Tell the State Dept: Keystone XL is NOT in our national interest

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From: "Elijah Zarlin, CREDO Action" <act@credoaction.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2014 9:05 AM
Subject: Tell the State Dept: Keystone XL is NOT in our national interest
To: "Daniel A. Stafford" <aquarianm@gmail.com>
Cc:

Take action: The final comment period to oppose Keystone XL

This is our final opportunity to officially weigh in on the Obama administration's Keystone XL decision. We need an overwhelming response to send the message that Keystone XL is not in our national interest.

Submit a public comment:

Dear Daniel,

It's here: the final comment period before a final decision on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

This is our last opportunity to officially weigh in on the decision.

The Chamber of Commerce, American Petroleum Institute and pro-tar sands front groups are pulling out all the stops, including sending misleading robo-calls to citizens in pipeline states to manufacture comments in support of the project.

If we want to defeat Keystone XL, we need to do more than just beat their response: We need to crush it.

Submit a comment right now to send the message that the "game over for the climate" Keystone XL pipeline is NOT in our national interest.

The release of the State Department's Final Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) at the end of last month starts a crucial three month sprint in this fight, including this 30 day public comment period, and the National Interest Determination process during which other agencies have 90 days to submit comments to the State Department.

This is John Kerry's moment to step up and be a leader for the climate by making a recommendation to the president that Keystone XL is NOT in our national interest.

Even the oil-industry written, sham FSEIS couldn't deny that Keystone XL does have an impact on carbon pollution.

But it's up to us to make clear that Keystone XL fails the president's climate test, and he simply cannot lead on climate unless he rejects it.

Submit your comment: Keystone XL is not in our national interest.

The sham environmental analysis doesn't take a position on national interest - but it does cynically rest on the fatalistic (and false) assumption that the tar sands oil will be extracted and burned regardless of what we do. ¹

In fact, every scenario considered in the environmental analysis assumes that the U.S. fails to hit the president's own climate change goal of reducing U.S. carbon emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 (a goal that should be far stronger to address the current climate crisis).

That's as clear a sign as any that the FSEIS was an oil-industry-fueled hatchet job, designed to pave the way for a catastrophic expansion of fossil fuels. And that if President Obama is serious about his emissions target and Climate Action Plan, he doesn't have an inch of wiggle room to approve Keystone XL.

The environmental community submitted more than 1.2 million comments on the draft environmental analysis last year opposing Keystone XL. If ever there was a time to go even bigger, this is it.

Submit your comment before the deadline: Keystone XL is not in our national interest.

Thanks for fighting Keystone XL.

Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action from Working Assets

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Learn more about this campaign

1. "Keystone XL will significantly increase oil industry investment in the tar sands," NRDC, 2/11/14