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24-hour blitz to stop the Keystone pipeline!
February 14, 2012
We stopped the Keystone XL pipeline once. Now, we have to stop it again.
Congress is trying to override President Obama’s decision to
reject a permit for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Yet the president had it right: This
pipeline should not be approved. It's
mostly for export, it's too dangerous
and it will worsen climate change.
Please join in a national email blitz TODAY to tell the
Senate: Don’t approve the Keystone
pipeline. Here's why:
- Tar sands oil is thicker, more acidic
and more corrosive than traditional crude oil. Transported for over a thousand miles
under high pressure, it poses a high danger of leaks. A huge leak of over 800,000 gallons contaminated
Michigan's Kalamazoo River in 2010.
- It's
the most carbon-intensive source of oil on the planet. The Environmental
Protection Agency estimated that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would
contribute an additional 27 million metric tons of carbon into the
atmosphere annually – as much
global warming pollution as adding 4.8 million vehicles to the road.
- Tar
sands oil is already pumped to U.S. refineries in the Midwest, so the new
pipeline is mostly for export.
More details
here.
Take Action!
Contact your Senators today to tell them: For reasons of health and life, now and in
the future, say no to the Keystone XL pipeline.
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