There are three distinctive reasons why the Keystone Pipeline is NOT a viable project.
1. The extraction of oil from oil sands results in a NEGATIVE energy return. The process uses an intense amount of energy to extract oil from sand and the process leaves a large carbon footprint. When the process is finished the oil produces less energy than the process that extracted it.
2, Besides the aquifers involved in the USA, there is senstive farmland facing drought that could be damaged if an accident occurs. With fisheries threatened by deep water oil drilling and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana losing its fisheries to gross imbalance of toxins in the water; the primary source of grain that frequently feeds the world is the USA Midwest. It is grossly unwise to allow ANY RISK of these lands, yet alone the water supply to them and the people that live there. These agricultural lands have to be maintained in pristine condition without ANY THREAT to adverse outcomes including oil spills and gas explosions.
3. The environmental damage in Canada cannot be ignored by the USA in the processing of the oil sands. If Canadians beieve destroying valuable lands where wildlife flourishes is okay then they can use the oil they extract in Canada without a pipeline across the most valuable agricutlural lands in the world. Canada imports oil and needs these extractions more than the USA for the sincere energy cost they require and the environmental damage they cause.
Has the petroleum industry no conscience at all? I think not.
If actions speak louder than words, then the petroleum industry is more immoral everyday.
Desperate and immoral. We don't want it and for God sakes leave the USA some decency and productive farm land.
1. The extraction of oil from oil sands results in a NEGATIVE energy return. The process uses an intense amount of energy to extract oil from sand and the process leaves a large carbon footprint. When the process is finished the oil produces less energy than the process that extracted it.
2, Besides the aquifers involved in the USA, there is senstive farmland facing drought that could be damaged if an accident occurs. With fisheries threatened by deep water oil drilling and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana losing its fisheries to gross imbalance of toxins in the water; the primary source of grain that frequently feeds the world is the USA Midwest. It is grossly unwise to allow ANY RISK of these lands, yet alone the water supply to them and the people that live there. These agricultural lands have to be maintained in pristine condition without ANY THREAT to adverse outcomes including oil spills and gas explosions.
3. The environmental damage in Canada cannot be ignored by the USA in the processing of the oil sands. If Canadians beieve destroying valuable lands where wildlife flourishes is okay then they can use the oil they extract in Canada without a pipeline across the most valuable agricutlural lands in the world. Canada imports oil and needs these extractions more than the USA for the sincere energy cost they require and the environmental damage they cause.
Has the petroleum industry no conscience at all? I think not.
If actions speak louder than words, then the petroleum industry is more immoral everyday.
Desperate and immoral. We don't want it and for God sakes leave the USA some decency and productive farm land.
