Showdown: Money vs. Environment

James Hansen has warned that if the Keystone XL pipeline project goes through it's "game over" for stabilizing CO2. Whether most Americans and Canadians can grasp the significance of that statement is doubtful, and when everybody's making money - including some of Obama's biggest campaign supporters - who can stop this juggernaut?

"Obama allies’ interests collide over Keystone pipeline

In May, environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben — pondering a simmering energy issue — asked a NASA scientist to calculate what it would mean for the Earth’s climate if Canada extracted all of the petroleum in its rich Alberta oil sands region. The answer to McKibben’s query came a month later: It would push atmospheric carbon concentrations so high that humans would be unable to avert a climate disaster. “It is essentially game over,” wrote James E. Hansen, who heads NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and is one of the nation’s leading voices against fossil fuel energy.

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But opposition to tar sands exploration, and the pipeline, was growing among environmentalists. Tapping tar sands is an energy-intensive process more like strip mining than oil drilling. Kenny Bruno of the liberal advocacy group Corporate Ethics International said he and other activists targeted Keystone’s expansion because “it’s an infrastructure linchpin for the expansion of the tar sands.”

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Shell sent a note in late September to all of its roughly 20,000 U.S. employees urging them to write to the State Department in support of the project and providing them an address. “It’s a voluntary program,” said Shell spokesman Bill Tanner. “Our employees also understand the need to have this sort of infrastructure project available. We’re doing what we can to make sure our views are heard in the permitting process.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-allies-interests-collide-over-keystone-pipeline/2011/10/11/gIQAr09cpL_print.html

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devotees under its wheels. /p1 i James Hansen has warned that if the Keystone XL pipeline project goes through it's "game over" for stabilizing CO2. Whether most Americans and Canadians can grasp the significance of that statement is doubtful, and when everybody's making money - including some of Obama's biggest campaign supporters - who can stop this juggernaut?/i

BTW, that was a nice post from the Bulletin...

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