Toxic Tar Sands -- You have to see it to believe it

http://www.forestethics.org/donate-stop-tar-sands ForestEthics' Executive Director, Todd Paglia, has created this video to show you why we're taking on the Tar Sands. As you might know, Canada's Tar Sands contain the largest oil extraction project in the world, a hell-realm of machinery and toxic waste that creates more greenhouse gas emissions than 140 nations. Be warned: some of the images you'll see in this video are deeply distressing. But with your support, we can take on the Tar Sands--and we can win.

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[Topazman12]

Pink Mountain, British Columbia, in Canada. They have trillions of barrels in oil wells that are capped and not used.

[lostbuffalo]

@lostbuffalo co"businessmen" will do anything for a buck everything they do is corrupt. as far as anything else business wants, you can guarantee they have an angle they are hiding.

The pipeline issue, the environment is NOT the corrupt angle. Environment is giving you something to fight about that doesn't endanger their angle... exploitation of local resources with tax free transport to global markets bypassing local consumption.

[lostbuffalo]

The energy companies have been fighting Nebraska a long time over wind power. Nebraska has a law requiring any power generator to make the power available to the local grid. The energy companies want to generate Nebraska wind power and sell it interstate at higher prices without making it available to Nebraska consumers. They don't want Nebraskans sucking up all their carbon credit juice so they want the permission to tap our wind without selling to us...more corruption

[lostbuffalo]

Y'all thumbs this up so it stays on top? It isn't cheaper to pipe the oil to the gulf, crack it then truck it back north than it is to crack it up north and truck diesel and gas to the consumer. The pipeline has one purpose. To keep this oil out of the hand of domestic refineries and get the oil to a shipping port tax free for export.It isn't intended for the American consumer it will be sold on the world markets. Any energy Americans use is sold overseas and on paper bought back with mark-up.

[lostbuffalo]

@ancientswordfighters Instead of a pipeline I believe it should go by truck and rail.

The transport would then generate revenue for the jurisdictions it travels through.

they are trying to sell the pipeline idea as promoting law gas prices. How is piping the oil to the gulf and trucking it back to the north cheaper than cracking it up north and trucking it to the stations? it isn't. The big lie is that this oil is not intended for US consumption they will export it.

[lostbuffalo]

@ancientswordfighters I'm not in favor of the pipeline. the pipeline is a way for them to get the oil from canada to word markets without paying dues to the jurisdictions the oil runs through. they want to bring oil through Nebraska without paying Nebraskans for the privilege of doing so. The thing about global economists is they believe everything belongs to them for free and that everyone who lives where they want to operate for free is just in their way.

[lostbuffalo]

@ancientswordfighters why cover the ground in oil? they strip the soil, dig it out the oil and put the soil back on top. the oil was there naturally and they are removing some of it.

If anything the tar sands is the worlds largest natural oil spill clean up operation.

[lostbuffalo]

@warpedmotion go look for it. it's been out there and known for several generations that the earth is losing atmosphere to space. T-Rex had lungs the size of a horse. for T-Rex to have survived the atmosphere had to have been at the very least 3x or 300% denser than it is today..not more oxygen but more everything until it is 3x as dense. if we burned everything above and below ground we would not get close to replenishing the atmosphere lost to space.

[MaupoNaio]

So you people who want this pipeline built. Are you going to be the ones who go and clean up my backyard when it spills? IF not, STAY THE FUCK OFF MY LAND OR ILL SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE .

[MaupoNaio]

@TheJohnduncan

You're the one who's upset, clearly. Deal with it like the rest of us you pussy.