Secretary of Hypocrisy

OK, enough! Tar sands oil is being forced down the throat of the American people by our government, and the most vulnerable people are the ones who will suffer from its extraction, processing, transportation, and its use.

Secretary Clinton has signaled the world that climate change is no big deal to her,  and this week she has OK’ed the Alberta Clipper dirty oil sands pipeline.  This is especially ironic in the face of her climate change talks with other countries, and it’s the height of hypocrisy from Secretary Clinton.  It’s clearly a “Do as we say, not as we do” signal to the world, and if I lived in India, or China, I don’t think her pleas about climate change would hold much weight in the future.  Way to go, Secretary Clinton, you have let us down again. As a message to the world on climate change, this stinks.

Clinton has not exactly been impressing anyone as Secretary of State, and on the issue of clean energy diplomacy,  she is a failure (to date).  We’ll see if the Chinese or Indians feel like taking climate change advice from someone who doesn’t practice what she preaches.  Most people expected Clinton to take a strong stand against climate change.  After all, during the campaign for president, she talked about what a serious problem climate change was, and how we needed an Apollo Program to deal with it.  Instead she pisses off very environmentalist in the country and allows the expansion of the dirtiest oil to be used and disseminated by the United States.

This pipeline will come through my state of Minnesota, messing up ecosystems, polluting the environment, and crossing a large American Indian land; the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.  Many of them have protested this pipeline but of course, when you are a native American up against a powerful Secretary of State,  people don’t tend to listen to you.  People don’t tend to listen to anyone on this issue who doesn’t have clout or connections.   Mrs. Clinton has also demonstrated that you don’t need to know much about the environment to go about seriously destroying it, even as you tell people that global warming is important.  To her, it’s obviously not.  According to some environmental groups, a court challenge is being prepared to overturn decision.  Good. This story is from Dirty Oil Sands.

Flying in the face of a growing host of military experts and research showing the contrary, Secretary Clinton decided that Enbridge’s Alberta Clipper dirty oil sands pipeline is in the U.S. national interest. Presidential Executive Order 11423 allows the Secretary to permit the pipeline ONLY if she judges it’s in the national interest.

The Alberta Tar Sands is the world’s largest energy project, ultimately covering an area the size of Florida. And it produces the world’s dirtiest, most expensive, and arguably most dangerous oil. And if the Alberta Clipper pipeline is actually built, 450,000 more barrels of it, per day, will be burned in the U.S. – releasing five times as much greenhouse gas as conventional oil.

THE FIGHT IS NOT OVER
Although this permit is definitely a setback — both in the fight against dirty oil and for the clean energy economy, the fight is by no means over for the Alberta Clipper or against dirty oil sands.

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