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Originally Posted by Beenhere4ever
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Thanks for the link.
While people were arguing about Herman Cains affairs, the REAL agenda behind him as a front for Kochs agenda is the real issue. Will Americans who watch the main news outlets ever learn?
Wake County NC , the Kochs attempted to resegregate and infiltrate public schools. The area is very conservative, they thought they could win it no problem. Back to the days of George Wallace and busing.
Incredible that ANYONE could support this. The school board members fought back for their district. The Kochs agenda is widespread, and destroying the middle class across the board. Coming to a town near you:
Keystone and Arkansas oil spill:
Whether it's the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, or ... (the)
mess in Arkansas, Americans are realizing that transporting large amounts of this corrosive and polluting fuel is a bad deal for American taxpayers and for our environment," said Representative Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat.
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A year ago Exxon won a court appeal to charge market rates on the Pegasus line, or rates that are not capped and that can change along with market conditions without prior approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
That decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. said the Pegasus pipeline is now the "primary avenue" to move Canadian crude oil to the Gulf Coast. The ruling also said Exxon moves about 66,000 barrels per day on the line.
Last week PHMSA proposed that Exxon pay a $1.7 million fine over pipeline safety violations stemming from a July 2011 oil spill from its Silvertip pipeline in the Yellowstone River. The line, which carries 40,000 barrels per day in Montana, leaked about 1,500 barrels of crude after heavy flooding in the area.
Exxon has 30 days from the March 25 order to contest those violations.
According to PHMSA, the U.S. has
2.3 million miles of pipelines.
Exxon cleans up Arkansas oil spill; Keystone plan assailed | Reuters
Attorney Sessions on how pipeline does NOT help US fuel prices, it created about 400 jobs, not "Thousands"
www.ringoffireradio.com
Keystone XL Pipeline | StateImpact Texas | Page 2
The State Department estimates that the pipeline would
only create 5,000 to 6,000 jobs in construction.
Federal apellate atty Sessions has estimated this is not an accurate number. The fuel is exported. U.S. is just used as a CONDUIT. WE do not get the oil. Nor will our costs for oil and gas be affected in a positive way, let alone the water aquifer.
For evidence against the transport of tar sands crude, environmentalists
point to an event in May 2011, when 21,000 gallons of oil leaked in North Dakota. This was also due to a faulty valve. The
State Department says the maximum amount of spillage in a worst-case-scenario of a Keystone Pipeline leak is 2.8 million gallons spread throughout a 1.7 mile area. TransCanada points out that this is significantly smaller than the amount that escaped during the
Deepwater Horizon disaster.
A March 2013 spill of tar-sands bitumen in Mayflower, Arkansas put the Keystone XL pipeline back in the spotlight. An ExxonMobil pipeline carrying tar sands oil from Canada burst, sending more than 12,000 barrels of oil down residential streets and through people’s yards. The pipe was decades old. The spill was categorized as “major” by the Environemntal Protection Agency (EPA) and the cleanup is ongoing.
In the run-up to the Department of State’s decision on the pipeline, environmentalists and private homeowners in Nebraska joined forces to oppose Keystone’s route through their state. They argued that the intended route would run through the Sandhills area of Nebraska. This part of the state lies on top of the
Ogallala Aquifer, where the majority of the water resources serving the Mid-West are located.
The
Sandhills are home to a giant freshwater aquifer that is used for water supply. The ground is so thin in some parts of the area that groundwater on occasion rises to the surface. Water there is used primarily for irrigation, but some 2 million people also use it for drinking water.
If you value the future of education, your real estate, your land, and this country, you should not support Koch Industries in any way shape or form.
If you do, you are working agaisnt your own self-interest and the future of your children also. If you are drinking water from the Oglalalla Aquifer in midwest, you are at a proven risk for cancer and other illnesses.
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