As President Obama takes yet another vacation, protests are in their third day in Washington, D.C. and people are being arrested to try to get media attention. The Oil Sands site in Alberta, B.C. is an enormous scar on the planet; the largest project of this type in the world. Some say it's as big as the United Kingdom.
All that the Keystone pipeline will do is destroy U.S. boreal forests, extinct more wildlife and migratory birds, pollute our aquifers, and create untold needless carbon dioxide and undo all the gains we have made globally.
The Pipeline companies don't give a whit if there's a market for the Oil or not! They are only interested in raping and pillaging wilderness areas, forests and wetlands to build their monstrous pipelines and make dirty profits while destroying the planet for their economic short-term gain. The Pipeline route will destroy some of the largest agricultural aquifers in the U.S. (and Canada) and that is just one horrifying result. There's even talk of building nuclear reactors to help the extraction and refining process! As it is, they use Natural Gas to fuel the monster; what a waste! It takes up to 4 times the water by weight to produce one barrel.
Please look at the links provided and read about it. Then, tell everyone you know. I'm finding that many people don't even know about this thing, and it's growing so fast- a huge cancer; the largest industrial nightmare the Earth has yet seen. The Oil extracted from the site won't even be refined, making it far more acidic and no one knows what it will do to the material used for the pipeline, but at least 11 major leaks are expected by the company building it within the next 50 years! WTF are we DOING?!?!!!
If we want this thing to get media coverage, We the People have to get the word out. Facebook and Twitter away.
Here's the first link: this is the best site I can find on the oil/tar sands, with many links to many articles on all the areas of ramifications (and there are many) if you want further reading.
http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-101
There is also an excellent site put up by Greenpeace with pictures and some staggering information.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/stop-the-tar-sands/
Here's a 2009 National Geographic article:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/03/canadian-oil-sands/kunzig-text
Please - as painful as it will be to read these and look at this wholesale slaughter of once pristine and beautiful lands, take the time to educate yourselves. This is only one pipeline of thousands crisscrossing North America. The movement to stop the pipeline and oil sands production is worldwide. Join it - for future generations, and for the non-human defenseless Beings inhabiting the Earth with us.
