Environmental Activist Keystone XL Pipeline should be declined ! Keep a lock on the tars sands and help open the door to more investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency! Elif B, Mahiya C, Ayman T, AND Tahsim S

What is Keystone XL Pipeline? The Keystone XL Pipeline is a pipeline proposal that would transport crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to Texas.

When was the very last time you cared about the environment? If so, do you listen to the news daily? Have you heard about the keystone XL pipeline and the Tar Sands? If not, allow me now to inform you at this time “Keystone XL is not the right choice for the environment”.

On behalf, of the Environmental Activist Association, We,Elif,Mahiya,Ayman and myself Tahsim oppose the construction of TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline. We have been protesting its construction outside the white house for two weeks.

Environmental Activist Point of View ! We are against TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline because of the devastating impacts it will have on our society. The Tar Sands oil intimidates... ●the air we breath ●water we drink ●the land we live on ●the economy of our union ●and it will cause a dangerously high upsurge in greenhouse gases emissions

Health Issues for Aboriginals and wildlife. Excepting the Keystone XL pipeline will cause health issues for the first nations located downstream from the tar sands and its also causing problems for the wildlife. We need to decrease the impact of tar sands not in increase it.

Environmental and Health Issues Heavy metal pollution is growing concern for the communities downstream from the tar sands in which are experiencing high cancer rates. The tar sands are natural resources that are underground but when we bring it out onto the surface, the fumes of the heat separate the sand and oil affects the air, the people and wildlife.

Health Impacts of aboriginal people in the Region. An estimation 23,000 Aboriginal people live near Alberta’s oil sands. On February 2009 Alberta Health services’ cancer surveillance confirmed only two cases of cholangiocarcinoma, which is a rare form of cancer. Alberta health and wellness, Alberta Health service, Health Canada and Alberta Aboriginal Relations met with members of the community to get better understanding of their health concerns.

Tar sands affecting Wildlife and Environment. The tar sands doesn’t only affect the people but also ruin the forests, rivers and wetlands. Destroying the ecosystem and reducing the amount of habitat of the wildlife species. It puts major population of caribou, songbirds and fish at risk of extinction!

What about the wildlife? Tailing pools are created to store the waste product, after most of the oil is removed from the bitumen. these lakes will eventually cover about 100 square kilometres. They are DEATH traps for birds landing in them, 500 ducks died after landing in Syncrude tailings pond in spring 2008!

dangers to come ahead -The Keystone XL pipeline(if built)could contaminate the Carrizo wilcox aquifer, which supplies drinking water to approximately 12 million people across 60 Countries in Eastern Texas.

The real amount of jobs that will be “born” - The keystone XL pipeline will create harmful impacts on our environment. Yes, it’ll create many jobs but they will not sustain for long. The jobs formed will only be there until the process of the pipeline being built is over, after that only jobs will be here to stay. So, what are we left with? still a huge amount of unemployment and a damaged planet!!!

WHAT DO YOU MEAN JOBS need evidence that theres only going to be a few permanent jobs, then look at this graph.

As you know the Ogallala Aquifer is one of the world’s largest Aquifers and fresh water sources for the United States. TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline would cross the yellowstone river, as well as the Ogallala, and the Carrizo wilcox aquifer. Don’t Spill Your Oil- On Our Soil

All pipelines spill. According to TransCanada the Keystone XL pipeline was predicted to spill once every seven years. It spilled 12 times in its first year and it has spilled more than 30 times over its lifetime. The Keystone XL pipeline is built to spill, and when it does it will have a devastating effect upon employment and the economy. built to spill

The idea of the Keystone XL Pipeline came up in june It has suffered 12 spills,more than any other first year pipeline in the usa.

The Keystone XL pipeline will cross 1,904 waterways. This includes the Ogallala Aquifer, the largest source of freshwater in the United States. It is an Environmental Disaster waiting to happen?

However, it will create jobs but according to the trans Canada there will be lack of jobs after the construction of the pipeline.

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The dangerously high rates of greenhouse gas emissions and the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere produced by the XL Pipeline will lead to heavy metal pollution affecting the climate.

Because the oil is very hard to take out of the tar sands it emits 3x the amount of greenhouse gas to produce only one barrel of oil. IMAGINE THAT TIMES 700,000 BARRELS OF OIL BEING SENT OUT EACH DAY!!!!

Also, this new oil transportation system releases more than 390 ppm of carbon emissions into our planets atmosphere which is over the safe amount by more than 40 ppm.

Estimations show that the “addition of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere will shift precipitation in two main ways, commonly called 'wet get wetter, dry get drier.' "

Wet Get Wetter, Dry get Drier! "As the trapping of greenhouse gases continues, existing climate patterns will only strengthen—more water will fall in already wet parts of Earth, whereas an increase in dry regions will also occur"

Have you ever thought what these people are going to eat? Well, unlike you and me there are many people out there suffering from poverty. By allowing the pipeline the climate change will lead to people in countries in which they plant to get their nutritions not be able to grow those crops because the land is too dry!

Climate Change = Animal Extinction Research shows over 75% of animal extinction have occurred during periods of climate change.

● Climate change can alter rainfalls, meaning freshwater animals can lose their habitats and others may lose their source of liquid and die from thirst. It will affect the way a specie keeps track of time by gauging temperature and sunlight. Changes in temp. can dramatically increase or decrease their activity, meaning one species’ gain would be ones doom.

jobs,JoBs,JOBS! People think the KXL pipeline should be accepted because it’ll form more jobs for unemployed people. But they don’t think of other possible construction sites that can provide the same amount or even more jobs that will ACTUALLY be sustainable and not cause a huge environmental damage.

DID YOU KNOW THIS ?!?!?! Keystone XL Pipeline Solar Panels

As we all know solar panels are designed to absorb the sun's rays as a source of energy for generating electricity or heating. But not all of us know the amount of jobs it will provide and how eco friendly it is compared to TransCanada’s XL pipeline.

Just like the kxl pipeline solar panels can provide 188,000 to 240,850 jobs, depending on the proportion of wind, solar and biomass energy.

Not only does this unique system provide many jobs but it’s also very eco friendly because, it doesn’t in anyway use fossil fuels which are non-renewable resources meaning once they’re gone we will not have access to them any longer, unlike the kxl pipeline which is mad for fossil fuels.

Now that you see that the keystone xl pipeline is a huge devastating environmental damage and the jobs are not sustainable. Do you wish for the pipeline to be granted or declined?

and make the right choice! :)

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