Wednesday, February 8, 2012

All About the Boreal Forest and What Tar Sands Destroy

This is by far the most captivating visual presentation on what we are destroying by oil greed.  Because Canada is so large, PMO can sit in Ottawa and only talk economic action plans.  How a person can watch this video and not care deeply about the damage done to nature is hard to fathom.



As for clean up that will happen after a spill, well forget that.
More than 1,000 barrels of oil spewed into the Yellowstone River after Exxon Mobile's Silvertip pipeline burst during heavy flooding in the region in July. By August, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said samples taken from the region didn't show any elevated levels of chemicals that would persist in the environment. Officials had said Silvertip wasn't carrying tar sands oil at the time, but it does on occasion -- just, conveniently enough, not when the pipeline ripped open. By the end of the year, Exxon was boring holes far below the riverbed as engineers worked on repairs. The Billings Gazette, in its comments on the attorney general's statements, noted quietly this week that less than 1 percent of the total amount of oil spilled from Silvertip was ever recovered, however. Does that mean there's still about 1,000 barrels of oil floating around somewhere?
Tar sands oil sinks, so it will not be fished out of the rivers, never, ever.  Only 1% was recovered two years later.

Americans Livid Over TransCanada Lies

If an individual lies, it's pathological.  When industry lies, it's criminal.  And foolish.  TransCanada promised to source 75% of its steel for pipelines from the US.  Instead, it came from India.

 Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) accused the foreign company TransCanada of misleading the American public that the pipeline would be built with American steel.

Doyle submitted an amendment that challenged TransCanada to certify its claim that 75 percent of the pipe comes from North America is actually true. Discussing his amendment, Doyle expressed his frustration about his attempts to get a straight answer from the tar sands company about where the steel for the 1700-mile pipe was made. Doyle found that the Indian company Welspun Corp appears to be the pipeline supplier, using its Little Rock facilities to store India-manufactured pipe and steel. “I don’t believe there’s a lick of US or Canada steel in this pipeline,” Doyle said:

I’m asking for a bit of truth in advertising here. It’s been my frustration throughout this debate. We hear a lot of claims about the pipeline and I just want to be honest with the American people. My amendment just says this: TransCanada has told us they have made every effort to source as much steel through North American mills as they can. I’m simply asking them to certify that claim. Through my little amateur investigation, I don’t believe there’s a lick of US or Canada steel in this pipeline. But I would love to be proved wrong.


This says volumes about how TransCanada is a black mark in business dealings.  Currently, their Utah tar sands have been halted for being dishonest about how they would be cleaning up the tar mess.  Apparently, the compound turns carcinogenic and fluid when mixed with tar, further enhancing its capability to morph into a run off and uncontrolled toxic compound.