Robert Ariail for January 25, 2012

For an opposing point of view:

http://blog.nwf.org/2011/07/10-reasons-congress-should-not-rush-proposed-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline/

1.TransCanada’s brand new Keystone tar sands pipeline has spilled 12 times in 12 months. 2.The toxic chemicals that will flow through Keystone XL haven’t been disclosed to emergency first responders. 3.Keystone XL’s spill frequency and worst-case scenario spill have been seriously underestimated. 4.TransCanada is strong-arming American farmers opposed to Keystone XL’s route through the Ogallala Aquifer. 5.Existing pipeline safety standards are failing to protect public health and the environment. 6.Regulators have said that tar sands may cause more “wear and tear” on pipelines. 7.Tar sands were implicated in all the worst pipeline spills in the U.S. and Canada over the last year. 8.Pending legislation in the House and Senate acknowledge that tar sands pipelines may be risky. 9.Michigan’s Kalamazoo River is still contaminated from a tar sands pipeline spill a year ago. 10. Keystone XL’s environmental review has taken so long because it’s been flawed by bias.

Hey you, yea you, in that line, any truckers? Go around Obama and haul the sand over the line to the nearest pipeline in the U.S.!

that thing is dirty, would provide way fewer jobs than some say, and we wouldn’t get any of the oil anyway. It was going to China, not here. Trespassing and messing Our country with very few jobs to compensate for loss of clean water.

Don’t believe the hype.

Don’t believe the pipe.

Rejecting the “current” Keystone application was the only rational thing to do, especially with an idiot Congress, again, trying to take authority away from the Executive branch because THEIR guy, who wanted a “unitary presidency”- read “dictatorship” is no longer in the White House. “Jobs” offered by the line were temporary, and long term, would cost many thousands of jobs. Keystone is a con, and not a good one. Rejecting what was on the table was the only thing to do.

Foolish cartoon…

First is the fact that this pipeline will likely be built but in a different location just a little bit later. And it will be a different location because the current one was directly over the Ogallala Aquifer which is already in deep trouble while supporting much of the midwest. Further, the Republican governor of Nebraska, which sits over much of the usable water in the Ogallala Aquifer, did not support construction across the current site. Finally, the Republican Congress’ attempt to force a deadline date was simply more artificial extortion and political manipulation and had absolutely nothing to do with America, Americans or jobs. If that pipeline has one even medium rupture or other environment ‘event,’ not only would all those jobs instantly disappear but countless more in agriculture, construction and other areas all across the midwest would as well. To build the pipleline only for ‘temp’ jobs based on more parasitic GOP politics while risking true catastrophe is an incoherent position. And who here can say ‘Gulf of Mexico?’

A twist on this: Romney says he’s “unemployed” and is taking in $57K, per DAY, as “entitlement”. He says those receiving entitlements should be forced to work a job. When is Mitt going to start shoving those Whoppers across a counter??

Y’all still haven’t given us nay-sayers a valid reason why the pipeline has to extend all the way to Texas instead of refineries in the Midwest.

Boy they can put a pipeline all the way across the U.S. but can’t do high speed rail….

www.nytimes/2012/01/02/opinion/where-the-real-jobs-are.html