Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline More Of An Economic Liability Than Benefit

[kristopher]

Report: Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline More Of An Economic Liability Than Benefit
by Danielle Droitsch, reposted from NRDC’s Switchboard

A new report from the Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute shows how the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is an economic liability with the potential to cause significant job losses from a major tar sands spill.

Because tar sands oil is more corrosive and toxic than conventional oil, it can increase the frequency of pipeline spills. Moreover, a tar sands spill causes far more damage than a conventional oil spill. Take, for example, the 1.2 million gallon tar sands spill on the Kalamazoo River in Marshall Michigan in 2010 where the clean up costs have been 10 times higher than a typical conventional oil spill.

While there has been a lot of attention to the possible jobs created from the Keystone XL pipeline – far less than what proponents claim – there has been very little attention to jobs that could be lost from a tar sands spill. Keystone XL is expected experience up to 91 significant spills over a 50-year period. Which jobs are at risk? Hundreds of thousands of workers in the agricultural and tourism sectors contribute ten of billions of dollars to the economy in the Keystone XL pipeline states. The Cornell report helps illustrate yet one more reason why the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline should be rejected....

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/14/443909/report-keystone-xl-tar-sands-pipeline-more-of-an-economic-liability-than-benefit/

[madrchsod]

1. the michigan spill could have made it to lake michigan

the problem with that spill is no one really noticed for days and no one knew how to clean it up.

[madokie]

2. Shouldn't have them then is the way I see it

Living on by golly by chance sucks. We're already doing that with nuclear energy