For several days now, protesters have assembled outside the White House to express their opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. The proposed pipeline will carry toxic, corrosive bitumen from the tar sands and will stretch over 1,700 miles from Canada to Texas. There, it will be refined, primarily for export.
“Today I’m risking arrest to urge president Obama to be the leader that puts healing the planet and families over the interests of the fossil fuel industry.”
Here’s three reasons why the pipeline is truly idiotic and why I’m willing to get arrested to stop it.
Clean energy advocates, landowners, indigenous activists unite to say pipeline puts lives, environment and property in peril.
Oil sands are now Canada’s fastest-growing source of global warming pollution.
Bush’s proposal on oil doesn’t go far enough.