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100+ Scientists and Economists Urge President Obama and Secretary Kerry to Reject Keystone XL
By The National Resources Defense Council
EcoWatch.com
More than 100 leading scientists and economists are calling on the Obama Administration to deny the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline because it will trigger massive development of the worlds dirtiest oil, and escalate climate change. They include Nobel Prize winners in physics and economics, and lead authors of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.
We urge you to reject the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline as a project that will contribute to climate change at a time when we should be doing all we can to put clean energy alternatives in place, the scientists and economists write in a letter sent today to President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry. The Keystone XL pipeline will drive expansion of the energy-intensive strip-mining and drilling of tar sands from under Canadas Boreal forest, increasing global carbon emissions. Keystone XL is a step in the wrong direction.
The letters timing is critical. In January, the U.S. State Department released a final Environmental Impact Statement on Keystone XL. Now the administration is formally considering whether the pipeline, aiming to pump tar sands oil from Canada mainly for export through the Gulf of Mexico, is in Americas national interest. A decision could be made in the next couple of months.
In their letter, the scientists and economists commend President Obama and Secretary Kerry for making strong commitments to fighting climate change. They call on them to turn down the proposed Keystone XL project because the incremental emissions alone could boost annual carbon pollution emissions by more than the output of seven coal-fired power plants. That would worsen climate change, making the project clearly not in the national interest, they write. The total emissions are far greater, and, as they write, are emissions that can and should be avoided with a transition to clean energy.
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Explain to me why the Keystone XL pipeline is a good thing. I'll wait.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,687 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)On second thought about the n/t...
"Explain to me why the Keystone XL pipeline is a good thing. I'll wait."
If you are a member of the US House or Senate and have invested in the project, it could be a very good thing for you indeed.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)It's a toss up.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Maybe I should have said the good and the bad because we know the "con's" love the pipeline (along with the "Team" .
So what is good about this pipeline? Ok, I'm stumped. Maybe the 10 minimum wage jobs created.
Oh yeah, the expensive oil will help us reduce our dependency on cheap oil. Actually this oil that will travel across the continental USofA will all go to China, except for what is spilled in the USofA.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)the rest of us, not so much.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)and TPP will be delayed to see which way the wind blows.
If Repugs take the Senate...then Penny Pritizger and Oil Lobby give us the "Keystone XL" and "TPP" Master Trade Agreement.
Even if we elect more and better DINO DEMS...it's a hard call as to how he will go on this...but if we can get better CANDIDATES RUNNING...then MAYBE ...we have a chance to stop both...or maybe the Progressive Dems go down...and Status Quo is the Operative.
Either way......... is what I'm thinking now...being in a very down mood.