EPA, and now Interior Dep’t., contradict State Dep’t., slam Keystone XL Pipeline on potential environmental harm
Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 1:41 pm
An “independent study” on Keystone XL tar sands Pipeline was closely linked to fossil fuel companies. Quel surprise! If that’s what it takes to garner support, then this filthy undertaking should be scrapped ASAP.
Need more convincing? Just check out: VIDEO: Keystone XL tar sands “isn’t oil. This is a pipe-eating, planet-cooking, water-fouling goo. You can’t clean up tar.”
Allow me to remind you that the tar sands pipeline (scroll) is the “biggest carbon bomb on the planet.” Think Progress and Van Jones both remind us that the project will create only 35 permanent jobs, but will emit 51 coal plants’ worth of carbon. Plus, much of the oil would be exported elsewhere. We’d be way better off investing in clean energy instead of a costly, dirty catastrophe-in-waiting like the tar sands mess.
In a recent Gallup poll, nearly half in the U.S. say government should do more to protect environment, and 20 scientists pulled out of the project. Plus, the Arkansas pipeline rupture foreshadows devastating environmental impact. Nevertheless, it looks like the State Dep’t. is leaning toward approving Keystone, even though it would bring the dirtiest oil on earth through America.
Bill McKibben and NASA’s Jim Hansen both warn that it would be “essentially game over for the climate” if this crackpot project gets the go-ahead.
But now, a glimmer of good news: Two of three government agencies have come out swinging against the impact of this disaster-in-waiting on the environment. The Interior Department sent a 12-page letter warning that the tar sands project could have “long-term, damaging effects on wildlife.”
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