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Canadian PM Visit with Obama Stirs Dirty Energy Controversy
Media Releases | National Wildlife Federation | February 04, 2011
Washington, DC (February 4, 2011) – President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meet today and are expected to discuss imports of Canada’s dirty energy known as tar sands. The Prime Minister is seeking approval of a proposed meg-pipeline to vastly increase tar sands imports into the U.S. They are expected to hold a press availability at the White House at 3PM EST today.
A U.S. government decision on the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is probably only weeks away. The maligned project would lock the U.S. into decades of dirty tar sands oil from Canada. Tar sands emit far more pollution than conventional crude and its toxic tailings regularly kill wildlife.
Eighty-six environmental groups representing millions of Americans wrote the President today and urged him to reject the pipeline. (Read more on this and see the letter here).
National Wildlife Federation senior vice president Jeremy Symons said:
“Building this pipeline would double down on the most expensive and dirtiest oil on the planet. It would drain our economy of billions of dollars that could be used instead to create clean energy jobs here in America. Expensive and dirty tar sands oil is a wrong turn for America’s economy, our clean water, and our energy future.”
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Contact: Tony Iallonardo, 202-797-6612, iallonardot@nwf.org
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