Keystone Pipeline | Be a Seed for Change

What would you do if an oil company was planning to build a pipeline through your back yard?

For me, that question is a very real one. Four years ago, I discovered survey crews trespassing on my land East Texas, staking out a path for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.

That’s where my journey to stop this pipeline began. Since then I’ve organized other landowners, lobbied lawmakers and petitioned banks to halt financing for Keystone XL, and now I’m hitting the road.

Follow the Stop The Pipeline Tour from August 20-September 3, as fellow landowners and I wind along the proposed pipeline route to share our story and the potential effects of Keystone XL. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S0MiVnDFmfgiNwQvKiH%2B13ZA%2B2vgGlYH

The Stop The Pipeline Tour will take us to meet with concerned citizens, debate TransCanada face-to-face, visit the Kalamazoo oil spill site, and educate the public before heading east to Washington D.C. for the massive Tar Sands Action with Bill McKibben, Danny Glover, Mark Ruffalo, Naomi Klein, Clayton Thomas-Muller, students, scientists, climate activists and more.

We are standing up to defend our rights and oppose this dangerous pipeline. We want water that’s safe to drink, land that’s fit for our families, and a way of life free from the threats and harassment from corporate oil thugs.

Please stand with us! If you can’t join us in D.C., sign and share this petition telling President Obama to block the Keystone XL. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=S0MiVnDFmfgiNwQvKiH%2B13ZA%2B2vgGlYH

Within the next four months, the U.S. State Department and President Obama will decide whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline that would pump nearly one million barrels of toxic tar sands oil per day through pristine rural landscape that I, and thousands more, call home.

Help us protect our home. The struggle we face is one that all of us must win, as oil and natural gas companies get more desperate for product by the day and turn their sites on the next unsuspecting community.

Sincerely

David Daniel
Stop Tarsands Tour

With the movement for clean energy growing stronger every day, the last thing we need is more oil pipelines. Especially when those pipelines are filled with oil from Canada’s dirty tar sands.

Citigroup doesn’t see it that way. Since 2008 Citi has raised more than $14 billion for the pipeline industry—more than any other bank. One of Citi’s biggest clients in the sector is TransCanada—the same company now proposing the infamous KeystoneXL pipeline to connect Canada’s tar sands to Gulf Coast oil refineries.

Guess what though? You can change the way bankers do business, even at Citi, just by connecting one-on-one to share your concerns.

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=N3%2FV7gtTEeaYPOhQN40e2%2BxsQktoNWGN

Make a difference in all of our futures by picking up the phone today and calling a Citi banker.

This is no email petition, we’re actually putting you on the phone with the bankers who need to know about Citi’s financing of fossil fuels so they can help Citi change course. http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3fOkJ%2FhFUlOnsTh8BH%2FJrZeWKDLLHRA3

The KeystoneXL pipeline would more than triple oil imports from the tar sands—effectively erasing the benefits of fuel efficiency standard s designed to break our crippling addiction to oil. Citi should clearly be financing our clean energy future, not outdated carbon-intensive fossil fuels.

Help us contact more than 2000 Citi employees today and enlist them in creating our clean energy future. It’ll make you feel great!

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JuxK4HRNsPJ%2BM3IrjlVbEZeWKDLLHRA3

For the future,

Brant Olson

Freedom From Oil Campaign Director