Proposed Enbridge Pipeline

Hillary Clinton is trying to get another gigantic oil pipeline approved.  The EPA is trying to stop her.

Maybe someone can explain to us how a pipeline carrying dirty tar sands oil from Canada keeps us safe. The Enbridge corporation keeps building oil pipelines into the U.S. from Canada, and they all seem to be approved, despite our government knowing the dangers of oil spills and pollution and GHG emissions.  Enbridge pipelines have frequently spouted oil spills and leaks in the past.  Enbridge has pipelines in Minnesota, most recently the one Hillary Clinton approved last year called the “Minnesota Alberta Clipper” pipeline, carrying dirty tar sands oil into the state and down to locations in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. Enbridge also has pipelines in several other states, and also owns the pipeline that just ruptured in Michigan.

Why do we keep allowing foreign oil companies, and foreign pipeline companies, to threaten our environment with spills and leaks, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions?

The State Department is calling the tar sands oil from Canada a necessary part of our national security, along with the pipelines that carry it.  That’s nonsense.  National security, keeping us ’safe’, should stop this pipeline from ever being built. The population of the U.S. is far less safe if this pipeline is built because it will increase pollution, climate change  and potential oil spills (like the horrible oil spill that just happened in Michigan) and that has serious health affects.  After the biggest oil spill in our history in the Gulf of Mexico, the State Department thinks we need more oil pipelines in this country!  It’s astounding — and wrong.  Naturally, all the wrong people are going to get rich from this pipeline too, (including fossil fuel enthusiast T. Boone Pickens, who is heavily invested in tar sands oil. )

Yet Hillary Clinton argues that our “national security” depends on dirty foreign oil from Canada.  Wrong!  (I remember during the presidential campaign when Hillary said we needed an “Apollo program” to address climate change.  I guess that was just a lot of hot air.)  A lot of stupid things are done in the name of “national security” and this proposed pipeline, pictured above, should not be one of them.  The EPA is trying to stop the pipeline.

“The project, known as the Keystone XL Project, would have a nominal capacity to deliver up to 900,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from Hardisty to the terminals in Texas. In total, the Keystone XL Project would consist of approximately 1,702 miles of new, 36-inch-diameter pipeline, consisting of about 327 miles in Canada and 1,375 miles within the United States.”

If the EPA succeed in stopping this pipeline, it could be overturned and approved by the President himself.  From SolveClimate:

White House could intervene as environmental security takes equal place next to energy security as concern of national interest

The EPA has slowed down the approval process of a permit [...]