Setting aside all reasonable, factual and scientific issues, what reasonable person could endorse and defend this level of environmental destruction to reward the Greedy Few?
This whole project has been ethically hinky from jump. The case for the pipeline was built on lies and exaggeration. (Don't forget to count the strippers! Jobs!) TransCanada, the Canadian corporation that wants to build it, has been dealing double with farmers all along the proposed route, most notably in Nebraska and in Texas. The company already has bent too many local and state governments to its will. This is a profoundly corrupt enterprise, which is why it is cloaked with the kind of secrecy in Canada that inevitably will come to be the norm here. That's reason enough to reject it.
*THE CHANGE IS BESIDE US: People write in and say "RSN must change." True but that does not mean that the change is not within our power. We have and have always had far greater power to effect change than we have the courage to recognize. Always within our grasp. / Marc Ash - Founder, Reader Supported News*
Charles P. Pierce | The Secrecy Surrounding Canada's Tar Sands
Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The folks at Think Progress have a profoundly terrifying report from the blasted environmental moonscape of northern Alberta, whence the world's dirtiest fossil fuel may one day flow down our old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel that will run from said moonscape, through the heart of some of the world's most precious farmland, and eventually to the refineries of Texas, and thence to the world."
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Charles P. Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "The folks at Think Progress have a profoundly terrifying report from the blasted environmental moonscape of northern Alberta, whence the world's dirtiest fossil fuel may one day flow down our old friend, the Keystone XL pipeline, the continent-spanning death funnel that will run from said moonscape, through the heart of some of the world's most precious farmland, and eventually to the refineries of Texas, and thence to the world."
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Government Used Fusion Centers to Spy on Occupy
Colin Moynihan, The New York Times
Moynihan writes: "In Washington, as officials braced for a tent encampment on the National Mall, their counterparts elsewhere sent along warnings: a link to a video of Kansas City activists who talked of occupying congressional offices and a tip that 15 to 20 protesters from Boston were en route. 'None of the people are known to be troublemakers,' one official wrote in an email."
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Colin Moynihan, The New York Times
Moynihan writes: "In Washington, as officials braced for a tent encampment on the National Mall, their counterparts elsewhere sent along warnings: a link to a video of Kansas City activists who talked of occupying congressional offices and a tip that 15 to 20 protesters from Boston were en route. 'None of the people are known to be troublemakers,' one official wrote in an email."
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Russia Will Recognize Outcome of Ukraine Poll, Says Vladimir Putin
Shaun Walker, Guardian UK
Walker writes: "Vladimir Putin has given the strongest indication yet that Russia is defusing its policy towards Ukraine, saying that Moscow will 'respect the choice of the Ukrainian people' and work with the country's government after a new president is elected on Sunday."
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Shaun Walker, Guardian UK
Walker writes: "Vladimir Putin has given the strongest indication yet that Russia is defusing its policy towards Ukraine, saying that Moscow will 'respect the choice of the Ukrainian people' and work with the country's government after a new president is elected on Sunday."
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TransCanada Explores Oil-by-Rail, Keystone Delays Force Alternative
Jim Efstathiou and Rebecca Penty, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "The pipeline company is exploring how to modify existing contracts with Keystone XL customers to allow for rail shipments as it awaits U.S. permits for the pipe, Girling said. A rail option, which may cost twice as much as sending the crude via Keystone, would be an inefficient way of transporting the oil, he said."
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Jim Efstathiou and Rebecca Penty, Bloomberg
Excerpt: "The pipeline company is exploring how to modify existing contracts with Keystone XL customers to allow for rail shipments as it awaits U.S. permits for the pipe, Girling said. A rail option, which may cost twice as much as sending the crude via Keystone, would be an inefficient way of transporting the oil, he said."
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Federal Judge Allows Michigan Rep. John Conyers to Appear on Ballot
Brendan O'Brien, Reuters
O'Brien writes: "A federal judge ruled on Friday that longtime Detroit-area Democratic U.S. Representative John Conyers should appear on an August primary ballot, saying Michigan registration rules that had disqualified him may violate his constitutional rights."
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Brendan O'Brien, Reuters
O'Brien writes: "A federal judge ruled on Friday that longtime Detroit-area Democratic U.S. Representative John Conyers should appear on an August primary ballot, saying Michigan registration rules that had disqualified him may violate his constitutional rights."
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In Stunning Backtrack, Feds Say Our Largest Shale Oil Reserve Is Mostly Un-Drillable
Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress
Atkin writes: "The amount of oil that could be extracted from the country's largest shale oil formation has been overstated by 96 percent, federal energy officials admitted Tuesday, dealing a major blow to industry projections about a new oil-boom future."
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Emily Atkin, ThinkProgress
Atkin writes: "The amount of oil that could be extracted from the country's largest shale oil formation has been overstated by 96 percent, federal energy officials admitted Tuesday, dealing a major blow to industry projections about a new oil-boom future."
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