03 Feb Letter to President Obama
Dear Mr. President,
“Two roads diverge in a woods.”
Never, Mr. President has this been truer than in considering the path to take regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline.
One road provides a few short-term construction jobs, a bunch of toxic bitumen and appeases an ally.
The other helps to insure that the dirtiest source of tar oil on the planet does not have a ready path to market and that more of it is kept in the ground of Alberta where it does not contribute to climate change.
The report on Secretary Kerry’s desk is said to be 11-volumnes thick – produced, we hear, by many people who have had close ties to TransCanada. It is a very long read, but I contend, a very short choice.
That tar oil is at least 17% more carbon intensive than other – now abundant – domestic sources of oil in Texas and North Dakota. The mining and processing of tar sands increases the risk of our climate warming out of control. The pipeline itself poses severe environmental risks as recent tar sands pipeline leaks have shown in both the United States and Canada.
Our road to a sustainable world and safer climate starts with the word, “No!”
For the sake of our climate – and my grand daughter, Alice, I hope to hear you say that word to TransCanada Corporation. All of our futures are at stake Mr. President.
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