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Breaking Bad News: Keystone XL Pipeline
It's classic. Wait till late on a Friday to announce a reprehensible decision in hopes of minimizing the uproar in response. But the extreme climate crisis doesn't take weekends off. And neither do we.
A State Department report has just declared that the environmental impact of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would be acceptable. This clears a path for Secretary of State John Kerry to give his approval to the pipeline.
Click here to tell Kerry and President Obama we will not stand for this project moving forward!
Scientists agree with the assessment of James Hansen that exploitation of the tar sands would be a catastrophe for the climate. This is a planetary emergency -- and right now this is a political emergency.
"Significant impacts to most resources are not expected along the proposed Project route assuming the following," reads the State Department report, before listing a series of improbable assumptions.
No wonder they waited for Friday afternoon!
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Background:
U.S. State Department: Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
James Hansen: Game Over for the Planet