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Bullock could stop Keystone XL pipeline


Humans are driving Earth's six mass extinction and are only on historian Christopher Lloyd's list of important species that evolved because of anthropogenic climate change. 

In 2015 the US Department of Transportation swatted ExxonMobil with a million dollar penalty after the Environmental Protection Agency released an overview of cleanup efforts in the aftermath of the 2011 breach of the Silvertip pipeline that spilled 63,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River upstream of Billings, Montana. 

Montana and North Dakota have both suffered the effects of man camps that prey on women and girls where rapes and murders committed by white workers have become commonplace. 
In his final days in office, Governor Bullock holds immense power over the future of Montana and our children. His administration could deny the 401 water crossing permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. The Keystone XL pipeline threatens waterways at more than 770 water crossings along the proposed route through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska — with over 200 water crossings in Montana alone. Governor Bullock has a choice to make. I urge him to please choose well for all Montana families. Please choose to protect our waterways, our communities, our health and our chance for a livable future. I hope he stands up and makes his administration's final act in office the denial of this permit. [column, Winona Bateman]

Nebraska is enduring damaged roads and unsightly pipe yards, too. 

1 comment:

larry kurtz said...

"DEQ Director Shaun McGrath says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave the department roughly four months, despite DEQ’s request for more time. He says the shortened timeline stops regulators from considering all of the hundreds of comments it received. He says the DEQ accepted TC Energy’s certification request with conditions, including requirements for the company to consult with the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation and avoid contact with water, for example by drilling under the water body. DEQ also reserves the ability to reopen and reconsider the certification." Yellowstone Public Radio