Thursday, March 15, 2012
Texas Landowners Fight Keystone XL Pipeline
The detailed environmental impact of XL pipeline allows for up to 1.7 MILLION Gallons A Day Leaking WITHOUT Triggering detectors that there is a leak.
Most of this oil will be refined on the Gulf Coast, we get the pollution, then, the gas will be loaded on tankers and sold overseas. Democrats in DC put up an amendment to the GOP's bill demanding the pipeline be built, the amendment stated the oil would be used in the USA. GOP defeated it.
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Fringe,
ReplyDeleteA lot of "facts" put out in support of the Keystone project seem flatly wrong. TransCanada claims the project will lessen US dependence on oil from other countries, but the way I read it, US-produced oil can and will be added to that piped from Canada and then it will be exported to Asia. TransCanada claims the project will create 20,000-30,000 jobs while an independent study gives figures of more like 2,500 to 3,000 temporary construction jobs. And parts of the construction would allow for oil to be pushed through thinner pipes at higher pressure. george W. Bush has said the pipeline construction project is a "no brainer" which to me means only people with no brains would support it.
Mister O, so glad to hear from you. Thanks. "no brainer', ha. Besides everything else that stinks about this, it is a corporate grab of private property at a price industry deems fair. In the video one guy got to put some demands on them before the had to cave, but he owned a lot of property, the guy with 20 acres is fucked, they won't pay one bit of attention to him, his best bet is leave, if he fights they will bankrupt him.
DeleteOK, better change that, leaving is not the best thing, as the guy indicated he intends to fight, and if we get caught by random events in such a struggle, we have to fight, even if we are going to lose. Mother Jones, or someone ??? said something like fights that we are going to lose may be the only ones that matter, it is an imperative. Well thats not exact, but you get the idea.
DeleteIf we are going to pay US taxpayers money (the few of us that do pay taxes) then shouldn't that oil benefit Americans?
ReplyDeleteGet on those emails/phones to your members of Congress about this.
Sarge
Sarge, I have a pile of emails to my two GOP senators and congressman and they all write back telling me to fuck off. I got another one today telling me they are going to level the playing field for energy by cutting alternative energy programs and tax breaks so as not to pick winners, all the time ignoring oil and coals tax breaks of billions, the winner is already picked. And it wasn't me.
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