Anybody Can Tell President Obama 2014-01-06

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Dear friends and supporters,

Happy New Year! Today, I sent Barack Obama the following message.

Please enjoy the attached pictorial essay from my friend, Canadian

author-activist Franke James. She offers a specific action: Send anemail from her website: http://www.frankejames.com/dear-obama/

I submitted a modified version of her template email online, and Iencourage you to send one also. Following is what I submitted here.The highlighted paragraphs are my additions.

Submitted at: http://whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

Also email Cc: Stephen Harper <[email protected]>,

Franke James <[email protected]>

Dear President Obama,

Canada must leave the tarsands in the ground.

You are approaching the day you will make a decision to deny or approvethe construction permit application for the Keystone XL (northern segmentterminating in Steele City, Nebraska), and I would like to remind you thatexcavating tarsands, transporting them as "dilbit" (diluted bitumen, refiningbitumen for export, and allowing it’s products to be distributed and burnedin international markets is CONTRAINDICATED, given the symptoms of thedamage we are wreaking on the health of our environment, humanity, andfuture generations who deserve to inherit a climate that supports andpromotes life.

Expanding the carbon-based infrastructure simply is the wrong thing to do.Every aspect of expansion is WRONG, given our understanding of the risks.

We need to start reducing the infrastructure, excavation and extraction,processing, distribution and burning of coal, gas, fuel oil, gasoline, diesel,kerosene and other fossil fuels; replacing them with carbon-free technologies.

Approving Keystone XL takes us the wrong way, deteriorating life.

Denying Keystone XL takes us the right way toward promoting life.

January 6, 2014

mailto:[email protected]

http://whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments

http://www.frankejames.com/dear-obama/













You said your approval of the Keystone XL hinges on whether it makescarbon pollution worse.

So, if by some weird, complex calculation you say the Keystone XL does not

'exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution' then whatever I do in my life-- or whatever ANYBODY else does -- cannot possibly make a difference.

We can scoff at Anybody who thinks they can fight climate changebecause...

- Approving the Keystone XL means... We can use as much dirty tar sandsoil as we want.

- Approving the Keystone XL means... We can drive the biggest gasguzzlers.

- Approving the Keystone XL means... We can waste energy heating ourmonster houses...

Huh? That can't be right?! President Obama that is the WRONG message.Our future depends on your leadership.

You need all of us working together to beat climate change.

We owe it to our children and our grandchildren...

See Franke James' Letter: http://www.frankejames.com/dear-obama/

As you said, "I refuse to condemn your generation and future generationsto a planet that's beyond fixing."

Please President Obama, live up to your own words. Say, NO to the

Keystone XL.

Sincerely,

Doug Grandt

Reference: http://www.frankejames.com/dear-obama/











































http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-won-t-take-no-for-an-answer-on-keystone-xl-1.1869439

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/harper-won-t-take-no-for-an-answer-on-keystone-xl-1.1869439



Silencing Scientists“There was trouble of this kind here in the George W. Bush years,

when scientists were asked to toe the party line on climate policy and

endangered species. But nothing came close to what is being done inCanada… This is more than an attack on academic freedom. It is anattempt to guarantee public ignorance.

It is also designed to make sure that nothing gets in the way of thenorthern resource rush — the feverish effort to mine the earth and theocean with little regard for environmental consequences. The Harperpolicy seems designed to make sure that the tar sands project proceedsquietly, with no surprises, no bad news, no alarms from government

scientists. To all the other kinds of pollution the tar sands will yield, we must now add another: the degradation of vital streams of researchand information.” New York Times Editorial by Verlyn Klinkenborg

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/silencing-scientists.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/silencing-scientists.html?_r=0













“If the Keystone XL is built, the State Department says it could spill morethan 100 times.”

“U.S. consumers are not likely to see any reduction in pump prices; afterall, the whole reason for building the Keystone XL is to raise the price thatproducers get paid.” 24/7 Wall Street

“Oil-sands developers are counting on Keystone XL to lift heavy crudeprices by connecting them to the world’s largest refining market in the GulfCoast as they double production by 2025.” Pipeline rejection could setprecedent

http://triblive.com/usworld/nation/5297692-74/girling-oil-sands#ixzz2oGAqn0ak




http://247wallst.com/energy-business/2013/11/29/kinder-morgan-ready-to-drive-final-nail-into-keystone-xl-coffin/

http://247wallst.com/energy-business/2013/11/29/kinder-morgan-ready-to-drive-final-nail-into-keystone-xl-coffin/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxqUXqPzog&noredirect=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rxqUXqPzog&noredirect=1









But if you approve the Keystone XL saying it doesnot ‘exacerbate carbon pollution’ then…

















Visual Essay Credits

“What could Anybody tell President Obama about the Keystone XL?” © 2013Franke James; All writing, photography and illustration by Franke James (with

exceptions and details here). Photos of the bus shelters in Washington, DC by Logan Mock-Bunting.

Special thanks to my Indiegogo ‘Banned on the Hill’ supporters, the NRDC,Sierra Club and National Wildlife for their support of my Oh No Canada! artshow in Washington, DC.

Key Sources

Dirty truth screen: “Canada is the Dirty Old Man” Bus shelter poster by FrankeJames. Guardian UK Dirty Old Man quote. Photo of shelter and people by

Logan Mock-Bunting. Oh No Canada! art show in Washington, DC.

Statistic: Producing Tar Sands Oil is up to 350% dirtier than conventional oil .FAIL: How the Keystone XL Tar Sands PipeLine Flunks the Climate TestPage 6: “extracting and upgrading oil from tar sands can be as much as 4.5times more greenhouse-gas-intensive than oil from other conventional northamerican crude sources.”

Stockman, Lorne. “Petroleum coke: The Coal Hiding in the tar sands.” Oil Change International. January 2013.Page 3: “It is a well established fact that full exploitation of the tar sands is agrave threat to the climate. Emissions from tar sands extraction and upgradingare between 3.2 and 4.5 times higher than the equivalent emissions fromconventional oil produced in north america.”

Copyright 2013 Franke James. All rights reserved.

Oh No Canada! show in Washington, D.C.

See the Oh No Canada! show in Washington, D.C. which ran from October toDecember 2013 thanks to Indiegogo ‘Banned on the Hill’ supporters, the NRDC,Sierra Club and National Wildlife.



http://sierraclub.org/

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http://www.nrdc.org/

http://www.ohnocanada.com/

http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2013/01/OCI.Petcoke.FINALSCREEN.pdf

https://content.sierraclub.org/beyondoil/sites/content.sierraclub.org.beyondoil/files/documents/kxl-climate-report.pdf



http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/nov/30/countries-to-watch


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