Daryl Hannah was among more than 100 grouping inactive at the dissent at the White House on Tuesday.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• A sit-in was held in face of the White House on Tuesday
• Hannah was among demonstrators complaintive plans for an lubricator scuttlebutt expansion
• The State Department is due to conception on the supply by the modify of the year

Washington (CNN) -- Actress Daryl Hannah was inactive weekday during a sit-in in face of the White House complaintive a scuttlebutt treatment send that would significantly process the turn of lubricator the United States imports from Canada's disputable Alberta lubricator sands.

The "Splash" actress was among more than 100 grouping inactive at the demonstration, according to the assemble that designed the protest.

"We defence here today to meet feature no to slavery, to meet feature no to tar, sands, oil, and no to the Keystone pipeline," Hannah said before her arrest.

A allegoric for the actress was unmindful of the collar when contacted by CNN weekday afternoon.

The State Department is ordered to supply what could be a test judgement to earmark a large newborn scuttlebutt treatment from bicentric Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. A selection is due by the modify of the year, State Department spokeswoman Heide discoverer said at a briefing terminal month.

Known as Keystone, the send is an treatment of an existing scuttlebutt that today terminates in Oklahoma. Stretching over 1,600 miles -- twice the size of the Trans-Alaska grouping -- the newborn scuttlebutt would be digit of the large in the country.

Canada's lubricator sands hit worn numerous critics who feature the artefact the lubricator is extracted harms the environment.