10/17 Tar Sands Action in NYC
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011, 10:55 AM

A group of New York-based arrestees from the Tar Sands Action in Washington D.C. this summer are working to bring the energy and passion of the Tar Sands Action to our home here, in New York City.
We hand delivered signed copies of this letter to the OFA office. Here we are in front of the Obama Headquarters in NYC:

If you have any questions or want more information about the action, email them at TarSandsActionNYC@gmail.com
Please help us stop these disastrous projects by signing the letter and joining the action.
If you don’t already know about the Keystone XL pipeline or fracking in the Delaware River Basin, here’s the rundown:
The Keystone XL pipeline, which would run from the Alberta tar sands in Canada to Texas, is the fuse to the largest carbon bomb in North America. According to NASA climate scientist James Hansen, if the oil in the Alberta tar sands is burned it’s “essentially game over” for the climate. As a coastal city, New York is directly threatened by the rising oceans and extreme weather caused by climate change.
Fracking, a novel method of natural gas extraction, also poses a dire threat to communities in New York City. Fracking permanently poisons the drinking water of nearby communities, releases cancer-causing emissions and creates radioactive waste. Fracking in the Delaware River Basin, which supplies water to New York City, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, could begin as early as this fall. The magnitude of this threat cannot be exaggerated: 15.6 million people get their water from the Delaware River.
President Obama does not need Congressional approval to block these projects. The State Department is responsible for approving or denying the Keystone XL pipeline permit and Obama can instruct the Army Corps of Engineers to vote against fracking in the Delaware River Basin.














