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This is a win for the environment worth celebrating.
Last week, we succeeded in bringing down a Goliath ... none other than Exxon Mobil.
Thanks to your activism, we forced the oil giant to back down in its
quest to turn a remote and wild stretch of the Rocky Mountains into an
industrial transportation corridor.
Exxon has formally withdrawn its application with the state of Montana
to ship thousands of mega-sized tractor trailers, filled with tar sands
equipment, along the pristine Lolo Pass, high up in the Rocky Mountains.
Since we first learned of Exxon’s plans in 2010, tens of thousands of BioGems Defenders like you stood strong in vocally opposing Exxon’s dangerous “mega-load” scheme.
Your messages to the state of Montana and the U.S. Forest Service helped
persuade officials to delay the project last year. Now, in the face of
overwhelming public opposition, Exxon has officially thrown in the
towel.
We couldn’t have done it without you.
Exxon’s frightening plan called for hauling mining equipment, some of it
as long as 210 feet and over 300,000 pounds, through this vulnerable
ecosystem and onward to Canada.
Not only would building the transportation corridor have destroyed one
of the most beautiful stretches of the Lewis and Clark trail, it would
have paved the way for Exxon to extract more oil through the dirty
process of tar sands mining.
In Canada, tar sands development has already caused devastation in the
boreal forest -- creating vast toxic waste sites, destroying critical
wildlife habitat for millions of migratory birds, and generating three
times the amount of global warming pollution as conventional fuel
production.
With this victory, residents in Rocky Mountain communities on both sides of the border can breathe easier.
I hope you’ll join with me in celebrating this momentous win. And thank
you again for fighting alongside NRDC to defeat Exxon Mobil.
Sincerely,
Frances Beinecke
President
Natural Resources Defense Council
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