On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Robert Naiman <[email protected] > wrote:
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Duncan Meisel - 350.org <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 5:35 PM > Subject: President Obama is talking about rejecting Keystone XL > To: Robert Naiman <[email protected]> > > > Friends, > > *In the past week, President Obama has delivered some straight talk on > Keystone XL:* > > "I meant what I said; I'm going to evaluate this based on whether or not > this is going to significantly contribute to carbon in our atmosphere." > > "That oil is going to be piped down to the Gulf to be sold on the world > oil markets, so it does not bring down gas prices here in the United > States." > > "Putting all your eggs in the basket of an oil pipeline that may only > create about 50 permanent jobs ... isn’t a jobs plan." > > Well it is good rhetoric. And it does represent a change in rhetoric. So you are absolutely right to forward a quote saying this is a response to pressure by a lot of people doing a lot of good work. (And you are one of those people). Just a reminder, not so much to you as to anyone reading this. Rhetoric is not necessarily reality, and we need to keep the pressure up. Also David Roberts, who is a long-time Obama enthusiast, and has some skill in Obama parsing fears that what this really means is that Obama intends to approve the pipeline, but do some equivalent of offsets - get some concessions in return for doing so. > Wow. > > These comments are the result of years of relentless organizing by folks > across the country (and the world) to put pressure on the President. More > than 1400 people have been arrested, including some last week, and tens of > thousands more have taken to the streets in protests against the pipeline. > > *In fact, since March, President Obama and his closest advisers have been > met by #noKXL protests at 30 different events -- from Washington, DC to > Warrensburg, Missouri to Cape Town, South Africa.* Each time the message > is simple: keeping your promises on climate change means standing up to the > tar sands and stopping Keystone XL. > > *To see updates from all the Rapid Response Team events, you can click > here: > organizing-for-our-future.tumblr.com<http://act.350.org/go/3530?t=1&akid=3409.572422.7_YWyA>-- > these folks deserve thanks for bringing the message right to the > President and his team.* > > ** > > And it looks like the message might be getting through. While he is still > giving himself some wiggle room to approve the pipeline (and Big Oil > continues to beat their chest and insist it *will* be approved), there is > far, far less wiggle room now than there was even a week or two ago.* If > he's at all honest about his climate test, there is no way he can approve > the pipeline.* > > *Every independent analysis of the pipeline -- unlike the State > Department's big oil-tainted assessment -- has reached the obvious > conclusion that building an 830,000 barrel per day pipeline carrying the > world's dirtiest oil will be bad for the climate.* Even if Canada said > they wanted to clean up their mess, it wouldn't be enough: the government > of Alberta enforces its environmental laws less than 1% of the time, > meaning that the only climate-safe tar sands is the stuff that stays in the > ground. > > When I first read President Obama's statements about Keystone in his > climate address last month, I didn't know what to think. On the one hand, > nothing changed: he gave himself room to OK the pipeline, and we need to > keep pushing. But on the other, it's stunning progress. ** > > *President Obama is talking openly about rejecting Keystone XL. Two years > ago, no one thought that could happen, and it only is because we pushed, > and continue to push.* > > Next week Bill McKibben and the rest of the 350.org Keystone team will be > in touch with ideas for the next leg of this fight -- but for now, I think > it's worth just appreciating how far we've come. We've had plenty of > setbacks -- such as the fast-tracking of the Southern segment of the > pipeline -- but together we're showing how to fight, and maybe, possibly, > against hope, win something big. > > Let's keep going, > > Duncan > > P.S. There will be a full report back from the Summer Heat wave of mass > actions against fossil fuels coming next week after all the actions wrap > up, but for now I'll let the pictures do the talking. All this happened > last weekend in (from top left) Massachusetts, the Columbia River, Ohio, > Utah and Washington DC: > > <http://act.350.org/go/3531?t=2&akid=3409.572422.7_YWyA> > > > ------------------------------ > 350.org is building a global movement to solve the climate crisis. > Connect with us on Facebook <http://facebook.com/350.org> and > Twitter<http://twitter.com/350>, > and sign up for email alerts<http://350.org/signup?akid=3409.572422.7_YWyA>. > You can help power our work by getting involved locally, sharing your > story <http://local.350.org/stories/?akid=3409.572422.7_YWyA>, and donating > here. <http://350.org/donate?akid=3409.572422.7_YWyA> * > > To stop receiving emails from 350.org, click > here.<http://act.350.org/cms/unsubscribe/unsubscribe/?t=3&akid=3409.572422.7_YWyA> > * > > > > -- > Robert Naiman > Policy Director > Just Foreign Policy > www.justforeignpolicy.org > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow Solving the Climate Crisis web page: SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com Grist Blog: http://grist.org/author/gar-lipow/ Online technical reference: http://www.nohairshirts.com
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