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It’s only like adding 20 million cars to the roads, eh?

March 5, 2010

Posted by Elizabeth Shope in Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
canada, climate, dirtyfuels, keystonexl, oilsands, tarsands

Some of the individuals and companies advocating that we should use more tar sands oil make the argument that tar sands doesn’t increase our greenhouse gas emissions that much. “The environmentalists are exaggerating,” they say. Sometimes, we like to make...

Avaaz Action Factory's Harper-Obama-tar sands milkshake action a success

September 16, 2009

Posted by Elizabeth Shope in Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
actionfactory, dirtyfuels, harper, obama, oilsands, tarsands

President Obama sips on a tar sands milkshake through a large straw with the words "Clipper Pipeline" neatly painted onto it.  The milkshake asks Obama, "How does it taste?"  He doesn't think it's very yummy.  On the other side of...

Elizabeth Shope
Elizabeth Shope
Associate Advocate
Washington, D.C.
I spent a lot of time outdoors as a kid, and my environmental interests strengthened...
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