{"id":15738,"date":"2013-07-02T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15738"},"modified":"2013-07-02T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T14:12:28","slug":"mayflower-arkansas-resident-petitions-obama-to-reject-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/mayflower-arkansas-resident-petitions-obama-to-reject-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower, Arkansas Resident Petitions Obama to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marshland near Mayflower, Arkansas coated in spilled tar sands oil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a major speech last week on climate change, President Obama reassured the environmental community<\/a> that the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a> would only be approved by his administration if it\u00a0“does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.” No doubt many who live along the proposed route of the pipeline found that reassuring, also. Of course, there are likely many climate change “skeptics” along that route, also… but they may still oppose the pipeline for its potential to rupture and dump tar sands oil in their communities. Those opponents of Keystone XL<\/a> got a little more ammunition for their fight this week from a new but well-funded online campaign<\/a> called We Love Our Land<\/a>. The campaign’s first act: reminding people of a very recent pipeline disaster that has all but destroyed one small community, \u00a0and sickened many of its residents:<\/p>\n