LOST IN POLITICS - Keystone XL pipeline through Tribal lands

[Fredrick Lindner]

Many of the pundits in media today are shouting for the XL pipeline without even looking at who and what the ramifications are of this federal action.

 

See the below article.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2011/12/01/indigenous-act...

 

 

[Fredrick Lindner]

Some of the poverty, government made on the reservations.  This is at pine ridge in South Dakota near where the current politicians want to put a pipeline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdBcJEY_T0I&feature=related

[W. Branstetter]

The Montana spill was in the news back in the summer 2011 and had some coverage.

[Fredrick Lindner]

Here is a story from near my home town in Montana.  I used to play the Laurel High School Basketball team.  Funny the only article I could find was this one.

http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/yellowstone-river-oil-sp...

[Fredrick Lindner]

I would hate for logic to get in the way, but wouldn't it be more efficient to build a refinery in Montana and pipe this asphaltic bitumen the 100 miles for processing?  How does piping this tar halfway around the globe sound like a good idea?