Originally Posted by BFT3K

Oops, my mistake - looks like the corporate-owned Canadian government is getting ready to trash THEIR clean water and pristine lands now, too...

Energy East Pipeline: TransCanada's Keystone XL on Steroids » EcoWatch

Originally Posted by **********

"Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper has called the project ?extremely exciting,? "

The man is a complete tool. PLEASE lets Trade him for Obama.

Originally Posted by EonBlue

Here's an idea.

You have such a hard-on for Obama and you are so fascinated with US left-wing politics why don't you just move to the US and join the cult along with the other brain-dead drones like BF3TK?

Originally Posted by MK Ultra

Where did that "Like" button go?

Seriously, I'm only for the pipeline because Mark Prince is so dead set against it

Originally Posted by **********

- Only about 50 permanent jobs

Originally Posted by Rochard

I call it as I see it

Originally Posted by **********

Greetings!

Question: Why do Americans want the Keystone XL Pipeline so badly?

Today it is going up for a vote, and Obama says he will veto it. Pollution, Carbon, very dirty oil, Greenhouse gasses, danger to aquifer, bad bad bad, blah blah blah, to which I agree of course.

But forgetting pollution and dangers for a moment, the XL Pipeline would ship Canadian oil to Texas, not the other way around. The US would depend in part, on Canada for its energy needs. Why then would the US want this? If you're drilling and making your own oil and trying for energy independence, and since the pipeline would be potentially very dangerous, why would you want it?

Originally Posted by Robbie

That number is so dumb (it's one that anti-keystone sources keep throwing out there).

Mark you do realize that by using that logic NOTHING would ever get built. Everything that is constructed is built by companies that DO construction.
When you have construction crews building a highway, for instance, it gives work to the company that contacted the job.
Sometimes it takes years to complete projects. Money is constantly being pumped into the project. People working on it are making great salaries. And they SPEND that money (just like they always do) which helps the economy.

After the job is done? They move on to the next project.

That's how things work.

Using your logic...nothing would ever be built because it doesn't employ people for LIFE to build that one thing.
Of course that's not reality. I rarely see any hint of reality in these discussions.

Originally Posted by sarettah

May 16, 2014
A massive cleanup may continue for a week after streets flooded, two people were hospitalized and a strip club was evacuated when an early-morning crude oil pipeline break sent a geyser of black goo spurting into the air Thursday.
Streets were closed in Atwater Village near Glendale northeast of downtown Los Angeles after approximately 10,000 gallons of crude oil -- enough to fill a backyard swimming pool -- spilled over a half-mile area. An above-ground 20-inch pipeline broke around 12:15 a.m. Thursday near 5175 W. San Fernando Rd.

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April 2, 2013

Nearly 12,000 barrels of crude oil spilled out of Exxon Mobil?s Pegasus pipeline into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood causing the evacuation of 22 homes last Friday. The pipeline originates in Patoka, Illinois, and carries crude oil to the Texas Gulf Coast from Western Canada.


April 5, 2013
Thousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week.

Shell Pipeline, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, shut down their West Columbia, Texas, pipeline last Friday after electronic calculations conducted by the US National Response Center showed that upwards of 700 barrels had been lost, amounting to almost 30,000 gallons of crude oil.


April 26, 2013
The company that owns a pipeline that leaked 28,000 barrels of crude oil near a First Nations community in northwest Alberta ? the largest spill in the province in 35 years ? is now facing environmental charges.

Plains Midstream Canada ULC is facing three counts under the province's Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act

The April 2011 spill of almost 4.5 million litres of oil contaminated more than three hectares of beaver ponds and muskeg in a densely forested area.



June 12, 2010

A leaked pipeline sent oil spilling into a Salt Lake City creek, coating geese and ducks and closing a park, officials said Saturday as they started a cleanup effort expected to last weeks.
At least 400 to 500 barrels of oil spewed into Red Butte Creek before crews capped the leak site. Nearly 50 gallons of crude oil per minute initially had spilled into the creek, according to Scott Freitag, a Salt Lake City Fire Department spokesman.


June 7, 2011
Enbridge says it was not covering up the true size of a pipeline leak in the Northwest Territories, which leaked up to 1,500 barrels into the northern environment.

Enbridge had originally reported that only four barrels of oil leaked from its Norman Wells pipeline on May 9. But the company revised its estimate on Monday, saying 700 to 1,500 barrels had spilled.




Yep, pipelines have never caused any negative environmental impact

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