Got my email from the NRDC about the tar sands pipeline travesty.
The State Department is still rushing toward approval of the disastrous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would enrich oil companies by transporting the world's dirtiest oil 2,000 miles from Canada to Texas.
The pipeline will drive horrific destruction of songbird habitat in the Boreal forest ... rev up excessive global warming pollution ... and threaten the drinking water of millions of Americans with toxic spills.
The Keystone XL is a fossil fuel nightmare -- NOT the clean energy future that President Obama promised America.
The President told the American people we’d get a “robust review” of the tar sands pipeline, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not delivered it.
We’re not surprised. A robust review would reveal that this entire scheme is a boon to Big Oil and a disaster-in-the-making for everyone else. It would destroy the myth that America needs this pipeline to ensure a supply of “friendly” oil from Canada.
Bringing more of this “friendly” oil to the U.S. will destroy millions of migratory birds and their ancient forest habitat ... turbo-charge global warming ... raise gas prices in the Midwest ... and stands to poison wildlife habitats and drinking water in the American heartland.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
What’s worse, the tar sands pipeline will practically slam the door on a clean energy future for America. It will lock us into the dirtiest, riskiest, most destructive oil on the planet -- for decades to come.
It made me think about the threads here on the subject. First was the one that said Obama approved it. Then there was the one that said he didn't, that Hillary did it. Lots of nyah, nyah, nyah on both threads. (I had a nyah or two myself)
But the NRDC letter got me thinking. Why not try again. I know many have given up hope of having any influence on the WH. I'm a little pessimistic too. But we can try.
Let's have letters, emails, and phone calls (all three from everyone) to the WH about this. All of us who are disillusioned can hope that enough of us this close to an election can scare the election team. All those who love to hate Hillary have the best reason. They can crow that the president did the right thing and shut down Hillary. Boy would they like that.
It may be a long shot, given the money and corporate lobbying involved, but it is still a shot. Let's do what the president said and tell him when we think he is wrong.
So write, click, and phone the WH. Tell Obama to stop this. Stop it good. Don't just put it off until after the election. See the NRDC site for details on just what a corporate wet dream and environmental nightmare this deal is. Then write, click, and call.
Go here to read more:
http://www.nrdc.org/media/2011/110826.aspGo here to see the NRDC form to send a message:
https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2377