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But Get this: It's now of forever regret the lost of a landscape. The Keystone pipeline is a bullet to the head.
A leaked letter shows that The Canadian government has stepped up lobbying in Europe for its highly-polluting tar sands industry, repeating its threats of trade conflict. This just three days after the New York Times came out with story about the hazards and the pollution that are part and parcel of the whole tar sands enterprise. Later this year, the State Department is about the heat as the deadline on the decision to give the go-ahead on construction of a 1,700-mile oil pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast called Keystone XL. It’s under extreme pressure, it’s a 36-inch diameter monster pipeline, and even the frontiers of physics hold no hard answers on predicting turbulence in such a pipeline. Nothing like it has really ever been built. TransCanada is building Keystone. And the Great Notion has got the Energy Industry wet: the pipe would link the tar sands fields of northern Alberta to Texas refineries and begin operating in 2013. People whose job it is to know about this sort of project and who do not have serious conflicts of interest lurking in their resumes, all say the Keystone pipeline in a bad idea. Alas, no one ever asks them for input…The department should say no.
State is involved because the pipeline would cross an international boundary. Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton first said she was “inclined” to support it, but has lately sounded more neutral. An environmental assessment carried out by her department last year was sharply criticized by the Environmental Protection Agency for understating the project’s many risks.
- KBOO