PLEASE NOTE: NEXT WEEK, WE'LL BE ON AT A NEW AIRTIME: 2:30 PM ON MONDAYS FOLLOWING AL JAZEERA NEWS.
We will be joined by Jack Eidt of Tar Sands Action Southern California. Congressman Henry Waxman will also join us.
In the future the L.A. region may be burning tar sands oil. Why aren't we playing a role in creating alternatives to the current carbon-based industry instead?
A local group of activists from the Tar Sands Action - Southern California, based in Pasadena, are organizing folks in the L.A. area to fight the Keystone XL Pipeline.
A new documentary called Pipe Dreams has been made to build awareness about the situation. www.PipeDreamsDoc.com
The Congressional vote on the Keystone XL pipeline will take place next month. Congress is trying to fast-track approval of Keystone XL by attaching it to legislation extending unemployment benefits and the payroll-tax cut. This would impact L.A. County residents and business owners. The nation’s business groups are now dialing up the political pressure on the White House to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The White House has promised to reject the rushed Keystone XL pipeline permit, but business interests are responding by threatening 'huge political consequences.
More information: http://www.wilderutopia.com/environment/energy/tar-sands/tar-sands-keystone-xl-pipeline-activist-resources/
READ the report by Rep. Waxman, Rep. Edward J. Markey and Rep. Howard L. Berman asserting that the 112th U.S. Congress is the most anti-environmental House in the history of Congress:
http://tinyurl.com/6mqf4o7
LEARN more locally about the XL Pipeline
http://www.facebook.com/TarSandsActionLA
RESOURCES
Current Tar Sands Updates: http://j.mp/TSArticles
Tar Sands Resources: http://j.mp/TSResources
Progressive Christians Uniting: http://progressivechristiansuniting.org/file/Progressive_Christians_Uniting.html
ANTI-XL PIPELINE RALLY
February 4th, Noon at the Obama for America Office, learn more: http://www.facebook.com/TarSandsActionLA
PIPEDREAMS DOCUMENTARY by Leslie Iwerks
http://pipedreamsdoc.com/
CONTACT THE WHITE HOUSE and let them know your opinion about a clean energy economy and the Keystone XL Pipeline
President Barack Obama: barackobama.com/contact-us/ [scroll down to "other]
White House: (212) 456-1111
