Dear Friends:
This is an urgent
message!!!!!
Lawmakers on
Tuesday night agreed to end a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports as a
condition of the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending and taxation bill,
paving the way for a dramatic increase in drilling, fracking, and carbon
emissions.
This GOP sponsored legislation comes just days after the COP21 climate talks in Paris. It threatens to undo much of the progress
to address climate change made at the United Nations-brokered
negotiations.
Among other environmentally
damaging impacts, lifting the ban would
VASTLY increase fracking,
frack-sand mining, and exploding oil trains:
- huge increase in pressure to mine frack sand
- more exploding oil cars s every day
- 3.3 million more barrels of oil every day
- 7,600 new fracking wells every year
- 135 more coal-fired plants
- 100 square miles of land each year lost to drilling
- export ban lifted in exchange for extended solar/wind tax credits for only 5 years.
- even if we lose, the more pressure we bring to bear (mostly on Democrats) now, the easier our work will be in the coming months to pressure Obama to declare nat’l environmental emergency, which allows him to reinsert the ban for one year.
This is NOT a done-deal, despite
what the media says. .
Please CALL your US
senator, congressperson, and the President, and tell them they must NOT vote for
this bill.
- U.S. Senator 202-224-3121
- Congressman 202-224-3121
- President Obama 202-456-1111 or www.whitehouse.gov
Please
join Environmental and Climate Action Groups all over the country in a fast
lobbying response to defeat this very bad
legislation.
Thank
you.
Ken Tschumper
1640 Tschumper Rd,
La Crescent MN. 55947
507-894-4248
ktschump@acegroup.cc
1640 Tschumper Rd,
La Crescent MN. 55947
507-894-4248
ktschump@acegroup.cc
