The President has said he will veto any bill with riders attempting to expedite the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Get that though your fucking heads Republicans. Deal with the issue at hand. Just extend the payroll tax cut and go home for the Holidays.
If you aren’t familiar with the Keystone XL Pipeline, Bill McKibben explains its impact on the US and the political climate for Big Oil in an interview with DemocracyNow’s Amy Goodman.
“[It] would be another dirty needle feeding America’s fossil fuel addiction,” Jamie Henn, spokesperson with Tar Sands Action, which organized the protests, and co-founder of climate organization 350.org, told mongabay.com last month. “The pipeline would carry tar sands oil from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way, it would cross the Ogallala Aquifer, risking an oil spill over one of our largest sources of fresh drinking water and the source of 30 percent of the irrigation water for America’s crops. […] for the climate. Politically, the pipeline is also a bad call: it’s a hand out to Big Oil and people like the Koch Brothers who have consistently used their profits to corrupt our political system.”
Read more:http://news.mongabay.com/2011/1107-hance_tarsands_whitehouse.html#ixzz1d50DU96K
