Obama's Greenish Moment: Delaying Keystone XL
, “They might be frustrated with Wall Street and the bankers, but they’re directing their anger at the wrong place… They ought to be over in front of the White House taking out their frustration."Two Sundays ago, over 12,000 people did, indeed, occupy the area surrounding the White House, although we can assume Cain, along with most of the Republican candidates, missed it on account of the fact it concerned the environment. The protestors created a circle around the White House to demand that Obama block the XL Keystone pipeline extension.
At this point, you have probably heard the gory details . The TransCanada corporation is trying to extend the Keystone Pipeline System in order to transport synthetic crude oil from Alberta’s oil sands to the Gulf Coast. The Keystone extension would run through the Ogallala Aquifer, which provides millions of people with drinking water, and a leak would be disastrous. Leaks come with the territory when you are talking pipelines, last year a hole (which was the size of a quarter) resulted in 33,000 gallons of oil being dumped in a Salt Lake City creek. A month before that, a leak in the Trans-Alaska pipeline resulted in thousands of gallons ending up near Fairbanks, Alaska.
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