Peace House friends and Supporters,
We’re hosting Rainforest Action Network‘s training on Mobilizing Community Members Against the Keystone XL Pipeline. April 12th and 13th, 2014 from 9 am to 5 pm.
Background info on RAN:
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is headquartered in San Francisco, California with office staff in Tokyo, Japan, plus thousands of volunteer scientists, teachers, parents, students and other concerned citizens around the world. We believe that a sustainable world can be created in our lifetime, and that aggressive action must be taken immediately to leave a safe and secure world for our children.
Dubbed “some of the most savvy environmental agitators in the business” by the Wall Street Journal, RAN uses hard-hitting markets campaigns to align the policies of multinational corporations with widespread public support for environmental protection. We believe that logging ancient forests for copy paper or destroying an endangered ecosystem for a week’s worth of oil is not just destructive, but outdated and unnecessary.
Background info on KXL Pipeline:
The Keystone XL pipeline is a disastrous project of foreign oil companies that will do serious damage to our country and provide very little benefit. The spill-prone pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels a day of toxic tar sands bitumen, from the tar sands fields of Alberta, Canada, across our entire country — including hundreds of waterways and Nebraska’s Ogallala aquifer which is one of our most important sources of agricultural water – to the shipping ports of the Gulf Coast, where it would be exported to oil-hungry nations like China.
The project will lead to “essentially game over for the climate” according to NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen, because it will dramatically increase production in the Alberta tar sands, one of the largest pools of carbon on the planet. In May, our atmosphere crossed the threshold of 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time in millions of years, and the history of human life on earth. Keystone XL is the fuse to the carbon bomb of the tar sands – which we cannot afford to detonate in our atmosphere.
Because the pipeline crosses an international border, the decision to approve or reject Keystone XL is President Obama’s and his alone. The sham environmental assessment of Keystone XL is being overseen by President’s Obama State Department, through a corrupt process led by oil industry contractors. President Obama has the last word. We have launched the Pledge of Resistance to put pressure on President Obama to reject Keystone XL, and avoid being the target of the largest act of civil disobedience in American history.
The Keystone XL pipeline is a disastrous project of foreign oil companies that will do serious damage to our country and provide very little benefit. The spill-prone pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels a day of toxic tar sands bitumen, from the tar sands fields of Alberta, Canada, across our entire country — including hundreds of waterways and Nebraska’s Ogallala aquifer which is one of our most important sources of agricultural water – to the shipping ports of the Gulf Coast, where it would be exported to oil-hungry nations like China.
The project will lead to “essentially game over for the climate” according to NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen, because it will dramatically increase production in the Alberta tar sands, one of the largest pools of carbon on the planet. In May, our atmosphere crossed the threshold of 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time in millions of years, and the history of human life on earth. Keystone XL is the fuse to the carbon bomb of the tar sands – which we cannot afford to detonate in our atmosphere.
Because the pipeline crosses an international border, the decision to approve or reject Keystone XL is President Obama’s and his alone. The sham environmental assessment of Keystone XL is being overseen by President’s Obama State Department, through a corrupt process led by oil industry contractors. President Obama has the last word. We have launched the Pledge of Resistance to put pressure on President Obama to reject Keystone XL, and avoid being the target of the largest act of civil disobedience in American history.
– See more at: http://nokxl.org/whats-kxl/#sthash.w4qhUeTi.dpuf
The Keystone XL pipeline is a disastrous project of foreign oil companies that will do serious damage to our country and provide very little benefit. The spill-prone pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels a day of toxic tar sands bitumen, from the tar sands fields of Alberta, Canada, across our entire country — including hundreds of waterways and Nebraska’s Ogallala aquifer which is one of our most important sources of agricultural water – to the shipping ports of the Gulf Coast, where it would be exported to oil-hungry nations like China.
The project will lead to “essentially game over for the climate” according to NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen, because it will dramatically increase production in the Alberta tar sands, one of the largest pools of carbon on the planet. In May, our atmosphere crossed the threshold of 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time in millions of years, and the history of human life on earth. Keystone XL is the fuse to the carbon bomb of the tar sands – which we cannot afford to detonate in our atmosphere.
Because the pipeline crosses an international border, the decision to approve or reject Keystone XL is President Obama’s and his alone. The sham environmental assessment of Keystone XL is being overseen by President’s Obama State Department, through a corrupt process led by oil industry contractors. President Obama has the last word. We have launched the Pledge of Resistance to put pressure on President Obama to reject Keystone XL, and avoid being the target of the largest act of civil disobedience in American history.
– See more at: http://nokxl.org/whats-kxl/#sthash.w4qhUeTi.dpuf
The Keystone XL pipeline is a disastrous project of foreign oil companies that will do serious damage to our country and provide very little benefit. The spill-prone pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels a day of toxic tar sands bitumen, from the tar sands fields of Alberta, Canada, across our entire country — including hundreds of waterways and Nebraska’s Ogallala aquifer which is one of our most important sources of agricultural water – to the shipping ports of the Gulf Coast, where it would be exported to oil-hungry nations like China.
The project will lead to “essentially game over for the climate” according to NASA’s former chief climate scientist James Hansen, because it will dramatically increase production in the Alberta tar sands, one of the largest pools of carbon on the planet. In May, our atmosphere crossed the threshold of 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time in millions of years, and the history of human life on earth. Keystone XL is the fuse to the carbon bomb of the tar sands – which we cannot afford to detonate in our atmosphere.
Because the pipeline crosses an international border, the decision to approve or reject Keystone XL is President Obama’s and his alone. The sham environmental assessment of Keystone XL is being overseen by President’s Obama State Department, through a corrupt process led by oil industry contractors. President Obama has the last word. We have launched the Pledge of Resistance to put pressure on President Obama to reject Keystone XL, and avoid being the target of the largest act of civil disobedience in American history.
– See more at: http://nokxl.org/whats-kxl/#sthash.w4qhUeTi.dpuf