XL PIPELINE, IF YOU BUILD IT, IT WILL LEAK!

It's just "Murphy's Law," you build a massive pipeline for Canadian tar sands oil that must be diluted with toxic corrosive chemicals and pumped across the country under high pressure and at high temperatures, and things are going to go wrong. The part of the Keystone pipeline that has already been built has had 14 spills and two shutdowns. The problem is that tar sands oil is almost impossible to cleanup. Why are we taking this risk? So some very rich multinational corporations can sell the world's most polluting oil to the world's most polluting country, China. The other reason is jobs (3500 construction jobs for two years and 35 permanent pipeline jobs) unless you count all the temporary cleanup laborers that are going to be needed.  These are desperate times and I know that states and communities really need the jobs but at what cost? How much of the environment will you sell in exchange for these temporary jobs?

Here's Robert Redford's take on the XL Pipeline:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-redford/senate-keystone-pipeline_b_2931109.html

UPDATE: Here's what you can look forward to from the XL pipeline.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-radford/the-arkansas-oil-spill-ph_b_2998988.html?ref=topbar

UPDATE: Here's a video you've got to see on the XL pipeline.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/the-video-president-obama_b_3360973.html?utm_hp_ref=green