tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-976138173290619925.post5211297484376440936..comments2024-01-15T02:23:35.217-06:00Comments on allinaword: Minnesota's Dirty Oil SecretChristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15051979669599795770noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-976138173290619925.post-34196112129591291312013-01-17T06:14:04.714-06:002013-01-17T06:14:04.714-06:00The tar sands aren't the only impact, once it ...The tar sands aren't the only impact, once it is extracted you have to transport it. And when there are pipes there are too often spills:<br />http://rurality.me/the-artificial-lake/<br />MelissaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-976138173290619925.post-76394294061702613522011-06-06T15:26:42.058-05:002011-06-06T15:26:42.058-05:00There is nothing complicated about this situation....There is nothing complicated about this situation. It's simple. Many are so desperately attached to glamorized perceptions of what they consider to be necessary for living a satisfying life that they are fine with destructive processes that will in short time eliminated any chance for future generations to survive on these lands. I am referring to our childrens children. FACT: Your brain is about 70%WATER.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-976138173290619925.post-28069992030632075012010-11-14T16:10:15.741-06:002010-11-14T16:10:15.741-06:00Short answer. that's progress. Long answer, t...Short answer. that's progress. Long answer, this is a complicated situaation where one side will tell you their facts, and the other side will counter with theirs. Eventually, both sides make a living off the tar sands, and the people living there usually are left behind with the least amount gained. Fortunately, it sounds like not too many people live nearby.<br /><br />In comparison,just look at how Minnesota has been treated over the last hundred years or so. First the timber was stripped from the land with no regard for any conservation whatsoever, and then the ground was strip mined and shaft mined for some of the purest iron ore known on earth. Yet, somehow today northern Minnesota is still known as a beautiful area, and the abandoned mines are looked at as tourism landmarks.<br /><br />That doesn't mean there wasn't a lot of pain and waste left in the region after the European and Eastern U.S. owners of these industries left with the government's blessing. Those companies had what they wanted and eventually did their accounting tricks in order to leave the workers behind with one tenth of the pension and ten times the health care bills they expected.<br /><br />Did you know that whole towns in Minnesota were moved just because a company wanted the ore that was below the town? This was all done with the government's blessing because it brought in big money in taxes.<br /><br />Don't be so sure that the tar sand pollution problem can be directly linked to illness. If it could there would be thousands of lawyers starting class action lawsuits. Just remember, there is a woman in California trying to start a class action lawsuit against Target right now because she was shortchanged on some coupons she used.<br /><br />I guess that is progress too. Doesn't it seem that the pendulum goes too far one way and then too far the other? The people in the middle are the ones that always seem to get hit in the back of the head when the pendulum goes by.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-976138173290619925.post-25888592038157539112010-11-01T14:01:36.458-05:002010-11-01T14:01:36.458-05:00We should be concentrating on solar power that is ...We should be concentrating on solar power that is the future boyo.Ednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-976138173290619925.post-51257890067131950022010-11-01T14:00:20.563-05:002010-11-01T14:00:20.563-05:00Get real buddy, America needs oil and we have to t...Get real buddy, America needs oil and we have to take it off those i - rakees then lets av it. USA USA USAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com