Sent: Fri, 01/27/2012

Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs
500-342 Water St.
Vancouver BC
V6B 1B6

Dear Chiefs

We are writing to commend you for your principled stand in opposition to the Gateway Pipeline. We are strongly oppposed to the present government’s advocacy of this project. 

Sent: Thu, 01/12/2012

Dear MP

JustEarth supports the position of the Union of B.C. Chiefs on the Gateway Pipeline. The chiefs have eloquently explained their concerns, and their commitment to preservation of the land and waters.

Sent: Wed, 10/12/2011

Dear Prime Minister Harper,

We are concerned that the major issue about the bitumen sands project and the pipelines to carry the bitumen or processed oil has not been understood--the dangerous consequences of the vast increase in greenhouse gas emissions ensuing, on top of the excessive carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. We have already exceeded 350 ppm, the limit many leading climate scientists tell us should not be passed to avoid runaway climate change.

Refining the bitumen in Alberta will not reduce global emissions.

Sent: Wed, 10/12/2011

Dear President Obama,

We urge you, for the sake of future peoples and all species, not to authorize the Keystone XL Pipeline. This pipeline will result in increased greenhouse gas emissions, yet we have already exceeded 390 ppm of carbon dioxide, whereas we have been told that less than 350 ppm is necessary to ensure a livable climate, and a turn-around is not in prospect.

Sent: Wed, 10/12/2011

JustEarth members wrote two letters to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama about the tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline.

We encourage you to write your own letters to Prime Minister Harper and/or President Obama.

The letters can be seen here:

Sent: Mon, 09/26/2011

Below are two testimonials from Anthony Ketchum -- a report and an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama -- from the Keystone XL pipeline / tar sands protests in Ottawa on September 26th, 2011.

 


The Advance of the 212

It was a beautiful day on Parliament Hill when all of a not-quite-sudden, legions of RCMP officers appeared behind a 3' high fence.

Sent: Thu, 07/14/2011

It's time to recognize that climate change is an EMERGENCY and get serious about addressing it! Our lavish use of fossil fuels is risking runaway climate change, with feedback effects that can lead to mass extinctions (50-70% of species). There have been mass extinctions on this planet before from which bio-diversity recovered -- in some 50 million years.

Sent: Sun, 12/19/2010

Two JustEarth members were NGO delegates at the recent Cancun conference (UNFCCC COP16). At that conference Canada agreed, among other things to:

Sent: Sat, 08/07/2010

There are reasons--both of short-term economic advantage and long-term survival--for dealing seriously with climate change.

The forest fires in B.C. have already cost lives and resources. People in the interior are concerned about insurance rates and even the possibility of not being able to get any insurance, yet extreme weather events are expected to increase in frequency and severity.

Sent: Fri, 07/30/2010

Last week when we wrote we stressed the emergency nature of the climate crisis, and the need for strenuous action.

This week we note the publication, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a United States federal agency, of findings that the past three decades have been the hottest on record. The Globe and Mail headline says, “Signs of Warming Earth ‘Unmistakable,’” as was well known. The report, State of the Climate, however, has the merit of drawing on data from 160 research groups in 48 countries.