The biggest tar sands pipeline *ever*
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 June 2014 12:20
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Friends,
Stephen Harper and Big Oil have gutted Canada’s environmental review process, cutting people's voices and climate science out of the National Energy Board review of TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline -- the largest tar sands pipeline ever proposed.
Click here to call for a Energy East review that is fair, open, and grounded in science.
PM Harper and Big Oil know they can only build this pipeline if they ignore the facts and ignore the people. That's why we're staging a People's Intervention to demand that climate science and people's voices be heard.
Be part of the Energy East People's Intervention.
Over 4,000 km long, TransCanada’s Energy East project would run from Alberta to New Brunswick, and could carry over 1 million barrels of tar sands crude to the Atlantic Ocean each day. Energy East would produce up to 32 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year, the same as adding 7 million... new cars to Canadian roads.
Last week, Harper appointed Peter Watson to head up the National Energy Board. Watson spent years working for the Alberta government to promote the tar sands, which gives you an idea about how he's approaching this project. We need to send him a message, loud and clear: without considering climate change and listening to people’s voices, any review of Energy East will be incomplete and illegitimate.
Click here to send your message to the National Energy Board.
Thank you for being part of the People's Intervention. Together, we can stop this thing.
Onward,
Cam Fenton
P.S. Yesterday, Stephen Harper approved the Northern Gateway pipeline, while championing the National Energy Board's decision on the project. This means that it's more important than ever for us to force climate and people's voices into this process. As Harper and Big Oil look east, it's time for the rest of us to come together to stop the Energy East pipeline.
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