Keep your stink'n oil. We got windmills:
Proposed Canadian oilsands pipeline stirs U.S. debate
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But in large part, environmentalists can take credit for a well-organized, well-funded and persistent advertising and lobbying campaign against the Keystone XL project.
On the day of Harper's meeting with Obama, a coalition of 86 national, state and local environmental groups wrote the U.S. president urging his administration to reject the "dangerous and expensive" pipeline. Not to mention the poor who have to chose between heat and food.
In their letter to Obama, the environmentalists appealed to the president's own values as a reason to reject the pipeline. Since entering the White House, Obama has placed a priority on boosting investments in clean energy to reduce U.S. reliance on fossil fuels.
"We appreciate your words and actions to move America toward a clean energy economy that will provide sustainable jobs and protect Americans from air and water pollution," said the letter, signed by the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council and others. "We strongly believe that approval of the permit for Keystone XL would put these priorities in jeopardy."
The Keystone XL project has been on indefinite hold since last July, when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency described a draft environmental study of the project as "inadequate" — raising concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and the potential threat to sensitive ecosystems of a spill.
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The long term frustrated unemployed might want to spend some of their too free time and picket the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society, the Natural Resources Defense Council who are cruel and arrogantly insensitive to the plight of 20% of the working age population. Not to mention the poor who have to chose between heat and food. |
