DON’T LIKE KEYSTONE? TAKE ACTION! STOP ENBRIDGE FIRST!

[annm4peace]

This Enbridge pipeline would carry a greater volume than the Keystone XL, designed to move 830,000 bpd. The pipeline crosses the headwaters of the Mississippi five times and also intercepts the mother waters flowing north to Hudson Bay and east out the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.

DON’T LIKE KEYSTONE? TAKE ACTION! STOP ENBRIDGE FIRST!

Take Action!

Enbridge has a national pipeline plan.

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted in favor of increasing tar sands oil transportation across the northern portion of Minnesota on July 17. Stan Sattinger, member of MN350.org, compares this increase in tar sands oil to the combined
exhausts of 5.5 million continuously operating cars.

Not just a Minnesotan Disgrace. The whole country is riddled with current and planned Enbridge pipelines (see link to map below).

Enbridge, the largest Canadian oil transport corporation, requested an increase of 27 percent, 120,000 barrels per day (bpd), boosting their total from 450,000 to 570,000 bpd in a pipeline operating since 2010. The majority of this oil is for export.

The deal must be okayed by President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry because it is an international transaction.

Meanwhile Enbridge already has paperwork in process for another increase—from 570,000 bpd to 880,000 bpd. In total it would be a 97.8 percent increase in the existing pipe requiring stronger pumping pressure and more pumping stations risking more oil spills.

This Enbridge pipeline would carry a greater volume than the Keystone XL, designed to move 830,000 bpd. The pipeline crosses the headwaters of the Mississippi five times and also intercepts the mother waters flowing north to Hudson Bay and east out the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway.

As long as we keep pumping fossil oil we threaten the climate and political stability of the world.

The international Enbridge tar sands pipeline increase is not a regulatory issue; it is a political decision. Urge President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to reject Enbridge’s Minnesota tar sands oil pipeline increase.

White House comment line is: 202 456-1111; or online here.

State Department switchboard is: 202-647-4000, follow prompts to the comment line or online here.

[Response form: copy and paste your reasons for online response, or read the list on the phone. If you prefer, write your own response, of course.]

I oppose the Enbridge Canadian tar sands oil pipeline increase across Minnesota because I am: (check all that apply)

___ Concerned about climate change with increasing petroleum use.

___ A parent.

___ Asthmatic.

___ A voter who believed the President when he said he wanted to “end the tyranny of oil.”

___ Aware that most of this oil is for export.

___ Hearing about more and more oil spills and leaks.

___ Tired of the oil wars.

___ A patriot who knows efficient energy technology is the fastest, cheapest change we can make.

___ Other

Read the article by Susu Jeffrey, Keystone in Minnesota Enbridge and the “Alberta Clipper.” with photos of the area and videos about the Red Lake Encampment on the Enbridge pipeline.

http://wammtoday.org/2013/07/11/susu-jeffrey-keystone-in-minnesota-enbridge-and-the-alberta-clipper/

Link to map of planned Enbridge pipeline expansion in Minnesota and throughout the country here.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130603/map-another-major-tar-sands-pipeline-seeking-us-permit




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[handmade34]

1. excellent information...

3 years after and Kalamazoo is still cleaning up from this Enbridge spill

http://www.epa.gov/enbridgespill/

[annm4peace]

2. Spills

I was told by one of those who went to listen to the activists that if they don't clean up the spill in the 1st two hours then they can't get all the toxins out of the water.. it is too heavy.

I wish our MN liberal DFL Governor would put a stop to this.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. kicking

Keystone XL is but one of many calamities, Big Oil has tentacles everywhere.