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Originally Posted by **********
hi Dyna,
I'm not misinformed.
Maybe you don't realize this, but I'm Canadian, and I am on your side on this. I think the XL pipeline, which will be pumping the dirtiest Canadian oil possible, over the Ogallala Aquifer (which much of the western US heavily relies on as a source for clean drinking water), and over American PRIVATELY OWNED Property, is a bad idea. It benefits only a few rich people, and no one else. Come on dude... its a bad, bad idea.
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You are making it sound like this has never been done before or that this is new. Hundreds of oil pipelines cross the United States. There is already pipelines in place to transport this oil, but this is an additional pipeline that it shorter. That oil needs to get from point A to point B, and that oil will cross the United States.
I'm sorry, but oil pipelines cross our country. It passes over and through our drinking water, public lands, and privately owned lands. There is nothing that can be done to change this.
Obama did the wrong thing here. A large percentage of Americans approved this, and there is no reason not to do it.