To fill in the gaps, the northern leg of the Keystone pipeline would run from Alberta, across Eastern Montana and Western Nebraska -- where it would pass thru the Sandhills to join an existing leg in Eastern Nebraska.
The Nebraska Sandhills are the primary water source for the Ogallala Aquifer -- which flows under Western Kansas, Western Oklahoma and irrigates crops in West Texas.
The enviros claim that a pipeline rupture in the Sandhills would pollute the aquifer. Two problems with that:
a. Oil floats on water -- any rupture would stay on the surface and not enter the aquifer.
b. There are already five or six other pipelines that cross the Nebraska sandhills. To my knowledge, no ruptures (or pollution of any sort) have occurred.
It's all environmental BS. And Obama doesn't want to go against his wacko base.
We won't be getting 700,000 bpd of Canadian and Bakken oil (boosting our supply by fully 8%) because the President is playing politics with what is clearly a hugely beneficial economic opportunity.
That aquifer ALREADY has 83 pipelines running across it. Some of those have been in the ground since 1932.
Just another manufactured “Crisis” issue that is back-firing in the Messiah’s face.
And watching his followers just swallow down the new CURRENT TRUTH, without even questioning it, is just shocking.