[GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Time is running out--XL Pipeline.

[Brian Good]

Darryl Hannah spoke briefly at the Aquarius Theater 2 weeks ago about the XL at the
screening of "Greedy Lying Bastards".   She raised some points I didn't know:

1)  In 12 months the pipeline has already had 12 spills.  The pipeline passes over two 
natural water reservoirs--one in the north and one in Texas--that would be very 
vulnerable to contamination in case of a spill.   I believe she said these reservoirs were
fossil water so that if they were contaminated it would be forever.  There is no natural
regeneration process of natural cleansing in these reservoirs.

2) The transmission mechanism is very inefficient.  The oil must be heated and kept 
hot (150 F I believe) to permit pumping.  

3) The pipeline is not about delivering the oil to the USA.  It goes all the way to the 
Gulf of Mexico, and it's about delivering the oil to the global market at the global price.



I first learned of the Canadian tar sands in 2005 when Michael Ruppert spoke in Eugene,
OR.  (Had I taken his advice to buy gold at 450--it's now at 1700--my financial status 
would have been much improved.)  Ruppert said that the Chinese were then investing 
billions in a pipeline to bring the tar oil to market.  I would assume this pipeline was routed 
to a Pacific terminal rather than a Gulf terminal, and so I wonder what happened to the
Chinese pipeline and if the whole XL project was as much about denying tar oil access
to the Chinese as anything else.




















Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 08:41:59 -0700
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Subject: [GPSCC-chat] Fwd: Time is running out.



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