Friends,
As summer begins, the beaches of Santa Barbara, California are closed after a 105,000 gallon spill from an oil pipeline running just along the shore. This is what we are fighting to stop in the Midwest with the Tar Sands Resistance March on June 6th in St. Paul:
While workers in safety gear struggle to clean up, the pipeline company Enbridge is plotting to expand their network of tar sands pipelines running through the Midwest, crossing hundreds of waterways and under areas of the Great Lakes.
Enbridge is responsible for the largest onshore oil spill in American history. In 2010, their Line 6B pipeline spilled over a million gallons of tar sands into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.
When pipelines break they upend the entire way of life for the communities surrounding them. Enbridge wants to bring this danger to more and more people. We want to stop them. On June 6th, we're holding the biggest action against the tar sands the Midwest has ever seen, in St. Paul, MN. Can you join us to stop Enbridge? Click here to join the March.
Pipelines leak. And if Enbridge's pipes leak, the cleanup won't look like what's happening in California. Tar sands oil sinks. If you thought cleaning oil off a beach was hard work, imagine trying to clean oil off the bottom of the Great Lakes -- which tens of millions of people rely on for drinking water.
Even if Enbridge's pipelines worked as planned, they'd help put millions of tons of additional carbon pollution into the atmosphere -- bringing more heatwaves and other extreme weather to the Midwest.
The whole scheme is a disaster we can't afford. What happened in Santa Barbara is just a reminder of the risks we face. Let's take that reminder to heart, and mobilize for serious action on the 6th. I'll see you there.
Andy
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