The Koch Brothers seem not to have yet discovered a way to swamp the XL pipeline public comments
section at the official Comments Page of the 30 day official comment period....seems like if someone wants to comment and be heard it would be good to register and comment directly to the decision makers at the State Department AND on blogs like DU:
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=DOS-2014-0003-0001
Here are a couple of comments on the site, only 1060 so far:
"The extraction and processing of bitumen via the Keystone pipeline is a horrific misallocation of government and private resources. The expected emission increases from the development of this resource in the EIS for the state department is not accurate. It should also be expected that a significant portion of the petcoke developed in the refinement process will also be utilized either domestically or as a resource to be sold, at the cost of containment, to developing countries. This process then significantly raises the climate impact of this resource on future generations. At the very minimum, a tariff must be developed for this resource that implements a societal cost of carbon penalty on a per unit basis. This societal cost of carbon MUST include a negative discount rate of -.05% as the full utilization of this fuel resource will lead to a climate collapse and run-away warming within the next 40 years."
"No NO NO to the Keystone Pipeline. We need protected water supplies, NOT more oil to refine for export sale."
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And this article is seriously worth reading from a fellow DU commentator I believe:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024465008
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21691-william-rivers-pitt-diary-of-a-dying-country
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