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No Oil Trains!

Join us on July 12th at the Seattle Waterfront for an energetic public rally/action to say a resounding No to Oil Trains, to commemorate the 47 lives that were vaporized on July 6th, 2013 when an oil train exploded in downtown Lac Megantic, Quebec, and to demand a more sustainable and just future now.

Meet us between Piers 69 and 70 (on the corner of Clay St and Alaskan Way) at 11 AM. We will hear from speakers and youth; listen to a few musical performances; get a chance to connect with other concerned folks; and there will also be an opportunity to show our resolve. 

Ever more explosion-prone oil trains are passing through Seattle on their way to refineries in Skagit and Whatcom counties--endangering our communities, land, and waters. Politicians and regulators say that nothing can be done to stop interstate commerce, and that the best we can do is ask for safety measures (to make the tank cars less puncture-prone, and to improve our emergency preparedness for derailments, explosions, and spills). 

We don't want slightly safer oil trains and somewhat better information. We want no oil trains endangering communities and vulnerable ecosystems in our State and all across the country. Given the profound challenges of climate change, this is not a time to risk thousands of miles of watersheds and bioregions; it's time to keep the fossil fuels in the ground.

We will not allow Washington to become a fossil fuel corridor, with oil companies and railroads making huge profits by bringing Bakken crude and Canadian tar sands by rail to our ports and refineries.

We know that these refineries and proposed new oil terminals are likely to export both tar sands bitumen and Bakken crude (once the ban on US crude export is lifted). We know that Washington State is a prime target because of its access to export markets and cheaper rail transportation costs. And we know that improvements to tank car safety will take years to implement and that the Bakken crude oil boom is likely to decline after 2020: thus, oil and railroad companies will do anything to avoid expensive improvements to oil by rail safety.

Join us as we stand with residents of Lac-Megantic, with grassroots activists across our region and North America, and with 350.org, ForestEthics, Oil Change International, and the Sierra Club.

Lac-Megantic’s struggle is a grim reminder to us all: Big Oil will stop at nothing to extract, transport, and burn every drop of oil in the ground. No matter the risk, no matter the cost to public health, safety, and the climate, the oil industry will jump at every opportunity to profit.We say NO MORE.

No more exploding trains. No more tar sands. No more reckless endangerment of our communities and our climate! Join our event on July 12th.

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