Sierra Club chief arrested at White House protest
February 13, 2013 at 7:42 am in The Daily Republic
WASHINGTON (AP) Prominent environmental leaders, including the head of the Sierra Club, were arrested Wednesday after tying themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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If you do any reading on the Keystone Pipeline it is easy to see it is a bad idea. China is heavily invested in the Alberta Tar Sands. They want this route so they can ship this oil to their country. The investors in the Alberta Tar Sands are the only people who will gain from this if it goes through. They want to get a higher price for their dirty oil. In order to do so it needs to reach the global market. The right approach would be to build a refinery near the Alberta border. Don’t we pay a high enough price for oil?
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