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[Shortpoet-GTD]

Trans Canada pipeline explosion 1/26/14 leaves thousands in the cold; in sub zero temperatures.
http://thinkprogress...line-explosion/

[yoder]

And the hits just keep on coming...

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Keystone will probably get approved.

Evidently, spills, leaks and explosions are not enough to make the "powers that be" question this fool's errand.
They must be saying;
"So what if it kills off more species, taint's more water supplies, ruins more fertile soils, pollutes the air?
It's a couple of dozen jobs!"

Note to the "powers that be";  watch the movie After Earth to see what's in store if we don't stop using
fossil fuels. Clue-ELE.

The New York Times (via Grist)summarizes the latest report
(Environmental impact statement or EIR for short)
from the state department this way;



"KXL will have a minimal impact on the environment, because even though extracting
and burning tar sands oil creates about 17 percent more greenhouse gas emissions
than more traditional ways of sucking oil out of the ground and setting it on fire,
companies are so busy sucking oil out of the tar sands that they are going to do so
whether they get a special pipe named KXL to do it or not."

And FYI-
The pipeline (estimates) would produce 830,000 barrels of oil, which would add an extra 1.3 to 27.4
MILLION METRIC TONS of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere EACH YEAR; the equivalent of 250,000 to 5 million
cars on the road.

See also-

http://www.nbcnews.c...32619/#54239190

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From the movie Promised Land, (a movie about fracking) when Matt Damon's character says to one of the residents-
"You can just leave."
One of the best lines in the movie comes when, in reply, Hal Holbrook's character says-
"Where do we all go?"

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The likes of Red Adair are being kept busy; more fracking wells exploding.
http://grist.org/new...ng-to-see-here/

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Have you survived from a fracking well explosion?
You have?
That's wonderful. A generous offer from chevron-
a pizza and a soda.
Big ****ing whoop.

The word "token" is used in the piece.
Wow; it set chevron back $12.00 a pop for their token gesture.
It's so sick, it's funny.
http://grist.org/new...a-and-pop-free/

[yoder]

I was just reading about that and having a good chuckle even though it really isn't funny at all.  What Chevron has managed to do is show the world just how detached from reality they are and how dangerous that is.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Oil and gas giants love fracking
but when it hits home?
Not so much.

NIMBY spotlights the hypocrites.

http://thinkprogress...tests-fracking/

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Joni Mitchell was ahead of her time with these lyrics and sadly, spot on.
"They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot."

Not far wrong, the marcellus shale region (including parts of New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Ohio and Virginia) - up to
1.3 MILLION ACRES
could be covered in cement, asphalt or other impervious surfaces.
1.1 MILLION ACRES of forest would also be affected.

Up to 22 MILLION people will have their water affected.

Source

So we'll drive right past acres of well pads to a chinese selling crap ware wal-mart; all on the same parking lot.

We keep acting like there are 67 other Earth's close by.
They're not.
We have a unique planet. Why can't we treat it (and therefore ourselves) with respect?

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New rules in Colorado are clamping down on methane emissions from fracking.
http://grist.org/new...hane-pollution/

[yoder]

Baby steps.  At least it's a move in the right direction.

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And here we thought the Coast Guard were the good guys.
Wrong.

http://grist.org/new...er-down-rivers/

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California is not letting the big oil/gas interests have their way-


http://ecowatch.com/...ing-moratorium/

And another win-
http://www.eminentdo...t-domain-power/

And citizens demanding better policies on the transport of crude and tar sands oil.
http://ecowatch.com/...nds-rail-barge/

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While we worry and focus on Keystone XL in America; Canada has approved their own version of the XL-
carrying tar sands crude.

http://thinkprogress...eline-approval/

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"Above all else" a film about tar sands and the pipeline.
http://schedule.sxsw...s/event_FS14905

[yoder]

Shortpoet-GTD, on 10 March 2014 - 05:57 AM, said:

While we worry and focus on Keystone XL in America; Canada has approved their own version of the XL-
carrying tar sands crude.

http://thinkprogress...eline-approval/

I'm surprised that the Canadians have allowed this to happen.  I wonder what arm twisting went on behind the scenes.

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yoder, on 10 March 2014 - 06:32 AM, said:

I'm surprised that the Canadians have allowed this to happen.  I wonder what arm twisting went on behind the scenes.

$$ more than anything I bet.

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I found this picture from an article about fracking in PA (http://www.businessi...nia-site-2012-5 )

Over 50% of chemicals in the fracking fluid are unidentified. This is really scary considering this fluid is leaking into our water supplies in some areas. There's many articles out there saying that studies have shown the fluid can leak into aquifers in a matter of years. And there's not much you can do to protect yourself, besides maybe move, which seems really unreasonable. -

Moved-This post is from sar356

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"Have a coke and a smile" was an old ad-
but this koch will not make us smile.
The koch/keystone connection.

Salon article via the Washington Post.

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Balcombe (misspelled in headline of piece) is saying no to fracking & going solar instead.
http://www.foe.co.uk...-solar_27032014

http://www.frackfreebalcombe.co.uk/