his roles in "Wall Street" and "Kill Bill" has been arrested several times before, in the name of environmental issues.
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