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In the five years since TransCanada submitted its first application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, protesters have held marches and vigils, chained themselves to pipeline trucks, interrupted a presidential speech and gotten themselves purposefully arrested, all in the name of stopping the pipeline.
For Debra Michaud, one of the founders of Tar Sands Free Midwest, getting these activists to just take notice of the pipeline her group has been working to stop since early last year would be a victory.
Nobodys heard of it, Michaud said. People know Keystone, but nobodys heard of Flanagan South.
Unlike Keystones northern leg, which has been mired in court challenges and political skirmishes since 2008, Flanagan South is already in the works, after about two years of negotiating with landowners along the route and going through its permitting process. Once completed, it will pass over approximately 1,950 wetlands and waterways, including the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/26/3252291/flanagan-south-tar-sands/
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(1,210 posts)Earl Hatley, Riverkeeper of the Grand River Watershed in Oklahoma
The fact that Enbridge is the company in charge has Hatley particularly concerned. The company was responsible for a July 2010 pipeline break that spilled up to 1,000,000 gallons of tar sands crude into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River, the largest on-land oil spill in U.S. history. More than three years later, oil is still being removed from the affected area after Enbridge missed an EPA deadline to have cleanup completed by the end of 2013.
This is not only sickening, but quite chilling in the disregard for our environment.
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(2,710 posts)I'm sure it will super safe and sound.