Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' blatant lie about unbuilt Keystone XL pipeline: 'perfectly safe' despite a dozen leaks in year-old predecessor laid by same company

In his nationally-televised GOP response to Barack Obama's State of the Union address, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels said, "The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy."
     He claimed this despite the fact that the "perfectly-safe" Keystone XL pipeline hasn't been built yet. Despite the fact that its predecessor, Keystone 1, leaked at least 12 times in its first year of operation. Despite the fact that Keystone XL is bigger in diameter, but no thicker, carries abrasive tar sands mixed with corrosive, carcinogenic additives, is heated to 160 degrees and pressurized to 1600 PSI. Despite the fact that the cancelled project was to have been built over North America's largest supply of underground fresh water, the Ogallala Aquifer. Mitch Daniels is a shameless, contemptible whore to moneyed interests. If he is anything else we can't see it from here in Nebraska, the state whose water Daniels would cheerfully see ruined.

Keystone 1 pipeline spill in Sergeant County, North Dakota, May 2011
Photo via Sierra Club