Received this e-mail today from climate hawk Senator Brian Schatz (D. HI) regarding President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and the Keystone XL Pipeline:
830,000 barrels of some of the world’s dirtiest oil.
In a sensible world, it shouldn’t be hard to decide whether it’s in our national interest to ship this oil from Canada’s tar sands across an environmentally sensitive aquifer to refineries in Texas port cities.
But Big Oil wants this project bad. So even though the pipeline that Keystone XL would expand leaked 14 times in its first year of operation and tar sands oil is one of the worst culprits for releasing carbon pollution that drives climate change, this project is still on the table.
On Friday, the State Department released its final report on the environmental impacts of the proposed pipeline. While serious conflict of interest concerns were raised over close ties between the contractor that wrote the report and TransCanada, the company seeking to build the pipeline, the report still leaves the door open on whether the State Department and President should approve or reject the project.
Join me to urge Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama to reject the dirty pipeline. The environmental costs of Keystone XL are simply too high.
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We already know more than enough to make the call. I believe that encouraging the exploitation of Canadian tar sands -- some of the world’s dirtiest oil -- is clearly not in America’s national interest.
Climate change is the challenge of our generation and we need to support clean energy solutions, not reward the producers of some of the dirtiest energy in the world.
The debate has gone on long enough. Sign my petition to urge Secretary Kerry and President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline and move forward with building a clean energy economy.
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Mahalo,
Brian Schatz
U.S. Senator
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