graphic by: Todd Wiseman / Jay Root
Note: More on the subject from The Texas Tribune . . . By Jay Root Pipeline Sparks Property Rights Backlash – As the White House and Congress battle it out over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, the Canadian company that wants to build it is still using its land-seizure powers to get property easements for the ambitious project. And it’s ruffling some feathers in a politically conservative patch of Texas.“I’m just an angry steward of the land,” (Lamar County farmer Julia Trigg) Crawford said. “A foreign-owned, for-profit, nonpermitted pipeline has taken a Texan’s land. Doesn’t sound right, does it?”Texas Observer | By Forrest Wilder Billionaire wins another radioactive favor from TCEQ – Bureaucrats at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality will be nervously watching the stock market for the next five years. That's because the agency, in an unprecedented move, has allowed Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons to financially secure his burgeoning West Texas radioactive waste dump with stock in one of his companies.
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By Barbara Hopson
Guest Commentary
WIMBERLEY, TX – The U.S. – especially the Texas Gulf Coast – is fast on its way to becoming the dumping ground for the rest of the world.
BP has a meltdown of huge proportions, polluting the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida and receives a slap on the wrist from the U.S.oil-igarchy.
Congress has authorized tax incentives of between $1-2 BILLION to Texas refineries which will retrofit themselves to refine Saudi "sour" oil which WILL BE SHIPPED to Texas to be refined. (The Saudis don't want to pollute their own country by refining that dirty oil, and they don't want to put a dent in their huge treasury by building refineries in Saudi Arabia to do the dirty job.) Let Texas take the pollution and pay to do it!
TransCanada wants to send its hot liquid tar sands from Alberta, Canada to Texas via the Keystone XL pipeline built over the Ogallala aquifer. The pollution from refining will be spewed onto Port Arthur and the rest of the Gulf instead of further devastating Alberta. And the kicker is that the refined oil won't even be used in the U.S., but will be tanked from Port Arthur to places where TransCanada can demand a higher price for it than we will pay in the U.S.
Meanwhile, Gov. Perry has agreed for West Texas to take nuclear waste from other states.
Maybe we should erect a crying Statue of Liberty off Port Arthur, holding a tablet that says, "Please don't give us your packaged garbage, your air pollution, and your nuclear poisons, yearning to break free!"
5 comments:
Recent Polls show that 67% of Americans support the Keystone Pipeline being built. Only the PREZ and his liberal followers oppose it. Nothing new here, just the same old liberals going against anything that will help our energy shortages.
To Anon, 5:31 AM--
The Keystone XL Pipeline won't help our oil shortage. Those tar sands would be sent to Port Arthur by pipeline, refined in refineries there, and EXPORTED to foreign countries.
67% of the population do not know the facts about why they want to build this pipe line. We right now have oil refineries closing in the Midwest for lack of crude oil. Why not pump if there? Well they are not in a free trade zone, which the refineries on the Texas coast are. Which means that who ever is pumping that oil doesn't have to pay taxes on the oil when it is exported, which it will be. After talking to numerous people for Alberta the big question is why don't they build a refinery there and pipe the finished. produce? Also why do the builders want to use inferior steel when this pipeline will be going over the largest aquifer in North America, the Ogallala, the Missouri River, the longest river in North America and flow into the Mississippi then the Gulf of Mexico and dozen's of other rivers? THAT IS WHY OBAMA PASSED ON THIS STUPID IDEA! WAKE UP AND GET THE FACTS BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH. Kick
Regardless of where the oil goes this will create jobs, real jobs not Obama propaganda Government jobs. It will help with the balance of trade if what you say is actually true.
Liberals have always found opposed anything that provides power or helps our country, so I have a hard time believing what you say.
To Anon, 5:46 AM--
Just as one Anonymous (you, I think) was incorrect about the Keystone XL pipeline helping with the U.S. oil shortage, so are you incorrect about jobs resulting from the pipeline.
Yes, there will be a few temporary jobs for the actual constructors of the pipeline. They will be short lived. All the other jobs -- including transporting the pipeline materials to the locations-- will be done by people in Canada. No U.S. companies will make any money selling pipe, etc. to TransCanada, because all the necessary supplies have already been purchased (in Canada)and are stored in Canada.
All the longer-lasting refinery jobs will not be new ones; they will go to the refineries and refinery workers already in place on the Texas Gulf Coast.
Do a little basic research before you start unfounded rumors and spread disinformation!
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