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Canadian High Commission Responds to letter delivered by AYICC Kenya members

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Its not often that you expect responses to letters when you deliver them to so-called 'High places'.In this case the Canadian High Commission, but Alas, at times they do write back and this is what happened in this case! On Wednesday August 31, 2011, a group of AYICC Kenya and 350 Kenya members led by David Wainaina the Programs Coordinator delivered a letter to the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi  in a global effort to stop the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from the Canadian tar sands to the United States . This was in solidarity with Americans led by 350.org among others who were   taking part in two weeks of civil disobedience f rom August 20th - September 3rd, 2011 aimed at persuading President Obama to deny a permit for the pipeline.  The Letter stated in part: '' Canada must stop lobbying for the development of the Keystone XL pipeline and shut down the tar sands extraction operations. It is not right for Canada to be pushing tar sands development