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Just signed up for another internet 'phone conference' with POTUS (Original Post) Siwsan Feb 2013 OP
Please do talk about Keystone XL if you get the chance. AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #1
Chance would be a FINE thing - but he talks, we listen Siwsan Feb 2013 #2
OK, I understand. AverageJoe90 Feb 2013 #3
 

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
1. Please do talk about Keystone XL if you get the chance.
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 05:08 PM
Feb 2013

I'm not so worried quite so much about the impacts on climate(and yes, it has been exaggerated before, btw, particularly by one James Hansen, but that doesn't change my opposition to it.), as I am the potential of the damage to the environment if something happens; Keystone XL won't induce "runaway" anything in terms of climate change, as Jim Hansen claimed once, but a spill damn well could poison huge swaths of the Ogallala aquifer.

The President needs to be reminded, at least, of the climate commitments he laid out in the inaugural address.

Siwsan

(26,286 posts)
2. Chance would be a FINE thing - but he talks, we listen
Mon Feb 11, 2013, 05:15 PM
Feb 2013

It's a live call, but it's more of a 'pump up the troops' kind of event. He did one, shortly after the election, to thank the people who campaigned for him, and there were around 35,000 of us, on line. But it's still pretty cool to have any kind of 'live' contact.

I wish they would do one where you could ask questions. I have the same major concern as you, when it comes to Keystone.

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