Keystone XL Pipeline Will Be Approved – Demand Green Jobs And Stimulus In Exchange

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The stars are lining up to  get the Keystone XL pipeline approved. It is not enough that 35,000 people rallied in Washington DC, the largest ever US Climate Rally ever. 

It is not enough that protestors in Berlin and the UK are lashing out at Canada’s charm offensive to promote its environment damaging extraction of tar sands. It is not enough that a study by a professor of civil engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln finds that potential leaks by the Keystone XL pipeline are underestimated. The pipeline will be built.

While the Sierra Club has decided to change its 120 year tactics that banned civil disobedience, this comes much too late to build the necessary momentum to stop this juggernaut. The President has gotten implicit cover from s State Department draft environmental impact statement. According to U.S. News on NBCNews.com

Construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline would create “numerous” and “substantial” impacts on the environment, the State Department said Friday in a draft environmental impact statement. But the project is a better bet than any of the alternatives, it said in essentially clearing the project to go ahead.

The report concluded that the Canadian synthetic crude oil the pipeline is slated to transport into the U.S. produces 17 percent more greenhouse gases than natural crude oil already refined here. In addition, it said the construction phase of the project would result in carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to about 626,000 passenger vehicles operating for a full year.

i don't know but i feel this is not such a good idea with extremist out tere proven to have no limits to promote their agenda who knows.

if we are trying to go green shouldn't that investment be more of an eco friendly endeavor?

Sometimes it is best to sit back and regroup. The fact that there is not a groundswell of opposition in the cities and suburbs of America, mean much more work needs to be done to educate the population at large and to create a more substantial grassroots movement.

if that has not been done by now who is late with the 411 and while right wing pushed and mislead what was the opposing group doing?  how long do we sit back until the unthinkable is here, too late, oops.