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Just received this email and wanted to pass it on here. I am so glad that the president is holding off his decision to approve this nightmare till June.
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http://sumofus.org/
http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/shoddy-weld-on-kxl/
"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 already holes in the Keystone XL pipeline, created by faulty welding.
But moments after snapping a photo of the light coming into the supposedly airtight pipe, Isabel was arrested and held for 24 days in prison. An hour after her arrest, TransCanada laid that segment of pipeline in the ground without inspecting it.
Sign our urgent petition to TransCanada to get independent inspection for every single inch of the Keystone XL pipeline to identify and fix any holes in the pipe.
Despite federal regulations making independent inspection mandatory, TransCanada pipeline contractors hire their own pipeline inspectors. Without truly independent oversight, TransCanada can cut corners and rubber stamp inspections. And when TransCanada cuts corners, our communities, farmland, water, health and planet suffer.
Whats really scary is that if Isabel found one segment of faulty pipeline, its likely there are others.
TransCanada has a legacy of pipeline spills. In the Keystone pipelines first year of operation, it spilled 12 times -- more than any other first-year pipeline in US history. This is a huge moment to show just how dangerous the KXL pipeline really is. With each day that passes, TransCanada is moving ahead with the construction of this pipeline, potentially burying more uninspected pipe, and putting more communities at risk.
If we speak out now we can make sure that TransCanadas legacy of spills is stopped before its too late.
Sign our urgent petition to TransCanada now demanding independent pipeline inspection.
Thanks for being one of us,
Emma, Angus, Kaytee and the rest of us"
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Further Reading:
Photos of KXL's life-threatening weld confirm pipeline opponents' fears, Tar Sands Blockade, Feb. 12, 2013
Is TransCanada Laying Defective Keystone XL Pipe in Texas? DeSmogBlog, Feb. 6th 2013
Keystone Pipeline Infographic: Built to Spill. Huffington Post, Aug. 29th, 2011
Champion Jack
(5,378 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,678 posts)Disgusting.
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indepat
(20,899 posts)it's a done deal, so full speed ahead, damn the certain environmental disasters, for tons of profit are assured for the exporters of all this damn dirty stuff.
tuvor
(15,663 posts)Wow.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Inspectors are much to cost with the contractors
EastKYLiberal
(429 posts)burrowowl
(17,644 posts)But I'm afraid he will be a wishy washy spineless jellyfish on this.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Get paid a good salary, and is willing to expose their finances to their employers to assure they weren't bought off. And if it's government contracts, allowing the government to investigate your finances. No fringe benefits. Or use part of our military for environmental wars, and make them inspectors. You want your filth to travel through this country, for National Security we need our military to inspect it.