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Saturday, September 21, 10:00 AM City Market ParkOn September 21st, the Sierra Club is partnering with 350.org and other groups to Draw the Line on the KXL pipeline through a National Day of Climate Action. More than 150 actions are planned across the country. In metro-KC, 350KC and the Thomas Hart Benton Group Sierra Club will join together to Draw the Line to Save the Missouri River. We'll gather at 10 a.m. in City Market Park and march north to the Missouri through the site of the original Town of Kansas carrying a mock pipeline, NO on KXL signs, and photos of the damage done by extracting tar sands bitumen and the inevitable spills. This National Day of Climate Action is intended to have as much impact as the Feb. 17th Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, DC, which more than 40,000 people attended, so we need a very large turnout to achieve our goal. Please go here to RSVP for the march and encourage your concerned friends and family to join us. We also have a Facebook event page under the name "Draw the Line to Save the Missouri River," so you can also tell us you plan to join us and invite your friends that way, too. The City Market is typically quite busy on Saturday mornings (that's why the rally will start there), so we recommend taking the Metro to the rally if possible. The Main Street MAX bus is a quick, comfortable ride from as far south as 74th & Broadway and stops at 3rd & Grand, just two blocks east of City Market Park. If you drive, please carpool and arrive early to find a place to park on the street (no meters) or in one of the free parking lots in the area that aren't reserved for City Market customers. If you have any questions, please phone Jim Turner at 816-982-1073. If built, the northern leg of KXL would allow the TransCanada corporation to bring up to 830,000 barrels of diluted bitumen, or "dilbit," per day from Hardisty in Alberta, Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, where it would be refined and sold on the world market. Synthetic crude oil made from bitumen is one of the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive sources of energy on the planet. President Obama promised in a speech in June that he would only approve TransCanada's application for a Presidential permit to build the northern leg of KXL if it "does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." In late-August, a coalition of organizations led by the Sierra Club and Oil Change International released a new report called "Fail: How the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Flunks the Climate Test" which makes unmistakably clear that KXL would enable oil companies to greatly increase production of tar sands bitumen and, consequently, greatly "exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution." KXL's planned route would also cross both the Missouri River and one of her major tributaries, the Platte River. One study concluded that a large spill into the Platte would contaminate the Missouri as far south and east as Kansas City. In late-July 2010, an Enbridge corporation pipeline spilled more than 800,000 gallons of dilbit into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, and it's still not cleaned up because, unlike oil, bitumen sinks to the bottom when it spills into water. Climate disruption also threatens the Missouri with more frequent prolonged droughts and more severe flooding in the occasional wet years. We look forward to seeing you at 10 AM Saturday Sept. 21 at City Market Park!Kansas City, MO 64105You'll be able to see the location and contact the event host after you RSVP.198 mi