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.

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.

Send 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.

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

Sincerely,

Anthony Swift
Canada Project Director, NRDC