Tell the Canadian Government: Kill Keystone XL Once and For All

After legal setbacks in the United States, the Keystone XL tar sands oil
pipeline is on life-support but is being kept alive by major investments
from the Alberta Government and support by the Canadian government. Call
on Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney
to end their support for this ticking climate timebomb immediately.
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Dear NRDC Activist,

The climate-busting Keystone XL tar sands pipeline project (KXL) is
hanging on by a thread in the United States. A key legal victory in
federal court shut down stateside construction across waterbodies earlier
this year, and President-elect Joe Biden has promised to kill the pipeline
when he takes office.

But KXL is an international pipeline that would bring dangerous and dirty
tar sands oil from Canada into the U.S. So leaders in the province of
Alberta desperately committed over $5 billion to its developers, TC
Energy, to keep the disastrous project afloat, while Canadian officials
continue to promote the dirty energy pipeline.

KXL would have been dead in the water if not for Alberta's unprecedented
intervention — publicly financing an environmentally-disastrous and
legally-questionable project. And under Premier Jason Kenney's directive,
Alberta will continue funding KXL even after the Province was forced to
lay off thousands of public workers in response to the economic recession
caused by COVID-19.

The Canadian government's own analysis shows that KXL is not needed and
would derail efforts to meet its climate commitments. The real need is for
clean, safe, and renewable energy.

[ [link removed] ]Act now: Call on Alberta's government and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
to end their support for Keystone XL IMMEDIATELY and invest in renewable
energy to help fight climate change.

Keystone XL would be a ticking climate time bomb. Tar sands crude oil from
the boreal region of Alberta releases significantly more greenhouse gas
than conventional oil, so this pipeline would shackle us to the dirty
fossil fuels of the past for decades and further derail progress in the
fight against climate change.

When tar sands oil spills, it is nearly impossible to clean up.
Construction of this risky pipeline would be devastating to our
environment and wildlife, our drinking water supplies, and to Indigenous
communities that live along the pipeline's proposed route — many of whom
have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 crisis here in the
U.S. Meanwhile, TC Energy continues to ignore or downplay the threats of
Keystone XL to Indigenous communities and lands.

President-Elect Joe Biden has committed to permanently killing KXL, but as
long as Trudeau and Kenney continue pushing the project forward in Canada,
there's a risk that TC Energy could find a way to resume KXL construction
in the US. And we know that President Trump is doing everything he can to
wreak havoc on the environment before he leaves office.

While we wait for Joe Biden's inauguration in January, the most important
thing we can do is push the Canadian government to divest from KXL and
double-down on their climate commitments.

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an urgent letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier
Jason Kenney urging them to pull their support and funding from the
climate-busting Keystone XL pipeline and reinvest it in clean energy and
jobs.

NRDC has been fighting for over a decade — in and out of court — to stop
this fossil fuel monstrosity that would carry 830,000 barrels per day of
some of the dirtiest crude oil on the planet through America's heartland.

Time and time again, we've won key legal victories to slow down
construction of Keystone XL — and we will continue fighting back until the
project is dead. But we couldn't have done it without supporters like you
standing with us.

[ [link removed] ]Can we count on you to stand with us once again today by carrying our
message to leaders in Canada?

Sincerely,

[1]Anthony
Anthony Swift
Canada Project Director, NRDC


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safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
systems on which all life depends.

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