Environmental fears grow in US over Keystone XL Pipeline
Last week an Exxon-Mobil pipeline burst, spilling out thousands of
barrels of crude oil into Mayflower, Arkansas, damaging homes, lands,
waters and wildlife. 22 homes were evacuated as a result of the rupture.
Though Exxon-Mobil is working on cleaning the spill and has publicly
stated that it will pay for all clean up costs. Experts state oil
companies have made promises like these in the past but have been slow
in doing them, if they do them at all.
This corrosive oil is the
same kind that will be transported in the controversial Keystone XL
pipeline which cuts through the United States, sparking fears over the
damage it might do should it also burst.
The Keystone pipeline is
nine times the size of the pipeline which ruptured in Arkansas.
Momentum against the keystone pipeline has been building. Last month,
40,000 protesters descended on Washington to demand president Obama stop
the pipeline's construction.
Kill the pipeline. Keep those jobs in Canada where they belong. All that oil should be upgraded and refined within Canada. We should sell the world the finished product at Brent prices not the cheaper Western Canadian Select which is 35 $ cheaper then West Texas Intermediate crude.
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