BY ANDREA HARDEN-DONAHUE | SEPTEMBER 2, 2011 Today the Council of Canadians joined with the Indigenous Environmental Network and Greenpeace Canada to send a clear message to Gary Doer (Canadian Abassador to the U.S.): stop lobbying for the Keystone XL pipline. We delivered a letter with this demand to Chris Plunkett, counsellor and spokesperson with the embassy, outside of the embassy in Washington. Doer was unfortunately unavailable to join us, he is currently in Winnipeg. We were a group of around fifteen Canadians present in Washington to support the ongoing unprecedented two weeks of non-violent civil disobedience sit-in outside the White House demanding Obama refuse to sign the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. We had large photos of tar sands operations to help passing public understand why we are present, and honestly, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. This is particularly true in the case of the tar sands, whose tailing ponds ar...
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