Ellison, McCollum express concern about expansion of Keystone pipeline

Let’s see, an above ground oil pipeline flowing at 500 barrels per hour routed through tornado alley. What could go wrong? Besides, otter scrubbers need work too.

Praise Jebus, God hates anthropogenic atmospheric changes, Amen.

So why does this pipeline need to go to Texas? Why can’t they set up a refinery in ND or SD??

A one year old Keystone tar sands pipeline has leaked 12 times. In one spill a 60’ geyser of tar sands crude spewed21,000 gallons in North Dakota. This must be stopped.

See article at link: The first Keystone tar sands pipeline spills again – providing twelve reasons not to fast-track the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/aswift/the_first_keystone_tar_sands_p.html

If I didn’t know any better, that picture is of a section of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.

Google on the tar sands oil spill from an Enbridge pipeline that leaked over one million gallons of oil in the Kalamazoo River and surrounding waterways in Michigan last August. Try the article at http://www.onearth.org/article/michigan-oil-spill-tar-sands-concerns. I also came across concerns about the pipeline standards needing to be upgraded to handle the more corrosive tar sands oil.

First: how did this ever become an issue??? What sick twisted spawn of Satan thought it was a good idea to run an oil pipeline through the Great Lakes, especially oil sands pipeline???

The Great Lakes are THE major fresh water reserve this country has, it’s ecology is constantly under a variety of threats, and as the world runs out of fresh water sources the Great Lakes will become essential.

Republicans in Michigan are demolishing what used to be very good environmental protection laws. Next, they will authorize the destruction of Michigan’s environment, and the recreational tourism that goes with it.

This pipeline crosses the Ogallala Aquifer, the underground reservoir – a main source of irrigation water for agriculture, and the source of drinking water for two million people. A pipeline leak into groundwater would be disastrous. The Ogallala Aquifer spreads over an area seven times the size of Lake Huron, from SD to TX. Ruin it, and we’ll have a permanent Dust Bowl.

I’d urge all of you to contact both your representatives at the national level and also personnel from the Canadian Consulate in Minneapolis to complain about the incredibly awful tar sands environmental crime: http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/minneapolis/contact-contactez.aspx?lang=eng

There are alternatives,

On another note.

A modest suggestion. If you’re one of those ‘drill, baby, drill’ advocates, then how about we run the pipeline only through…

Solidly Republican/conservative areas. If you think energy efficiency and renewable energy are just liberal schemes for socialist takeover, if you just love the smell of crude bitumen in the morning with your coffee, then you should be thrilled to have big, leaky, bursting oil pipelines running through your communities and geyser-ing jets of delicious black stickiness into your wells and farm fields. Not to mention, Jesus is a huge fan of tar sands oil. You should be too.

Interesting. The Michigan Indy is reporting that the state’s DOT ordered the pipeline closed yesterday over environmental concerns. Nice to see Mother Nature still has defenders. Doesn’t Bachmann want to abolish the US EPA? Timely.

Praise Jebus, God hates a petroleum free aquifer, Amen.

Drat. The Keystone pipeline was cleared to reopen today.

James Hansen has recently stated that approval of this pipeline would make it “implausible to stabilize climate and avoid disastrous global climate impacts.”
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110603_SilenceIsDeadly.pdf
This pipeline project is about far more than the immediate environmental impact it would generate (as bad as those are themselves).

We need to applaud and support our Reps in their opposition to this project.