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Keystone Pipeline= 35 permanent jobs

Lectro said:
Lol yourself...to scared to look at issues within a realistic frame. Just another ass-hat idealist churned out by the soft-on's of the academy.
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guarantee he learned the difference between "to" and "too" at the academy, though
 
"The News & Observer reported last week that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) had eliminated 13 percent of the staff positions from the Division of Water Resources only weeks after the coal spill was discovered."

"According to its website, the Division of Water Resources is tasked with protecting "North Carolina's surface and ground water resources for the health and welfare of the citizens of North Carolina, and the economic well-being of the state."

Duke Energy Chief Executive Lynn Good on Friday warned that customers would be forced to bear the costs if the state of North Carolina ordered the company to remove the coal ash pits. "

This is fucked up on so many levels.
 
ONW said:
"The News & Observer reported last week that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) had eliminated 13 percent of the staff positions from the Division of Water Resources only weeks after the coal spill was discovered."

"According to its website, the Division of Water Resources is tasked with protecting "North Carolina's surface and ground water resources for the health and welfare of the citizens of North Carolina, and the economic well-being of the state."

Duke Energy Chief Executive Lynn Good on Friday warned that customers would be forced to bear the costs if the state of North Carolina ordered the company to remove the coal ash pits. "

This is fucked up on so many levels.
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Based solely on this statement, what's fucked up about it?
Yeah, I mean, I want clean water and wouldn't want to cut staff DENR if that meant that they weren't able to carry out their function, but without more info, you don't know what the staffing situation at the DENR was/is. Maybe they had some fat to cut....maybe not. Numbers without context are meaningless
As far as the executive at Duke energy saying that the customers would be forced to bear the costs if the state ordered removal of coal ash pits....of course the customer would bear the costs. Electric utilities are a regulated monopoly, if there costs go up then they just pass them along. The government can regulate them insofar as they can keep them from making too high a profit, but if their costs go up they can and will increase the price....it's pretty simple.
 
I don't get why we can't wait until the company can show that they contain and clean up a decent sized spill. So far there have been 2-3 oil sands spills and they have failed miserably at cleaning up.

It's absolutely irrational to allow them to build a pipleline that will have spills without proof they can contain them and clean them up.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/b...rthern-gateway-pipeline.html?ref=science&_r=0

"Northern Gateway has become something of backup for Canada, as approval for the Keystone XL pipeline remains mired in Washington. If built, Northern Gateway would ship about 500,000 barrels of bitumen a day to the coast compared with the 700,000-barrel-a-day capacity of Keystone XL, which would take oil sands production to the Gulf Coast of the United States. When Northern Gateway is combined with the country’s other pipeline plans, Canada could expand shipments from the oil sands by three million barrels a day."
 
MAGA, bringing back American manufacturing jobs, America first....
 
No American steel, virtually no ongoing jobs, no oil for Americans and we assume 100% of the risks and dangers.

This is The Art of the Deal.
 
RJKarl said:
No American steel, virtually no ongoing jobs, no oil for Americans and we assume 100% of the risks and dangers.

This is The Art of the Deal.
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All good, the EPA will keep us safe.
 
Does it matter that this is because these pipes are already built or production has started?

Rage on, lunatics.
 
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