Monday, July 30, 2012

When Water is Thicker Than Oil

"Pipeline’s southern leg gets OK to begin; Canadian section still under review" by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson  |  Washington Post, July 28, 2012

WASHINGTON — The permits dealt a blow to efforts by national environmental groups to slow the momentum behind the southern leg of the project — now also known as the Gulf Coast project. Those groups, including Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, have urged their Texas supporters to send comments to the Army Corps, which governs pipeline permits there.

But the Army Corps has moved ahead....

The Galveston District said TransCanada would use horizontal drilling to burrow under the water areas.... 

I don't like the sound of that.

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I have no energy to find any links, sorry.