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Following the Sandpiper: Pipelines As Modern Trade Routes

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As the quest for oil transport becomes the Manifest Destiny of our time, can we afford to assume someone else will be our guide and protect our water, land and ecology? Is social networking our only recourse?

We are a long way from energy independence and freedom from fossil fuels. The reality is that more pipelines and more trains will continue to haul oil to refineries on the Great Lakes and the Gulf shores. Where will we route this infrastructure? Don't we have the right to know proposed routing so that we can protect water and land resources?

Will we, as a nation, fall prey to "treaties" promising us riches beyond belief that big oil dangles? Will Congress and our President also lie to us, just as Jefferson did?

Will we wrap ourselves in oil and drown in the salty byproducts of fracking while we watch towns burn from train explosions and die of thirst after our aquifers are poisoned?

Will future generations have an archeological site that tells the tale of once prosperous farming communities that sold their heritage to big oil?

Think. Oil is the new fur.

Special Thanks to Alyssa Hoppe of Honor the Earth

See also "Native America, Discovered and Conquered" by Robert J. Miller

Cross Posted in LAProgressive


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