On July 6, 2014, 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.

In Maine Pan Am has resumed shipping limited quantities of Bakken crude to Irving's refinery in Saint John, an Central Maine & Quebec has stated they want to resume the bomb trains on the same tracks that carried the train that exploded at Lac Megantic. IT'S UP TO US TO STOP THEM

Join us at Happy Acres in Alton for a program where you will learn more about how the oil companies are putting the safety of Maine's communities at risk and ways we can stop them.

!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 July 6.