If you haven’t heard of Keystone XL or don’t know about the tar sands, here’s the short summary: Keystone XL is a proposed 1700 mile pipeline connecting the Alberta tar sands with refineries on the Gulf Coast. The tar sands are North America’s largest pool of carbon, and NASA’s top scientist James Hansen says that exploiting them means ‘essentially game over’ for the climate. Keystone will ship tar sands oil across critical water supplies and sensitive ecosystems just so it can be exported to foreign markets from refineries in Texas. The job benefits are way overstated, and overall it is just a scam designed to line Big Oil’s pockets at our own expense. …
Right now, the Senate is considering legislation that would resurrect the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. President Obama rejected this toxic disaster-in-the-making last month, and now Big Oil’s representatives in Congress are trying to force its approval.
It looks like a deal might be coming together in the next 24 hours. I’ve just joined a huge effort to blitz the Senate with messages opposing Keystone XL – the entire environmental movement is coming together to send over 500,000 messages to Congress in under 24 hours. Can you join me?
The place to go to send a message is here: act.350.org/sign/kxl/
Thanks a bunch. Lora