OMG !!!! Look what it did to the environment already...it's pure desolation. :/
Oh noes...it's gonna disrupt South Dakotas fishing industry...Oh wait, their agriculture industry...oh wait, their lumber industry...oh wait. Derp.
Yeah, it'll probably get into the ground water, but compared to the volume of ground water, this spill is tiny.
You wanna drive cars that use gas, you wanna have plastics, you want lubricants, then you need oil for that.
But, but, we could buy it from the middle east. Yeah, good idea, send them more money to fund our demise.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-transcanada-keystone-spill/keystone-oil-pipeline-leaks-in-south-dakota-as-nebraska-weighs-xl-idUSKBN1DG30KQuote
The Nebraska Public Service Commission, or PSC, is scheduled on Monday to announce a decision on whether the proposed pipeline route through the state is in the best interests of Nebraskans. It is not allowed to consider the potential of spills as the project already has an environmental permit.
How convenient for those against the pipeline. The coincidence here is staggering. The odds of a large leak, in a place where it really doesn't matter too much, and the announcement of the PSC decision 4 days from now, is just amazing.
I don't know what the result will be in the far future for allowing this pipeline to be OK'd. I do know what not allowing this pipeline will do to prices in the US, and to the amount of money the middle east has to work with.
Since I sincerely doubt that everyone in the US is going to suddenly get environmentally conscious, then I would think this pipeline won't really be any worse than people not carpooling, for example.
The numbers aren't pretty, but if the US wants to keep consuming at the rate we do, not to mention the world, then we pretty much have to make some allowances.
I guess all the environmentalists could volunteer to walk the underground pipeline to constantly check for leaks. This way the leaks could be prevented or kept down to a minimum.
Lot of folk talk a good game, but still gonna go nuts when the prices rise. Like all this energy comes from...nowhere...by magic.