Dump The Pipeline
Charley Pierce has another go at why the Keystone XL pipeline is a bad idea.
To recap: it only creates twenty new jobs in the US; it endangers the largest aquifer in the center of the country; they can’t build it in Canada because the government of British Columbia doesn’t trust their assurances of safety; it will raise gas prices in the US; everything that flows through the pipeline is scheduled for export.
Why is anyone seriously considering this thing? The US is assuming a huge risk, with no benefit. If it was such a great idea, and as safe as claimed, the pipeline would run from Alberta through British Columbia to the Pacific Coast.
