What difference does it make if Hamm builds his pipeline in Oklahoma and Texas, there no environmental risk in a barren land!

The cattle have been sold.  The land is so parched that thunderstorms evaporate.  It makes do difference to a destroyed land if there are oil spills and gas explosions unless human beings are in the path and die.  Otherwise, what damage can a pipeline do?

APNewsBreak: Drought costs Texas $8B in ag losses (click title to entry - thank you)

March 21, 2012, 5:17PM ET 

By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI and BETSY BLANEY

HOUSTON

The driest year in Texas history caused a record $7.62 billion in agriculture losses, billions more than previously estimated, the Texas AgriLife Extension Service said Wednesday.

The new total for 2011, provided to The Associated Press before its public release, is about $2.42 billion more than an August estimate that had already topped the 2006 record of $4.1 billion in drought-related losses.

Texas is the nation's No. 3 producer of agricultural products behind California and Iowa, so when crops and cattle fail in the Lone Star State, prices can be expected to rise nationally, said David Anderson, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M University....

Stupidity dies hard in the USA, especially when it is so obvious one sincerely worries about their lives!  Last year the summer in Texas and Oklahoma saw trains that could only crawl along their tracks because of the fear of warped, hot rails, sidewalks exploded and all forms of livestock were sold for fear they could not water the stock long enough to get them to market later.  Earth finally made an impression on oil men that denied they created their own hell!  Evidently, Hamm has't got the message his peers seem to be now clinging to.

Global warming a threat to Texas water supply (click here)

DINA CAPPIELLO, Houston Chronicle

AUSTIN — With a dozen bills addressing global warming before the Legislature, lawmakers on Monday had a chance to hear from experts about what a rise in the Earth's temperature means for Texas and what can be done about it.

The briefing represented a rare visit to the Texas Capitol for four of the state's foremost climate scientists who have spent more time speaking with legislators in other states and the U.S. Congress than lawmakers here.

The presentation shed some scientific light on the bills filed this session on climate change, an issue that until this year saw little legislative action in Texas.

The scientists said Texas has reached or exceeded its maximum annual average temperature and must adapt to changes that are inevitable but not predictable.