Dear John,
On October 31st, TransCanada’s Keystone 1 Pipeline spilled 383,000 gallons of
dirty tar sands oil into North Dakota’s wetlands. And just weeks later, the pipeline was back in service. This is the 21st spill from Keystone 1. In total, the pipeline has spilled more
than 1 million gallons since 2010.
Despite Keystone 1’s disastrous record, Trump’s State Department is advancing
the permitting process for TransCanada’s larger Keystone XL Pipeline. Keystone
XL would be equally -- if not more -- dangerous.
We’re at a critical moment in the fight against Keystone XL. The State
Department is accepting public input on this disastrous pipeline, but you only
have 24 hours left to act. So we need you to submit your comment NOW!
Take action now: Tell the State Department to block the Keystone XL Pipeline!
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The Keystone XL Pipeline would carry 830,000 barrels of dirty tar sands crude
oil per day from Canada through the heart of America to the Gulf of Mexico. If a
spill occurred, it could pollute essential water sources for communities across
the entire continent of North America. And it’s a ticking climate time bomb.
What’s more, the Keystone XL pipeline threatens Canada’s boreal forests, “The
Amazon of the North.” These are the same forests being clear cut to make
Charmin’s toilet paper. The last thing we need is a spill of tar sands oil in
these majestic lands.
The boreal forests are not just essential to wildlife and the Indigenous peoples
that call these forests home. They also store millions of tons of carbon. That
makes them a crucial line of defense against the climate crisis -- which will
impact all of us.
The Keystone 1 tar sands spill is just the latest evidence that tar sands can
never be safely transported or cleaned up when spilled. We need your help
driving that message home.
End our reliance on fossil fuels: Tell the State Department to block the
Keystone XL pipeline!
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If this pipeline is approved it will lock us into decades of reliance on fossil
fuels -- at a time when we only have 11 years to prevent a climate emergency. It
would exacerbate the climate crisis. And it would threaten a wide range of
imperiled species, from American burying beetles to whooping cranes.
We cannot allow this dangerous project to ever see the light of day. Activists
like you have fought the KXL pipeline for over a decade. You convinced President
Obama to reject it. You’ve slowed down the progress after Trump greenlighted it
within days of taking office. Now, we need you to keep fighting.
We only have 24 hours left to show the groundswell of grassroots opposition to
the KXL pipeline. And we can’t do it without you, John!
Help send 35,000 comments to the State Department: Tell the agency to block the
Keystone XL pipeline!
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Standing with you,
Hallie Templeton,
Senior oceans campaigner,
Friends of the Earth
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