Daryl Hannah was arrested outside the White House today (30.08.11) during an environmental protest

The ‘Kill Bill’ star was handcuffed and led away by police after joining a sit-down protest on the sidewalk outside President Barack Obama’s official residence in Washington DC against the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

The 50-year-old actress was taken into custody – along with around 100 other protesters – after refusing to move on when ordered to do so by the US Park Police.

Before she was arrested, Hannah said: “Sometimes it’s necessary to sacrifice your freedom for a greater freedom, and we want to be free from the horrible death and destruction that fossil fuels cause, and have a clean energy future.”

The proposed pipeline will run from the Canadian tar sands in Alberta to oil refineries on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico but the plan has yet to be granted approval by the White House.

This isn’t the first time Daryl has been arrested.

In 2009, she was detained by police after taking part in a protest against mountaintop coalmining – a practice which sees the tops of mountains blown away to help miners get at deposits inside – which resulted in a West Virginia road being blocked.

Daryl – who is a long-term environmental activist – and 30 other people blocked traffic by sitting on a stretch of road outside a Massey Energy Company plant, prompting police to intervene.

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The 49-year-old actress – who is a long-term environmental activist and has been arrested several times, most recently for obstructing environmentally devastating US mountain-top climbing – said she wants the world to become more aware of the environment and believes it only takes some small changes to make a difference.

She said: “There are so many things that everybody can do. Am I going to get some food in a Styrofoam container?

“Or am I going to bring my own cup and my own cutlery set and say I won’t participate in a disposable society?”

The ‘Kill Bill’ star is so passionate about the environment that she runs her car on vegetable fat, is a vegan, powers her US home with huge solar panels and doesn’t use the main electricity grid.

Daryl said she was positive about the future and hoped that in time, more people would take up her advice.

She said in an interview with The Sun newspaper: “I sense that youth culture has taken up the call. Almost everybody could grow seeds in their garden or on their window. All that stuff that poisons the air, the soil and the water – it should be against the fricking law!”

Source: BANG Showbiz