Keystone Pipeline

Why the Keystone XL Pipeline There are many reasons why the Keystone XL Pipeline should not be built. The first reason being that at anytime during transportation of oil there can be oil spills. Building the pipeline can affect the surrounding wildlife by destroying their habitats and also building the pipeline it can kill animals as well. The final reason on why the pipeline should not be built is because the pipeline can cause environmental damage (climate change and greenhouse gas pollution).…

One of the most important issues today for the left is climate change, rampant disregard for the environment will leave the world in shambles. There are a few current issues for the environment as well, like whether to allow fracking and the keystone pipeline. While most Republicans still deny it is a thing the Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, have both put forth their own plans to combat its effects. Hillary’s plan mainly involves solar power plants providing energy,…

The Keystone XL pipeline was commissioned in 2010. It “is a $7 billion pipeline approximately 1,661 miles in length and 36 inches wide” (Palliser 2012, 8). The company that would run this project is TransCanada and the pipeline “would run from Hardisty, Alberta, to Nederland, Texas, and traverse Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas” (Palliser 2012, 8). The media has written about the different perspectives on this proposed project. The Indian Country Today article is…

fossil fuels. The article states how supporters favoring the use of oil favor the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which is described as a “36-inch-diameter crude oil pipeline, beginning in Hardisty, Alberta, and extending south to Steele City, Nebraska. This pipeline is a critical infrastructure project for the economic strength and energy security of the United States” (KXL Pipeline Project). This project advocates the use of “hydrofracking”. Hydrofracking pumps water, sand, and…

Keystone Smooth Beautiful women and a fun time can attract anyone to a product. That is what the beer company Keystone is going for in their commercials. Their commercial usually consist of a beautiful girl and a blue collar looking man saying something nice to the beautiful girl ultimately sweeping her off her feet. The commercial I watched used a figure head of a blue-collar man. They used a beautiful woman in distress and shows their product helping them win the beautiful woman over and the…

An Environmental Cause For Action: A Radical Manifesto We are : a group of clandestine radical environmentalists, dedicated to a single cause, to bring about ecological change by forcibly executing our policy upon the masses, despite the convictions of others. We are deeply affected by the precautions taken to protect our ecosystem. We seek retribution for the lack of secure protocols regarding environmental protection. We are a group of cells cancerous in form, we will spread like a plague upon…

CHAPTER 2 INCIDENT CHRONOLOGY The Chronology of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Incident The timeline of this incident will be based on the ‘National Transportation Safety Board Marine Accident Report’. In the year of 1989 of March 22 (11.35pm), the Exxon Valdez arrived at the berth 5, Aleyska Marine Terminal to load a cargo of Alaska North Slope crude oil. Figure 2.1: The Exxon Valdez (Shigenake, G. 2014) The total load of 1.3 Million barrels of oil took approximately a day to complete filling…

In many people’s minds, the term “Fracking” only applies to the controversial extraction process and the environmental impact surrounding that process. Hydraulic Fracturing or “Fracking” for short is a process where chemicals and water are injected into wells to breakup rock formations that have gas or oil trapped in the rock itself. This process is specifically used for developing and extracting oil and natural gas from shale. While most people have heard the term “Fracking”, very few…

the first case under Clean Air Act. Leakage of crude oil from Alaskan oil pipelines was also an indicator of loose potential risk management. For this incident company was accused for the violation the Clean Water Act. While establishing the pipeline company ignored some of the essential aspect such as how the oil will be flowed or transported during poor weather condition. For more than a decade the corrosion of pipeline was continue and it was unchecked by the company. These are some of the…

The short story “Abitibi Canyon” by Joseph Boyden consists of several important principles of Indigenous people that I would like to make connections in three different ways. The connections I have chosen are issues that I learned in school, hear of and personally encountered with. Making connections from prior knowledge deepens people’s understanding of problems that others may deal with on a daily base. In today’s society, it is human nature to judge others by their actions and…