Do you understand we have been running petroleum across this aquifer for decades in many pipelines without the problems the environmentalist have dreamed up?
I for the pipeline, but not its current route. I’m against running a pipe through one of the largest aquifers in the world that supplies a huge amount of irrigated water. 27% of the irrigated land in the U.S. overlies this aquifer which yields 30% of the nation’s groundwater used for irrigation. In addition, the aquifer supplies 82% of the drinking water for the people living within the boundaries of the aquifer.
(check the High Plains Regional Ground-Water Study: http://co.water.usgs.gov/nawqa/hpgw/factsheets/DENNEHYFS1.html )
Not to mention the fact that this is a state’s rights issues.
Do you understand we have been running petroleum across this aquifer for decades in many pipelines without the problems the environmentalist have dreamed up?
Why??
How could a pipeline running on top of the ground possibly threaten a underground water system?
Worst case scenario; if the pipeline had a catastrophic explosion, how would spilled oil on the ground pollute a underground water system?
Our country is clinically insane. We can't make any basic positive economic decisions anymore. We are paralyzed by misinformation and lack of logical decision making