Tar sands in Alberta Canada. The worst pollution on earth. Huge areas of forest destroyed.. Poison in the water. Toxic sludge in pipelines through the United States. Destruction of environment. Climate change because of deforestation. I say this is what causes the drought in California.
Destroying huge areas of forest causes climate changes in other regions because of the effects on the evaporation process.
Putting tons of salt into the air continually by boiling water that is used in fracking in Alberta is causing the salt to melt the ice caps in the polar regions. I believe that salt is the reason the ice is melting. Not because of global warming.
The containment of toxic water in holding tanks, (lakes) isn't working the way it should. The toxic water and sludge from the process of fracking in Alberta and from the process of preparing the sludge oil to go into the pipes is seeping into the ground water. The area of the seepage is so enormous that the poisons and toxins will eventually move downstream into American waters. The aquifer is already being affected, now,
North Dakota will probably be one of the first U.S. states affected by the run off of the toxic waste from the containment lakes in Canada. The term (ponds) is a suggestion that the toxins are in smaller ponds and not huge lakes. See the area on Google Earth or on Bing pictures and explore from there.
We do not need to allow the toxic oil to be put into pipelines that cross states on the way to shipping ports. America is not dependent on this oil.
20 Billion barrels of oil can supply America with oil for the next twenty years. As we change to other fuel alternatives the need for crude oil will lesson over a period of time. There is no need to continue the destruction in Alberta Canada and the threats against our WATER and environment in America.
The Keystone pipeline and Dakota pipelines are obsolete. We have oil.
Stop the oil sands production in Alberta and start the clean up in Alberta.
20 Billion barrels of oil in West Texas. We don't need toxic oil from Alberta. We don't need the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The Corp of Engineers wants to remove the water protectors from Standing Rock at Connon Ball Ranch. But they need to remove the pipeline from the Missouri River.
I don't think the protestors are going to move. I think thousands of more are on their way.
The end of the Keystone and Dakota is the beginning of the biggest oil boom in modern history in west Texas.. Ending the tar sands production is an environmental issue. It's not a matter of creating wealth for American oil companies or work in west Texas. But economically speaking, it wouldn't hurt either.
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