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US Tar Sands campaign statement on Keystone pipeline delay:

The Market is shifting, and now the government is heading away from
Canada's Tar Sands
Contact: William Craven, 415.407.3426
November 10th, 2011

ForestEthics US Campaigns Director Aaron Sanger today made the following statement about the Obama Administration's announcement regarding the Keystone XL pipeline review process:

"The Obama Administration's decision to send the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline back into review, and delay approval by at least a year, strikes a huge blow to an oil industry that is used to doing whatever it wants at the public's expense. With 13 Fortune 1000 companies having publicly announced action to avoid or reduce consumption of tar sands fuel, and more than a half dozen other major US companies having taken private action unfavorable to tar sands, the tar sands industry is seeing leading players in its primary market drawing the line.  Here's to continued market courage and leadership---and to decisive US government action against the problem of Canada's Tar Sands in 2012."

ForestEthics' campaign to help Fortune 1000 companies avoid tar sands fuel is now entering its third year. To date 13 major brands have publicly taken action against the toxic fuel, with more to be announced in the next month.

ForestEthics also is at the forefront of a movement in Canada to stop Enbridge's proposed pipeline from the tar sands in Alberta to the coast of British Columbia.

In early 2009 ForestEthics helped put the tar sands controversy on the White House's radar when it ran a full-page ad in USA Today on the occasion of President Obama's first state visit to Canada. The ad run received significant media attention Canada and the United States.

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