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CLIMATE ALERT! Protest Tar Sands Keystone XL Pipeline, Will Hasten Abrupt Climate Change and Foul Major Water Aquifer
Posted by Water Conservation Blog on August 12th, 2011
By ClimateArk, a project of Ecological Internet
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW!
The struggle over the Keystone XL pipeline which would run 1,500 miles from Alberta to Texas, extending the reach of Canada's filthy and addictive tar sands trade far into the United States may be the biggest environmental fight of the year. When Alberta, Canada's tar sands are fully developed, along with its vast proposed pipeline network, North America and much of the world will be further addicted to filthy, life destroying dirty energy for decades. Tar sand production and use is highly carbon intensive, and development of this and other filthy synthetic fossil fuels (and coal) may well push the planet into abrupt and runaway climate change. From August 20th September 3rd environmental groups are planning a peaceful protest in Washington DC to stop the pipeline as a step to defuse what they call the largest carbon bomb in North America. This is Ecological Internets affinity email protest, addressed to President Obama, the only person that can refuse pipeline permits.
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Comments Off on CLIMATE ALERT! Protest Tar Sands Keystone XL Pipeline, Will Hasten Abrupt Climate Change and Foul Major Water AquiferGreen Party to launch anti-fracking crusade
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 12th, 2011
Business Green: The Green Party is set to launch a major campaign against the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or "fracking", which is being increasingly used as a means of extracting shale gas.
The nationwide campaign will be launched during the party's autumn conference at Sheffield Hallam University in September and will claim that the technique is environmentally destructive and risks polluting the UK's water supply.
The UK government and MPs on the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee...