I am sharing this asking Canadians to
PLEASE check out
Franke James' most awesome Visual Essay "What is Harper
afraid of?" posted on
Dogwood Initiative. Above is
the animated version, go read the original and all of the
other awesomeness on Franke's website
My Green Conscience, Canada is lucky to have her! Although,
the Harper Government doesn't think so!
Banned on the Hill (and in Europe!)
Harper government targeted artist for her green
conscience, internal documents reveal
Anti-Gateway comic gathering steam
Activist Artist vs. Pipeline
Meanwhile...
Hemp is our answer to depend less on Big Oil, save our trees
and forests, use less water and reduce use of
pesticides.
Hemp has been decriminalized in Canada since 1997, there
is no excuse to not utilize this plant
for the benefit of our
ecosystems and environmental health. I know we've come a
long way since '97 but there's
still much work to do!
I hope you signed Franke James' letter to your Member of
Parliament at the bottom of her Visual Essay
regarding Bill C-38.
Also, don't be afraid to ask
your MP: "What about Industrial
Hemp?"
UPDATE: Ecocide in Arkansas!
Huffington Post
Arkansas Oil Spill:
Exxon Shuts Pegasus
Pipeline After
Rupture
NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil was working to
clean up
thousands of barrels of oil in Mayflower, Arkansas,
after a pipeline
carrying heavy Canadian crude ruptured, a
major spill likely to stoke
debate over transporting Canada's
oil to the United States.
Exxon
shut the Pegasus pipeline, which can carry more than
90,000 barrels
per day (bpd) of crude oil from Pakota, Illinois,
to Nederland, Texas,
after the leak was discovered on Friday
afternoon, the company said in a
statement.
Exxon, hit with a $1.7 million fine
by regulators this week over
a 2011 spill in the Yellowstone River,
said a few thousand
barrels of oil had been observed.
A
company spokesman confirmed the line was carrying
Canadian Wabasca
Heavy crude. That grade is a heavy
bitumen crude diluted with lighter
liquids to allow it to
flow through pipelines, according to the
Canadian Energy
Pipeline Association (CEPA), which referred
to Wabasca
as "oil sands" in a report.
The spill occurred as
the U.S. State Department is considering
the fate of the 800,000 bpd
Keystone XL pipeline, which would
carry crude from Canada's oil sands
to the Gulf Coast. Environ-
mentalists, concerned about the impact of
developing the
oil sands, have sought to block its approval.
Supporters say Keystone will help bring down the cost of fuel in
the United States.
The
Arkansas spill was the second incident this week where
Canadian crude
has spilled in the United States. On Wednesday,
a train carrying
Canadian crude derailed in Minnesota, spilling
15,000 gallons of oil.
Exxon
expanded the Pegasus pipeline in 2009 to carry more
Canadian crude
from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast refining hub
and installed what it
called new "leak detection technology".
Read the rest of the article
here.
And via
The Raw Story:
"The ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spilled around
185,000 gallons of tar sands, undisclosed toxic chemicals and
contaminated water in Mayflower, Arkansas yesterday.
Like many tar sands pipelines, Pegasus was actually an older
pipeline
which had its flow reversed. This is also the case for
the Seaway
pipeline in Texas and proposed tar sands pipelines
East through Canada
to New England.
Forcing the evacuation of 20 homes and shutting
down sections
of the interstate highway; hazardous materials team from
the
Office of Emergency Management has contained the spill and is
currently attempting a cleanup.
1000s of gallons of crude oil
erupted from the breach around
3:00 p.m. on Friday, spilling through a
housing subdivision and
in to the town’s storm drainage system, fouling
drainage ditches
and shutting down Highway 365 and Interstate 40.
Residents were evacuated to avoid health hazards from crude
oil fumes
and to keep stray sparks from igniting the standing oil.
Emergency
workers contained the spill by hastily constructing
earthen dams. Read the rest at
The Raw Story.
Can you imagine if this was your backyard? Your HOME?
~Mayflower Arkansas photos from www.facebook.com
UPDATE! 2/4/2013:
LOOK---> The Arkansas Oil Spill
Photos the Keystone Cabal Doesn't Want You to See
I like your great article information about "ENOUGH! Forget Oil - Plant In the Soil!". i tell my all friend list about this amazing post.
ReplyDelete