The Alberta Tar Sands contains the world's second largest supply of oil.
The pipeline would bring 900,000 barrels of oil, daily, to the United States. This would double our reliance on oil (aren't we supposed to be moving AWAY from oil?)
The type of oil production here (Bitumen) is the dirtiest, most polluting oil production on Earth, producing three times more greenhouse gases than conventional oil production.
Tar Sands produces immense amounts of toxic water as a byproduct: 400 million gallons of toxic water PER DAY will be produced which contain highly toxic substances such as Cyanide.
Massive strip mining will be required: this will destroy much of Canada's Boreal Forest, one of the last remaining intact ecosystem on Earth -- itself a natural Carbon regulator.
(for more details see http://www.foe.org/sites/default/files/Tar%20Sands.pdf)
This surely is the worst possible time to introduce massive new quantities of fossil fuel into a world already reeling from weather mega-disasters.
President Obama must approve this project (the project does not require Congressional approval). Hundreds of protesters have gathered at the White House this week calling on Obama to reject the pipeline.
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