The U.S. State Department just announced it will delay making a final decision on the tar sands Keystone XL pipeline.

Great news! The U.S. State Department just announced it will delay making a final decision on the tar sands Keystone XL pipeline. The Obama Administration will now conduct an entirely new environmental review of the project. We are confident that this time the Keystone XL pipeline will be rejected once the truth is made known about the ticking carbon time bomb that is the Alberta tar sands. 


The Keystone XL pipeline extension would subject many communities to the risk of oil spills of the kind we’ve recently seen in Montana and Michigan. The migratory pattern of birds will also be disrupted and acres of wetlands will be no more. The process of extracting oil from tar sands spews toxins into the air, contaminates ground water and destroys farmland. The refinement of these tar sands also produce up to twice as much greenhouse gas emissions as regular crude oil.
We don't need to import environmental disaster! It's time we break the dependance on fossil fuels and turn to developing a sustainable form of energy for the future. Send a note of thanks to the White House and ask them to ultimately reject this pipeline.
-- The Earth Day Network Team
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