With any luck the State Department will extend its public comment period. But just in case, I’m posting two petitions, one from 350.org, the other from the Center For Effective Government. Both have the option to personalize your public comment. Or address comments to: keystonecomments@state.gov. To my knowledge the State Department will post all comments online. Think Progress has suggestions for writing your own message if you’re unsure of what to write. See links below:
Offer Ends Soon, Act Now: Keystone Pipeline Public Comment Period Closes On Monday | ThinkProgress
Daily Kos: Asking State Dept for more time on comment period for Keystone XL
Speak Up on the Keystone XL Pipeline! – Center for Effective Government
PJ has once again hit on a critical public concern. The dollar signs flashing in the minds of Americans over the North American shale oil finds opens a path to future disasters. All one hears on the media is that low oil prices mean a better national economy. Nothing could be more wrong! We need to increase oil prices with additional taxes to cover the cost of pollution, infrastructure repair and development of alternate energy sources and means of transportation. If the Keystone XL pipe line goes through, we will need higher taxes to figure out how to safely deal with the extra pollution and danger the dirty Canadian Shale will add to our environment.
I really disagree w/all the sites main arguments against this pipeline…they are peripheral at best…the main reason we should be against this fucker is that we don’t need it: importing oil from another country owned by a corporation, refining it in the largest, soon to be refinery, in this country, and then exporting out of this country for their profits is crazy…not to mention that we protect these same oil companies from taxes, and their impact on our environment, while we get hosed at the pump every time we fill up…fuck them.
Dan,
You need’t use the arguments from the article. I posted it for suggestions. Your points are all valid, and the State Dept. needs to know what you think. I certainly agree with you. Allowing America’s resources to serve as a profit mill for the private sector which then scams the public at the pump is unconscionable and insane. This government should be managing our natural resource wealth. Whenever a company/monopoly controls natural resources, agricultural land, or critical infrastructure those entities commit thievery of the highest magnitude. These are all fraudulent industries; all those assets belong to the public and should be returned to the public.
I’d be a little skeptical of anything 350.Org related.
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2013/02/14/rockefellers-behind-scruffy-little-outfit/
Agricultural land and the seeds they sow. Be very aware that Monsanto and DuPont quit fighting:
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/312-16/16921-monsanto-has-created-the-worlds-largest-gmo-monopoly
Nonquixote,
I’d be more than a little skeptical of Vivian Krause. She’s written quite a few pieces on philanthropic giving with special attention to U.S. foundations that oppose oil expansion. She connects the dots in such a way that suggests she’s a mouthpiece for Canadian oil. In much of her work, her primary strategies tend to be: undermine the Native perspective; undermine the credibility of the environmental movement (particularly the U.S. movement opposed to Canadian oil expansion into the U.S.); and discredit scientific conclusions which are potentially damaging (or devastating) to the Canadian oil industry as “junk science.” I wouldn’t consider Krause a good source.
As to DuPont, Monsanto and every corporate entity operating in the scam of big agribusiness, they should be dismantled, all of their assets seized, and the U.S. agricultural industry reverted to the public trust.