How to Talk to Your Uncle Larry about KXL by DUer Nancy Meyer

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/28/1360699/-How-to-Talk-to-Your-Uncle-Larry-about-KXL

Our home sits on the Ogallala Aquifer. All our water - for drinking, bathing, cooking and irrigating our gardens - comes from our well. Everyone who visits says we have the most delicious water they have ever tasted.

The Keystone XL pipeline threatens the purity of our water, as we are just 70 miles from where the proposed route would cross the Platte, a national treasure and historically significant river that runs just a mile from our front door.

But the KXL fight isn't just about us. It isn't just about Nebraskans. It isn't just about the First Nation people in Canada who are dying from pollution at the tar sands mining site. It isn't even just about the Chinese, who will receive the vast majority of oil refined from those tar sands.

It's about all of us on the planet, even your uber-conservative pro-life Uncle Larry, who thinks KXL is a good idea. Here's the shortest blog I can write to explain that to him.

FULL story at link.

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1. A really well-crafted brief summary of everything at stake. (nt)

[daleanime]

2. K&R....

[Brickbat]

3. There are a lot of pipelines on the aquifer.

As far as "millions of people's drinking water becoming contaminated beyond recovery," I'd say nitrates are a bigger issue right now than the pipeline.