Letter to Rex Tillerson 13-04-30 Zuckerberg

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Douglas A. GrandtPO Box 6603

Lincoln, NE 68506510-432-1452

April 30, 2013

Mr. Rex W. TillersonExxonMobil Corporation5959 Las Colinas Blvd.Irving, TX 75039

Re: Mark Zuckerberg gets an overwhelming backlash on Facebook re Keystone and ANWR

Dear Mr. Tillerson,

April 26, at least two articles were published about Mark Zuckerbergs organization FWD.usand its funding made for TV video advertisements which support Keystone XL pipelineconstruction and drilling in ANWR.

I assure you, you too will soon be hearing similar sentiments loud and clear. Be prepared.

The responses trickled in initially, and late Friday night and over the weekend, the avalancheof disappointment in the news came crashing in ... this is the people speaking on Facebook,on Mr. Zuckerbergs own page. Other Facebook posts followed suit triggering angry replies.

FWD.us http://facebook.com/fwdusApril 26 at 9:11am

We're excited to announce Bill Gates, Brad Smith, Steve Ballmer and Sean Parker

have joined FWD.us.
https://www.facebook.com/fwdus/posts/301451739984747https://www.facebook.com/fwdus?ref=streamhttp://facebook.com/fwdushttps://www.facebook.com/fwdus/posts/301451739984747https://www.facebook.com/fwdus/posts/301451739984747http://facebook.com/fwdushttp://facebook.com/fwdushttps://www.facebook.com/fwdus?ref=streamhttps://www.facebook.com/fwdus?ref=stream


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367 people like this.

Wojciech Durmaj :))

April 26 at 9:11am Like

Maria Johnie Marinaki awesome! ^.^April 26 at 9:13am Like

Nicolas Serge I love Bill Gate, He's doing a good job!April 26 at 9:17am Like

Paul Arancibia Puede un viernes ser mejor que ste con una noticia como sta?April 26 at 9:17am Like 2

Paul Arancibia :-)April 26 at 9:18am Like 2

Marion Ingram This is such a great news having powerful people onboard..thumbs up for all the effort. :-)

April 26 at 9:20am Like 3

Joaquin Farinas Bill gates!!April 26 at 9:24am Like

Ingrid B Ruiz Such good news!April 26 at 9:26am via mobile Like

Tomohiro Mune The times chang!!!!!!

April 26 at 9:34am Edited Like

David R Leininger Others that need to be onboard are Bradley Jones and DustinWashington.

April 26 at 9:37am Like 1

Bloodu Suckerr Harsha KiranApril 26 at 9:37am via mobile Like

Sudarshana Sengupta awesome news! whats the strategy for convincing

members of the house of reps to vote for the bill?April 26 at 10:33am Like

The initial twelve comments up to this point were supportive of FWD.us.

But then the tone changed with a seriously negative series of simple links tothe two articles that appeared in ThinkProgress.com and Grist.com and thento a plethora which expressed outright disgust (highlighted in light gray):

Mr. Rex W. TillersonApril 30, 2013Page 2 of 17
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Prashant Ghimire awesome !April 26 at 3:44pm Like

Robert Serrato Jr. UNLIKED http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/

2013/04/26/1925921/mark-zuckerbergs-new-political-group-spending-big-on-ads-supporting-keystone-xl-and-oil-drilling/

April 26 at 4:57pm Unlike 6

Jan Furutani Wow! Zuckerberg, you just lost us. Your new campaign thatsupports both Repug and Dem issues is a fucking joke. The so-called "liberal" adthanks Sen Begich for drilling in ANWR? What planet are you on? What liberalhave you met that wants drilling in ANWR let alone any drilling? Why aren't youpushing for alternatives? Immigration reform is an issue that makes sense butKeystone and drilling in ANWR? See the link Mr Serrato posted above?Everyone, please read.


Arup Roy Is there a UK wing of this whole thing?April 26 at 5:11pm via mobile Like

Christian Olivo Bill Gates is in the house!April 26 at 6:16pm Like

Nuez Nereida Genial See TranslationApril 26 at 6:19pm Like

Bridget McCurry Why the fuck do you want to invest in a pipeline that will have azillion ruptures, and is only carrying sludge, that when in the refining process will

pollute like nobody's business, only to ship the fucking oil to China??April 26 at 7:06pm Unlike 7

Anais Franco Niceee!!!! that is progress... GREAT people are supportingcomprehensive immigration..

April 26 at 7:09pm Like 1

Doug Grandt I understand that FWD.us supports the Keystone XL pipeline andtarsands excavation as well as drilling ANWR. http://bit.ly/FWDusKXLnDRILL

Keystone XL and the tarsands bitumen that it intends to transport have noredeeming value. We need to start dismantling the carbon fuel infrastructure(including drilling, fracking, excavating, transporting, processing and combusting)

rather than continuing to expand it. Capital investments in renewable carbon-freeenergy technology must replace all investments in carbon-based infrastructureand production. The climate disaster is upon us and we must drop everythingand pull out all the stops to begin reducing CO2 and other greenhouse gasemissions. Keystone XL will commit us to a bad decision for several decadeswhen we are running out of time. The pipeline is all about getting desperatelyneeded feedstock to the refineries in the Gulf which are approaching theminimum operating capacity. Shutting down one refinery will eliminate the needfor the pipeline and the tarsand feedstock. Refineries and coal power plantsmust be scheduled for retirement over the next few decades if we want a . . .

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relatively soft landing instead of a crash landing from the carbon bubble ...acting with fiduciary duty requires CEOs to consider the deleterious effectsof not transitioning from carbon to carbon-free energy in their business plans.http://bit.ly/45dayKXLdgPlease reaffirm your past position which emphasized the importance ofmoving from dirty fossil fuels to clean renewable energy.

Mark Zuckerbergs New Political Group Spending Big On AdsSupporting Keystone XL And Oil Drilling thinkprogress.orgMark Zuckerbergs new political group, which bills itself as abipartisan entity dedicated to passing immigration reform, hasspent considerable resources on ads advocating a host of anti-environmental causes including driling in the Arctic NationalWildlife Refuge (ANWR) and constructing the Keystone XL ...

April 26 at 7:45pm Edited Like 17

John Irving I'm leaving Facebook and suspect many will as well. Morons...http://grist.org/news/mark-zuckerbergs-political-group-funds-ads-promoting-keystone-and-anwr-drilling/


Leigh Furches Stop supporting the destruction of our planet. Global climatechange is real and will only get worse with Keystone.


Sadie Tucker Shame on you for your support of the Keystone Pipeline. Onewould think that a group of so-called "tech" people would have a little more of anunderstanding of science and the devastation to our planet that the tarsandsrepresents.


Sadie Tucker And I'm not even going to get started on the drilling...

April 26 at 8:14 Unlike 7

John Irving There are countless environmental and progressive organizations

(and members) that have FB pages. I don't think they'll take too kindly to this, atall.


Joe M Lamb Keystone is the Selma of our times. If we don't stop this crazyproject there is no way we are going to keep climate change below catastrophiclevels. Building Keystone while trying to stop climate change is like an alcoholictrying to kick the habit by building a still.


http://grist.org/news/mark-zuckerbergs-political-group-funds-ads-promoting-keystone-and-anwr-drilling/http://grist.org/news/mark-zuckerbergs-political-group-funds-ads-promoting-keystone-and-anwr-drilling/http://grist.org/news/mark-zuckerbergs-political-group-funds-ads-promoting-keystone-and-anwr-drilling/http://grist.org/news/mark-zuckerbergs-political-group-funds-ads-promoting-keystone-and-anwr-drilling/http://bit.ly/45dayKXLdghttp://bit.ly/45dayKXLdg


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Rose England Harley Great immigration turned into drilling....and no one gives acrap they want imigration reform only for corp bottom line...Cheaper wages

April 26 at 8:35pm via mobile Unlike 8

Bonnie Barclay Why are you promoting the construction of a pipeline that willwreak havoc on our environment? Please stick to immigration reform andeducation reform. Those are things we actually need.

April 26 at 8:37pmpm Unlike 10

Chip Hood please stop ads encouraging the construction of the Keystonepipeline TY

April 26 at 10:17pmpm Unlike 7

Bala Vidya And I too Joined seeing the first advt on fb

April 26 at 10:38pm Like

Rita Pitkin shame on you for supporting the Keystone pipeline and other moneygrabbing, polluting, destroying, devastating and sickening ventures that will suckall of the oil and gas out of the planet so we can all swim in it and die - pleasesmarten up and do the right thing for all of us - stop supporting these devastatingindustries.


Michael Agnew i don't know why people would be surprised...the only reasonyou think any of these high flyers are even remotely moralistic is cause they areadept at marketing themselves. the scum are revealed!

April 26 at 11:14pm Like 2

Kathy Williams You should NOT be running tv ads supporting KEYSTONE XL.Why would any American want Canada to use & put our country's environment,water,wildlife, etc at such HIGH risk to build this pipeline thru our country? It hasbeen PROVEN pipelines break & leak. IF built , it WILL happen. Canada'sVERY dirty tar sands will Spill. This would only produce 35 permanent jobs. Andthe refined diesel oil from this would be EXPORTED. It does nothing for thiscountry. Corporate greed would be the only reason to support this. By supportingthis, your organization is telling the world what you REALLY stand for... GREED!


Rob Compton Keystone?? ANWR??? WTF???April 26 at 11:40pm Unlike 6

Len Conly To support Keystone is the wrong thing to do. The world's climatescientists are telling us we have to stop burning fossil fuels. Keystone will justadd to this problem. The money for Keystone should be used to developalternative energy sources that do not produce CO2. Shame on MarkZuckerberg! It is his generation that will suffer greatly from climate change.

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Len Conly Mark: How do I opt out of Facebook? Thank you.April 27 at 12:14am Like 3

Gaetano Marano ... this is another great project to support ...

http://www.kapipal.com/gotomarsApril 27 at 2:27am Like

Neil Goodwin Sorry to push in here, but I would just like to know to what extentthis article is true. Particularly the bit that says that 'FWD.US is bankrolling twosubsidiary organizations to purchase TV ads to advance the overarching agenda one run by veteran...See More


Carol Hoover please tell me your endorsement of drilling in the Refuge, andPebble Mine is not true: http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/04/26/1925921/mark-zuckerbergs-new-political-group-spending-big-on-ads-supporting-keystone-xl-and-oil-drilling/?mobile=nc


Malena Marvin Joined you in fighting FOR the Keystone XL pipeline? You shouldbe ashamed of yourselves.


Luisa Inez Newton Hey, what's up with supporting the Keystone Pipeline? Areyou insane?


Shawni Vincent-Cook Dirty bullies. You just completely discredited your entireagenda, if you even had an honest one in the first place. http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/04/26/1925921/mark-zuckerbergs-new-political-group-spending-big-on-ads-supporting-keystone-xl-and-oil-drilling/?fb_action_ids=10151561963993617&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other

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Whoopie Nomorenukes I shouldn't be surprised but I am. I've come to theconclusion that the very wealthy are not satisfied with "being rich". They wantMORE AND MORE WEALTH no matter the cost of human life. What happens to

a man's conscience when they make tons of money? CONSCIENCEDISAPPEARS. "FISHEAD" is the BEST description of all you guys. I will work atspreading the word about you. Social Media is GREAT that way, eh Mark andBill? We can get the word out instantaneously! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMEDOF YOURSELVES!


David Conners Keystone???? Maybe you should just fold this sham of a project.Disgust coming at ya - feel the love?


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Louise Stonington The pipeline is designed to raise gasoline prices in the US,(they call it relieving a glut in the midwest and allowing prices to adjust, meaninggo up) and for export to Asia. Why should we risk polluting our Midwest watersand fields for that? Let's invest in US made solar, wind, grid, battery and other

clean energy for profit, employment, export returns and healthier, safer America.Military experts say dependence on oil makes US vulnerable, and not just onforeign oil, but the industry as a whole. No more investment in future use of oilcoal and natural gas. Global warming is real, serious, and we are unbelievablyfoolish to be ignoring it. http://greenismoney.wordpress.com


Donna Flores Shameful. http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/04/26/1925921/mark-zuckerbergs-new-political-group-spending-big-on-ads-supporting-keystone-xl-and-oil-drilling/?mobile=nc


John Krauser 'Scuse me, but WTF is wrong with you people? Why do you hate

this planet? Why do you think money is more important than life? STOPKeystone XL NOW.http://org.credoaction.com/petitions/fwd-us-stop-running-ads-supporting-fossil-fuels

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Albert Poland Your support of Keystone is a disastrously wrong headed position.April 27 at 12:07pm Unlike 5

Gwen B. Fischer Check out what James Powell has to say: (http://www.jamespowell.org/): Namely that among 13,950 peer-reviewed articles aboutclimate change, authored by 33,700 scientists, only 24 articles clearly rejecthuman-caused global warming or endorsed another cause than increased CO2in the atmosphere.


Owen Plotkin FWD goes BKW ? http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-political-group-promotes-oil-and-gas-2013-4 Don't do it MarkZuckerberg


Terry Young Hey! So, I hear you guys are spending millions to promote theDrilling and Spilling of oil from Canada. You should make your statements, now.


Peter W Roughly 2/3 of the 60+ comments here are calling for a change indirection: stop supporting Keystone, ANWR drilling, and the like. Yet not evenone response from the people at FWD.us. Shameful.


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Mary Liz Thomson Fossil fuels are: horrible for our health, horrible for the planet,& a horrible for our future! Support climate justice, not dirty, destructive, anddangerous fossil fuels. We all want to get beyond this fuel, not squeeze the lastdrop.

April 27 at 12:51pm Unike 4

Leona Wood Walking backward into the future. How can supposedly smart, tech-savvy people be supporting such old-school, backward looking technology ideaslike KXL and Anwar drilling? Please explain why the .US can't do what Germanyhas done with solar power?


Lew Blaustein Comprehensive Immigration Reform, YES! Hopefully some ofthose immigrants who build their lives and businesses here will come up with thetechnologies that will reverse the climate crisis--the climate crisis that FWD.us isexacerbating by its support of Keystone XL and other fossil fuel projects.PATHETIC!


Dave Smiddy FWD_US is meaningless without any data describing the problemit solves and the efficacy of the FWD_US solution. Scope the problem, frame itin terms which are meaningful to voters, portray FWD_US initiatives in light ofother solutions, describe the consequences of in-action for Americans, showhow your solutions contribute to solving the top of mind economic issues. Nicelooking website otherwise . Peace.


Carol Schuster Your support for the KeystoneXL pipeline is the antithesis of'moving forward'. This even- dirtier fossil fuel source should be rejected outright.


Carol Hudson If you support the Keystone XL pipeline, drilling in the Arctic,fracking or other environmentally unsound exploitation, then I can no longersupport Facebook as a social media choice.


Gabrielle Reeves Carol and Carol take the words right out of my mouth. If this isreal, you're history.


Kathy Williams I read that you were behind the running of tv ads promoting &encouraging folks to support Keystone XL pipeline. The ad in SC is leadingpeople to believe that If Obama is against it, he's hurting the economy & somany jobs are lost. From what I've read, the country benefiting from this isCanada who wants to use the US to carry their VERY dirty tar sands toEXPORT. Our country is the one at HIGH risk cause pipelines DO & WILL leak.

And jobs/ This would produce only 35 permanent jobs. True Americans wouldn'tstand for this. But stooges for big oil & greed would. Must be what thisorganization is really about.April 27 at 9:34pm Unlike 3



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Luisa Inez Newton Hey, what's up with supporting the Keystone Pipeline? Areyou insane?Saturday at 9:59am Unlike 7

Kathy Williams Let me ad, this organization is misleading the public for their ownagenda - playing BOTH sides. Let me make that point - misleading!!!

April 27 10:37pm Unlike 1

David Conners Keystone???? Maybe you should just fold this sham of a project.Disgust coming at ya - feel the love?Saturday at 11:12am Unlike 6

Louise Stonington The pipeline is designed to raise gasoline prices in the US,(they call it relieving a glut in the midwest and allowing prices to adjust, meaninggo up) and for export to Asia. Why should we risk polluting our Midwest watersand fields for that? Let's invest in US made solar, wind, grid, battery and other

clean energy for profit, employment, export returns and healthier, safer America.Military experts say dependence on oil makes US vulnerable, and not just onforeign oil, but the industry as a whole. No more investment in future use of oilcoal and natural gas. Global warming is real, serious, and we are unbelievablyfoolish to be ignoring it. http://greenismoney.wordpress.comUnlike 4 April 27 at 11:15am

John Borden http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-political-group-promotes-oil-and-gas-2013-4This is disgusting. I don't care if you're playing politics. I don't care if it was anecessary compromise to win votes. I'm betrayed. We're betrayed. You told usyou would usher in change, reform, the good kind of reform and not the kind that

just ends up empowering the status quo. Instead, you spend money on lobbyingcampaigns that the vast majority of us don't agree with. Strongly don't agreewith.

It wouldn't have been so bad if it was the Koch brothers, I would've laughed alittle. Instead, it was a bunch of tech titans and pirates, role models for peoplelike me who spend their free time outside of their compiler class building coolthings with programming languages and tools they learned on their own time,because it was fun. Now I can't help but look at you all differently. Yes PaulGraham, even you.

It's on Reddit now. It's inevitable what will happen. We'll all know what you didand many of us will feel the same level of hurt and betrayal. If you're an in-the-

trenches employee, it's okay, money is money, hold on to it while it lasts, no oneneeds to know. Otherwise, if your handsome face is featured on the Supporterspage, get out, leave while you can, convince us you have a spine.April 27 at 11:41pm Unlike 2

Aryt Alasti I thought Bill Gates was about doing everything possible to solve theworld's problems. Now he's joining an organization which is lobbying forpractices which will exacerbate global warming, a relentless process thatscientific consensus tells us is going to result in the worst catastrophe thathumanity has ever faced!? What kind of legacy is that, Mr. Gates?

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Susan Barbara Dey This is still all about one thing & one thing only - money &power!! Don't be fooled! Bill Gates & Co are already in cahoots with Monsanto &others to spread poisonous wares throughout the world but more especially into

Africa in the guise of Aid!! Whereas in fact these GMOs are slowly but surely

poisoning the people whose main source of food is maize meal!!! And the SouthAfrican government is buying into it - the latter is not surprising given the level ofcorruption we know exists! So why would this group be any different?? VESTEDINTERESTS!! That's all it is!!

April 28 at 11:50am via mobile Unlike 2

Katharine Layton This merger is only good if the health and welfare of the peopleare top priority. In supporting the KXL Pipeline I see thast is not the case. Sadlyno good will come of this. Climate change can't wait.


Mark Adam Kratynski Stop Keystone XL. Stop the Tar Sands.


Kathy Williams Look on Think Progress and see how this group is usingpoliticians on both sides to mislead the public. They are financing misleading tvads to advance their own agendas.


Dean Deloach the shortage of tech workers is a myth - perpetuated bycompanies hoping to keep wages down for hard-working intelligent STEMworkers: http://www.inc.com/jana-kasperkevic/what-IT-job-shortage-STEM-study.html


Roberta Paro Which side are you on? Exploitation or preservation? Harming orhelping?


Lauri Reeder Think Progress reported that FED.us is bankrolling ads in supportof Keystone XL and ANWAR ....... immigration reform??? Need more info.......


Dave Finnigan Say "NO" to Keystone XL and 13 other projects that could pushus past the Point of No Return, and spell the end of the Earth as a habitableclimate for most living species, including humans. For details see http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/climate/

2013/PointOfNoReturn.pdfApril 29 at 8:03am Unlike 1

Doug Grandt Who is next to join FWD.us.NoKXL? Let's invite Mark Zuckerbergto engage in a discussion about the facts surrounding Keystone XL, tarsands,dilbit, drilling in ANWR and the Gulf -- all counter to the scientific evidence thatcalls for as simply stated by George M. Woodwell, Ph.D., Founder and Directorof Woods Hole Research Center: "We must quickly abandoning our reliance onburning fossil fuels. We are poisoning our planet."Watch http://bit.ly/2009Woodell-1 and http://bit.ly/2009Woodwell-2(continued . . . )

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Boston's Night To Combat Climate Change - George M.Woodwell (Part 1) www.youtube.comPart 1 of George M. Woodwell, Scientist at the Woods HoleResearch Center in Woods Hole MA share his thoughts at

Boston's Night To Combat Climate Change, Nov...

April 29 at 9:52am Like

Scott Bailey Echoing those who have chided you for supporting Keystone anddrilling in ANWR. What the hell are you thinking?


Mike Reger As many others have noted by commenting in all your previousposts, what exactly does your supporting Keystone XL And Oil Drilling have to dowith your stated agenda on Immigration Reform, Education Reforms or Supportfor scientific research? http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/04/26/1925921/

mark-zuckerbergs-new-political-group-spending-big-on-ads-supporting-keystone-xl-and-oil-drilling/April 29 at 12:50pm Unlike 1

M Gloria Hernandez your boss needs to stop giving money to keystone pipeline.using the immigration issue to become a troll does not benefit anyone.


Bob Jones Wow! All the 1 percenters. How thrilling that you are no longeragainst the corporations and the evil rich.


Lisa Harrington Unbelievably dangerous to support KXL pipeline. None of t. he

founders/funders are students of current events, are you? Citizens United mightjust have gone to your heads, along with the billions of dollars FWD.us folkcollectively rake in. Step back and take a look at the real world, folks. You all sayyou want to help and certainly are in a position to do so but we've heard that lineof BS before. Shame on you.


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Oscar Zaragoza If he wants it so badly, why not let it pass through his backyard?Like Reply 213 April 29 at 3:17 via mobile

Mike Melnyk Zuck you, Mark.

Like Reply 127 April 29 at 3:16pm

Tim O'Donoghue What the FRACK, Zuck? Get a clue!Like Reply 8 April 29 at 3:16pm

Dean Stewart Are you now in the Kochpocket crew???Like Reply 4 April 29 at 3:16pm

Dave LeFevre greedLike Reply 5 April 29 at 3:17

Patricia E. Ortman What a twerp.Like Reply 2 April 29 at 3:17pm

Mary Rapp Shame on you Zuckerberg!!!Like Reply 10 April 29 at 3:18pm via mobile

Frank Asher Wonder how much $$ he is getting for that?Like Reply 5 April 29 at 3:18pm

Charlotte von Wald and people still dont believe that he's a douchebag?!?!?!Like Reply 2 April 29 at 3:18

Lymee Britt Become another rich ass wankerLike Reply 3 April 29 at 3:18pm via mobile

Fred B. Mullett His ads are in support of some rather disagreeable politicianswho favor immigration reform like he does. From the ones I have seen, he is notdirectly supporting Keystone or drilling in ANWAR; just the distasteful people like(gag, puke) Lindsay Graham.Like Reply 5 April 29 at 3:19

Nicoline Smits Keep this up Zuckerberg, and people will migrate to Google+after all.Like Reply 4 April 29 at 3:19pm

Michael Sodos I always knew that Zuckerburg was a moron at heart! The KXLpipeline will destroy all in it;s path!Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:19pm Edited

Wayne Langley douche bag with too much money...what do you expect?Like Reply 2 April 29 at 3:19pm

Rick Nooft Another self made millionaire who has been corrupted by greedycorporate America.Like Reply 4 April 29 at 3:19pm via mobile



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Robin Proctor Well, I guess it is Zuck, you suck!Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:20pm

Brendan Dagan i hate this as much as the next activist but this is cutting our

noses off to spite our faces. this oil WILL be cultivated and we are still dependentso the question is whether we buy from ourselves or another country. Canadawill produce so we need to ask if we want to send this off or utilize it forourselves.Like Reply April 29 at 3:20pm

Kate Crowley As FB users WHAT can we do - does he still own and profit fromthis company??Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:20pm

Michael K. Hampu He's listed as a stockholder in the pipeline.Like 4 April 29 at 3:21pm

Larry Shea Funny, it won't let me share it.Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:21pm via mobile

Pamela Smith WTF??? you're young...you should want breathable air undsummers under 130 degrees!!! Your $$$$ cannot save you from thisenviornmental mess.Like Reply 3 April 29 at 3:21pm Edited

Michael K. Hampu He's listed as a stockholder in the pipeline.Like 5 April 29 at 3:21pm

Kristin Gamzon Cook this could be the end of me using facebook plus their new

ads are super annoyingLike Reply 4 April 29 at 3:21pm

Nathan Thomas Mentley isn't fwd.us about immigration reform? Or did I misssomething?Like Reply 1 5 minutes ago April 29 at 3:22pm

Leon Bacud He isn't corrupted by it, he represents it.Like 3 April 29 at 3:22pm Edited

Reda StCyr Don't the guy have enough money? I mean damn When is enough,ENOUGH?Like Reply 4 5 April 29 at 3:23

Janice Keiserman MZ why on earth would you support something so potentiallydangerous hideous and everlasting that ruins any and scale it touches? Thereason Canada exports this crap thru the USA is because Canadians don't wantthe dirty filthy tar sands going to their ports though their countryside. Ever thinkof that?Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:23pm via mobile

Jim Schatte No morals only greedLike Reply April 29 at 3:24 via mobile



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Grannie Cool Try again. I was able to.Like April 29 at 3:24pm Edited

Tim Kelly How much did it take to buy you Zuckie? Don't you already have

enough?Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:24pm

Hunt Cooley what the... ZUCK?!Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:24pm

Jeannie Fritz Greed will always pander to Greed and profit$$$$$ ! Always overhumans and what is right.Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:24pm

Janice Keiserman Ruins any "landscape" (damn spellcheck!)Like Reply April 29 at 3:24pm via mobile

George Armlin This would be a good reason for me to dump facebook, howabout everybody else!Like Reply 1 April 29 at 3:25pm Edited

Suni Ahmad Grant When you get a ton of money, it becomes intoxicating andturns you into a greedy monster.Unlike Reply 2 April 29 at 3:25pm via mobile

Merle W Bailey Hey Mark, your politics zuck! Got a portfolio full of fossil fuelhuh?Like Reply April 29 at 3:26pm

Kay Janet this stinks... sort of like the GMO Labeling proposition... too muchmoney! Like Reply April 29 at 3:26pm

Danielle Charney miserable greedy twit he isLike Reply April 29 at 3:26pm

Grannie Cool This oil will do the USA NO GOOD AT ALL. It is being shipped toChina. It is far to filthy to pass USA standards for emissions. Tar Sands are not'normal' oil. That's why it has to be shipped somewhere that doesn't care.Canada won't use it either !Like April 29 at 3:26pm

Patricia Shehan Bathgate Mutherzuker!Like Reply April 29 at 3:27pm

Christopher R W Harwood ya right...that will never happen..their only delayingthis pipeline so the Canadian company can keep seizing more peoples land..aforeign company using our own constitution against us..smfh..Like Reply April 29 at 3:27pm

Tom Strothers Evading taxes now evading social responsibility. Go figure.Like Reply 4 April 29 at 3:29pm



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Shannon Lovelady @Brandon Dagan: You make a fair point and it's one that Ihave read over extensively. The odds are incredibly high that any energygleaned from the tar sands will be sold on the world market, not kept in the US.It's one of the many deceptions about the project. It's purely for profit.

Like Reply April 29 at 3:27pm

Penny Ryan Because poisoning this ONE AND ONLY planet shouldn't be anoption.Like Reply 3 April 29 at 3:29pm via mobile

Rob Koch Well, he is in thier little club now it seems.Like Reply 4 April 29 at 3:36pm

Danielle Masek Jesus. I swear once you make beyond a certain amount ofmoney, your morals go in the fucking toilet. WITHOUT FAIL.Like Reply 4 April 29 at 3:42

Katherine J. Kaye MarkieZ, there is no excuse for KXL. It's unscientific gutting ofresources so stupid rich people can store art in underground vaults whileoutside, entire populations are displaced by climate change. It does sweet Fanny

Adams for the US economy and all too much for the Koch Bros., and even if theyare your third cousin's uncles once removed you owe them nada. So quit it.Like Reply 7 April 29 at 3:36pm

Karen Egan I own FB stock and this is not what I thought you would do with mymoney. Do your research. What is in in for you? Afraid of making enemies?Come on Mark, you are clearly on the wrong side of the aisle on this one.Explain to us why you would want this so ??? I agree, then put it in yourbackyard.

Like 1 April 29 at 3:49pm

The comments continued to pour in endlessly . . . here are some of the final few dozen:

Celso Antonio Pastrani We treat this planet like we had a plan "B" planet. Ourgeneration will probably see the beginning of the end.

April 29 at 4:09pm Unlike Reply 1 via mobile

David Lions Keystone pipe line is corporate welfare. I've watched a lot skeam'sbefore and Keystone if aloud to happen will be just like Global Crossing, Phoneline across the Atlantic & the telagraf across the Atlantic before that. in the endthe original inverters will all sell out while those buying in get taken for everydime.


Gary Lee Drop facebook until he stops supporting the pollution of our aquaifiers,for idiots like Zuckerburg I mean water. Even the 1 per cent has to drink water,Mark.Unlike Reply 1 April 29 at 5:26pm via mobile



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Andre Hotchkiss He may be the founder of Facebook, but he should also learnsomething about the science of environmental protection. Becoming a billionaireover night does NOT make you instantly wiser.Like Reply April 29 at 5:53pm

Donovan Johnson I'm with Mark. Enough with this treehugger BS! Let the barrelsroll! We have a pipeline going through Minnesota, from Canada. Very fewproblems. Sadly, Canadian oil/gas doesn't lower the price at the pump. We needmore oil from the W. Hemisphere! Stop the opposition. Bunch of folks with timeon their hands!

April 30 at 9:23am Like Reply 1

Ian Rowberry Immigration reform - fine. Oil expansion and pipelines? NOT fine.Where's the transparency here, rich dudes? Or does FWD actually stand forFine With Drilling?


At the time I bring this letter to a close, there are 6,524 shares and 350 comments.

One final comment seemingly makes reference to ExxonMobils Pegasus. Be Prepared!

Pat Havens Stop the keystone xl pipeline before we wind up with tar sands in allour neighborhoods!

April 29 at 10:53pm Unlike Reply 3

Enter http://bit.ly/CREDO-KXL-FWD-US into your browser and take a look.

Imagine these comments are directed to you. You alone have an opportunity to redeemyourself and ExxonMobil by rallying your colleagues to cooperate and announce theretirement of one refinery which would otherwise continue to demand feedstock fromthe Alberta tarsands. Reducing demand for feedstock eliminates need for a pipeline to deliver tarsands from Canada to Texas and Louisiana refineries, Valero, ExxonMobil orany of the dozens of hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex-fineries that demand to be fed.

Refining production will decline with a carbon fee. You know that. Delaying the inevitableis fiducially irresponsible. Call for a carbon fee and begin shutting down the refineries.

Show true fiduciary duty and responsibly, and take bold, courageous, moral action.

For humanity

For our progeny

For your own legacy

For a fellow Eagle Scout

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