Dear John,
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Tell Liberty Mutual to do what’s right for the environment and drop the Trans Mountain Pipeline!
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The fossil fuel industry continues to push forward with its attacks on the environment. Even in the midst of a global health crisis, these Big Polluters persist. They’re putting our climate and health at risk from pollution of our air, water, and land.
Now, we have a chance to stop one of these projects -- the Trans Mountain Pipeline. This tar sands pipeline puts the endangered Southern Resident Orca at risk of extinction.
The pipeline must renew its insurance by the end of August. Three of its insurers have already announced they are dropping the project. But Liberty Mutual, one of its biggest insurers, is continuing to prop up this polluting pipeline. We need you, John, to push Liberty Mutual Insurance to drop the Trans Mountain Pipeline!
Use Your Voice: Tell Liberty Mutual Insurance to drop Trans Mountain and focus on people, not polluters!
If built, the Trans Mountain Pipeline will ship almost a million barrels of tar sands oil per year across Canada, through the Salish Sea in hundreds of oil tankers, and into the United States to be refined.
Not only is tar sands the dirtiest oil -- heavy and virtually impossible to clean up -- it is also one of the highest carbon sources of oil on the planet.
Liberty Mutual Insurance is one of the few financial institutions standing in the way of stopping this pipeline. If we can stop Liberty Mutual from renewing Trans Mountain’s Insurance, we can stop the pipeline. That is why we need a wave of public pressure to demand Liberty Mutual drop this project -- forcing Trans Mountain to scramble to find insurers before the end-of-month deadline.
Demand Liberty Mutual Insurance drop the Trans Mountain Pipeline! This polluting project must be stopped in its tracks.
The Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion will cause California, Washington, and Oregon’s waters to be inundated with oil tankers. This region provides habitat to endangered Southern Resident Orcas.
These orcas have already lost 60-90% of their ability to use echolocation for hunting and communicating due to noise from shipping traffic. The added increase in tankers from the Trans Mountain Pipeline will further threaten their already dwindling population – and in the event an oil tanker spill happens, these iconic whales would be at risk of extinction.
There are only 74 Southern Resident Orcas remaining. We cannot risk their extinction for Big Oil profits.
Activists like you have resisted the Keystone XL pipeline, put enough pressure on Duke and Dominion Energy to stop the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, and pushed Zurich Insurance to drop the Trans Mountain Pipeline. Now, we need you to continue this momentum by putting pressure on Liberty Mutual to stop insuring the Trans Mountain pipeline.
25,000 Signatures Still Needed: Demand Liberty Mutual Insurance protect orcas by dropping the Trans Mountain Pipeline.
Standing with you,
Marcie Keever,
Oceans and vessels program director,
Friends of the Earth
