{"id":30056,"date":"2013-02-17T13:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T13:34:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-17T13:42:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T13:42:41","slug":"europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe says NO to tar sands, NO to KXL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post has been developed in collaboration with our friends and allies at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-tar-sands.org\/\">UK Tar Sands Network<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/tarsands\">People &amp; Planet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campaigncc.org\/\">Campaign against Climate Change<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foepembrokeshire.co.uk\/\">Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/wysiwyg_imageupload\/16263\/europe_nokxl_lowestres_0.jpg\"  \/>\n<p><strong>The US says no to tar sands<\/strong><br \/>\n\tToday in Washington DC, tens of thousands of people are taking part in the biggest climate rally in US history. They are asking President Obama to move #ForwardOnClimate and, specifically, to reject the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarsandsblockade.org\/about-2\/why-oppose-kxl\/\"> Keystone XL tar sands pipeline<\/a>. The President\u2019s imminent decision will have<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/obamas-keystone-xl-decision-could-doom-the-tar-sands-or-the-planet\/?utm_campaign=daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter\"> momentous consequences<\/a>. The KXL pipeline is <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20110826\/james-hansen-nasa-climate-change-scientist-keystone-xl-oil-sands-pipeline-protests-mckibben-white-house\">\u2018a fuse to the largest carbon bomb on the planet.\u2019<\/a> If the tar sands industry is allowed to expand as it plans to, it will be \u2018game over\u2019 for the climate \u2013 and the ramifications will affect people across the world. If the pipeline is rejected it will be a huge leap towards reining in the world&#8217;s most destructive industry.<br \/>\n\t<strong>First Nations say no to tar sands<\/strong><br \/>\n\tFirst Nations in Canada are on the frontline of the highly polluting tar sands development, and have suffered for decades as their lands, food and water sources are slowly poisoned. Many communities have been actively speaking out, and taking legal action, against the government and industry. In recent months there has been an explosion of grassroots Indigenous-led activism, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/idlenomore.ca\/\">#IdleNoMore<\/a> movement, a response to the Canadian government&#8217;s infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/Blog\/idle-no-more-in-the-tar-sands\/blog\/43665\/\">Bill C-45<\/a> \u2013 a bundle of laws that further strips away First Nations\u2019 abilities to assert their treaty rights, protect their waterways, and say &#8216;no&#8217; to polluting projects on their land. From Europe we do our best to support First Nations communities who are struggling to protect the air they breathe and water they drink. Their struggle to protect Mother Earth is our struggle to protect the climate.<br \/>\n\t<strong>KXL &#8211; bringing tar sands oil to Europe?<\/strong><br \/>\n\tPresident Obama\u2019s decision over whether to approve KXL affects us in Europe too. In order to justify its catastrophic expansion plans, the tar sands industry needs to find new markets to export its dirty oil to. The aim of building the KXL pipeline is to bring tar sands oil down to Texas<a href=\"https:\/\/priceofoil.org\/2013\/02\/11\/exclusive-eu-sees-kxl-is-an-export-pipeline\/\"> so it can be exported<\/a>. Europe is being eyed up as a key future market. In fact, a US company called Valero is currently drawing up plans to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-tar-sands.org\/campaigns\/valero\/\"> bring KXL oil into the UK via Wales<\/a>. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foepembrokeshire.co.uk\/\"> local community<\/a> in Pembrokeshire have vowed to resist this.<br \/>\n\t<strong>How can we stop this?<\/strong><br \/>\n\tWe can, of course, send our solidarity and support to our friends in the US and Canada who are working so hard to stop KXL and other tar sands infrastructure ever being built. But there is something crucial for us in Europe to do too. A key piece of climate legislation is currently going through the EU. Known as the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-tar-sands.org\/campaigns\/dirty-diplomacy-tar-sands-lobbying-and-the-fuel-quality-directive\/ceta\/\"> \u2018Fuel Quality Directive\u2019 (FQD)<\/a>, it would acknowledge that tar sands oil is far more polluting than conventional oil, and strongly discourage its use in Europe. If passed, it will effectively stop tar sands becoming commercially viable in Europe, making it extremely difficult for Valero to continue with their plans for Pembroke, and send a strong message to Canada and the rest of the world that tar sands is dirty oil and we do not want it.<br \/>\n\t<strong>The FQD under threat<\/strong><br \/>\n\tFor the last two years, a powerful coalition of oil companies and the Canadian government has been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-tar-sands.org\/campaigns\/dirty-diplomacy-tar-sands-lobbying-and-the-fuel-quality-directive\/lobbying\/\"> aggressively lobbying the EU and its member states<\/a> to prevent inclusion of the tar sands in the FQD. This unprecedented lobbying effort has succeeded in stalling the process and persuading key member states &#8211; in particular the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands &#8211; to block the decision. Another vote is coming up later this year. Now is the time for the citizens of Europe to come together and demand our leaders do the right thing and keep tar sands out of Europe!<br \/>\n\t<strong>Europe says no to tar sands<\/strong><br \/>\n\tOn this momentous day of climate action we are joining the struggles of communities resisting extreme energy worldwide, from KXL protesters in Washington, to First Nations in Alberta, to the community of Pembrokeshire in Wales trying to keep tar sands fuel away from their shores.<br \/>\n\t<strong>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/act.350.org\/sign\/uk-fuel-quality-directive\/\">sign this petition<\/a> to support the community of Pembrokeshire in advocating for the FQD, and show the world that Europe says NO to tar sands.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post has been developed in collaboration with our friends and allies at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-tar-sands.org\/\">UK Tar Sands Network<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/peopleandplanet.org\/tarsands\">People &amp; Planet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campaigncc.org\/\">Campaign against Climate Change<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foepembrokeshire.co.uk\/\">Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/wysiwyg_imageupload\/16263\/europe_nokxl_lowestres_0.jpg\"  \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The US says no to tar sands<\/strong><br \/>\n\tToday in Washington DC, tens of thousands of people are taking part in the biggest climate rally in US history. They are asking President Obama to move #ForwardOnClimate and, specifically, to reject the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarsandsblockade.org\/about-2\/why-oppose-kxl\/\"> Keystone XL tar sands pipeline<\/a>. The President\u2019s imminent decision will have<a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/climate-energy\/obamas-keystone-xl-decision-could-doom-the-tar-sands-or-the-planet\/?utm_campaign=daily&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter\"> momentous consequences<\/a>. The KXL pipeline is <a href=\"https:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/20110826\/james-hansen-nasa-climate-change-scientist-keystone-xl-oil-sands-pipeline-protests-mckibben-white-house\">\u2018a fuse to the largest carbon bomb on the planet.\u2019<\/a> If the tar sands industry is allowed to expand as it plans to, it will be \u2018game over\u2019 for the climate \u2013 and the ramifications will affect people across the world. If the pipeline is rejected it will be a huge leap towards reining in the world&#8217;s most destructive industry.<br \/>\n\t<strong>First Nations say no to tar sands<\/strong><br \/>\n\tFirst Nations in Canada are on the frontline of the highly polluting tar sands development, and have suffered for decades as their lands, food and water sources are slowly poisoned. Many communities have been actively speaking out, and taking legal action, against the government and industry. In recent months there has been an explosion of grassroots Indigenous-led activism, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/idlenomore.ca\/\">#IdleNoMore<\/a> movement, a response to the Canadian government&#8217;s infamous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/Blog\/idle-no-more-in-the-tar-sands\/blog\/43665\/\">Bill C-45<\/a> \u2013 a bundle of laws that further strips away First Nations\u2019 abilities to assert their treaty rights, protect their waterways, and say &#8216;no&#8217; to polluting projects on their land. From Europe we do our best to support First Nations communities who are struggling to protect the air they breathe and water they drink. Their struggle to protect Mother Earth is our struggle to protect the climate.<br \/>\n\t<strong>KXL &#8211; bringing tar sands oil to Europe?<\/strong><br \/>\n\tPresident Obama\u2019s decision over whether to approve KXL affects us in Europe too. In order to justify its catastrophic expansion plans, the tar sands industry needs to find new markets to export its dirty oil to. The aim of building the KXL pipeline is to bring tar sands oil down to Texas<a href=\"https:\/\/priceofoil.org\/2013\/02\/11\/exclusive-eu-sees-kxl-is-an-export-pipeline\/\"> so it can be exported<\/a>. Europe is being eyed up as a key future market. In fact, a US company called Valero is currently drawing up plans to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-tar-sands.org\/campaigns\/valero\/\"> bring KXL oil into the UK via Wales<\/a>. The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foepembrokeshire.co.uk\/\"> local community<\/a> in Pembrokeshire have vowed to resist this.<br \/>\n\t<strong>How can we stop this?<\/strong><br \/>\n\tWe can, of course, send our solidarity and support to our friends in the US and Canada who are working so hard to stop KXL and other tar sands infrastructure ever being built. But there is something crucial for us in Europe to do too. A key piece of climate legislation is currently going through the EU. Known as the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-tar-sands.org\/campaigns\/dirty-diplomacy-tar-sands-lobbying-and-the-fuel-quality-directive\/ceta\/\"> \u2018Fuel Quality Directive\u2019 (FQD)<\/a>, it would acknowledge that tar sands oil is far more polluting than conventional oil, and strongly discourage its use in Europe. If passed, it will effectively stop tar sands becoming commercially viable in Europe, making it extremely difficult for Valero to continue with their plans for Pembroke, and send a strong message to Canada and the rest of the world that tar sands is dirty oil and we do not want it.<br \/>\n\t<strong>The FQD under threat<\/strong><br \/>\n\tFor the last two years, a powerful coalition of oil companies and the Canadian government has been<a href=\"https:\/\/www.no-tar-sands.org\/campaigns\/dirty-diplomacy-tar-sands-lobbying-and-the-fuel-quality-directive\/lobbying\/\"> aggressively lobbying the EU and its member states<\/a> to prevent inclusion of the tar sands in the FQD. This unprecedented lobbying effort has succeeded in stalling the process and persuading key member states &#8211; in particular the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands &#8211; to block the decision. Another vote is coming up later this year. Now is the time for the citizens of Europe to come together and demand our leaders do the right thing and keep tar sands out of Europe!<br \/>\n\t<strong>Europe says no to tar sands<\/strong><br \/>\n\tOn this momentous day of climate action we are joining the struggles of communities resisting extreme energy worldwide, from KXL protesters in Washington, to First Nations in Alberta, to the community of Pembrokeshire in Wales trying to keep tar sands fuel away from their shores.<br \/>\n\t<strong>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/act.350.org\/sign\/uk-fuel-quality-directive\/\">sign this petition<\/a> to support the community of Pembrokeshire in advocating for the FQD, and show the world that Europe says NO to tar sands.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10012012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe says NO to tar sands, NO to KXL - 350 Indonesia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"id_ID\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Europe says NO to tar sands, NO to KXL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This post has been developed in collaboration with our friends and allies at the UK Tar Sands Network, People &amp; Planet, Campaign against Climate Change, and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth.   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The aim of building the KXL pipeline is to bring tar sands oil down to Texas so it can be exported. Europe is being eyed up as a key future market. In fact, a US company called Valero is currently drawing up plans to bring KXL oil into the UK via Wales. The local community in Pembrokeshire have vowed to resist this.  How can we stop this?  We can, of course, send our solidarity and support to our friends in the US and Canada who are working so hard to stop KXL and other tar sands infrastructure ever being built. But there is something crucial for us in Europe to do too. A key piece of climate legislation is currently going through the EU. Known as the \u2018Fuel Quality Directive\u2019 (FQD), it would acknowledge that tar sands oil is far more polluting than conventional oil, and strongly discourage its use in Europe. If passed, it will effectively stop tar sands becoming commercially viable in Europe, making it extremely difficult for Valero to continue with their plans for Pembroke, and send a strong message to Canada and the rest of the world that tar sands is dirty oil and we do not want it.  The FQD under threat  For the last two years, a powerful coalition of oil companies and the Canadian government has been aggressively lobbying the EU and its member states to prevent inclusion of the tar sands in the FQD. This unprecedented lobbying effort has succeeded in stalling the process and persuading key member states - in particular the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands - to block the decision. Another vote is coming up later this year. Now is the time for the citizens of Europe to come together and demand our leaders do the right thing and keep tar sands out of Europe!  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The US says no to tar sands  Today in Washington DC, tens of thousands of people are taking part in the biggest climate rally in US history. They are asking President Obama to move #ForwardOnClimate and, specifically, to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The President\u2019s imminent decision will have momentous consequences. The KXL pipeline is \u2018a fuse to the largest carbon bomb on the planet.\u2019 If the tar sands industry is allowed to expand as it plans to, it will be \u2018game over\u2019 for the climate \u2013 and the ramifications will affect people across the world. If the pipeline is rejected it will be a huge leap towards reining in the world's most destructive industry.  First Nations say no to tar sands  First Nations in Canada are on the frontline of the highly polluting tar sands development, and have suffered for decades as their lands, food and water sources are slowly poisoned. Many communities have been actively speaking out, and taking legal action, against the government and industry. In recent months there has been an explosion of grassroots Indigenous-led activism, with the #IdleNoMore movement, a response to the Canadian government's infamous Bill C-45 \u2013 a bundle of laws that further strips away First Nations\u2019 abilities to assert their treaty rights, protect their waterways, and say 'no' to polluting projects on their land. From Europe we do our best to support First Nations communities who are struggling to protect the air they breathe and water they drink. Their struggle to protect Mother Earth is our struggle to protect the climate.  KXL - bringing tar sands oil to Europe?  President Obama\u2019s decision over whether to approve KXL affects us in Europe too. In order to justify its catastrophic expansion plans, the tar sands industry needs to find new markets to export its dirty oil to. The aim of building the KXL pipeline is to bring tar sands oil down to Texas so it can be exported. Europe is being eyed up as a key future market. In fact, a US company called Valero is currently drawing up plans to bring KXL oil into the UK via Wales. The local community in Pembrokeshire have vowed to resist this.  How can we stop this?  We can, of course, send our solidarity and support to our friends in the US and Canada who are working so hard to stop KXL and other tar sands infrastructure ever being built. But there is something crucial for us in Europe to do too. A key piece of climate legislation is currently going through the EU. Known as the \u2018Fuel Quality Directive\u2019 (FQD), it would acknowledge that tar sands oil is far more polluting than conventional oil, and strongly discourage its use in Europe. If passed, it will effectively stop tar sands becoming commercially viable in Europe, making it extremely difficult for Valero to continue with their plans for Pembroke, and send a strong message to Canada and the rest of the world that tar sands is dirty oil and we do not want it.  The FQD under threat  For the last two years, a powerful coalition of oil companies and the Canadian government has been aggressively lobbying the EU and its member states to prevent inclusion of the tar sands in the FQD. This unprecedented lobbying effort has succeeded in stalling the process and persuading key member states - in particular the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands - to block the decision. Another vote is coming up later this year. Now is the time for the citizens of Europe to come together and demand our leaders do the right thing and keep tar sands out of Europe!  Europe says no to tar sands  On this momentous day of climate action we are joining the struggles of communities resisting extreme energy worldwide, from KXL protesters in Washington, to First Nations in Alberta, to the community of Pembrokeshire in Wales trying to keep tar sands fuel away from their shores.  Please sign this petition to support the community of Pembrokeshire in advocating for the FQD, and show the world that Europe says NO to tar sands.","og_url":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/","og_site_name":"350 Indonesia","article_published_time":"2013-02-17T13:34:23+00:00","article_modified_time":"2013-02-17T13:42:41+00:00","author":"D\u00e9bora Gastal","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@deboragastal","twitter_misc":{"Ditulis oleh":"D\u00e9bora Gastal","Estimasi waktu membaca":"4 menit"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/"},"author":{"name":"D\u00e9bora Gastal","@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/#\/schema\/person\/0632d7eab67421462b6ff196d89cb5a7"},"headline":"Europe says NO to tar sands, NO to KXL","datePublished":"2013-02-17T13:34:23+00:00","dateModified":"2013-02-17T13:42:41+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/"},"wordCount":731,"commentCount":0,"inLanguage":"id-ID","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/","url":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/","name":"Europe says NO to tar sands, NO to KXL - 350 Indonesia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/#website"},"datePublished":"2013-02-17T13:34:23+00:00","dateModified":"2013-02-17T13:42:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/#\/schema\/person\/0632d7eab67421462b6ff196d89cb5a7"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"id-ID","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/europe-says-no-tar-sands-no-kxl\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Europe says NO to tar sands, NO to KXL"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/#website","url":"https:\/\/350.org\/id\/","name":"350 Indonesia","description":"Wujudkan Indonesia Bebas Energi Fosil. 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