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<<< Still looking good at 73 years old. Too bad she is such a blond.
Speaking out against the Keystone XL Pipeline, she has this say:
Significantly higher levels
of dangerous air pollutants and carcinogens have been documented downwind from
tar sands refineries, and in these areas people are suffering higher rates of
the types of cancers linked to these toxic chemicals, including leukemia and
non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Editor's notes: I fail to see what the pipeline has to do with Canada's decision to refine its tar sand reserves. In our country, there are more than 175,000 miles of pipeline transferring hazardous chemicals from one region to another. Keystone will add 2,000 miles to that total and the hazardous chemicals are INSIDE the pipeline. There have been no deaths or injuries due to leaks in our system of interstate pipelines . . . . . none.
Leftists want you to believe that this pipeline will be the end of us all, that great harm will come to the environment, irrespective of the fact, that their "doom and gloom" predictions have yet to be proven to be true.
The truth of the matter is this: the Far Left simply does not want to allow for fossil fuels beyond what is the case, presently. They have no alternative fuel supplies in place, but continue to blindly oppose oil and coal supplies.
Do we need alternative fuels and in great supply? Of course. But that is not going to happen within the next two decades. So, what to do?
We must supply our fossil fuel supplies to an increasingly larger population while, at the same time, working to create alternatives that are both affordable and in abundance.
To simply say "No" to fossil fuels, is to ignore reality and make life unnecessarily hard on the population.
We do have time.
We do have time.
1999 June 19, 1999 a gasoline pipeline ruptured, resulting in 3 deaths, The cause was a series of errors and malfunctions in relief systems and process control computer systems in the Olympic Pipeline system, resulting in 277,000 gallons of gasoline spilled to Whatcom Creek.
ReplyDelete2010 September 9 6:11 PM,San Bruno, California. 30-inch Natural Gas line exploded, killing 8.
Canada
1962: An explosion on a gas pipeline occurred on a lateral line on January 17, about 50 kilometers northwest of Edson, Alberta. 8 people were killed.
1965: An explosion from a gas line destroyed several apartments in the LaSalle Heights Disaster in LaSalle, Quebec killing 28 people, the worst pipeline disaster in Canadian history
1965 on October 12, an explosion & fire involved the Albert Gas Trunk Line LTD. near Sundre, Alberta, killing 2 pipeline workers.
2002: A refined product pipeline rupture near Saint-Clet, Quebec, on 2002 Dec 07, from Trans Northern Pipelines Inc. 273.1 mm diameter mainline kilometer post 63.57, estimated 32 cubic meters of low sulphur diesel released to area and drainage systems.
2003: A backhoe punctured a pipeline in Etobicoke, Ontario the resulting explosion killed 7 people
2007: A crude oil pipeline owned and operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners was ruptured by an excavator digging a storm sewer trench in Burnaby, British Columbia
2009: A National Energy Board Report on a July 20 Alberta explosion & fire involving a TransCanada Corporation natural gas pipeline. The explosion, which sent 50 meter flames into the air, destroyed a two-hectare wooded area. The NEB said the delay in releasing the report was caused by an “administrative error”, when an employee left without transferring the file over. The Peace River Mainline pipeline, built in 1968, had ruptured six times and leaked on 17 occasions until 2014. The line ruptured in 2009 due to corrosion.
2009: A refined product pipeline rupture near Farran's Point, Ontario on Ottawa Lateral, on 2009 Oct 05, from Trans Northern Pipelines Inc. system, unknown petroleum product
2014: On January 25, a TransCanada Corporation gas transmission pipeline exploded and burned, causing a natural gas shortage in Manitoba and parts of the United States.
None of the above was catastrophic in any "permanent" sense of the word. All of it was cleaned up and the surrounding environment returned to normal. And you have gone back 45 years to come up with your 10 examples, only one of which occurred in the United States. How many spills have occurred via truck and train disasters?
ReplyDeleteFinally, I think it important to note that our system of pipeline transfer, 175,000 far exceeds that of Canada, both in term of size and age. The fact of the matter is this: there has been less temporary damage to the environment via our pipeline systems, than track and rail, combined. If you really care about the environment, you would want the Keystone Pipeline.
But, of course, this is not about jobs and a clean environment, is it? Rather, it is about the abolition of fossil fuels and a return to the days when man was happy living in caves and hunting his own . . . . fruits and veggies.
Adapt or die. Regressives will soon die. Fossil fuels will be useful for the rest of our lives. Change is inevitable but will be slow.
ReplyDeleteMuch, if not all of the Keystone product will not even be used in the US. It will be exported. It's not about jobs or the environment, it's about the oil companies making money.
Summer of 2010, a million gallons of tar sands oil poured into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan from a pipeline run by another Canadian company, Enbridge. Although nearly ONE Billion dollar$ have been spent over the past three years to clean up the spill, almost 40 miles of the river are still contaminated.
Smithson wrote: "There have been no deaths or injuries due to leaks in our system of pipelines . . . . . none. "
Lie revealed ...
Then he writes... "None of the above was catastrophic. "
The bottom line profits of the oil barons are around 3%. Bottom line profit percentages for the Greenies is between 6 and 10%.
ReplyDeleteMost of the oil in Keystone will be exported - true enough. If exported to Europe and not our enemies, this goes to the defeat of our enemies.
Still, no deaths or [human] injuries . . . none. While clean up is still needed, the river, three years after the spill, was 99% clean. Bank-side plant life and tall grass had full returned, and fishing was as good as ever. Check out the pictures here: http://michiganradio.org/post/3-years-and-nearly-1-billion-later-cleanup-kalamazoo-river-oil-spill-continues
Remember the Gulf. We were told that commercial fishing would be lost for decades - turns out that was true for only 18 months. Lots of oil on the bottom of the Gulf, in places, but sea life and prosperity in the region is at record heights.
Finally, paaaaleeeeezzzz, if you are going to quote me, quote me. You deliberately misquoted me, Why?
Astonishing.... I give him examples of pipeline deaths, and 'cut and paste' quote him exactly... and he says "you deliberately misquoted me, Why?"
ReplyDeleteUnbelievable.
Seriously? Here is what I wrote: "None of the above was catastrophic in any 'permanent' sense of the word." That is markedly different from your version, "Then he writes... "None of the above was catastrophic."
ReplyDeletePipeline disasters in Canada are not a part of my discussion. I don't track pipeline disasters in Canada, or Mexico, or Brazil, or Korea or . . . .
The San Bruno disaster was a residential supply line and the explosion took place in a housing tract. My goodness, if we are going to count residential supply lines (gas,water and sewage), there may be millions of miles of pipe. I am talking about transfer lines such as Keystone and the Alaska pipeline. Besides, the San Bruno incident was caused by an earthquake, not malfeasance.
Your example of the Olympic Pipeline disaster is a valid example. The three deaths were the result of gas fumes poisoning. My mistake.
But, this takes me back to my original point. I will rephrase: 3 deaths in 15 years, the last deaths (in our country) due to a problem with a pipeline failure. 300 people drown, each year, in 5 gallon buckets.
When all is said and done, you can't come close to framing Keystone as a potential national calamity. THAT is my point.