Original Author:
(James Rowen)
Add to those opposing the proposed pipeline to carry tar sand oil from Canada to Texas.
Unsustainable amounts of fresh water and energy are needed to extract and ship this heavy form of oil, but it appears as if the Obama administration is going to green light it.
And these pipelines have
a record of leaking and breaking, so running it over the nation's largest fresh water aquifer is really risky.
Bill McKibben: A Watershed Moment for Obama on Climate Change; White House Sit-Ins Start Today
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
Today, activists are gathering in front of the White House to urge President Obama to refuse to sign a certificate of national interest that's needed in order to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to cross the Canadian-U.S. border. The two-week protest will include sit-ins and other peaceful acts of civil disobedience. You can sign a petition to the President on this issue at the Stop the Tar Sands Pipeline action page. You can follow the action on the group's . President Obama alone can stop this horror. No Congressional action is required, so he has no excuses this time.
By Bill McKibben: Ain’t eBay grand? For $10 you can buy a sack of 50 assorted Obama ’08 buttons, and that’s what I’ve been doing. If you look closely, you might see them this weekend on the lapels of some of the global warming protesters holding a sit-in outside the White House.
Coal is what it is-VP candidates and coal
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Barack Obama shone some of his rays of hope on the climate movement. He named "serious" action on global warming as one of the benchmarks for success in his first term.
If I haven't gotten combat troops out of Iraq, passed universal health care and created a new energy policy that speaks to our dependence on foreign oil and deals seriously with global warming, then we've missed the boat.
In order to deal "seriously" with climate change, we need a moratorium on new coal plants. According to James Hansen, "it's just silly to build a new one now." And yet VP hopeful, our own Governor Tim Kaine, aggressively pushed for his and Dominion's coal plant in Wise County. As Gov. Kaine says on this video, "There are some who say that you can't build any new coal plants, and I don't agree with that."
James Hansen
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