Keystone XL Pipeline Notes: More Dangerous than Terrorists?

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http://madvilletimes.com/2011/07/keystone-xl-pipeline-notes-more-dangerous-than-terrorists/


Pipelines kill or injure people more frequently on American soil (once a week) than Islamoterrorists. They definitely do more damage than a certain sensationalized and acquitted defendant in Florida (whose name I refuse to blog on charges of irrelevance to real public policy issues, Google juice be darned). One would hope Americans would thus offer more resistance to TransCanada as it pushes to build more deadly pipelines.

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TransCanada insists that its proposed Keystone XL route will have the least environmental impact since it takes the shortest route from Alberta to Nebraska. But then why didn’t they apply that same rationale to the big inverted L they laid across Saskatchewan and the Dakotas? And why haven’t they responded to the prickly question raised by Senator Mike Johanns of Nebraska, who last October notes that the “shortest route” argument means Keystone XL would have even less environmental impact in the U.S. if TransCanada laid it alongside the current Keystone I pipeline?

The Keystone XL pipeline endangers life, liberty, and property. My neighbors in the Winfred Freedom Party get all bent out of shape over much smaller intrusions on their rights. Make some noise, people. Call your Congresspeople, tell them Keystone XL is bad for our country.
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