{"id":2985,"date":"2010-09-27T02:10:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T09:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2010-09-27T02:10:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T09:10:27","slug":"oppose-this-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/oppose-this-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Oppose This Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eight days ago, I posted an article<\/a> about The Alberta Tar Sands and how Republicans seemed to love the devastation of nature that project engenders.  At the time, I wondered why they were interested.  Now I know what they, with help from a particularly slimy DINO, are up to.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"27pipeline\" …you would think plans to expand pipelines carrying this toxic crude [from the Alberta Tar Sands] into the United States would come under a little more scrutiny from U.S. leaders \u2013- especially the ones living in states where pipelines threaten drinking water supplies.<\/p>\n

That’s why it was so surprising to hear Montana Senator Max Baucus<\/strong> pushing for hasty approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, which would carry this toxic oil right into his state, traversing major sources of fresh water like the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, posing a constant threat of ruptures, spills, and contamination. In addition to Montana, the pipeline would run through South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas<\/strong>, crossing dangerously close to drinking water supplies and agricultural aquifers.<\/p>\n

We know the oil industry’s influence on our representatives in Washington is out of hand. And when companies like BP spend nearly as much money on public relations after a major environmental disaster like the oil spill in the Gulf as they do on clean up, it’s clear that we’ve got our work cut out for us.<\/p>\n

But here’s what we’ve got on our side: the truth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We know the Keystone XL pipeline would put American health at risk<\/strong>. In addition to threatening drinking water, processing tar sands oil releases pollutants directly linked to asthma, emphysema and birth defects. Refining tar sands crude from the pipeline <\/strong>would create far more air pollution<\/strong><\/a> in American communities that are already burdened with cancer and poor air quality as a result of the oil industry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We also know the pipeline would cross the most important source of agricultural water in the United States, the Ogallala aquifer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And we know pipeline disasters happen\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Anytime BARF Baucus teams up with Republicans, you know it\u2019s bad for America.  Don\u2019t we already have enough oil company pollution of our own without importing more?  Say No!  Contact your Representative and Senators here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eight days ago, I posted an article about The Alberta Tar Sands and how Republicans seemed to love the devastation of nature that project engenders.  At the time, I wondered why they were interested.  Now I know what they, with help from a particularly slimy DINO, are up to. …you would think plans to expand […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}