Just wanted repost this since the XL pipeline got talked over in the debate tonight — this is a patently BAD idea for America and Romney would pave the way for this atrocity.
via Facebook http://www.facebook.com/bobby.gee.7/posts/492448807446643 – Okay, I’ma piss off black bloc folks for a minute, quoting chris hedges:
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. “
