Cooking the Books: The True Climate Impact of Keystone XL

[PDJane]

5. The fact is that the current plan is to put the tar sands oil

Under Toronto, in pre-existing pipelines that are 35 to 70 years old and designed to carry natural gas. This is a really stupid human trick. When that stuff leaks, and it will, it will pour this stuff into the water table and the catchment area that feeds the great lakes. The soil is mostly wet clay and there are underground streams all over the place. This has the ability to pollute Lake Ontario. You know, the drinking water for millions of people?


Yes, it's stupid to dig the stuff up, and we have to fight it. Other places have successfully done so. We really have to consider the farm land that people are moving away from because of the smell from the holding and tailing ponds. People are becoming ill from this stuff.

The leading cause of climate change is stupidity. The oil sands take as much energy to remove as it produces, and maybe we should start there. There is money, of course, but it's not as extensive as it would be if this weren't burning natural gas, polluting water, and leaving huge swathes of land denuded of anything put toxic ponds and earth movers.