The NW's future depends on clean energy leadership

Climate Solutions has partnered with 40 NW organizations in signing a letter to NW Senators and a letter to House members asking them to oppose the proposed Exxon Tar Sands Machinery Shipment Corridor through the heart of the Pacific Northwest.

Read the letter to the Senators here and the letter to House members here (both letters contain more background on this issue).

"While those who contend that more fossil fuel dependence is necessary for jobs aren’t doing the math, our competitors are. Each day the Northwest deepens dependence on oil, we fall further behind in our century’s defining economic competition: for clean energy leadership. The Northwest’s future is not in the Alberta’s tar sands or Exxon’s drive to mine them. It’s in our abundant, indigenous natural and human resources – our proven capacity to innovate and invest in a cleaner, more efficient energy future."