A new report on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline finds that the project would have a minimal impact on the environment, an assessment likely to increase pressure on the White House to approve it.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/31/22524683-report-keystone-pipeline-would-have-minimal-environmental-impact
Sure. The impact IS minimal in the case that no leaks will ever happen.
The problem has always been that the pipeline goes through
Ogallala Aquifer. It's one of the world's largest aquifers. Almost no research will tell you that. Pipelines have leak issues which is proven. Pipelines that go across an earthquake fault line in one of the worlds biggest drinking water sources is something to think about since they have issues
without earthquakes.
Today we are using "Oil Fracking" that uses drilling lubricants that poison the water. Oil Fracking also uses TONS of water and is turning the states that use it into
drought states.
But to end I would like to ask why the Government was given "
WEEKS" to discuss this. This is a major topic that has been discussed for YEARS and never been considered right or wrong by most brains. Why would congress be given weeks (two weeks if I remember right) to comply with this bill?
This topic could be debated for a very long time with the right information. Corporations that want profit buying politicians to push a bill through before the thought process could take place is typical in todays Congress.
They used this small time frame to paint the Left bad but what they didn't expect was the people that would hold onto this topic for such a long time without research. The election is over and it was exposed that the Right gave the Left "weeks" to decide on a VERY serious issue which wasn't reasonable.
I question you for not knowing this.
