The coalition against the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline has been steadily growing, adding heavy hitters like NASA scientists James Hansen. Now actor David Stathairn has stepped into the movement, encouraging people to join the November 6th protest at the White House.
Keystone XL is a proposed 1,700 mile pipeline that will bring carbon and water-intensive crude from the tar sands in Alberta to refineries in Texas. Opponents have been outraged by the perceived political influence that the pipeline builder, TransCanada, has had on the approval process at the State Department. Along with a couple key Administration officials being involved in promoting the pipeline, news broke recently that the agency’s environmental review was outsourced to a TransCanada contractor.
“President Obama ran for office speaking of the fossil fuel addiction, promising to fight climate change and full embrace a clean energy future. The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is a dangerous step away from that commitment,” says Strathairn.
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Occupy Wall Street, the Occupy Movement, and November 6
First, bravo — BRAVO! — to David Strathairn. I’ve always loved his performances — in ‘Good Night and Good Luck’, in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, and others — but now I’ll watch them in an even more favorable light, knowing that he’s a guy that will speak out and stand up for what’s right. Bravo! We need more like him. Thanks David!
On a related note: Wouldn’t it be great if the Occupy Wall Street folks, and the Occupy movement folks around the country, all focused on November 6 on sending the strong message to President Obama that he must say NO to Keystone XL! Not only in Washington, but around the country! That message fits the deeply valid Occupy Wall Street message all around: it demands responsible action; it calls for action that’s responsible to the people, not submissive to big corporate interests; it calls for environmental responsibility; and so forth. I hope that the informal Occupy councils around the country consider this and do something big on November 6 and also on other days as the big Keystone XL decision approaches.
Thanks again to David Strathairn.
Be Well,
Jeff
A great message and call to citizens. It would be great to stop the XL, that would at least slow the Alberta tar sands exploitation – till we can make the oil from there unprofitable to exploit or just stop it from happening.
Its important to remember that the Obama Administration approved the first two huge Alberta tar sands pipelines to the United States in June and August of 2009 and they are already in operation (Keystone 1 and the Alberta Clipper) – i.e. President Obama already sold us out on the Alberta tar sands exploitation issue.
Keystone 1 (just a little less capacity than the XL expansion) currently supplies the US with about 10% of its imported oil with the dirtiest oil on earth – give’s a Prius a CO2 emission profile of a Hummer.
Hopefully the XL expansion can be stopped, but this train (tar sand exploitation) left the station two years ago, courtesy of President Obama.
Obama serving the corporate interests above all else. Who would have thought it possible?
He gave everything Wall Street needed and also the Insurance Companies with his “health plan”
Indeed.
Not many thought that back in 2008. I would have laughed at anyone who said we’d be where we are today (climate change action wise and administration corporate corruption wise) after the election in Nov. 2008.
On election night 2008, Ralph Nader, when asked his opinion of the prospects of an Obama Presidency said ‘Prepare to be disappointed’. A good, general, rule of thumb, as no-one not entirely in the pocket of Big Business ever gets near the throne, but even more appropriate given Obama’s record. The Hope Fiends were conned, because they wanted to believe in the capacity of a hopelessly corrupt and venal system to deliver justice and decency. Squaring this circle is never going to happen. Not ever.
Please share this letter.
Tar sands
http://oilsandstruth.org/peak-everything-0