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Tens of Thousands Demand Action on Climate Change

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Interesting Times2/18/2013 10:09:54 am PST

re: #37 SidewaysQuark

That’s a cause for rerouting and appropriate caution and government oversight, not for striking down the project altogether.

Good effing grief, are you seriously naive enough to trust a company with a safety record as atrocious as this?

Canada’s federal energy industry regulator is investigating the “safety culture” within TransCanada Pipelines Ltd., following revelations from a former engineer about substandard practices, CBC News has learned.

Now, so far they’re claiming those violations don’t pose an “immediate” safety risk (as opposed to what? A risk a few months from now?), but I’ll let the picture from here speak for itself:

20-year-old Isabel Brooks and two of her friends locked themselves inside a segment of the Keystone XL pipeline — a controversial pipeline being built to carry toxic tar sands oil to the US coast for export — to protest its construction. While inside the pipe, they discovered something shocking: there are actually holes in the Keystone XL pipeline, created by faulty welding.

Lovely. All that toxic, slimy, corrosive tar, oozing through a hole-filled pipeline through sensitive ecological areas and over one of the world’s largest aquifiers. But no, it would be “cutting off your nose to spite your face” to stop it 9_9