Friday, December 09, 2011

The environmental assessment of the Keystone Pipeline was corrupt. The GOP actually believes corruption is good and this is more proof.

Alberta Oil Sands 1984

...The department allowed TransCanada, the company seeking permission to build the 1,700-mile pipeline from the oil sands of northern Alberta to the Gulf Coast in Texas, to solicit and screen bids for the environmental study. At TransCanada’s recommendation, the department hired Cardno Entrix, an environmental contractor based in Houston, even though it had previously worked on projects with TransCanada and describes the pipeline company as a “major client” in its marketing materials....

TransCanada also stated, in compliance with Canadian environmental standards, they were restoring the areas where the open pit mining was occurring after the sand was removed.  There was a 60 minutes program about it.  They lied.  NASA has a complete set of pictures of the site in Alberta and there is absolutely no restoration.  If that is what TransCanada called restoration, then they speak a different language then I do.

TransCanada is also having troubles already, but, hey they ain't nothing to worry about.  The Republicans are remiss, they don't have 'environment' in their vocabulary when it comes to safeguarding the nation's farmland, any conservation concerns or health.


Alberta Oil Sands 2011, where is there restoration that returns the region back to its origianal state?  There is none!

TransCanada Shuts Pipeline After Troubles With Power (click here)