8/12/2019 Letter to Barack Obama 14-03-08 KXL

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TO: President Barack Obama . . . http://bit.ly/WriteBarack

Re: Environment, Energy, Climate & Economy

Deny Keystone XL. Reason #16:

I have written fifteen letters on fifteen di! erent issues relating to the assumptions andmethodology embedded in the EnSys WORLD model, as well as the lack of transparencyand the subtle subterfuge and obfuscation in specific sections of the FSEIS.

Now, I would like to make a final simple statement, one that I have written you in 170letters:

"We must abandon our reliance on the burning carbon-based fuels, we are poisoningthe planet."

Those are the words of Dr. George Woodwell, founder of Woods Hole.

At this time, I want to wrap up my commenting e! ort with a simple plea:

There is too much downside risk from the Keystone XL pipeline -- or any pipeline forthat matter -- which outweighs any upside benefit. The benefits are questionable atbest, but the downsides are disastrous. I have told Rex Tillerson and both of you in my

hundreds of letters over and over, not to venture where there is any possibility forMurphy's Law to make us regret having taken a specific course of action.

In this current case now under discussion, we cannot justify building the Keystone XLpipeline -- if the worst happens, IT WILL RUIN SOMEBODY'S DAY ... forever.

Please shift your way of thinking to apply this simple rule to all things energy. If thereis a risk that somebody's day will be ruined by a spill, explosion, leak, derailment, toxicplume, polluted stream, destroyed livelihood, tainted food or water source … don't gothere.

“All of the above” does not cut it for me. We need to begin retiring the refineries andreplacing the refineries with renewables. We need to stop feeding their demands

We need to engage the industrial captains -- Rex TIllerson and his colleagues -- tocollaborate on a unified plan that commits to retiring refineries in 20-30 years.

There is no benefit derived for true U.S. consumers of the human kind. Keystone XLhas no redeeming value.

Keystone XL contributes NOTHING to the National Interest.

I implore you to use this opportunity to launch a moral discussion around all pipelinesand rail methods of delivering tarsands of any sort and any source (Canada and U.S.) tomarket.

Leave the tarsands in the ground. Begin dismantling the fossil fuel infrastructure.

March 8, 2014