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1-Old-Man

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19. Tar-sand, mined in Canada, transported to Texas, exported to god knows where for Canadian profit
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 07:54 PM
Oct 2012

Transported doesn't really describe it. The material is sand in a slurry, it is both toxic and extremely abrasive, and it will be pumped at high temperature and pressure across the full north->south width of the country across the acquirer that feeds a third of the country, its "breadbasket". What could possibly go wrong. And who will profit from the operation of this timebomb? The Canadian company that is building it of course. Aside from some initial ditch-digging and pipe laying jobs - which will disappear from each community along the way just as fast as the dozer's can move taking what few jobs they create with the pipeline's southern progress, there will be nearly no long term employment generated by the death-defying project.

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The Petroleum Mafia has decreed Keystone will go forward. Raster Oct 2012 #1
Yes it will, and the reason is that profit is king in America, not people or water. 1-Old-Man Oct 2012 #2
Well said! City Lights Oct 2012 #9
Thank you. nt woo me with science Oct 2012 #14
Think about the jobs it wiil create...to hell with planet earth Tippy Oct 2012 #3
Somekind of deal is going to be made. The pieces are: drilling offshore/in protected reserves, patrice Oct 2012 #4
That is the way to look at it. klook Oct 2012 #5
This is also where the Environmental movement MUST put its REAL talent forward. We need patrice Oct 2012 #6
Fracking is so fucking crazy, one wonders if it wasn't thrown into the mix in order to put pressure patrice Oct 2012 #8
More Domestic Oil & Gas production will not lead to energy independence ashling Oct 2012 #11
That makes sense. Any good sources on the economics of that? patrice Oct 2012 #16
It's never gonna happen, ashling Oct 2012 #17
Obama is no environmentalist XemaSab Oct 2012 #7
A LOT depends upon where the center is. Some people might be interested in taking "new" patrice Oct 2012 #10
Yes, and so will cuts to Social Security, education deform, and more wars/police state. woo me with science Oct 2012 #12
Of course, MadHound Oct 2012 #13
Related from the Center for American Progress: pampango Oct 2012 #15
It will go forward and should go forward if the environmental impact bluestate10 Oct 2012 #18
Tar-sand, mined in Canada, transported to Texas, exported to god knows where for Canadian profit 1-Old-Man Oct 2012 #19
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