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Media advisory - CEP President to Oppose Keystone XL in New York City
OTTAWA, Jan. 16, 2013, 2013 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) --
The National President of the
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) Dave
Coles will be in New York City to oppose the proposed Keystone XL
pipeline and call on US President Barack Obama to reject the project.
President Coles will be part of a panel discussion on the role of trade
unions in confronting the climate crisis organized by the Worker
Institute at Cornell and the Joseph S. Murphy Institute at CUNY.
"As Canada's largest energy union, CEP has always believed strongly that
the climate crisis must be addressed in the most pressing terms," said
Coles. "It is why we oppose export pipelines such as Keystone XL that
sell off our oil resources and kill jobs in the process."
CEP believes that it is necessary to transition away from fossil
energies by reducing emissions and investing in green energies while
ensuring a just transition for energy workers and their communities.
President Dave Coles will represent Canada's energy workers and share
this vision during the event in New York.
What: Labor Breakfast titled "Confronting the Climate Crisis: Can Labor Help
Shape an Effective Strategy"
Who:
-- Dave Coles, President, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers
Union, Canada
-- Bhairavi Desai, Executive Director, New York Taxi Workers
Alliance
-- Hector Figueroa, President, Local 32BJ, Service Employees
International Union
-- Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for
Space Studies
Where: City University of New York (CUNY), New York
When: Thursday, January 17, 2013 from 8:30am to 10:15am
Dave Coles will be available for comment before or after the speaking
event. Full event details available here.
The Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada is the
largest union in several key sectors of Canada's economy, including
forestry, energy, telecommunications and media. CEP represents some
35,000 members employed in oil and gas extraction, transportation,
refining, and conversion in the petrochemical and plastics sectors, and
120,000 members in total.
SOURCE: COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY AND PAPERWORKERS UNION OF CANADA
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SOURCE: COMMUNICATIONS, ENERGY AND PAPERWORKERS UNION OF CANADA
or to arrange an interview: Dave Coles,dcoles@cep.ca, cell: (613) 299-5628 Yves
Engler,yengler@cep.ca, cell: (613) 402-2253
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