Jobs... reliable source... energy independence....
The whole job-creation scenario wilts in light of the new-energy jobs taken away by pursuing bitumen as an energy source.
How could a product destined for the global market be spoken of in terms of U.S. energy security? Besides, even at maximum exploitation, Dilbit could supply only about 2% of U.S. energy consumption.
Keystone XL's threat to vital U.S. resources peaks out by crossing nineteen miles of the Ogallala aquifer with zero special precautions....
Latest
polls show battle lines being drawn between disinformation and
awareness. Disinformation has healthy financial backing. Awareness faces
austerity, if not poverty.
A flash of light: the L.A. Times' recent online poll has 25% of respondents saying yes to construction of Keystone XL, while 75% say no.
Barack Obama is in the sticky situation of trying to sell a pipeline squeezing DilBit through the U.S. heartland, to feed the international market, as somehow in the nation's best interests. Extreme public risk for nothing but corporate profits. Or, as TransCanada put it "... a boon for corporate profits, but a burden for American consumers."
Keystone XL is a tar baby if ever there was one.
Does the President have the cojones to, at least for the sake of public health, stand up and say no to Big Tar?
The whole job-creation scenario wilts in light of the new-energy jobs taken away by pursuing bitumen as an energy source.
How could a product destined for the global market be spoken of in terms of U.S. energy security? Besides, even at maximum exploitation, Dilbit could supply only about 2% of U.S. energy consumption.
Keystone XL's threat to vital U.S. resources peaks out by crossing nineteen miles of the Ogallala aquifer with zero special precautions....
A flash of light: the L.A. Times' recent online poll has 25% of respondents saying yes to construction of Keystone XL, while 75% say no.
Barack Obama is in the sticky situation of trying to sell a pipeline squeezing DilBit through the U.S. heartland, to feed the international market, as somehow in the nation's best interests. Extreme public risk for nothing but corporate profits. Or, as TransCanada put it "... a boon for corporate profits, but a burden for American consumers."
Keystone XL is a tar baby if ever there was one.
Does the President have the cojones to, at least for the sake of public health, stand up and say no to Big Tar?
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