The Keystone Pipeline (Where? and What?) According to the article‚ “Keystone XL: The Pipeline To Energy Security”‚ “The Keystone XL Pipeline ("Keystone XL") represents one of the most promising economic opportunities currently available” (Terry‚ 2012). The quote above is very much what the people of the United States would unarguably desire to hear. So the question is: What is the Keystone Pipeline‚ and where will it be located? The answer to the first question is‚ The Keystone pipeline system
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Aila Pena Dr. Schuetze-Coburn Contemporary Composition‚ Period 5 March 4‚ 2013 Civil Disobedience: The cost of change More than 40‚000 strong activists from the Sierra Club protested at the White House to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline proposal. They protested because they the extraction of tar sand oil and moving it from Canada to Texas will pollute the groundwater in the surface (Hammel). Civil disobedience is “the active‚ professed refusal to obey certain laws‚ demands‚ and commands of a government
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TransCanada‚ “a leader in North American energy production” (Canadian Business Resource) and its subsidiary‚ TransCanada Pipelines Limited has a seven billion dollar plan to create jobs by extending the already existing Keystone Pipeline. The Keystone pipeline harvests oil from the tar sands in Hardesty‚ Alberta then runs the crude oil to Patoka‚ Illinois. The plan is to extend the pipeline from Hardesty to run through Montana‚ South Dakota‚ Nebraska‚ Kansas‚ and Oklahoma to finally end in Port Arthur
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Adam Vann. “Keystone XL Pipeline.” Cornell University ILR School (2012): 1-37. Web. 7 Oct. 2012. <http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1927&context=key_workplace>. “Securing American Energy.” The White House. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 6 Oct. 2012. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/energy/securing-american-energy>. Shaffer‚ Brenda. “Foreign Policy.” Energy Politics. Philadelphia: University Of Pennslyvania Press‚ 2009. 28-46. Print. Shaffer‚ Brenda. “Pipeline Trends and
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Alberta‚ Canada. Extracting oil from tar sands is an extremely costly and immensely dirty way of obtaining fuel. There is currently a plan to build a pipeline‚ the Keystone XL‚ which will run from the supply of tar sands in Albert down the western United States to refineries in Texas. There are two major concerns when dealing with the creation of this pipeline and the increased use of tar sands. There is the unavoidable fear that this pipe with leak partnered with the fact that refining tar sands causes
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more in our own country than we do today. But is there another way we could not import and still use our own oil resources? The answer is yes but not an available factor as of this year (Pfeiffer). Plans are moving forward yet slowly to build a pipeline to transport synthetic crude oil from Canada through the US to gain access
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very different for both tickets in this year’s election. Differences were very clear on each party’s stances on drilling on Federal Land. Romney was very adamant on increasing drilling on Federal Land and also creating the much controversial Keystone XL Pipeline. During Obama’s first term‚ production of natural gas on the United States Federal Land has decreased from 35% to 21%. Though‚ his dismay of drilling has come after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in which millions of barrels of oil polluted
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References: USA Today (2011). Controversial Canada-to-Texas Keystone pipeline delayed. Retrieved from: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/story/2011-11-10/keystone-pipeline-delay/51158744/1duction Institute for energy research (2012). Keystone Xl pipeline facts. Retrieved from: http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/keystonexl/ American energy alliance (2009). The economic contribution of increased
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(Doc 3.) And now the current land in the fort laramie treaty which is considerably smaller than the original is being taken again by the keystone pipeline it runs right through the natives land.(Native tribes unite… Robert boos) And finally the sand creek massacre was the nail in the coffin for native being treated well here us troops killed 200 native most being women and children. For there land
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should take care of it. While the things he is doing may be considered bad‚ but what about the keystone XL and the Dakota access pipelines‚ when the pipelines are built they could do some bad‚ but they could also do some good to our country too.The pipelines would carry 830‚000 barrels of oil per day and all that oil would create about 28 K+ jobs‚which would boost our economy. The building of the pipelines will affect animals and species‚ which is very bad because we need some animals to live and some
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