Just sharing this with you from the Sierra Club. A small physical action we can take in relation to Healing Our Waters...
Another million gallons of crude oil spilled into fragile waters - not in the Gulf this time but in Michigan.
Can you believe it?
Last week a tar sands pipeline spilled toxic oil into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan contaminating 30 miles of waterways and forcing residents to evacuate the area.
Yet, despite all this, the Obama Administration is considering permitting a massive new tar sands pipeline called Keystone XL that will use thinner, cheaper steel while snaking from Canada down through the Heartland to the Gulf Coast.
Send President Obama a message via email, Facebook or even Twitter - tell him that permitting another tar sands pipeline is unacceptable.
Like BP, Enbridge, the company responsible for the Michigan oil spill, has constantly assured our government and citizens that its operations are safe; yet this company alone has been responsible for over 600 spills in the last ten years.
The Keystone XL pipeline threatens American water, air, and farmland.
The pipeline will cross the Ogallala Aquifer which supplies one third of all agricultural water used in this country as well as the drinking water to eight states. Furthermore, the pipeline will lead to expanded air pollution in Texas.
Tell President Obama that increasing our dependence on tar sands oil is dangerous for our communities and does not lead us to toward a clean energy future.
It's time to end our toxic and dangerous addiction to oil and say no to new tar sands pipelines.
Thanks for all that you do to protect our environment,
Bruce Nilles Deputy Conservation Director, Sierra Club
Take Action ~ http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=NoKeystone&autologin=true&s_src=210HCOAN01
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4 comments:
This is too much. Of course I want to take action. I don't want us destroying it all. I want there to be something left for my children's children.
Mary
I hate to sound paranoid, but I'm beginning to think that it's the politicians ply to actually contaminate all our drinking waters so that they can regulate it like they do the gasoline...it's like a horror movie!
All things considered, I hope you are doing well, Akasa, and enjoying your summer in spite of it all. I've been riding out the heat and going out when I can, but I know my boy is getting so bored just sleeping and looking at me. Tomorrow he's getting a chest x-ray to see about his heart. Pekingese are predisposed to congestive heart failure and since he's pushing 13, we want to take precautions! I love that dog so much - it's scary!
Take care, my friend, and God bless us all!
Doris and the Gizz :-)
Terrible sister.I don't think anonymous is far off.I tend to wonder myself at times about this fact. Love you Sister of light.
the thing that is even more scary is the many things that go on... on a daily basis that most of us hear nothing about...
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