Fwd: Last chance for public comment on Keystone XL
From: Scott Jackson (sjackzen46gmail.com)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:36:55 -0800 (PST)
Here's a timely reminder from 350.org: if you haven't already submitted a
comment on the Keystone XL pipeline, the time is now. Thanks.

Scott Jackson
sjackzen46 [at] gmail.com


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From: May Boeve - 350.org <350 [at] 350.org>
Date: Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:07 PM
Subject: Last chance for public comment on Keystone XL
To: Scott Jackson <sjackzen46 [at] gmail.com>


 Friends,

Right now we are in the middle of the last public comment period for
Keystone XL -- one of the very last steps before President Obama makes his
decision on the pipeline, and the final opportunity to give your input (in
an official way).

This is one of those things where numbers really count, and a flood of
comments would show the President that there's a huge risk, politically and
scientifically, to approving the pipeline.


*The last time the State Department was accepting comments, we submitted
over 1 million as a movement. I think we can top that this time around --
click here to submit your comment against the pipeline:
act.350.org/letter/kxl-feis/
<http://act.350.org/go/4693?t=1&akid=4210.1105958.mft8gh> *

*Here are the three major messages we need to be getting across to
President Obama right now:*

*First, he has all the evidence he needs to stop the pipeline.* It's
simple: building an 830,000 barrel-per-day pipeline of the world's dirtiest
oil will have an impact on the climate. No amount of spin can change the
underlying economic reality that Keystone XL will allow big oil to dig up,
refine and burn more tar sands than they could with any other available
options.

We take the President at his word when he said that he would reject the
pipeline if it has a significant impact on the climate, and now the
evidence is in: it does.

*Second, any effort to build the pipeline would be deeply compromised by
big oil's corruption of the process.* ERM, one of the main contractors
behind the State Department's report, is a dues paying member of the
American Petroleum Institute, big oil's main lobbying group, and counts
TransCanada as one of their clients. This is like the fox guarding the
henhouse, only it's our climate that needs defending.

*Third, we can either have Keystone XL, or a safe and livable climate --
'all of the above' is not an option.* We are past the point of building
fossil fuel infrastructure and hoping for the best -- Keystone XL isn't
compatible with even the President's weak climate goals. After 6 years of
supporting more fossil fuel projects while saying he's committed to climate
science, President Obama needs to finally decide if he wants to be a
climate champion, or be remembered as the pipeline president.

This is the last chance to formally comment on the pipeline before it goes
to the President's desk for a decision. *We'll keep making ourselves heard
in many other ways too -- but I think sending a strong message in this
forum is critical to showing the President that the science is serious, and
that we're serious too.*

*Here's where to go to submit: act.350.org/letter/kxl-feis/
<http://act.350.org/go/4693?t=2&akid=4210.1105958.mft8gh>*

Let's send this message loud and clear,

May
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