A few years ago the tar sand looked like this.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
tar sands oil pipeline lies
I spent a few days with a worker from a tar sands camp in Alberta. This person lives in one of the 2,500 people stacked trailer camps, your fired for taking any pictures in camp or on the job, any wolf or bear sighted is shot on sight.
Today it looks like this, miles and miles of stripped land, filled water ways, dead bears, dead wolfs. Oil companies and pipeline builders want us to believe this will be oil for the US, very little will be for us, Valero and others have already sold contracts for much of it to go to Europe and South America.
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I keep hearing it's going to China ...
ReplyDeleteI thought the whole objective was to reduce our
ReplyDeletedependence on imported oil - Now, I learn that the US is exporting oil. Here is the rub - jobs.
And, the Republicans are going to force Obama into making a decision on the Keystone X pipeline. I would suggest an alternate route that avoids the aquifers.
A win-win; if I may.
Ron
Kevin,
ReplyDeleteIf the Keystone is denied, then Canada will build a pipe (or a big pipe, I think they have a small one now going west) west to Vancouver port area to market it to China. But, the indians have a lot to say about that and they are against it going west over their tribal lands, either they can block it, delay it, or wring a costly price out of it the tar sands people don't want, they see the easiest path is to go through the US because the Kochs and their ilk own much of the approval process and legislature making it more profitable and quicker to pollute.
Ron, I don't see much win-win after the construction jobs are gone. From that point we get spills, just in the last few weeks there have been many pipeline spills, the biggest in Montana and another in Colorado, both killed fish in trout streams and gummed up 50+ miles of river before the could choke it off. Running it around the Nebraska aquifer is just putting it over another. It turns out for some crazy reason, the Nebraska farmers in one area are against it, while all along the path others are stupid enough to believe it will not harm the porous earth, sink into water tables, maybe that one area is the only one where the high school had a science class, or understands perculation, gravity, sponges, hydraulics.
Fringe:I can see it heading south to the refineries now along with the N Dakota oil. Jobs and money at stake and both are national priorities soooo.....Pop'
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