http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/13/where-is-fox-news-outrage-over-keystone-xl-land/202116
Concerns about TransCanada's use of eminent domain finally made their way onto Fox News on January 13, when Bold Nebraska's Jane Kleeb appeared on Fox's Happening Now to explain why the issue should be of concern to Fox News viewers:
And for Republicans that I know watch Fox News, they really care about eminent domain for private gain. And that is what's happening here, is a foreign corporation TransCanada using eminent domain for private gain against American farmers and ranchers, and that's just plain wrong.
Fox's reporting on the Nebraska Supreme Court decision exposes the insincerity of the network's previous efforts to attack environmental regulations in the name of landowner rights. The network falsely claimed that a proposed EPA rule to protect drinking water would "give the agency unprecedented control over private property," and portrayed it as "one of the biggest private property grabs in history." The network also championed rancher Cliven Bundy's effort to wage a "range war" against the government for the right to graze cattle for free on public lands.
Nebraskan ranchers have ample cause for concern about TransCanada forcing Keystone XL's construction on their lands. If approved, the pipeline would transport heavy crude from the Canadian tar sands across the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the world's largest sources of clean water. Tar sands oil is particularly difficult to clean up, and the environmental track record of tar sands pipelines is concerning - an ExxonMobil pipeline spilled more than 200,000 gallons of tar sands crude into an Arkansas neighborhood in 2013. TransCanada has a poor safety record, and water resources professor Dr. John Stansbury predicted that the Keystone XL pipeline could result in up to 91 major spills over the pipeline's lifetime.
The Nebraskan ranchers plan to continue fighting against Keystone XL in court. Will Fox News continue to gloss over their battle for private property rights?
right wing is all about the Benjamin's they never have been in favor of American rights for Americans because our rights put a damper on their agenda to get more money, more money. the regulations that Pres. and other Dems before him are our last line of protection against them big business like Koch that buys politicians to vote to deregulate or like Walmart to keep worker rights in the crapper.
all the benefits the republicans claim will come if we take this chance is tantamount to their decades old trickle down theory where the only trickle is down their leg. we the people will gain nothing there will be no cheap gas at your local pump Sat. afternoon at a lower price oil for your car and heat will be the same or rise just like that filthy oil go from Canada through the US TO THE GULF SO GOES ANY BENEFIT YOU WERE LIED INTO BELIEVING WOULD COME. allowing them the keys to the house by staying home makes it easier for them to shaft us but Pres. who has had our backs all the long still has that veto pen.
keystone is for the global oil barons not for us and if it happens set your timers for the first, second and third leaks that destroy all around it, it will create another Alberta, Canada here in the US.
