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MR. COHEN
YOU FIRST HAVE TO CONSIDER THE OPINION OF THE WORLD'S UNDISPUTED FOREMOST CLIMATOLOGIST. DR. JAMES HANSON, THE GURU ON THIS SUBJECT. BETTY CROCKER, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SEAL. ONE OF THE FIRST SCIENTISTS TO WARN OF THE DANGERS OF BURNING CARBON FUEL. DR. HANSON IS THE MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HE LIKES THE KEYSTONE X.L. PIPELINE TO THE TUESDAY OF THE BIGGEST CARBON BOMB ON THE PLANET AND NOTHING LESS. THE FUSE TO THE BIGGEST CARBON BOMB ON THE PLANET. THAT'S DR. HANSON. DR. HANSON'S WARN THE COMPLETION OF THIS PIPELINE WILL ONLY REINFORCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOSSIL FUELS, NOT STRENGTHEN OUR NATION'S ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, AS HAS BEEN ARGUED BY SOME OF OUR FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE. WHEN YOU BRUSH ASIDE THE STUDIES FUNDED BY TRANSCANADA AND OTHER OIL COMPANIES AND YOU ANALYZE THE PURE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES THAT HAVE NO POLITICAL MOTIVATION, EVERY ANALYSIS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THE KEYSTONE X.L. PIPELINE POSES MAJOR THREATS AT EVERY TURN IN EXTRACTION, IN TRANSPORTATION, IN REFINING AND IN CONSUMPTION. NATIONWIDE, ABOUT 3.2 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL SPILL FROM PIPELINES EVERY YEAR.
SPILLS SUCH AS THOSE POLLUTE DRINKING WATER, RUIN AMERICAN FARMLAND, POTENTIALLY DESTROY SACRED TRIBAL LANDS AND BECOME INHABITABLE FOR HOMEOWNERS. IN KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, THERE WAS A SPILL IN 2010 OF TAR SANDS OIL, COST $1.2 BILLION AND YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS TO CLEAN UP. THAT'S WHERE THE PERMANENT JOBS ARE GOING TO BE CREATED IN CLEANING UP THE SPILLAGE, AND THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF JOBS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT. BUILDING A PIPELINE CARRIES THE DIRTIEST OIL FROM CANADA TO THE GULF OF MEXICO. AND IT'S EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING TODAY. AND MOST OF THIS OIL WILL NOT GO TO AMERICA BUT WILL GO THROUGH AMERICA, ENDANGERING OUR MID AMERICA AND BE EXPORTED OVERSEAS. THERE ARE NO EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ON NONDOMESTIC CRUDES. H.R. 5682 IS A SPECIAL INTEREST EARMARK THAT WILL MAKE THE U.S. A PERMANENT CONDUIT TO INTERNATIONAL MARKETS FOR ONE OF THE DIRTIEST FUEL SOURCES ON THE PLANET. MY COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND SAYS WE'LL BE HELPING OUR FRIEND. YES, CANADA'S OUR FRIEND. WE PLAY HOCKEY WITH THEM, BASKETBALL, WHATEVER. BUT THIS OIL'S GOING TO GO TO OUR OWN FRIEND, CHINA. THIS IS ABOUT CANADA SHIPPING OIL THROUGH AMERICA, ENDANGERING AMERICAN LANDS TO SUPPLY THE CHINESE WITH OIL. THE KEYSTONE X.L. PROPONENTS LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THESE JOBS WHICH IT WILL CREATE BUT THE VAST MAJORITY IS TEMPORARY. THE PERMANENT JOBS MEASURE 35. THE PERMANENT JOBS WILL REALLY BE CLEANUP.
Wow. The Repubs must be quivering after that scathing attack! He even mentioned Hansen! No one would argue with Hansen!
) that will supply TEMPORARY jobs, will further pollute the atmosphere & poses danger for MANY ground spills, and benefits foreign countries. Why are Repubs "for" something that has none of the attributes & all of the liabilities? This is corporate fluffing in its highest art form 
A true statesman shows that simply being a middle man for two foreign countries is not in this great nations interest among other issues such as it being an environmental time bomb:
transcript from floor:
US House Legislative Business Video C-SPAN.org
at 21:35
MR. COHEN
YOU FIRST HAVE TO CONSIDER THE OPINION OF THE WORLD'S UNDISPUTED FOREMOST CLIMATOLOGIST. DR. JAMES HANSON, THE GURU ON THIS SUBJECT. BETTY CROCKER, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SEAL. ONE OF THE FIRST SCIENTISTS TO WARN OF THE DANGERS OF BURNING CARBON FUEL. DR. HANSON IS THE MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HE LIKES THE KEYSTONE X.L. PIPELINE TO THE TUESDAY OF THE BIGGEST CARBON BOMB ON THE PLANET AND NOTHING LESS. THE FUSE TO THE BIGGEST CARBON BOMB ON THE PLANET. THAT'S DR. HANSON. DR. HANSON'S WARN THE COMPLETION OF THIS PIPELINE WILL ONLY REINFORCE OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOSSIL FUELS, NOT STRENGTHEN OUR NATION'S ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, AS HAS BEEN ARGUED BY SOME OF OUR FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE. WHEN YOU BRUSH ASIDE THE STUDIES FUNDED BY TRANSCANADA AND OTHER OIL COMPANIES AND YOU ANALYZE THE PURE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES THAT HAVE NO POLITICAL MOTIVATION, EVERY ANALYSIS CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES THE KEYSTONE X.L. PIPELINE POSES MAJOR THREATS AT EVERY TURN IN EXTRACTION, IN TRANSPORTATION, IN REFINING AND IN CONSUMPTION. NATIONWIDE, ABOUT 3.2 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL SPILL FROM PIPELINES EVERY YEAR.
a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
what good is it for America other than being a middle-man? Its predecessor had leaks. The Ogalalla Aquifer is too important to too many farmers and other people who rely on it.a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
Nothing but fear mongering bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to build the Keystone pipeline other than to placate radical environmentalists who don't have the support of the American people.
what good is it for America other than being a middler-man?a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
Nothing but fear mongering bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to build the Keystone pipeline other than to placate radical environmentalists who don't have the support of the American people.
a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
Nothing but fear mongering bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to build the Keystone pipeline other than to placate radical environmentalists who don't have the support of the American people.
a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
Nothing but fear mongering bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to build the Keystone pipeline other than to placate radical environmentalists who don't have the support of the American people.
By the same token there's no reason to build it other than to grease the wheels of Big Oil's production, and thereby cut their costs. Given that we (and the world) are "addicted to oil", it's basically analogous to a drug dealer smuggling product from Canada to China, and we get to play the part of the mule.
You know the mule? The guy who gets paid to swallow a balloon of coke, take a flight and then shit it out at point B?
a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
Nothing but fear mongering bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to build the Keystone pipeline other than to placate radical environmentalists who don't have the support of the American people.
By the same token there's no reason to build it other than to grease the wheels of Big Oil's production, and thereby cut their costs. Given that we (and the world) are "addicted to oil", it's basically analogous to a drug dealer smuggling product from Canada to China, and we get to play the part of the mule.
You know the mule? The guy who gets paid to swallow a balloon of coke, take a flight and then shit it out at point B?
it's basically analogous to a drug dealer smuggling product from Canada to China, and we get to play the part of the mule.
Do you understand where China is?
Do you know where the pipeline would go?
Do you understand how stupid your claim is?
THIS BILL IS A REGULATORY EARMARK. IT WILL WAIVE APPLICABLE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW REQUIREMENTS AND RISK OUR FARMLANDS AND OUR WATER SUPPLIES. IN FACT, IT EVEN EXEMPTS THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE FROM PAYING INTO THE OIL SPILL FUND THAT OTHER OIL COMPANIES HAVE TO CONTRIBUTE TO. THAT MEANS IF THERE'S A PROBLEM WITH THAT PIPELINE, WELL, THERE'S NO PAYMENT BY KEYSTONE X.L. TO THAT FUND TO MAKE THOSE WHO ARE HURT WHOLE. THAT MEANS THAT IF THERE'S A SPILL THERE WON'T BE THE MONEY TO CLEAN IT UP.
a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
Nothing but fear mongering bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to build the Keystone pipeline other than to placate radical environmentalists who don't have the support of the American people.
By the same token there's no reason to build it other than to grease the wheels of Big Oil's production, and thereby cut their costs. Given that we (and the world) are "addicted to oil", it's basically analogous to a drug dealer smuggling product from Canada to China, and we get to play the part of the mule.
You know the mule? The guy who gets paid to swallow a balloon of coke, take a flight and then shit it out at point B?
the 2nd half concerning potential damage to sacred tribal lands tinydancer Katzndogz
US House Legislative Business Video C-SPAN.org
SPILLS SUCH AS THOSE POLLUTE DRINKING WATER, RUIN AMERICAN FARMLAND, POTENTIALLY DESTROY SACRED TRIBAL LANDS AND BECOME INHABITABLE FOR HOMEOWNERS. IN KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN, THERE WAS A SPILL IN 2010 OF TAR SANDS OIL, COST $1.2 BILLION AND YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS TO CLEAN UP. THAT'S WHERE THE PERMANENT JOBS ARE GOING TO BE CREATED IN CLEANING UP THE SPILLAGE, AND THAT'S NOT THE KIND OF JOBS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WANT. BUILDING A PIPELINE CARRIES THE DIRTIEST OIL FROM CANADA TO THE GULF OF MEXICO. AND IT'S EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE OF ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE, WHICH IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING TODAY. AND MOST OF THIS OIL WILL NOT GO TO AMERICA BUT WILL GO THROUGH AMERICA, ENDANGERING OUR MID AMERICA AND BE EXPORTED OVERSEAS. THERE ARE NO EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ON NONDOMESTIC CRUDES. H.R. 5682 IS A SPECIAL INTEREST EARMARK THAT WILL MAKE THE U.S. A PERMANENT CONDUIT TO INTERNATIONAL MARKETS FOR ONE OF THE DIRTIEST FUEL SOURCES ON THE PLANET. MY COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND SAYS WE'LL BE HELPING OUR FRIEND. YES, CANADA'S OUR FRIEND. WE PLAY HOCKEY WITH THEM, BASKETBALL, WHATEVER. BUT THIS OIL'S GOING TO GO TO OUR OWN FRIEND, CHINA. THIS IS ABOUT CANADA SHIPPING OIL THROUGH AMERICA, ENDANGERING AMERICAN LANDS TO SUPPLY THE CHINESE WITH OIL. THE KEYSTONE X.L. PROPONENTS LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THESE JOBS WHICH IT WILL CREATE BUT THE VAST MAJORITY IS TEMPORARY. THE PERMANENT JOBS MEASURE 35. THE PERMANENT JOBS WILL REALLY BE CLEANUP.
a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
Nothing but fear mongering bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to build the Keystone pipeline other than to placate radical environmentalists who don't have the support of the American people.
By the same token there's no reason to build it other than to grease the wheels of Big Oil's production, and thereby cut their costs. Given that we (and the world) are "addicted to oil", it's basically analogous to a drug dealer smuggling product from Canada to China, and we get to play the part of the mule.
You know the mule? The guy who gets paid to swallow a balloon of coke, take a flight and then shit it out at point B?
There's nothing wrong with oil.
a pipeline built of IMPORTED pipes (they're from India
Nothing but fear mongering bullshit. There is absolutely no reason not to build the Keystone pipeline other than to placate radical environmentalists who don't have the support of the American people.
By the same token there's no reason to build it other than to grease the wheels of Big Oil's production, and thereby cut their costs. Given that we (and the world) are "addicted to oil", it's basically analogous to a drug dealer smuggling product from Canada to China, and we get to play the part of the mule.
You know the mule? The guy who gets paid to swallow a balloon of coke, take a flight and then shit it out at point B?
There's nothing wrong with oil.
I didn't say it was wrong or right, bad or good. I described what the pipeline does, and who it does it for.
You know, busting myths as always. Work work work.
