As many of you may know, the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline would export
heavy crude drawn from the tar sands in Alberta Province, Canada. While the
pipeline itself comes nowhere near Maryland or even the east coast, the
actual tar sands operations create a vast strip mine-like area, and destroys
the boreal forest in which our neotropic migrants nest. There are, of
course, other arguments against, e.g. climate change, risk to aquifiers,
but those are not directly germane to birding in MD. Destruction of the
boreal, however, is. So I am forwarding this alert from National Audubon.
If you read the below and are motivated to take action, click on this link.
Note that this is a PREVIEW site. You will need to click on Proceed to this
site. To get there, click on http://preview.tinyurl.com/buzpej2
Kurt Schwarz
Conservation Chair
Maryland Ornithological Society
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The State Department recently released their review of the Keystone XL tar
sands oil pipeline‹but the review is woefully inadequate, ignoring the
massive impacts from tar sands operations in Canada that are destroying
millions of acres of boreal forest so important to many of our songbirds.
The report further finds that building the pipeline will have little impact
on climate change‹even though the pipeline would increase emissions so much
it would be like adding 4.6 million cars to the roads.
Send your comments to the Obama Administration and urge a more comprehensive
review of the environmental impacts of the pipeline. You can send the sample
comment below, or edit it with your own words for even greater impact.
https://secure3.convio.net/nasaud/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserA
ction&id=1401&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr004=87p8qsdow6.app305a
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