No More Lac-Megantics
Start: Sunday, July 06, 2014• 1:00 PM
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On [INSERT YOUR EVENT DATE], rise with Lac-Megantic to send the message: Keep Oil Off the Rails and In the Ground!
Join us as we stand with residents in Lac-Megantic, grassroots activists across North America, and with ForestEthics, 350.org, Oil Change International and the Sierra Club.
At
a time when the urgency for climate action is at its greatest in
history, we cannot fall into the oil industry’s distracting debates on
the ‘best methods’ to transport fossil fuels. As our movement has
blocked climate-killing pipelines across North America, big oil has
moved at an alarming rate to transport oil by rail. Yet despite dozens
of oil train disasters, the oil industry is seeking to dramatically
expand oil by rail in the US and in Canada.
Lac-Megantic’s
struggle is a grim reminder to us all: Big Oil will stop at nothing to
extract, transport, and burn every drop of oil in the ground. No matter
the risk, no matter the cost to public health, safety, and the climate,
the oil industry will jump at every opportunity to profit.
But now we say NO MORE.
No
more exploding trains. No more tar sands. No more reckless endangerment
of our communities and our climate! Join our event on [INSERT YOUR
EVENT DATE].