Story Published:
Oct 26, 2011 at 6:27 PM CDT
Story Updated:
Oct 26, 2011 at 6:27 PM CDT
The Trans Canada Pipeline Company wants very much to build a 16-inch steel pipeline to carry oil from Alberta to refineries in Texas. The line would cross Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. It would provide some 20K construction jobs for the duration that the line is being built. Estimates put that at around two years. It might be longer. But there's a problem. I'll bet you can guess. Yeah, that's right--the environmentalists, the greenie-weenies or the dirt people--those who would take us back to dirtroads, horse manure in the streets, and wheelbarrows. What a better way to get oil from a great allied country, Canada, to a U. S. refinery.
The greens are pinning their hopes on derailing this worthy project in the State of Nebraska. Their fearmongering concerns possible contamination of the Ogallala aquifer. A large source of underground fresh water. Hysteria from the dirt people has reigned supreme with outrageous lies presented as facts. The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, part of the U. S. State Department has approved, as well as the Energy Department. The pipelines should be defeated based on science not emotion. So far, science is winning, as it shouuld.
Up in Pennsylvania they want to extract natural gas by the hydraulic fracturing of shale rock, a process called fracking, fearmongering, by the greens. They say underground water supplies will be contaminated. They want us to live in a world where it's cold, dark, and we're all hungry--this is a direct quote from Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corporation. And he's right! Academic veracity is the basis of the lies from the environmentalists.
In summary: The environmentalists are out in force in Pennsylvania and Nebraska. Their rhetoric concerning fracking for gas in Pennsylvania and for building a pipeline for oil transport through Nebraska is based only on their emotions. They exhibit only emotions to try to get their points across. They should study facts. But, that is totally beyond them.
