State Dept. Issues EIS for Massive Tar Sands Pipeline
Statement of Sierra Club Dirty Fuels Campaign Coordinator Kate Colarulli

State Dept. Releases EIS  Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline
Pipeline to Carry World's Dirtiest Oil into U.S.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

April 9, 2010

Washington, D.C. - Today, the Department of State released its Draft
Environmental Impact Statement for a massive pipeline designed to carry tar
sands oil from Canada into the United States. Environmental groups have
opposed the pipeline due to impacts on local communities as well as the
pipeline's contribution to the deforestation, water pollution, and global
warming caused by tar sands operations in Alberta. Publication of the DEIS
opens a public comment period, and Sierra Club and other groups will be
asking members and supporters to contact the State Dept. to urge officials
not to approve the destructive project.

A summary of the DEIS is available here:
http://www.keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/clientsite/keystonexl.nsf?Open


Statement of Sierra Club Dirty Fuels Campaign Coordinator Kate Colarulli


The State Department would be making an enormous mistake to allow this
pipeline to move forward.

The global warming pollution from this project is staggering. Building this
one pipeline would be the equivalent of putting 6 million new cars on the
road. Any analysis of environmental impacts must take the pipeline's global
warming impact into account.

We've urged the State Department to reject permit applications for the
project, based on concerns about water contamination, toxic waste,
deforestation, and global warming pollution from tar sands operations.

The tar sands oil this pipeline would carry into the U.S. is the dirtiest
form of oil in the world. It requires clear-cutting ancient forests, sucking
up water supplies and leaving behind toxic lakes so big they can be seen
from space.

Allowing the pipeline into the U.S. would represent a giant step backwards,
right when our nation is poised to become a leader in the global clean
energy economy.

We urge the Obama administration to use this opportunity to consider the
full impacts of this pipeline, which will lock us into a dirty energy
infrastructure for decades to come.

For more information, visit:
http://connect.sierraclub.org/post/Groups/Say_No_to_Tar_Sands/blog/public_notice_dirties_oil_on_earth_may_soon_come_to_a_gas_st.html?cons_id=&ts=1270853994&signature=46096eb9fcac2b4452076509cb5c0533

Kristina Johnson
Deputy Press Secretary
Sierra Club
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