We hereby Demand that Calumet Oil abandon all planning and attempts to build and develop an oil terminal meant to facilitate shipments of tar sands crude and Backend fracking oil resources across Lake Superior and the other Great Lakes.
We request that this project abandonment be done by written declaration of their CEO - F. William Grube and the members of their board of directors - Fred M. Fehsenfeld, Jr., James S. Carter, William S. Fehsenfeld, Robert E. Funk, Nicholas J. Rutigliano, George C. Morris, III - immediately.
Why is this important?
Background:
Elkhorn Industries is working with Superior Calumet Refinery in an effort to build an oil shipping terminal at Connors Point in Superior, Wisconsin.
Tar sands and Bakken hydraulic fracturing oil resources will add to the disastrous carbon loading of our atmosphere that is exacting huge costs in destructive storms and chaos in our climate. Wasting 25 million dollars to establish great Lakes tanker shipping for short-lived fossil fuel resources is irresponsible and deplorable even if it could be done responsibly.
With more than 40 million people relying on great lakes water for their survival we will stand to defend the water and call for an end to the irresponsible continued development of these failed and disastrous fossil fuel resources. We demand the development and deployment of clean renewable energy sources now.
The Alliance for the Great Lakes released a report warning against shipment of petroleum products on the lakes stating “neither U.S. nor Canadian shipping fleets or ports are designed for large-scale transport of crude oil, and said neither government's regulatory system is prepared to deal with moving oil across the big lakes.
Alliance for the Great Lakes - Report
Oil and Water:
Tar Sands Crude Shipping Meets Great Lakes?
http://www.greatlakes.org/tarsands
