asknreceive1-1054310 wrote (prophetically)
The Keystone Dirty Tar Sands XL Pipeline is a disaster in the making. Millions of Americans have been on top of this project and screaming from the top of our lungs that more study needs to be done on the value vs. ultimate cost spectrum of the equation. Anyone who tells you the project will employ 20,000 American workers is flat out lying. Anyone who tells you it's going to be the proverbial Messiah for our economy is flat out lying.
The most workers projected for this environment trainwreck of a pipeline to ship oil from Canada all the way to the refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast is estimated at 6,000, and most of those workers will either be current employees of the Canadian oil company in the form of engineers, inspectors, etc. and then they'll give a few Americans the honor of digging the massive hole through the ground. The project has a timeline and then will end.
More importantly, once the crudest of all crude oil is running through that pipeline, it will be an enormous hazard for carcinogens in the air and in the ground waters where the wastewater will pollute the water used for irrigation of crops, for herds and for the people relying on that water for drinking purposes. Yes, let's ask Canada to explain how the First Nation people who are already victims of Keystone feel about doubling of diagnosed cancers in their communities.
Let's also ask those same people how they feel about moose having 450+ times the acceptable amount of arsenic in their meat. Yes, let's ask those who are already victimized by Keystone to speak up. Wait! They already have, but you won't hear that in the news.
Let's ask the 20 million people who will be directly affected by this pipeline project how they feel about a dirty tar sands oil pipe running under their rivers, lakes, aquifers, through fault lines like the one in Oklahoma where they just experienced a 5.6 magnitude earthquake just 30 miles from the planned pipeline route, and everywhere in between.
Let's also ask them if temporary work for a REAL projected number of no more than 6,000 people on a pipeline that is guaranteed to not only RAISE their oil prices but is also guaranteed to push nasty crude to the Gulf of Mexico where it will be refined, as best it can be, and then shipped off to Europe or elsewhere. Don't believe me? Do the research.
There are already tar sands being funnelled here and refined here, but we haven't seen one red cent returned to us in either gas price decreases or. . .wait for it. . .jobs.
I find it always helps to dig deep into such important matters before I start parroting anyone like Boehner, who has told you a big ugly lie as it relates to the prospect of 20,000 jobs. If he and they lie about that, what else do you think they haven't told you?
I'd like to help by providing a link to information about the First Nation people who are fighting for their lives and for the lives of all others who will be victimized if this legislation is approved by Obama, but Newsvine doesn't allow that. Just Google daily kos first nations herculean fight to stop the canadian tar sands project. . .read the truth of how ugly TransCanadas tar sands pipelines are, and read further to understand this oil was NEVER meant for you and me.
Even if Obama decides to rubber stamp this rubbish, even he must still go through the State Department. I'll be praying for saner heads to prevail. Peace be with you all, Fellow Americans.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/12/05/1042257/-The-First-Nations-herculean-fight-to-stop-the-Canadian-tar-sands-hydra
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