"Renaissance Thinking About the Issues of Our Day"
Senator Hoeven is working with Foreign Corporations to thwart the American process intended to represent the will of the People. Why? Here is hint: TransCanada spent $1.3 million lobbying for in 2011.
There's no reason the public should sacrifice so much just so Big Oil can increase their already-record profits. This pipeline would carry the world's dirtiest fossil fuel, tar sands oil, from Canada to Texas, where it would be shipped overseas. To build the pipeline, TransCanada has to seize private land from ranchers and farmers, and then expose what's left to the threat of oil spills and leaks. Clean water, clean air, agriculture, and our shared climate would all be put at risk for what have been greatly exaggerated benefits.
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What is really disheartening about this that if approved and built I'll never be sure whether this wasn't part of an original plan of getting the Pipeline built agreed upon by Obama and the Republicans. Hell of a government we have.