ACTION ALERT PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Urge President Obama to Say No to Filthy Canadian Tar Sands
By Ecological Internet's Climate Ark & Forests.org projects http://www.climateark.org/ and http://forests.org/ February 5, 2009 TAKE ACTION HERE NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=obama_tar_sands Canadian government wants special treatment for the world's dirtiest oil. In first overseas trip, President Obama must stand strong on clean energy and sufficient climate policies. BRIEF BACKGROUND: On February 19, President Obama travels to Canada on his first presidential visit abroad, where he will face pressure from the Government of Canada to support production of Alberta tar sands oil. Called oil sands by proponents, tar sands are the very dirtiest of fossil fuels. Producing oil from tar sands emits three times the global warming pollution as conventional oil, requires excessive amounts of energy and fresh water, and destroys huge swaths of ancient boreal forest. President Barack Obama must be strongly encouraged to stand strong on his new energy economy agenda and commitment to urgently address climate change, and reject entreaties from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to shelter the dirtiest oil on Earth from global warming regulation. Let the President know how seriously you take climate change, urging him to reject tar sands and support further immediate urgent action in pursuit of sufficient climate change policies. TAKE ACTION NOW: http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=obama_tar_sands DISCUSS THIS ALERT: http://www.climateark.org/blog/2009/02/alert-urge-president-obama-to.asp --- You are subscribed to ecological_internet as [email protected]. Before unsubscribing, please consider modifying your list profile at: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/[email protected] To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [email protected] Or click here: http://email.ecoearth.info:81/u?id=84041H&n=T&c=F&l=ecological_internet To subscribe visit: http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
