Help stop a new plan to export oil from the Northwest

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From: "Marcie Keever, Friends of the Earth" <foe@foe.org>
Date: Nov 30, 2013 11:13 AM
Subject: Help stop a new plan to export oil from the Northwest
To: <aquarianm@gmail.com>
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Tell Wa. Gov. Inslee to reject Big Oil's plans to export oil through the Northwest.

Dear Daniel,

The Northwest is at a crossroads when it comes to dirty fossil fuel exports. We've already been fighting the massive proposals to export coal from the region, and now the oil companies are trying to get in on the game.

Right now the Columbia River is ground zero in the fight to protect our communities and the environment from dirty fossil fuel projects -- and we need your help.

Washington's governor Jay Inslee has the power to veto this project. Tell him to protect Northwest communities and our climate.

Tesoro Savage, a Big Oil partnership, wants to build a massive crude processing facility and send 360,000 barrels of crude oil per day along the Columbia River by rail and ship. That's at least four mile-and-a-half long trains every day and 365 oil tankers per year.

Even when these trains and ships operate without an accident, the pollution impact on local communities is tremendous. But with this number of oil-filled trains and ships traveling every day, devastating oil spills are all but inevitable.

That's why we need your help today: click here to tell Gov. Inslee to veto the Tesoro Savage crude oil project.

On their way to the Columbia River, oil trains would pass through downtown Spokane, the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Vancouver and more cities on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line, disrupting communities and their surrounding environments.

There is hope to stop this project: The Tesoro Savage terminal is so big and the scale of their proposed oil shipments is so large that the project now must obtain approval from Governor Insleee. The Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council will make a recommendation to the governor on the unprecedented project, after which the governor will make the final decision to deny or approve the terminal.

Help us send a strong message to Governor Inslee and EFSEC: reject Tesoro Savage's dirty oil project!

Please add your voice to the thousands of others saying "NO" to dirty fossil fuel exports. We can do better.

Sincerely,
Marcie Keever, Oceans and vessels program director,
Fred Felleman, NW consultant,
Friends of the Earth