Are you OK with the Democratic Congresspeople voting for the Keystone Pipeline?

[rpannier]

94. Some would say???

Throw in the word people after some and I know where I've heard that before

The thing is going to built over the most important aquifer in the United States. That's what makes this pipeline a bigger issue
Support for it has been built on a series of lies. My favorite two being the jobs created, if not the here the pipeline will be built to Vancouver. Both of which (along with many others) have been debunked. It will not create massive jobs and it will not get built west, because it's too expensive to build through the Rocky Mountains and it would have to be built through First Nations land and most of the councils will not let them.

30-40 years ago people thought it would be safe to dump crap into the deep wells in places like California and now with the drought conditions and water shortages, that water is being drilled into and that water is not not safe for people.

As to the other pipelines being built, they are not relevant to the conversation. Each project stands on its own merit, not on the merit of some other project. Some are safer than others. This particular one has a lot of potential for disaster that if it occurs cannot be undone easily and the consequences could be massive.
In this day of less regulation being the mantra of the Republicans it's even more dangerous.

It's not hypocritical to oppose this pipeline and be okay with another one built somewhere else (despite what some would say).
I would argue it's intellectually weak to say if you don't oppose all or most of the pipelines then you shouldn't be opposing this one