[BCNnet] Don't allow the deaths of 160 million birds - no sightings

Tue Aug 16 11:13:59 CDT 2011

I would like to affirm Donnie's message and the vital need for advocacy against this project.
 It's not just a threat to birds! 

The very real threat of leaks into the Ogallala Aquifer threatens the drinking water of the eight states that it underlies. Nebraskans have been in the forefront in sounding the alarm, not only because its Sandhills are a wildlife resource, (Sandhill Cranes!) but because the porous sandy soil is more vulnerable to spills. According to The National Wildlife Foundation, "[this project}... would pump one of the world's dirtiest fuels right 
through Nebraska and five other heartland states, putting the water that
 wildlife and communities rely on at risk of a toxic spill." 

<https://online.nwf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1361>

 Even Texans are assembling protests!  "You gotta be kidding!" one man in Tyler shouted when told that the 
36-inch pipeline would run hot, corrosive oil through buried steel pipes
 whose walls are less than half an inch thick.
(For full reference: <http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/24/nation/la-na-keystone-pipeline-20110124>)

I urge everyone to Google this project name for more info on the dangers of this project, and take the action that is suggested in Donnie's email.

Thanks,
Veronica Cook

--- On Tue, 8/16/11, Donnie Dann <donniebird at me.com> wrote:

From: Donnie Dann <donniebird at me.com>
Subject: [BCNnet] Don't allow the deaths of 160 million birds - no sightings
To: beebzz at yahoogroups.com, "Bcnnet Bcnnet" <bcnnet at ece.iit.edu>, "IBET" <ILbirds at yahoogroups.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2011,
 7:14 AM

Friend of birds:

I just sent this message from NRDC to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about this outrageous threat to North America's greatest songbird nursery. I thought you'd want to know about it. 

Donnie Dann
Highland Park/Lake County
donniebird at yahoo.com

The numbers are staggering: tar sands mining in Canada's Boreal forest could claim the lives of 160 million migratory birds -- including millions of backyard songbirds we love seeing and hearing every spring, summer, and fall.

Now, the oil giants want a new tar sands pipeline that would drive even more destruction of the Boreal and its songbird nursery -- unless we mobilize swiftly to stop it. 

Please send a message of protest to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who will soon determine whether this cross-border project is in
 America's national interest. She needs to hear from you immediately. Her department is rushing headlong toward approval of this environmental fiasco.

http://www.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2378

The Keystone XL pipeline would transport raw, toxic tar sands oil 2,000 miles -- from Alberta, Canada to refineries in Texas -- threatening fresh water for millions of American families. Its sister pipeline -- the Keystone One -- has already ruptured 12 times in its first year of operation!

The Keystone XL will double tar sands consumption in America, thereby doubling the devastation of Canada's Boreal forest and its songbird nursery. 

Four out of ten 'backyard birds' in America migrate to the Boreal to nest and rear their young. Where will those birds nest if their
 ancient forest
 home is obliterated to produce the world's dirtiest oil?

Barrel for barrel, the production of tar sands oil spews three times more global warming pollution than producing conventional oil. And transporting more of it to the U.S. won't even lower our gas prices; it will actually increase gas prices in the Midwest!

It's a plan only the oil industry could love, and only citizens can stop!

It's critical that hundreds of thousands of Americans direct their outrage at the State Department, which has never delivered the hard-hitting environmental review of the pipeline that Secretary of State Clinton promised.

http://www.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2378

It's beginning to look like 'the fix is in' and that Big Oil's interests will once again prevail over
 everyone else's
 unless there is a national outpouring of protest.

Make your own voice heard by telling Secretary Clinton to deliver the full review she promised and to reject the Keystone XL. 

http://www.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2378

The tar sands pipeline will destroy the Boreal, decimate songbird populations, turbo-charge global warming, raise gas prices and threaten to poison America's drinking water supplies.

Tell Secretary Clinton you're not willing to pay the high price for more tar sands oil!

Sincerely, 

Frances Beinecke 
President

P.S. After you send your message to Secretary Clinton, you'll have the opportunity to forward my message to people you know who should be alerted to this issue. Please be sure to help spread the word. Time is
 short. We can only
 stop the pipeline -- and save millions of songbirds -- if each of us helps mobilize a national outpouring of protest by reaching out to one or two other people.

Thank you. 

http://www.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2378

To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
http://www.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?s_oo=ddAVGuqvySYKYKaW1ryXXA..&id=2378 

Thanks for your help

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