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On Monday, February 13th, the environmental community united behind the ambitious goal of generating 500,000 letters to the Senate in 24 hours against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The goal was surpassed in seven (7) hours.
By noon on Tuesday, more than 800,000 had made their voices heard in the U.S. Senate. Yesterday afternoon, every one of those letters was hand delivered to Capitol Hill.
Thanks to everyone who is fighting against the pipeline.
Thanks for the news, Kav.
#2 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:43 PM ESTHere is a nice piece written by Robert Redford with some interesting facts about the proposed pipeline.
Kavika, thanks for the post, I did sign that petition plus others. gillanator, thanks for the excellent article by Redford, too many US citizens really have no idea what the pipeline is all about, who it will enrich, and how little good it would do here. Also, Credo.com, has a petition to stop the gassing and poisening of the Canadian wolves, to clear the area around the tar pits. There are so many things people should know, before we endanger our precious aqufier which provides water for our farms and towns, for big oil, again. Fight back and pass your knowledge around.
I opposed drilling in ANWR many years ago for the same reasons-philosophically-being that we have to move forward with the development of alternatives and renewables, for many good reasons, not the least being that we need to be a leader in those emerging technologies. Sure, there will be setbacks, but that shouldn't deter us from holding to what is in our long-term intersets.
The hardest thing is to start changing-eventually, it will become habit. We may even bring back a renewed conservation ethic. I'm very glad to here this news.
#5 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:50 PM ESTBoy, did i blow it on the proof-read of that post...yikes! :D
as it is there are 3 reasons to oppose this
its all opposed to the good things they say about it
have to disagree with the foreign oil argument a bit... not the foreign part, but the fact that Canada is actually a respectable country in this world. Its not such a bad thing to help a good neighbor out. However, if the environment is at risk for a resource that should, honestly not be needed in this day and age, there just isn't enough justification for it.
It is not oil, the XL Pipeline is designed to carry a water slurry of Bitumen, tar sands asphalt, please, tell people it is not oil. The water is so toxic, the Canadians will not allow it to cross their soil. This is just a crazy idea, if it was really oil, maybe, but it is tar with billions of gallons of highly contaminated water.
Between the Sierra Club, MoveOn and other involved organizations, I've signed so many petitions against this pipeline, I'm afraid that my name is in someone's book! :)
I called my Rep....BIG mistake, as he's an oil & gas guy...who, when voted out, before being voted back in, worked as a lobbyist for the big oil companies.
#7 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 2:57 PM ESTLet's make the 800,00+ a million. Odd numbers irritate me.
Enoch, signing early and often.
#8 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:13 PM ESTWay to kill a bunch of trees with all those letters. Maybe the tree huggers can get together and write a petition and get 800000 signatures against petitions being on paper.
#9 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:16 PM ESTActually fernando, I signed the petition online via facebook as I am sure most others did as well.
#10 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 5:55 PM ESTMaybe we could get a petition going against people who suck the fun out of things.
Maybe we could get a petition going against people who suck the fun out of things.
Sure, and I have someone specific in mind...
LOL,LOL,LOL,LOL.... just had to add one more chuckle tee hee
Oh don't dare me.. laughing is such good medicine I will tickle you all day =)
memory, thanks for stopping by and for signing the petition. I'm sure that most were signed via facebook.
Waanakiwin (peace)
#11 - Wed Feb 15, 2012 8:48 PM ESTYou are so welcome kavika. I sign petitions either via my party affiliates or fb frequently. I can not remember the last time I have signed a petition that was not online in several years. PEACE and LOVE to you too!
Good Article, Kavika. I sent an email to both of my Senators requesting to squelch the XL pipeline due to environmental concerns and amount of Co2 and energy used to refine the tar sands. I have major concerns that the GOP will use this as a means to demonstrate that Obama is not interested in creating jobs. I only hope that American people can see through this fallacy.
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