Stop The Tar Sands Pipeline 11 06 2011

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Stop The Tar Sands Pipeline March and Documentary Film, 11/6

  • Date Sunday, November 6th, 2011
  • Time 12:00pm - 7:00pm
"Hands Around the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse"

On Nov. 6th we will have Portland's Version of Hands Around the White House that will be happening in Washington DC.

Hands Around the White House is a protest in objection to accepting the keystone pipeline through the heartland of the US. From tar sands to Texas. In keeping with Nov. 5th events (change your bank day), we would like to do Hands Around the Federal Building here in Portland, and we'll be talking about the tar sands.

Many of you probably know about the issue of the tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline. Most of us are here because we recognize fundamental issue around the system. These issues make people aware of how far system has failed. Some issues are directly about survival. The tar sands relates to ecological destruction. Tar sands in Canada is the most costly. for 1 gallon extracted, 4 gallons h20 polluted. Pipeline touches aquifers for 30% of agriculture in this country. the likelihood of leaking pipeline is 100%.

The issue is dark and it highlights how corrupt the system is because it's willing to fund this project, banks bailed out by taxpayer money and those banks are enabling destruction of the climate. This action is demanding President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which is proposed to be constructed from the Tar Sands oil fields of northern Alberta through America's Heartland to refineries near the Gulf of Mexico. The pipeline's construction raises extreme concerns about the oil companies' ability to push through catastrophic environmental damage.

There will also be a march to a nearby theater for a free viewing of the new documentary, Pipe Dreams. This is a film on the Keystone XL by Leslie Iwerks and is short-listed for an Academy Award nomination. The action will replicate DC's "Hands Around The White House".

Reference

The Tar Sands/ Keystone XL pipeline is one of the biggest looming disaster in North America, but most people have never heard of it. Please watch this 90 sec. video and this 4 minute video by Josh Fox, Academy Award nominated producer of Gasland. Dirty Oil, Dirty Air: Ottawa's broken pollution promise PLEASE INVITE EVERYONE YOU KNOW.

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