This weekend will mark the second anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic oil train disaster in Quebec —a derailment and explosion that killed 47 people on July 5, 2013. Let us honor the lives lost, and work to make sure that no more communities have to experience such devastation.
We’ve been working hard to stop dangerous oil trains, and it’s time to take our fight to the next level. From July 6 to 12, thousands of people across the US and Canada will stand up to Big Oil’s explosive, toxic, climate-wrecking oil trains. I thought you’d want to get in on the action.
Be a part of the Stop Oil Trains Week of Action: RSVP to an event in your area.
We’re helping to organize 100 events across the US and Canada for the Stop Oil Trains Week of Action, and they won’t be a success without you.
Go to StopOilTrains.org to find an event in your area.
Big Oil will stop at nothing to extract, transport, and burn every drop of oil in the ground -- even if it means putting our communities at risk, shipping millions of gallons of volatile Bakken crude through our cities and towns. Oil trains are a disaster waiting to happen for our health, our safety, and our climate.
We CAN stop these dangerous oil trains from rolling through our communities, but it’s going to take all of us standing together.
Sign up at StopOilTrains.org now.
For our communities, our children and our climate,
P.S. Don’t see an action in your community? Sign up to host one!
Author Bio
Joëlle engages community members and diverse constituencies—faith, health, youth, parents, business—to make their voices heard for climate solutions. She led the team of organizers to ensure we stopped any coal export from the U.S. West Coast over the past decade. On offense, she co-led the Field team to help pass the 100% Clean Electricity (Clean Energy Transition Act in 2019) and in 2022 collaborated with the Field team to ensure that all new buildings (commercial and residential) will be built with heat pumps per the State Building Code Council. She continues to conspire for good with them on many other local and state initiatives.
Joëlle was the Regional Outreach Coordinator of National Wildlife Federation where she focused on mobilizing hunters, anglers and concerned citizens around solutions to global warming. Previous work with Climate Solutions includes the NW Climate Connections partnership, serving as the Field Assistant for the successful Clean Cars campaign, and Field Director of the Renewable Fuel Standard, which passed in April 2006.
She previously served on the boards of Earth Ministry, Solar Washington, and Sierra Club Executive Committee. She’s currently President of the board of her 3 year-old!
Joëlle is Northwest born and raised who loves to hike, dance, travel and explore the natural world.
Her favorite quote is “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver
