KXL pipeline

All you GreenHouse folks need to take a chill pill....

or start walking.

And start paying $$$$$$$ in carbon taxes.

Mr. Prez Obama .... you are really screwed up in the head.

Yeah, It is actually GOOD to have more pipelines,oil is good for everybody and make sure you do not ride a bike.

Isn't that Fascism?

If we stop Keystone - we stop the flow of the world's dirtiest oil, extracted from the planet's largest reserve, to our refineries.

Sure, if you give him what he wants, and you can have your stinking pipeline (that will get built at some time no matter what)

A strategic, multi-year campaign finally won the day, and now the whole world is changing as a result.

I've found working with the public that people do care deeply about fairness, justice, and the environment, not just their paycheck or what affects them, personally. People naturally seek connection and meaning in the broader sense.

The Sierra Club has yet to win ANY court case against ANY element of the KXL issue.

Methane is important for electrical generation by burning it as a fuel in a gas turbine or steam boiler. Compared to other hydrocarbon fuels, burning methane produces less carbon dioxide for each unit of heat released. At about 891 kJ/mol, methane's heat of combustion is lower than any other hydrocarbon but the ratio of the heat of combustion (891 kJ/mol) to the molecular mass (16.0 g/mol, of which 12.0 g/mol is carbon) shows that methane, being the simplest hydrocarbon, produces more heat per mass unit (55.7 kJ/g) than other complex hydrocarbons. In many cities, methane is piped into homes for domestic heating and cooking purposes. In this context it is usually known as natural gas, which is considered to have an energy content of 39 megajoules per cubic meter, or 1,000 BTU per standard cubic foot.

Methane in the form of compressed natural gas is used as a vehicle fuel and is claimed to be more environmentally friendly than other fossil fuels such as gasoline/petrol and diesel.[17] Research into adsorption methods of methane storage for use as an automotive fuel has been conducted.[18]

Compared to other hydrocarbon fuels, burning methane produces less carbon dioxide for each unit of heat released.

Once more with feeling - the primary objection to Keystone isn't spills - that's a strawman - its the additional GHG emissions per gallon of final product inherent in the extraction process.

The argument for or against Keystone is a massive distraction from the real problem. I see the real problem as 2 fold:

1) Our CO2 emissions is by far the biggest problem.

2) The oil that we import from unstable parts of the world has totally messed up our relationship and influence on other parts of the world. If we were energy self sufficient, we would be less likely to get into wars or other problems in corrupt third world nations.

The U.S. is 5% of the world population and we use almost 20% of the world's energy. Every one of us is a poster child for comfortable self deception. We, as Americans, could get by with less than half of our energy needs simply by a change of habits.

he Keystone pipeline is a joke. It is nothing. In one morning I have listed several things that we can easily do to reduce both our carbon emissions and our addiction to imported oil.

It will only get worse. Getting all jacked up over a f*#king pipeline is pathetic. We ignore the root cause of many of our problems as a country and as a species.

I get a lot of flack from people in the oil business when I speak my mind. Well, I'm not a drone raised on Rush Limbaugh and Fox news.

less than a 3rd of US electricity, not most, is produced by burning coal - and that continues to plummet - over a 20% drop in less than 20 years. The EPAs new CSAP regulations, as well as state level regulations, have prevented the commissioning of new plants and accelerated the decommissioning of old ones.

Oil sand, a mixture of bitumen (tar) and dirt (mostly sand), is refined into crude oil at refineries in the oil sands province. It is not transported anywhere.

In fact, methane outgassing from fracking are a greater source of methane, and threat to the atmosphere as fracking operations ramp up around the world, for what that's worth.

While its fashionable to blame a president for everything - including the quality of Detroit's cars, there were, perhaps, other factors that drove the country into stagflation. The Vietnam War and Oil Cartel comes to mind...

What will happen is that all the current transport methods will continue to be used, and Keystone will simply add less expensive capacity.

The substance made headlines earlier this year when a pet-coke pile that was three stories high and one block long created an ominous black cloud that floated over Detroit, Michigan. Citizens in nearby Windsor complained that they experienced respiratory problems and other ailments when the pet-coke infiltrated their water supply and floated through open windows....

...Each barrel of oil shipped from Canada produces between 60 and 130 lbs of pet-coke. That is then sent overseas and incinerated in electricity generators because the Environmental Protection Agency has stopped issuing permits for the burning of pet-coke inside the US.

I've switched to a carbon free diet to reduce emissions.

The Canadian tar sands crude WILL be refined and burned Keystone or not.

You must know,why don't you tell us?

...thinking the project hadn't yet been approved.

It is precisely THIS kind of thinking (opportunity cost of raping and pillaging) that's sending humanity down the shihtter. [

Any human process that is not sustainable is, by definition, exploitative.

It is still too cheap. When it gets expensive enough, then you will see a surge to alternatives such as natural gas.

The first step should be a switch to natural gas. We are swimming in it.