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Comment by
gasoholicon Jan 20, 2012 4:59pm
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RE: had to happen...
RE: had to happen... As with the Keystone pipeline you never know where the crazy logic of the environmental community will go . There are tens of thousands of miles of oil pipelines all over the US . Including the Ogala aquifer . Farmers are using pesticides , herbicides and fertilizers in quantities not thought possible 10 years ago . These chemicals are all water soluble . Environmentalist think that an oil spill can sink down to the water table while water soluble chemicals can't ?
Nautilus is targetting a few tiny formations of concentrated minerals . meanwhile millions of tonnes of material are dredged out of harbours all over the world . Man made islands are constructed for airports , residential complexes again using millions of tonnes of dredged material .
If a few birds get oiled in the tarsands it costs millions in fines . If those same ducks were sliced up in a wind turbine no one would care .
Fortunately we are in a jurisdiction which shouldn't care too much about spurious environmental issues . But Leonardo deCaprio , Darryl Hannah and Susan Sarandon might drop in with their private jets anyday . Maybe not Hannah , her career isn't doing so good so she'll have to go commercial cattle class .
regards
G