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Reposting from Chris Hedges: “The XL pipeline, … is the most potent symbol of the dying order. If completed, it will pump 1.1 million barrels a day of unrefined tar sand fluid from tar sand mine fields in Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. … It is a synthetic slurry that, because tar sand oil is solid in its natural state, must be laced with a deadly brew of toxic chemicals and gas condensates to get it to flow. Tar sands are boiled and diluted with these chemicals before being blasted down a pipeline at high pressure. Water sources would be instantly contaminated if there was a rupture. The pipeline would cross nearly 2,000 U.S. waterways, including the Ogallala Aquifer, source of one-third of the United States’ farmland irrigation water. And it is not a matter of if, but when, it would spill. TransCanada’s Keystone I pipeline, built in 2010, leaked 12 times in its first 12 months of operation. “
via Facebook http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/kxl_test/?rc=fb_share2&r_by=-6543236-YWO2zkx – Now that President Obama has been re-elected, he’s got a choice to make. But, in the wake of the devastation caused by climate-change fueled Superstorm Sandy, it shouldn’t be much of a choice at all. He must reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.