<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><B style="RIGHT: auto">Ellen writes,</B></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><B>"Here's a little something for Henry to read . . ."</B></SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"><B>Do you have any empirical evidence King Henry has acquired this skill?</B></div></SPAN>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" dir=ltr><WBR><B>Here's a little something for Henry to read so he will know exactly how some Canadians feel about their Government's part in the oil sands. Pollution does not recognize national <SPAN id=misspell-3>boundries</SPAN>. . . . it impacts us all. </B><WBR> <WBR><B>Ellen A. Roskovich</B> <WBR>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"><B><I><SPAN style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Washington DC: <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,0)">The Indigenous Environmental Network (<SPAN id=misspell-7>IEN</SPAN>) is a national environmental justice and indigenous rights organization taking part in the largest act of civil disobedience in decades happening in front of the White House in Washington D.C. from <SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">August 20 to September 3, 2011</SPAN>.</SPAN></SPAN></I></B></div>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"><IMG border=0 align=left src="http://media.jbanetwork.com/image/cache/9/5/7/1/5_w175_h99_s1_PT0_PR15_PB0_PL0_PCffffff.png" width=190 height=99>The purpose of these actions is to send a direct message to President Obama to deny approval of the 1,702 mile Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline would be transporting pollution from the tar sands (also known as <SPAN id=misspell-8>oilsands</SPAN>) of Canada to the United States by carrying 900,000 barrels per day of thick, corrosive, toxic, synthetic crude oil for refining in Texas and the Gulf States. If approved, the Keystone XL would lock the US into a dependency of energy intensive, hard-to-extract dirty oil and create a massive expansion of the world’s dirtiest and most environmentally destructive form of oil development currently taking place in northern Alberta Canada. These
operations are already producing 1.5 million barrels per day and having horrendous environmental justice and human rights impacts on the way of life and health of the local Native communities of Cree, Dene and <SPAN id=misspell-9>Métis</SPAN>.</div>
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greater threat, given that the pipeline would run directly through the <SPAN id=misspell-10>Ogallala</SPAN> aquifer, which supplies one-third of our nation’s ground water used for irrigation, and drinking water to 2 million citizens.</div>
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Nations of the US and Canada.</div>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0pt"><IMG border=0 align=left src="http://media.jbanetwork.com/image/cache/2/1/9/4/0/8_w150_h200_s1_PT0_PR15_PB0_PL0_PCffffff.jpg" width=165 height=200><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><B>“Nature is speaking, but Obama is not listening.</B></SPAN> The Keystone XL pipeline is a 1,700 mile fuse of the world’s largest carbon bomb. The Canadian tar sands, the proposed Keystone XL and all the other current and proposed pipelines are weapons of mass destruction leading the path to triggering the final overheating of Mother Earth”, says Tom BK <SPAN id=misspell-11>Goldtooth</SPAN>, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. “President Obama made promises to Native Nations and here is an opportunity for him to honor those promises and be a man of conscious by standing up to corporate power and say NO to the Keystone XL
pipeline.”</div>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">National Native organizations such as the National Congress of American Indians, the oldest and largest Native organization representing Native Nations are <A style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,238); FONT-SIZE: 11px; TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/tools/refer.php?s=4162156451&u=24427399&v=3&key=95d6&skey=d67ada9296&url=http://www.ncai.org/News-View.19.0.html?%26no_cache%3D1%26tx_ttnews%5btt_news%5d%3D788%26tx_ttnews%5bbackPid%5d%3D9%26cHash%3D502b7aedd0" rel=nofollow target=_blank>calling for a moratorium and better management practices</A> on expanded tar sands development and opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. <SPAN id=misspell-15>NCAI</SPAN> requests the U.S. government to take aggressive measures to work towards sustainable energy
solutions that include clean alternative energy and improving energy efficiency.</div>
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<div style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0pt; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0pt">Alberta and its tar sands oil are landlocked, and without more pipelines to transport them to the either Canadian coast or to the U.S. Gulf coast, that is where the dirty, high-carbon fuel source will stay. All too frequently, industry has tried to “play the Asia card” when talking about Keystone XL. They make the false claim that if Keystone XL is not built, tar sands will be extracted and will be sent to Asia instead. This could not be further from the truth—at the moment it is largely impossible; the infrastructure simply does not exist and is not likely to be built any time soon.</div>
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