Lincoln, Nebraska rally to stop the TransCanada Keystone XL tar sands pipeline; Hillary Clinton set to succeed where Al-Qaeda failed

On Thursday, Aksarbent pointed the pickup at the state capitol, then shot and edited some original video for this blog for a change.
     And why did we waste gas returning to stinkin' Lincoln?
     Well, it seems that Hillary Clinton at the State Department has now produced not one, but two whitewashed environmental reports rationalizing the construction of a 1,000-mile extension (Keystone XL) to TransCanada's leaky new tar sands pipeline (Keystone 1).
    This poisonous snake, which could be routed elsewhere, will go through the biggest, purest underground reservoir of fresh water in North America, directly to Texas, where its contents will be refined and shipped to destinations like China and Japan.

     The aforementioned reservoir would be the Ogallala Aquifer, the biggest and richest part of which is in Nebraska, but which extends through several states to Texas. Landowners throughout the Midwest are livid.
     When (not if) this pipeline starts leaking carcinogenic toxins like benzene into the aquifer, Hillary Clinton will have succeeded where Al-Qaeda failed. Let's hope it can be stopped.
     FYI: Tar sand is liquid sandpaper and has to be heated up to 150 degrees and pressurized up to 1600 PSI just to flow through bigger-than-normal but not thicker-than-normal pipes.
     Naturally it wrecks pipes and valves quicker than other forms of petroleum, which may be why TransCanada's Keystone 1, has already leaked 12 times (according to AP) or 9 times (if you believe TransCanada) in less than a year.
     The most recent screwup was just last weekend in North Dakota, where 20,000 gallons shot up 60 feet in the air above the cottonwoods before TransCanada contained it. Fortunately, this occurred at a pumping station with a containment berm for spills. Next time, North Dakota may not be as lucky.



You can listen to a three-part stream of Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska debating Jeff Raugh, a paid TransCanada apologist, on Lincoln's right-wing radio station KLIN by clicking on the below links.

Part 1        Part 2        Part 3

On the day of the above rally, the Lincoln Journal-Star aired its doubts about the pipeline in a top-of-the-page editorial.