AlterNet: Senators Push For Hasty Approval of Pipeline For World's Dirtiest and Costliest Oil

The tar sands pits in Alberta, Canada that Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C.) visited last week are so bleak that one UN official, after seeing them for the first time, compared them to Mordor, the hellish wasteland from Lord of the Rings.

But Senator Graham, after meeting with oil industry representatives and tar sands proponents, hailed the toxic mines, the source of the world's dirtiest fuel, as "an industrial ballet," adding that the project "really blends with the natural habitat."

Huh?

Maybe I shouldn't be surprised. After all, Graham and his delegation never met with opponents of the project -- like the people living near the tar sands pits, who report higher-than-average cancer rates linked to water contamination, or biologists, or the wildlife experts, who counted hundreds of ducks that died after landing on the project's toxic lakes.

But you would think plans to expand pipelines carrying this toxic crude into the United States would come under a little more scrutiny from U.S. leaders –- especially the ones living in states where pipelines threaten drinking water supplies. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/148288/senators_push_for_hasty_approval_of_pipeline_for_worlds_dirtiest_and_costliest_oil

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It's a giant scam to get the American people to pay for a natural gas pipeline from Alaska through Canada to the tar sand deposits in Alberta that are primarily owned by the Chinese. Most of the high-carbon slurry that gets released from the sand by heating with (relatively clean) natural gas gets shipped to China, where it fires industrial boilers.

The GOP and T Boone Pickens want the US taxpayers to pay for this. See, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/8/12517/55971/297/589573 ;

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nothing more or nothing less. I'm hoping the people of south carolina vote him out of office the next time but then again I'm hoping the people of my state vote both our senators out the next time we get a chance, Inhofe and Coburn, both a waste of human skin.