Some crazy footage of the #Exxon tar sands spill the MSM probably isn't showing you (I wish I shot this)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ugrkBFLkjM&sns=em

newshour:

A map of the proposed Keystone XL, also called Tar Sands, pipeline.

It could carry crude oil some 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast in Texas.

A friendly and safe new source of oil for the U.S. or an environmental disaster waiting to happen?

Nice! It’ll deliver oil all the way from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico where it can be spilled and pollute some more! >_<

Come on, kids! Let’s come up with some better, more imaginative solutions to our energy problems.  Gah!  You’d think the last 100 years of great ideas didn’t happen! 

leftish:

If only Candidate Obama was President…

Indeed.

Of course, we all knew that was a lie when he was running. The real shame is that we let him get away with it.  Of course, *that* wouldn’t be a problem if only Obama would follow through on his promises rather than compromise them and himself into utter appeasement. 

Exxon spills 1000 barrels of oil into "America's last best river" (the Yellowstone River)

From DemocracyNow.org:

July 05, 2011

Montana Farmer Says Exxon Refuses to Admit Extent of Damage from Oil Spill Into Yellowstone River

Click here to see more photos of oil on Alexis Bonogofsky’s land.

Family farmer, Alexis Bonogofsky, didn’t get a phone call from ExxonMobil Pipeline Company when its pipeline ruptured Friday night beneath the Yellowstone River, leaking as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the water and onto neighboring land of property owners such as herself. Instead, she discovered “globs of oil” Saturday morning while checking on the flooded pastureland where she grazes her goats. Since then she says company officials have failed to answer her questions about the health and environmental impact of the spill.

Please read more and listen to an interview with Bonogofsky (the above-mentioned farmer) at DemocracyNow.org.

What’s ironic is that the Yellowstone River is known as “America’s last best river”.  What’s even more ironic is that TransCanada is hoping to be allowed by the US State Department to pipe tar sands from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

What could go wrong?