
Asheville, North Carolina, streets were recently lined with students petitioning for green energy to be used throughout the city.
Several hundred students were on hand at the Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference at the University of North Carolina-Asheville to have their voices heard.
The students were in unison with another protest that was occurring outside of the White House, to stop plans by the government to run an oil pipeline, called the Keystone, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
The Asheville protesters rallied and listened to a speaker in front of a Bank of America branch, which they targeted for funding the Keystone Pipeline project.
"We don't want to break any of Asheville's laws or regulations," spokesperson for the SSREC, Lauren Reilly of the University of South Florida, said to local news source the Mountain Xpress. "We just want to get the message across, and show our solidarity with the action at the White House today. We also want to let President Obama know what he needs to do to keep our vote in 2012, he needs to keep his campaign promises about energy."
The Keystone Pipeline is estimated to be a $7 billion project. It would run extracted oil from tar sands between Canada to refineries in Oklahoma and along the Gulf Coast.

