Corporate Destruction of our Mother (Mother Earth/Pachamama)

p Our politicians are either stupid or lazy, because they donrsquo;t look at the bigger issues and are only concerned about monetary span data-scayt_word="profit.”" data-scaytid="1"profit.rdquo;/span Alberto span data-scayt_word="Saldamando" data-scaytid="2"Saldamando/span, representative from the International Indian Treaty Council, gave me this simple revelation concerning the proposed Keystone XL pipeline.nbsp;/p p What concerns me is the fact that it could affect the reservations that surround the proposed pipeline. Tens of thousands of people below poverty level could get sick and die or get hurt or killed in an explosion or rupture. Trans Canada Pipelines Corporation clearly already have pipeline laid down to Cushing OK, where major refining plants are located, and hence they already go around the areas where major poverty levels are at./p p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;" President Barack Obama, self-proclaimed leader in clean energy revision, has planned to accept all parties undertaking this project that could lay waste to sensitive ecosystems, up the price of gas because of such dirty oil needs to be refined even further due to different compounds that make up the Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada. But most of all that matters to me, with this controversial topic, is where they want to build it as well as the environmental issues/p p class="MsoNormal" span style=""nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /spanUpon reviewing a map of the proposed pipeline, it shows the original Keystone Pipeline as it heads south from span data-scayt_word="Hardisty" data-scaytid="3"Hardisty/span, then it makes itrsquo;s way to Winnipeg. Which is east from span data-scayt_word="Hardisty" data-scaytid="4"Hardisty/span. From there all the way down to Steele City KA, then breaking off from there to span data-scayt_word="Patoka" data-scaytid="5"Patoka/span and Wood River IL.,/p p class="MsoNormal" Instead of going east to Winnipeg, they decided it must go south to Baker MO., already several issues come to mind. Including a way to put the pipeline inside of the Rocky Mountains, also along with that comes the issue of the strength and durability of the pipeline as well as a way to keep it from leaking or corroding. I believe we may have another BP situation on our hands here. What happens when there is a spill of BPrsquo;s proportion on land? Do the politicians think of that? Just last Monday September 20, a major oil rig exploded and not a single word was said about it, witness Maria Slay told the span data-scayt_word="Oklahoman" data-scaytid="6"Oklahoman/span that she heard four or five explosions and said workers are at the drilling rig around the clock. No injuries were so called reported. Letrsquo;s say that happened near the reservations. That would be a cataclysmic event that would affect a lot of indigenous people of the reservations. Another issue is the compounds that make up the tar sands of Alberta, Canada./p p class="MsoNormal" span style=""nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /spanBituminous sands, colloquially known as oil sands or tar sands, are a type of unconventional petroleum deposit. Making liquid fuels from oil sands requires energy for steam injection and refining. This process generates two to four times the amount of greenhouse span data-scayt_word="gases" data-scaytid="7"gases/span per barrel of final product as the production of conventional oil./p p class="MsoNormal" span style=""nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /spanHeavy metals such as vanadium, nickel, lead, cobalt, mercury, chromium, cadmium, arsenic, selenium, copper, manganese, iron and zinc are present in oil sands, which make the oil sands extremely hard to pump and refine, which is why many people call the bituminous sands ldquo;dirty oilrdquo;.span style=""nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style=""nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /spanAnother issue I just stumbled upon is the lies that were told to us. I recently heard from a colleague of mine, whorsquo;s name I will not release due to the relative nature ofspan style=""nbsp; /spanthis article, informed me that Trans Canada Corporation is not selling the oil to the United States but instead they are only renting the land from the United States to sell oil to South America. When I heard this, two things came to mind, jobs and money./p p class="MsoNormal" span style=""nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /spanIf this is true, Americans near and around the extended pipeline would be the most in danger, including those peoples on the reservations. What if nothing happened, oil production is moving forward in the process and oil is being sold. Greenhouse gasses would be the major problem. Many people in the Midwest have breathing problems due to so much drought.span style=""nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /span/p p class="MsoNormal" span style=""nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; /spanThe only money the United States would be getting is from Trans Canada Pipelines for renting the land, and the only jobs created by this would be for the oil rigs that are already in place and have workers. Not a single man or woman would be able to build the actual pipeline even if they had the experience. I canrsquo;t say for sure if anything will happen, but what I have the right to say is that this proposed pipeline will only bring more issues to come instead of solutions./p