[Occupymendocino] Reject Keystone XL, Promote Clean Energy

[Richard Karch]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/19458-president-obama-reject-keystone-xl-promote-clean-energy

President Obama: Reject Keystone XL, Promote Clean Energy
By Robert Redford, Reader Supported News
18 September 13
 
he Keystone XL and tar sands expansion have no place in a clean energy future

I can understand why oil companies love tar sands. There is a lot of money to be made by strip mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet.

The oil industry is lobbying hard for President Obama's approval to let the Keystone XL pipeline cross our border and move a river of tar sands to the Gulf Coast, where much of it will be shipped overseas. But why should the rest of us pay the price so that the oil companies can line their pockets?

Developing the Canadian tar sands is destroying our continent's great northern forest at a terrifying rate. It is producing enough carbon pollution to wreak havoc with our climate for decades to come. And the pipelines that carry this dirty fuel are a direct threat to our nation's own drinking water supplies... 


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/19458-president-obama-reject-keystone-xl-promote-clean-energy








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