Kathleen- Right now we face a massive expansion of the U.S. pipeline network. You know Trump fast-tracked Keystone XL and the Dakota Access pipelines — those are just the beginning. Other oil and gas pipelines are in the works that could violate human rights and threaten to destroy the environment, wildlife, and people's way of life. And these pipelines could dash our last hopes for a stable climate. Stopping the construction of pipelines, and investing in clean energy, is our only option if we're going to stop runaway climate change. Whether or not these pipelines are a direct threat to your community, more fossil fuel infrastructure is bad news for all of us. Please donate now to help Greenpeace fight back against tar sands pipelines and support all our programs to protect our climate and communities. More pipelines mean more spills — and that means contaminated water sources, the loss of people's land and livelihoods, and the suffering and death of wildlife. These dangerous pipelines are also in violation of Indigenous rights — taking the lands of tribal and First Nations and building pipelines without consent. We're working on every front to defeat pipelines and keep fossil fuels in the ground, but we won't get anywhere without you. Give today to power the resistance and support all our work to protect the environment! Here are just a few pipelines that are in the works: - The TransMountain pipeline is a tar sands oil pipeline headed towards the west coast of Canada. It would ship nearly 1 million barrels of the world's dirtiest crude oil per day. The TransMountain cuts across Alberta and British Columbia, and would make the waters of the Pacific Northwest an oil tanker superhighway.
- Spill-prone Enbridge just started construction on its Line 3 Replacement tar sands pipeline on both the Canadian and Wisconsin sides of Lake Superior.
- The Atlantic Coast and Mountain Valley pipelines would stretch from Marcellus Shale in West Virginia, bringing billions of cubic feet of natural gas through Virginia and (in the case of the Atlantic Coast pipeline) into North Carolina. In addition to the dangers of a natural gas explosion, a massive escalation in fracking and natural gas plants is a cost our climate can't afford.
These are just a few of the battles we face against the fossil fuel industry's attempts to invade, drill, and pollute our communities. Your support now will help us keep fighting on every front to protect people and the environment — pressuring big banks to defund pipeline projects, training activists in non-violent direct action, and bringing the truth about pipelines into the public eye through new reports. I hope we can count on you to stand with us and stand up for our communities and climate! Thank you, Vicky Wyatt Greenpeace USA P.S. Our rights, our water, our climate, the health of our communities and our whole planet are on the line. Please give now to support all of Greenpeace's work in this pivotal moment. |
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