Posted on 12/12/2011 3:10:57 PM PST by jazusamo
Thank you for taking the time to look that up and post it!
Let's face it. Any agriculture land would have big problems if the pipeline leaked. That's why they're built not to leak. The Alaska pipeline, operating in much more extreme conditions, has been very successful operating safely.
state dept of arabs.
10-4.. thanks !^)
What state is saying is that if Congress forces a vote on the pipeline they will stop it by regulations and BS.
They will deny the wish’s of the Congress and back Obamalamadingdong in stopping it by hook or by crook.
There is no upside for this administration , no kick backs, not dealing green here but oil and energy.
obama is doing his very best to make us more and more dependent on other countries for oil.
It sounds like the ‘RATS are “outraged” because they wanted Barry Soetoro to get all of the credit for “scuttling” the Keystone pipeline.
Media & Organizer Contacts:
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Native American and Canadian First Nations To Take Part In Largest Act of Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline
Time to show President Obama our faces, our passion, and our determination! Make a donation of just $5 - yep, that’s it, just $5 (more is welcome - but we know times are tough right now) and we’ll virtually send everyone to the White House, we’re also going to send your message to Secretary of State Clinton, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Prime Minister Harper — we want them all to know we are not going to stand by while our lands, water, and human health are being risked for profit that benefit few, and leave the rest of us fighting for our lives.
http://www.ienearth.org/stop-keystone-xl/victory-with-delay-of-the-keystone-xl.html
Marty Cobenais, Indigenous Environmental Network, Keystone XL Pipeline organizer says: “I applaud President Obama for standing up for Mother Earth, and making this decision. This is an important first step to stop the expansion of the tar sands.”
Tar Sands Students, a newly formed group of high school students who oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, partook in its first action last Thursday: a meeting with Assistant Secretary of State Kerri-Ann Jones.
No environmental group has yet obtained a meeting with a State Department official who is higher than Jones, so it was notable that a high school group was given that level of access. Further indication that we were taken seriously is that Jones spent the full 50 minutes meeting with us, and also brought approximately eight other State Department employees to the meeting, among them her Principal Deputy, her Special Assistant, the Keystone XL Environmental Impact Statement Project Manager and National Environmental Protection Act Coordinator, and several policy analysts, assistants, and aides.
The “Piratical Right” is directly responsible for millions of people dying, getting sick, losing their jobs and homes, losing their ability to fight, their spirit, and even losing their will to live. The sick smell of this carnage now permeates the air across America.
To us, this is all unimaginable, because we look for some sense or the morality of things. These modern-day American pirates however, have no moral compass. They are devoid of any conscience, humanity or soul, and are feeding on the flesh of the American people.
Don’t look to the President, the Senate, Congress, the press, or any political party to help. Sadly, they just don’t see it, don’t care, or are part of it. “We the people” are on our own. Start asking questions. Demand answers. If we don’t fight back America…who will?
History has taught us how to stop piracy.
By Mr. S. Pimpernel 10/10/2011
Background: I have secretly worked inside of a famous Right Wing organization plus, have 30+ years working with the Fortune 100 and face-to-face with their Presidents. If anyone thinks my comments are over-the-top, then I suggest they put a couple of good researchers and accountants on it and crunch their own numbers.
“We’re very glad the Sandhills are safe; now we just have the atmosphere of the entire planet to worry about,” said Bill McKibben, a leading U.S. climate change specialist and one of the masterminds behind the environmental movement’s opposition to Keystone.
For months, the American environmental movement held up the Ogallala aquifer as one of the primary reasons why U.S. President Barack Obama had to stop the $7-billion pipeline that aims to carry 700,000 barrels a day of oilsands crude through six American states to Gulf Coast refineries.
Obama himself raised concerns about the pipeline’s route in a recent interview with a Nebraska radio station.
http://www.billmckibben.com/images/billmckibben.jpg
Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him ‘the planet’s best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was ‘probably the country’s most important environmentalist.’ Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bill grew up in suburban Lexington, Massachusetts. He was president of the Harvard Crimson newspaper in college. Immediately after college he joined the New Yorker magazine as a staff writer, and wrote much of the “Talk of the Town” column from 1982 to early 1987. He quit the magazine when its longtime editor William Shawn was forced out of his job, and soon moved to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
His first book, The End of Nature, was published in 1989 by Random House after being serialized in the New Yorker. It is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has been printed in more than 20 languages. Several editions have come out in the United States, including an updated version published in 2006.
Tell the State Dept and The Hildabeast to Shut Up and go away
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