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Keystone XL Pipeline

Keystone XL Pipeline. Diana Brisca Period 8, Call of the Wild. What is the Keystone Pipeline?. $7,000,000,000 project Massive cross-border oil pipeline Moves 700,000 barrels of tar sands daily to refinery hub Tar sands: combination of sand , clay , water , and bitumen. Pro’s.

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Keystone XL Pipeline

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  1. Keystone XL Pipeline Diana Brisca Period 8, Call of the Wild

  2. What is the Keystone Pipeline? • $7,000,000,000 project • Massive cross-border oil pipeline • Moves 700,000 barrels of tar sands daily to refinery hub • Tar sands: combination of sand, clay, water, and bitumen

  3. Pro’s • Creates jobs for Canadian and American workers • Would add 250,000 permanent jobs for U.S. workers • + $100 billion in annual total expenditures to U.S. economy. • Estimates permanent increase in stable oil supplies

  4. Con’s: Environment • About two trillion barrels of sands lie deep in the is, eight times the amount of oil reserves in Saudi Arabia. • Tar sands: • produce greenhouse gases • diminish air quality • destroy natural habitats for wildlife • contaminate water supplies • Over 4 million hectares of Canada’s Boreal Forest under threat • TransCanada’s other pipeline experienced 14 spills • Latest spill May, 2011

  5. Con’s: Jobs • Construction jobs temporary • Many new jobs go to existing Keystone employees and contractors • “What is really going to go down that pipeline are Canadian jobs. And forgone capital that belongs to our children and grandchildren.” -Brian Topp (NDP leadership frontrunner) • “They get the jobs and we end up with the environmental mess that’s left over.” -Dave Coles (CEP President of Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada)

  6. Sites • Information: • http://www.globalnews.ca/pros+and+cons+of+the+keystone+xl+pipeline+project/6442489765/story.html • http://ostseis.anl.gov/guide/tarsands/index.cfm • Pictures: • http://www.sierraclub.ca/sites/sierraclub.ca/files/images/tar_sands_1_0.jpg • http://www.myessentia.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/TarSands.jpg • http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/tar-sands-before-after.jpg • http://thewesterner.blogspot.com/2011/11/keystone-pipeline-delay-puts-energy.html • http://media.salon.com/2011/12/keystone-460x307.jpg • http://www.adslogistics.com/Portals/77106/images/pipeline.jpg • http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/Keystone20pipeline.png • http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2011/11/08/186944-keystone-pipeline.jpg • http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Keystone-pipeline-protest-climate-change.jpg

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