Editorial: Risks are too great for an expanded Keystone

Editorial: Risks are too great for an expanded Keystone

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Within weeks, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is supposed to decide whether to authorize a 1,600-mile expansion of a tar sands crude oil pipeline network across six Midwestern, Western and Southern U.S. states and three Canadian provinces. Alternatively, she could pass the decision on to President Barack Obama.

Neither the president nor the secretary of state should approve the application at this time for any number of reasons, chief among them is the very real danger of catastrophic pipeline failures in crucial locations.

Such events could leave large tracts of Western and Midwestern farm, ranch and recreational land contaminated with toxic wastes and poison surface-river systems and deep natural reservoirs used to irrigate billions of dollars' worth of crops and supply drinking water to millions of Americans.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/article_efe6bcf3-0a9c-52c0-bd6e-e53fa0b83440.html#ixzz1aTTRLWld
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oil companies do not have a good record for their products. leaks, blow-outs and more quite common and they lie about the number and severity; as well as have cover from politicans and agencies

this is a continuation of the pipeline story from years past.