Alberta Tar Sands and Ensuing Pipelines
source: http://www.audubonmagazine.org/incite/incite1107.html
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Here are those few exerpts:
"Keystone XL, as TransCanada calls its proposed pipeline, will be 36 inches in diameter and two times longer than the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. In Nebraska’s Sandhills it will be buried inside the largest underground reservoir on the planet—the Ogallala Aquifer, which charges rivers, lakes, and marshes and supplies drinking and irrigation water to eight states."
"In the United States the pipeline will chew up important wildlife habitat with roads and powerlines to pumping stations and with the excavation itself. But a much bigger threat is leaking DilBit, which could pollute the aquifer for great distances, rendering water unfit for use by wildlife and humans."
"Johanns is livid about how TransCanada has been threatening landowners with eminent domain in order to frighten them into selling it right-of-way easements. On August 11, 2010, he wrote the company as follows: “I have had multiple conversations with Nebraskans who have indicated that TransCanada representatives have established hard deadlines for landowner responses to offers of easement payments within as little as two weeks, I am told. Nebraska landowners are being told in addition that the use of eminent domain authority will be triggered if they do not accept the offers extended by TransCanada within the arbitrary deadlines."
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http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_fd5a95ee-da17-11df-a781-001cc4c002e0.ht...
Keystone XL pipeline on indefinite hold, negative publicity from Gulf may be to blame
BISMARCK, N.D.- The steel is staged, and crews are waiting to lay the last and most expensive leg of TransCanada Corp.'s multibillion-dollar pipeline network that would carry Canadian oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
Yet final U.S. government approval for the massive project, once assumed to be on a fast track, is now delayed indefinitely, with little official explanation. The company had hoped to begin laying pipe by the end of the year, but those prospects have dimmed.
Some experts conclude the negative publicity surrounding oil-related disasters, particularly the offshore BP leak that polluted the Gulf Coast for months, has made the Keystone XL pipeline a victim of guilt by association.I guess they were not getting enough negative publicity. I knew I read something about TransCanada. What happened to that delay, corrupt officials of the US government?
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EdJoyProductions:
The second biggest thing for me on this is the "eminent domain claims" from a CANADIAN company that is going to take US citizens properties form them.
And our government will allow it??? - 10 months ago
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csmonut:
It sounds like they are just blowing smoke and trying to scare the more uninformed locals. They did refer to our news organizations as slovenly in that article (not untrue, but not everyone in the US is as dumb as our media makes us look).
I can only hope that they do not get away with it.
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Here is another tidbit from the article:
"TransCanada proclaims it’s not “bullying” or “threatening” anyone. But back in Lincoln I met rancher Randy Thompson, who made the trip to D.C. with Myers, Paine, and the others. He showed me a letter from TransCanada threatening to condemn his family ranch beside the Platte River. It reads in part: “While we hope to acquire this property through negotiation, if we are unable to do so, we will be forced to invoke the power of eminent domain and will initiate condemnation proceedings.”
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