| McKIBBEN reveals that the State Department worked with lobbyists to advance the interests of TransCanada, the company trying to build the Keystone XL pipeline from the tar sands of Canada across the center of the continent. Even as the State Department was supposedly carrying out a neutral evaluation of the pipeline's environmental impact, key players were undermining the process....we're talking about connecting a pipe to one of the largest pools of carbon on earth. Twenty of the nation's top scientists sent the administration a letter this summer explaining what a disaster it would be. According to NASA's chief climate scientist, James Hansen, if we tapped the tar sands heavily, it would be "essentially game over" for the climate.
Bill McKibben is a scholar in residence in environmental studies at Middlebury College, is a spokesman for tarsandsaction.org |
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