Send a “Thank You” to President Obama for Rejecting the Keystone Pipeline

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Obama administration rejected the permit for the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline sought by Canadian oil firm TransCanada, determining that the project was not in the national interest.

President Obama listened to the American people and stood up to Big Oil by rejecting a critical permit for the tar sands pipeline. His game-changing decision represents a victory of historic proportions for hundreds of thousands of committed environmental activists who have waged an uphill, years-long fight against one of the most destructive fossil fuel projects of our time.

Get the facts on the Keystone Pipeline because knowledge is power.

1. Energy Security: Tar Sand will not Reduce Dependence on Foreign Oil
2. Gas prices: Keystone XL will increase gas prices for Americans—Especially Farmers
3. Jobs: TransCanada’s jobs projections are vastly inflated
4. Safety: A rupture in the Keystone XL pipeline could cause a BP style oil spill in America’s heartland, over the source of fresh drinking water for 2 million people. NASA’s top climate scientist says that fully developing the tar sands in Canada would mean “essentially game over” for the climate
5. Climate Change: Keystone XL is the fuse to North America’s biggest carbon bomb

Read a full report from Oil Change International showing that the purpose of the pipeline is to give Canadian tar sands producers access to international markets not to supply America with cheaper oil from a “friendlier government.”

Big Oil is sure to fight back and we are mobilizing the public to fend off new attempts in Congress to gain approval for the tar sands pipeline. As House Speaker John Boehner said “This is not the end of the fight. The Republicans in congress will continue to push this.”

I urge everyone concerned with the environment to send a “thank you” to President Obama for rejecting the Keystone Pipeline proposal, a project which would further harm the environment with absolutely no benefit to our country or our citizens.

Links to online thank you letters from environmental organizations:

Friends of the Earth

National Resources Defense Council

Sierra Club 

Endangered Species Coalition

Here are links to my articles on the Tar Sands Oil:

Tar Sands Oil Expansion Threatens North America’s Premier Bird Nesting Grounds

Birds At Risk: The Importance of Canada’s Boreal Wetlands and Waterways

Tar Sands Oil Development Could Claim More Than 160 Million Boreal Birds