Farmer’s Restraining Order Against Keystone XL Pipeline Reinstated

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Just a week ago, a temporary restraining order taken out by a farmer in northeast Texas against the company building the Keystone XL pipeline was dissolved. But late on Friday this week, that restraining order was reinstated by an appellate court.

The landowner fighting the pipeline is Julia Trigg Crawford, who owns a farm in Lamar County, northeast of Dallas. As we reported in an earlier story, her family has been there since the forties, where they grow soybeans, corn and wheat. A few years back, TransCanada approached her family about running the Keystone XL pipeline through her farm. The controversial pipeline would take unconventional oil deposits from Canada to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas. “Well, we didn’t sign initially, and it’s kinda drug on and on,” she told StateImpact Texas. “Each year they sent another letter saying there’ll be more money to kinda sweeten the pot.”
http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2012/03/03/farmers-restraining-order-reinstated-against-keystone-xl-pipeline/

[Nambe]

1. I just found this today. The whole page is a good read for a little oily background.

According to retired Army brigadier general Steven M. Anderson:
As the military’s senior logistician in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, I saw the impact of our oil addition in the Iraq combat zone. Our appetite for fuel wastes billions of taxpayer dollars, transfers $1 billion daily in our wealth to the Middle East, and puts our soldiers at risk. The fuel trucks we depend upon provide hundreds of convenient rolling targets for our enemy. My experiences in Iraq convinced me that the greatest threat to our security is our over-reliance on oil and that Americans must immediately take steps to cut our petro-addiction before it’s too late.

The Keystone XL pipeline doesn’t help. This pipeline would move dirty oil from Canada to refineries in Texas and would set back our renewable energy efforts for at least two decades, much to our enemies’ delight. It would ensure we maintain our oil addiction and delay making the tough decisions regarding energy production, management and conservation that we need to start making today.
The $7 billion that Harper (Canadian PM) is sinking into this project could be better spent

Stephen Harper, prime sinister of Canada's New Harper Regime

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[TexasTowelie]

2. The Obama administration got it wrong.

The approval for this segment of the pipeline sets the stage for an environmental catastrophe.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. +1 Thats how powerful interests get things done.

They have the money and resources to keep hammering away, pestering, threatening and bribing to get their agenda's implemented. Just like death from a thousand cuts, in this case it could be death by a thousand pieces of pipeline.