Stop that Train!
Start: Tuesday, July 07, 2015•10:00 AM
Host contact info blockthetrains@riseup.net
On July 7, join us to stop oil trains in Ticonderoga, NY!
On July 6, 2013, an oil train exploded in Lac Megantic, Quebec, killing 47 people. Two years later, and big oil is pushing harder than ever to move more and more oil trains through North America, while oil trains keep exploding, and carbon emissions keep rising.
This May, the US Department of Transportation is set to release new rail safety regulations. While an oil train erupted in flames in Galena, IL, lobbyists for big oil met with Federal regulators pressuring them to weaken these proposed rules. We know that these rules will not protect the 25 million Americans who live in the oil train blast zone, because there is NO safe way to transport extreme tar sands and Bakken crude.
This year, from July 6-12, 2015, citizens will organize more than 100 events across the US and Canada to demand an immediate ban on oil trains.
No more exploding trains. No more tar sands. Join our event on July 7!
S T O P T H E O I L T R A I N S!
July 7th ~ Ft. Ticonderoga, NY
Ticonderoga Ferry & Train Station
Boat Flotilla ~ March to Save the Lake ~ Rally
We demand a end of all oil-by-rail activity.
We demand an end to all fossil fuel production.
We demand the power of self-determination over our energy and our future.
Join the National Call to Action
Bring your friends, family, signs, flip-flops, picnics, coolers, picnic food, canoes and boats, and high spirits. We are calling out the bomb trains, the tar sands trains plan, and celebrating our partial victory against the Fort Ticonderoga International Paper Fracked gas pipeline! IP is getting fracked gas trucked in just yards away from the dangerous and toxic fossil fuel transport trains. LEAVE IT IN THE GROUND!!
Music by the Corn Potato String Band and other special guests, blockaders and expert speakers from across the country, and symbolic blockade of the railroad in solidarity with an actual planned railroad stoppage.
The train runs at irregular intervals so all are welcome to swing through or dig-in for the long hall, we're going to keep it going until the train comes!
WHY?
Fracked Oil Trains are threatening Lake Champlain, the climate, and your health and safety.
Massive amounts of oil and tar sands are being transported down many miles of the Lake Champlain Shoreline.
The Railroad admits these trains and tracks are unsafe. Burning more fossil fuels only deepens the climate crisis.
Come join us JULY 7TH and stop the trains rolling through our region!
Stay Up To Date On Action Details HERE
These Bombs Explode
July 6th marks the second anniversary of the Lac-Megantic oil train disaster in Quebec, Canada, which killed 47 people and destroyed a town. 2015 has already seen an increase in oil train derailments and explosions in small towns and rural areas across North America.
Indigenous Land, Water, & Human Rights
The Bakken Shale is being fracked on native land in North Dakota. The "man camps" that staff these toxic projects are perpetrating skyrocketing levels of sex-crime and disappearances against several native peoples of the area, especially high numbers of native women. The land and water is getting fracked and subjected to increasing numbers of spills and other disasters. Our energy cannot be derived from continued exploitation, rape, and genocide of the Lakota, Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, and other peoples.
Indian Country Today (focuses on the KXL and Oil Fracking in Fort Berthold/Bakken Shale area)
Leave the Oil in the Soil
Believe it or not, the US has become a leading global producer of crude because of fracked oil from the Bakken shale in North Dakota. The consensus of the global scientific community demands we leave 80% of fossil fuel unburned or we won't have a liveable climate. So they're talking about the oil on these trains. If we want a future - for our farms, our economy, our grandchildren - we have to stop this oil, period.
Secret Hazards
Fire departments and other emergency responders are not allowed to seethe railroads "hidden risk documents", including emergency response plans, projected costs, damage projections, and other life-saving information regarding this dangerous and toxic rail traffic. Ultimately poor communities, communities of color, and the surrounding environment bear the greatest burden of these hazardous accidents.
Save Our Watershed
VT is investing 150 Million to clean up lake champlain and other waterways. Meanwhile NY State and international fossil fuel corporations are gearing up to blow our lake conservation work sky-high. With the increasing impacts of climate chaos, water continues to become an even more precious life-source, yet miles of train cars full of hydro-fracked Bakken crude rattle by on tracks mere feet away from Lake Champlain everyday. There's no cleanup crew, credible science, or funding plan to deal with a disaster if one should occur.
When and Where:
On July 7th we invite you to help us stop the bomb trains on the lake shore near Fort Ticonderoga NY. Help us make it clear that we will not stand by while our homes and communities are destroyed for profit and big oil.
Bring your family, and your boat or kayak if you can get your hands on one, and together we will shut down the oil trains!
For more information contact: blockthetrains@riseup.net
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