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Pipeline leak: Alabama, Georgia declare state of emergency
September 19, 2016 - 8:12am
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Just in case you were unconvinced of the criminality/stupidity/utter incompetence of our mainstream media, consider why you heard about this here for the first time:
Alabama, Georgia declare state of emergency after pipeline spill
yup! they declared a state of emergency all right.
becaue of gas shortages occuring from the pipeline breakage not from the spill itself.
You're correct. Pipeline spills don't threaten the environment or the water supply or the inhabitants or Indigenous inherent rights and burial sites. That's why I posted this - to prove that all those protesters in Canada and the U.S. are on the wrong track. Glad someone got the point!
Alabama Oil Spill Foretells Dakota Pipeline Future
well unionist all those millons of people are still going to have to get their petroleum products somehow whether it be by rail or tanker truck.
i would like to see alternative energy happen yesterday. it didn't and its not for a long while yet.
what do you suggest millions of people do meanwhile?
My suggestion: Stand up and fight when billionaire oil moguls try to build pipelines or run hazardous trains through their communities.
They're not doing it to provide us with the comforts of modern living. And they don't give a shit if lives of people, beasts, plants, or planets are sacrificed in the pursuit of their profits.
You seem to be ok with your pipeline. That's great, I'm very happy. But I'm on the side of those who aren't ok with any of that. The future belongs to them. To us.
i'm ok with it becuse 90km/hr trains full of tanker cars scare the shit out of me and i've seen how many tanker trucks from AB through BC wipe out spilling everything.
the news doesn't report them often and no one cares.
it's much more in vogue to go against pipelnes.
Trust me when I tell you that here in Québec, when Indigenous folks and students and activists protest against building new pipelines to ship Alberta bitumen to New Brunswick for refining and export, it's not because it's fashionable.
So people who are ok with pipelines because they prefer them to the alternatives - that's great. Those who don't want pipelines or trucks or rail endangering their land and water and lives should also have their rights respected. Whether it's Energy East, or Dakota Access, or Colonial Pipeline, or CP Rail, or whoever.