stand up and let your government know that we are tired of being pushed around and lied to. When our government steps aside to let Canada invoke eminent domain in the United States of America, you know that they are selling all of us to the highest bidder......they are supposed to be working for all of US, NOT the Koch brothers and not the oil industry. Canada cannot even get its own people to accept new tar sands pipelines within their borders. Two pipelines proposed to the west through British Columbia are stalled due to popular opposition. Two more pipelines going to the east are also heavily criticized. Thus, this proposal to use the United States as a shipping route -- which means that U.S. farmers and ranchers get all the risk, while oil companies will reap all the rewards. The argument that Keystone XL is a pipeline that would benefit oil consumers in the U.S. ignores mountains of evidence that the product is intended for export. Keystone XL would deliver tar sands to refineries in the Gulf, which already export most of their refined product. In fact, 76 percent of Keystone XLs capacity is already committed to six oil-shipping companies that hope to access international markets. Here in the U.S., President Obama has said he cannot consider the pipeline to be in our national interest if it would significantly increase emissions of greenhouse gases. Clearly, the Keystone XL fails this climate test because the tar sands fail it. The State Departments own report makes it clear that, compared with other crude oil sources, the tar sands oil from the Keystone pipeline would create up to an additional 27.4 million metric tons of carbon pollution annually. Thats equivalent (says the report) to the yearly carbon pollution from 5,708,333 passenger vehicles or 1,368,631 homes. This extra pollution would happen because tar sands are not only dirtier and riskier than other types of crude oil, they also are significantly more carbon-intensive to extract. At a time when we should be doing everything possible to cut carbon emissions, why would we choose to rely on the one kind of oil that results in higher emissions than all others?
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:39:05 +0000
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