It may not be too late.

[Jakes Progress]

Got my email from the NRDC about the tar sands pipeline travesty.

The State Department is still rushing toward approval of the disastrous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would enrich oil companies by transporting the world's dirtiest oil 2,000 miles from Canada to Texas.

The pipeline will drive horrific destruction of songbird habitat in the Boreal forest ... rev up excessive global warming pollution ... and threaten the drinking water of millions of Americans with toxic spills.

The Keystone XL is a fossil fuel nightmare -- NOT the clean energy future that President Obama promised America.

The President told the American people we’d get a “robust review” of the tar sands pipeline, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has not delivered it.

We’re not surprised. A robust review would reveal that this entire scheme is a boon to Big Oil and a disaster-in-the-making for everyone else. It would destroy the myth that America needs this pipeline to ensure a supply of “friendly” oil from Canada.

Bringing more of this “friendly” oil to the U.S. will destroy millions of migratory birds and their ancient forest habitat ... turbo-charge global warming ... raise gas prices in the Midwest ... and stands to poison wildlife habitats and drinking water in the American heartland.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

What’s worse, the tar sands pipeline will practically slam the door on a clean energy future for America. It will lock us into the dirtiest, riskiest, most destructive oil on the planet -- for decades to come.

It made me think about the threads here on the subject. First was the one that said Obama approved it. Then there was the one that said he didn't, that Hillary did it. Lots of nyah, nyah, nyah on both threads. (I had a nyah or two myself)

But the NRDC letter got me thinking. Why not try again. I know many have given up hope of having any influence on the WH. I'm a little pessimistic too. But we can try.

Let's have letters, emails, and phone calls (all three from everyone) to the WH about this. All of us who are disillusioned can hope that enough of us this close to an election can scare the election team. All those who love to hate Hillary have the best reason. They can crow that the president did the right thing and shut down Hillary. Boy would they like that.

It may be a long shot, given the money and corporate lobbying involved, but it is still a shot. Let's do what the president said and tell him when we think he is wrong.

So write, click, and phone the WH. Tell Obama to stop this. Stop it good. Don't just put it off until after the election. See the NRDC site for details on just what a corporate wet dream and environmental nightmare this deal is. Then write, click, and call.

Go here to read more: http://www.nrdc.org/media/2011/110826.asp
Go here to see the NRDC form to send a message: https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2377

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Thanks!

[patrice]

2. K&R

[polly7]

3. K & R. nt.

[moondust]

4. If they have to have that tar sands oil...

let them build refineries in Canada and haul the final products south to their destinations by tanker and rail.

:hide:

[Jakes Progress]

7. Now that would be shame.

Canada being the bad guy and the US being the good guy. Kind of reversing the world image roles.

[girl gone mad]

13. There's no way that would be economically viable.

This tar has to be transported as cheaply as possible in order for the energy companies to pocket the amount of profits they demand.

The tar sands aren't so much an energy source as they are an energy arbitrage. It takes great amounts of energy just to extract and convert the sands into oil which can then be refined.

This is why the oil cos need the US taxpayer to pick much of the pipeline costs and be on the hook for the inevitable ecological and environmental destruction. Otherwise, they can't get rich quick enough and need a new scheme.

[moondust]

14. Economically viable or windfall profitable?

There's a difference.

Screw the oil companies and their windfall profits. If they are determined to get their hands on that tar sands oil then let them do it less profitably and more responsibly.

[girl gone mad]

15. Economically viable.

If oil prices go down or natural gas prices go up, they're screwed. They can't do it without the taxpayer.

[Leopolds Ghost]

5. Is this the one that would go thru the Canadian Rockies, opening up vast new areas to strip mine?

[snagglepuss]

6. No its the one that it will go UNDER the MIssissippi River and cross17 major bodies

of water. The Keystone pipleine isn't any ole pipeline running through a few mid-western states.



http://oilsandstruth.org/projects-region/tarsands-infrastructure-south-east-us?page=12

[Jakes Progress]

8. We need to help the president not go down as an enemy of the earth.

If people can't get to Washington, at least use the link to send the email.

If he doesn't get turned around on this, his legacy will be dead species and oily waters all across America. This it the time to make a voice. With the re-elect campaign in full swing, his political advisors need to see this as a problem.

[Parker CA]

9. K&R! Done. Took all of three mins. Thanks for this OP!

[onestepforward]

10. Thank you! Message sent! n/t

[woo me with science]

11. Kick. nt

[Jakes Progress]

12. Kick

Yes, kicking your own post is lame. I just think this is something all Democrats on DU can get behind. If Obama hasn't already decided to go with the oil companies, getting him to stop it would be good for both the "lovers" and the "haters". Not to mention the earth. And it doesn't take all that much effort. Help Obama do the right thing. Help the earth.