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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVibrant Environmental Movement Builds in Response to Extreme Energy Extraction
http://www.alternet.org/activism/vibrant-environmental-movement-builds-response-extreme-energy-extractionImpressive environmental protests have been organized by a wide range people calling for an end to radical energy and a transformation to a clean energy economy. Radical energy includes fuel derived from extreme extraction methods like tar sands, hydrofracking and off-shore drilling for oil or methane gas and mountain top removal for coal. This is costly energy, not only in dollars but in its impact on the environment; and it is causing an impressive growth in people taking action to protect the planet.
Radical energy also requires a massive increase in the number of pipelines being built to carry tar sands bitumen and gas from hydrofracking. Rather than building the upgraded energy infrastructure we need to reduce wasted energy and to efficiently store and transport energy from the sun and wind, the United States has embarked on building pipelines as well as relying on trains to carry oil and gas. This has resulted in inevitable oil spills, leaks and other damage.
On August 1, a study of Exxon Mobils Pegasus pipelinewhich flooded a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood with over 200,000 gallons of tar sands oilrevealed known manufacturing defects, with grave implications for the tens of thousands of similarly built pipelines still in the ground and operating. The old energy industries are grasping every piece of profit they can get, no matter what the cost to the planet (like this oil leak in Thailand) before the inevitable transition to a clean, sustainable energy economy is finally put in place.
One reason the movement has grown is because there have been so many leaks, oil spills and eco-disasters in recent years, especially this summer, that it has been impossible for people to ignore. And, the effects are long lasting. People in Kalamazoo, Michigan are still dealing with a tar sands spill from the Enbridge Line 6 that occurred three years ago; problems will continue into the foreseeable future. The TransCanada pipeline that brings tar sands from Alberta to the Midwest experienced 12 leaks in its first year beginning in June 2010. And, dozens of anomalies (which can be seen in the video) were found in the newly laid pipeline in Southern, Texas.
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Vibrant Environmental Movement Builds in Response to Extreme Energy Extraction (Original Post)
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Aug 2013
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Berlum
(7,044 posts)2. Stop fracking Mother Earth
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)3. And the NSA is likely spying on them
and the FBI is likely infiltrating them
because heaven forbid anyone should prevent a gas or oil company from making even a penny less profit, no matter who has to get sick from fracked well water or more.