Here are some bullet points for anyone who wants to visit Regulations.gov and make a public comment about the Keystone XL pipeline.
• The inevitable leaks will contaminate one of the nation’s most important aquifers with carcinogens.
• Extracting tar sands oil is going to devastate huge expanses of forest, leaving a moonscape behind and eliminating a critical carbon sink.
• Putting all that CO2 into the atmosphere will kick global warming into overdrive, pushing the Earth down the path to an ever-bleaker future.
• NIMBY is an inadequate response to the Keystone XL. We need to say NOMP — “Not On My Planet!”
• An economy in which corporate profits outrank the long-term survival and prosperity of our species is profoundly immoral.