Comments needed: No Keystone XL Pipeline

The comment to the Department of State reads: "The Keystone XL pipeline is a disaster for our environment, our climate and our communities. The Department of State's environmental impact statement ignores all previous studies that show that the Keystone XL will cause devastating harm to our planet and that constructing it will violate the rights of Indigenous communities along the pipeline route. The State Department must listen to science and the communities directly affected and reject this dangerous pipeline for good." Submit a public comment:

We need your help right now to build massive opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. The Department of State recently released another bogus environmental study that blatantly disregards the disastrous effects that the Keystone XL pipeline will have on our climate. It also ignores the fact that building it violates the rights of the Indigenous communities who reside along the pipeline route.1 This climate denial propaganda comes on the heels of a State Department rule that would greenlight construction of this dangerous pipeline. We must fight back. Millions of us have advocated to stop the Keystone XL pipeline for years – we can't give up now. Submit your comment today to help us build a strong public record of opposition to this rule. The more comments we gather, the more power we build to strengthen future court challenges. Comments needed by Nov. 18: No Keystone XL pipeline. Click here to submit a public comment. This is the final push to stop the Keystone XL project under the Trump administration. Our activism over the years successfully caused major delays in the pipeline's construction. If we can continue to delay the project now, there is a very real chance in 2020 that the next administration could stop this dangerous pipeline for good. The Keystone XL would carry the dirtiest tar sands oil from Canada, through the United States and then all over the world, hastening the demise of our rapidly warming planet. Like all pipelines, this one will leak, threatening our water, climate and communities. The comment period for the Department of State new rule closes Nov. 18. Speak out now to register your opposition and help us build momentum to finally put a stop to this huge climate destroying project. Comments needed by Nov. 18: No Keystone XL pipeline. Click the link below to sign the petition: https://act.credoaction.com/letter/kxl-public-comment-nov19/?t=9&akid=34891%2E3130208%2E9AuRoI - Jelani Drew, CREDO Action Submit a public comment: References: United States Department of State, "Keystone XL Mainline Alternative Route Project" July 2018. MORE INFORMATION Keystone Pipeline Leaks 383000 Gallons of Oil in North Dakota - New York Times  Keystone pipeline restarts in US's North Dakota after major leak

NOVEMBER 7th DEADLINE FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS: on Trump's sham review of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Keystone pipeline spilled about 97,000 barrels (410,340 million gallons)  of oil near Amherst, S.D.

Trucks and trains full of pipes slated for Keystone XL have started to arrive in South Dakota and Montana as TransCanada begins pre-construction.

We’ve stopped this pipeline before, and we’ll stop it again. Right now our best opportunity to stand in solidarity with Indigenous communities and stop KXL is for thousands of us to submit a public comment to the state department calling out Trump’s latest sham environmental review of this project before the deadline in 8 days.

Tell the Trump Administration they won’t get away with this sham review: No Keystone XL.

The law requires that these comments are tallied, analyzed, and considered in the final environmental review. We can make our voices opposing this pipeline heard if we have too many signatures for them to ignore.

In August, a federal judge ruled that the federal review of the pipeline was inadequate – so the Trump Administration came back just 37 days later with another rushed job. The Trump Administration's State Department published another hastily-produced "Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS)" on Keystone XL that concludes the pipeline would have only "minor" impacts to our land, water, endangered species and Native American sacred sites in Nebraska like the Ponca Trail of Tears. But just last year, the Keystone 1 pipeline spilled more than 200,000 gallons of dirty oil in South Dakota.

We can't let the Trump administration re-write the facts about the harm Keystone XL would do to the climate and communities. Submit a comment now.

There are only 8 days left before the deadline. This fight is about to ramp up, but we’re ready. There are three active lawsuits, 17,000+ people ready to take peaceful action in solidarity with Indigenous communities on the route if called upon, and a strong coalition led by Indigenous leaders that’s prepared to take on whatever comes.

- Kendall Mackey, 350.org

More info:

1. Keystone XL Pipeline materials begin moving into Montana - KRTV News
2. Judge orders full environmental review of Keystone XL in Nebraska - EcoWatch
3. Keystone pipeline spills 200,000 gallons of oil - National Geographic

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Click here to submit your revised version of the following public comment to Mike Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State:

Dear Mike Pompeo, 

I am writing to state my opposition to TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL tarsands pipeline.

Your approval of a federal permit for Keystone XL was based on a stale environmental review from 2014, in clear violation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

The draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement relies on outdated and incorrect data to draw conclusions that the pipeline would have only "minor" or "negligible" impacts on the land, water, sacred sites and endangered species in its path.

Additionally, the current proposed highly-expedited review schedule for the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement is insufficient, and additional public hearings must be scheduled to accommodate all affected communities on the pipeline route whose voices must be heard.

Keystone XL would be game over for the climate – and we must stop it with everything we’ve got.

NOTE ON PUBLIC COMMENTS: 

Folks who are submitting comments should keep in mind the number of signatures doesn’t mean anything in terms of NEPA. Petitions don’t count either. Substantive comments are what matter and simply opposing the project won’t be considered in the final SEIS and nor does it have to be under the law. 10,000 submissions of the same form letter count as one comment, and if it’s only a letter of general opposition, it counts for nothing. For public input to really make a difference, one needs to identify weaknesses in the review process or specific alternatives to the proposed action that weren’t considered. Unfortunately NEPA isn’t a democracy and submitting a public comment isn’t the same as casting a vote.

Demand that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

Siding with NRDC, a federal judge just rejected the Trump administration’s attempts to fast-track the Keystone XL pipeline — the fossil fuel monstrosity that would carry 830,000 barrels of dirty tar sands oil each day from Canada's boreal forest through America's heartland.

This massive pipeline would threaten land, climate, and drinking water supplies, keep us rooted in the dirty fossil fuels of the past, and slow our path to a clean energy future.

Enough is enough — Keystone XL is all risk and absolutely no reward.

Now, the fate of this climate-wrecking pipeline lies with Trump’s State Department.

Demand that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stop the reckless Keystone XL tar sands pipeline once and for all!

Click here to send the following message to:

Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State

Subject line:

Stop the Keystone XL pipeline once and for all!

(Consider adding your own thoughts — personalized messages are especially effective)

Dear Sec. Pompeo and the State Department:

I'm appalled to learn that the State Department was attempting to cut corners and fast-track its environmental review of the Keystone XL pipeline's new route in Nebraska. 

It's critical that you comply with the recent federal court order and complete a comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement to fully assess the environmental impacts of this disastrous project.

Keystone XL threatens land, climate, and drinking water supplies for farmers, ranchers, Indigenous people, and other communities. And the pipeline keeps us rooted in the dirty fossil fuels of the past instead of moving us toward a clean energy future.

Enough is enough. It's time for the State Department to stop this irresponsible project once and for all! Thank you.

Submit a comment: No Keystone XL pipeline

The comment to the State Department reads: "The Keystone XL pipeline is a risky project that requires a full and rigorous environmental review." Add your name:

We thought we had defeated the Keystone XL pipeline, but Trump and his oil industry friends are trying to bring it back. Now Trump's State Department is taking public comments on the dangerous plan and the deadline to submit our comments is this Monday, June 25. Millions of us have opposed the Keystone XL pipeline for years – we can't give up now. Submit your comment now so that we can flood this docket with our voices and create a strong public record of opposition. Tell the State Department: Conduct a full, rigorous environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Click here to submit your comment. Trump wasted no time – days after taking office, he signed an executive order aimed at reviving the reckless pipeline project.1 Two months later, he officially approved it.2 Now he wants to limit the project's required environmental review to just the newest section of the pipeline. But the last full environmental review was in 2014 – it's long out of date.3 The existing Keystone pipeline spills oil far more often than regulators predicted.4 In November, a leak in South Dakota spilled more than 5,000 barrels of oil. The line has already leaked twice in that state, where TransCanada had initially predicted a spill "no more than once every 41 years.”5 We know the pipeline isn't safe – and we cannot allow the Trump administration to rush its completion. Tell the State Department: Conduct a full, rigorous environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Click the link below to submit your comment: https://act.credoaction.com/letter/nokxl-june25?t=7&akid=29022%2E3130208%2E1Jg2LJ - Brandy Doyle, CREDO Action from Working Assets Add your name: References: Brady Dennis and Steven Mufson, "As Trump administration grants approval for Keystone XL pipeline, an old fight is reignited," Washington Post, March 24, 2017. Ibid. Brad Plumer, "Five takeaways from State Department’s review of the Keystone XL pipeline," Washington Post, Jan. 31, 2014. Valerie Volcovici and Richard Valdmanis, "Keystone's existing pipeline spills far more than predicted to regulators," Reuters, Nov. 27, 2017. Ibid. #STOPXLPIPELINE

Tell Wells Fargo don't fund KXL!

As fossil fuel cronies and an anti-science agenda erode our federal government, it's clear we need to flex our consumer power in the fight for climate justice.

Big banks like Wells Fargo fund the companies behind dangerous pipelines -- like Keystone XL, Line 3, and Dakota Access -- that threaten Indigenous rights, our climate, and our communities.

Send Wells Fargo a message and tell them not to fund Keystone XL!

Keystone XL poses a grave and immediate threat to our climate and to every community it cuts through. It would carry 830,000 barrels of the world's dirtiest oil -- tar sands -- every day from Alberta, Canada, to the U.S. Gulf Coast. It would be responsible for annual greenhouse gas emissions each year equal to 37.7 million cars -- a disaster for our climate.

The pipeline would cut directly through Sioux treaty lands and near several other tribal reservations and the Ponca Trail of Tears, yet Tribal Nations in Nebraska and South Dakota have not been properly consulted.

But the movement of citizens and stakeholders calling on big banks like Wells Fargo to divest from pipelines is growing and working.

Earlier this year the city of Seattle became the first major city to divest from Wells Fargo because of the company's involvement with pipelines. After public pressure, U.S. Bank formally excluded gas and oil pipelines from their project financing. And it's becoming clear that Keystone XL is a risky investment, as companies like Shell and Exxon sell off their tar sands instead of making plans to ship them through the pipeline.

Add your voice to this fight and help build the momentum to stop dirty, dangerous pipelines!

Tell Wells Fargo not to fund Keystone XL!

- SierraRise

Fight to keep the solar panels in operation by urging Nebraska’s Public Service Commission to reject the state permit for the pipeline

Two years ago people power stopped the Keystone XL pipeline. Now Trump is trying to bring back this disastrous fossil fuel project.

This pipeline, proposed by TransCanada, would carry some of the dirtiest oil from Alberta’s Tar Sands region – cutting through farms, Indigenous lands, and vital drinking water sources. Not only would it put the land and water at risk from a spill, it would be game over for the climate.

That’s why today we’re launching #SolarXL – a campaign to not only stop Keystone XL, but build clean energy solutions directly in its path as part of our resistance.

Starting in Nebraska, we’ll work with our partners to build solar arrays in several locations in the path of the pipeline, and fight to protect them by resisting TransCanada’s attempt to gain construction permits in the state (which they need before project construction can begin).

Nebraska is the last state where TransCanada doesn’t have a permit to build Keystone XL. The Nebraska Public Service Commission can stop this pipeline after they hold hearings next month. We’ve got to show them that Keystone is a threat to our communities and our climate.

Here’s the plan:

1. Build solar panels in the route of the pipeline as a symbol of our resistance to fossil fuels and the job-creating clean energy future we need. 
2. Fight to keep the solar panels in operation by urging Nebraska’s Public Service Commission to reject the state permit for the pipeline. Add your voice by submitting a comment to the Commission now. 

We can’t afford any new polluting fossil fuel projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, which is why it’s up to us to fight for and build the future we need.

Solar XL will help power the homes of Nebraskan farmers and homeowners who would be forced to allow the pipeline to run through their backyards. It'll also send a strong message to TransCanada and Trump that we'll never give up fighting for a renewable energy future.

We know this fight is bigger than one pipeline, and we’re in it for the long haul. Communities across the country and around the world are fighting fossil fuel infrastructure, putting their bodies on the line, and developing solutions at the same time.

Let's build the future we need, together.

- #SolarXL

Urge Nebraska's commissioners to block the Keystone XL pipeline to protect Nebraska's air, water, land and communities.

Trump may be desperately trying to revive the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, but he's far from the final word on this disastrous project. The Keystone XL still needs approval to route the pipeline through the state of Nebraska — and that's up to state officials.

We need your help to prevail on the Nebraska Public Service Commission to deny permission to route the pipeline through Nebraska.

Urge Nebraska's commissioners to block the Keystone XL pipeline and protect Nebraska's air, water, land and communities.

Without an approved route through Nebraska, TransCanada, the company behind the pipeline, can't start construction — which means Nebraska has the power to potentially put an end to the Keystone XL once and for all.

NRDC is fighting the pipeline on every front. We've sued the Trump administration for its illegal resurrection of the pipeline. And we're working to persuade investors that Keystone XL is a bad bet, economically and environmentally, and that they should walk away from this project.

Your quick action is the most important thing you can do to help us stop Trump and his fossil fuel allies from brazenly moving forward with the Keystone XL.

If built, the pipeline would cross hundreds of Nebraskan rivers and streams, cut within a mile of countless wells and threaten the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides drinking water for more than a million people. What's more, it's a virtual certainty that the pipeline will leak — exposing farms, ranches, families and wildlife to highly volatile, toxic chemicals.

And beyond its potential to devastate America's heartland, the Keystone XL would be responsible for annual greenhouse gas emissions equal to 37.7 million cars, driving climate change and keeping us shackled to the climate-wrecking fossil fuels of the past.

We've stopped Keystone XL before — because people like you rose up together and took action.

- Rhea Suh, President, NRDC

Tell JPMorgan Chase to defund tar sands, one of the dirtiest forms of oil.

[Activists organized by Mazaska Talks and 350 Seattle shut down 12 JPMorgan Chase branches in Seattle to demand the defunding of the Keystone XL pipeline.]

Today, environmental activists showed up at the JPMorgan Chase shareholder meeting to send a message to the whole finance community: Stop Banking on Human Rights Violations and Climate Chaos.

We need your voice. Tell JPMorgan Chase to defund tar sands, one of the dirtiest forms of oil.

These activists delivered a letter on behalf of 20 Indigenous rights and environmental organizations directly to JPMorgan Chase leadership. The letter demanded that the finance community stop bankrolling projects like the Dakota Access pipeline, the KXL pipeline, and the pending Trans Mountain pipeline. These pipelines will wreak havoc on communities, pollute critical water sources, destroy our climate, and trample the rights of Indigenous communities and local residents across the continent. But massive energy giants such as TransCanada depend on banks to fund their disastrous projects.

Tell JPMorgan Chase to do their part to protect Indigenous rights and the environment.

Tell Banks to Say No to Tar Sands: More than 120 First Nations and Tribes have signed a treaty opposing all tar sands pipelines — one of the dirtiest forms of oil on the planet!

Tell Banks to Say No to Human Rights Abuses: The conflict over the Dakota Access pipeline resulted in despicable violence and abuses — and these will continue as communities fight for their clean air and clean water.

Tell Banks to Say No to Indigenous Rights Violations: These projects continue the shameful history of trampling on Indigenous land rights and broken promises.

- Ruth Breech, Rainforest Action Network

It's Only A Matter of Time Before Pipelines Crack, Leak, or Explode, Submit your comment to stop Keystone XL.

The KXL Pipeline Fight Is Not Over!  It's Only A Matter of Time Before Pipelines Crack, Leak, or Explode.

Sign to STOP the Keystone XL Pipeline!

After getting the okay from Trump, TransCanada, a private energy corporation, is moving forward with construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

The construction of this dirty pipeline will disrupt indigenous lands, put key waterways at risk and keep us addicted to climate-changing fossil fuels, all for private profit.

Submit your public comment to stop the Keystone XL Pipeline!

In 2014, the Obama administration halted construction of the Keystone XL based on a risk assessment made by the U.S. State Department. Unfortunately, Trump recently undermined the findings of that assessment by reversing Obama's decision through an executive action.

The fight isn't over yet — while TransCanada may have the President's blessing, they still don't have all the permits needed in order to move forward with construction. The Nebraska Public Service Commission is currently accepting public comments to determine whether it's in the public's interest to provide a Nebraska permit for the construction of the Keystone XL. Without having all the permits they need, TransCanada cannot finish construction.

Tell the Nebraska Public Service Commission: oil pipelines are inherently dangerous and threaten our communities and drinking water with leaks and explosions.

In the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, indigenous water protectors maintained their peaceful resistance even as they faced violence at the hands of police.¹ Now, we have a chance to stand with Native communities as well as farmers and ranchers, who contend that the pipeline will provide mainly temporary jobs and limited tax revenues, to fight the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.² We must push back against big corporate interests and protect our drinking water.

At Food & Water Watch, we believe that everyone deserves access to clean drinking water. That's why we reject any new pipeline proposals and have campaigns across the country to ban fracking. We need to move OFF Fossil Fuels entirely and create a just transition to 100% renewable energy now.

While we undoubtedly have an uphill battle ahead of us with this new administration, from our victories in New York and recently in Maryland where we have banned fracking, we know that when we build power and organize against pipelines and other infrastructure projects at the state and local level, we can win.

Take action with Food & Water Action Fund to take a stand against the construcion of the Keystone XL Pipeline today. Thanks for taking action,

Luz Hernandez
Online Organizer
Food & Water Watch
act(at)fwwatch(dot)org

1. Full Dakota Access Pipeline coverage, Democracy Now!
2. Last Stand: Nebraska farmers could derail the Keystone XL, Reuters, April 20, 2017

The Trump administration approved the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. Fight back!

The Trump administration approved the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline and reversed the decision of the Obama administration. The decision isn’t shocking. It’s just another step Trump and his billionaire cabinet have taken to line the pockets of Big Oil at the expense of communities.

The good news is this fight is far from over and we can win. TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, must still get approval to route the pipeline through Nebraska and the Nebraska Public Service Commission (PSC) is taking public comments now.

This pipeline is bigger than Trump. It’s about the Native Nations whose land and water are threatened, the farmers and ranchers whose land would be taken away to benefit a corporation, and the special places -- like the Nebraska Sandhills which are home to to threatened wildlife, including whooping cranes, sandhill cranes, and bald eagles -- that lie in the path of this dirty pipeline. We will not let this pipeline be constructed -- we will continue to fight alongside our allies to stop Keystone XL.

We can fight back against the Trump administration by urging the Nebraska PSC to block the Keystone XL pipeline once and for all.