Originally Posted by
fivekatz
Well if it is fracking than from what little I have been able to learn of it, that is a far greater danger. Just one look at the underlying indemnification that KBR (Haliburton) extracted from the government to protect itself from the known or perceived hazards is enough to give most folks caution. While documentaries are edited to express a point of view, if anyone has watched Gasland even after balancing the tendency to create alarm from the message of that movie find they are not concerned about fracking is a frigging optimist or a Haliburton shareholder.
This kind of stuff is real. For those who have never seen the movie Erin Brokovich, Hinkley was a real place, were real died, real children were born with birth defects and a real company PG&E knew it was happening as early as 1968 and chose not to stop for far of calling attention to the damage to human life.
But my understanding was most of the fracking was north of the pipeline and the fear is spills which given the fragile nature of the plains and its dependence Ogallala Aquifer was the Obama administrations concern.
Considering the administrations rather loose oversight of EPA concerns, people should seriously stand back and try to understand why an administration that has been so willing to grant off shore drilling rights, looking the other way on 100's of claims of fracking pollution is putting this pipeline on hold. Be it fracking or risk to the water table, it has to be substantive to get this administration with a piss poor environmental record to put a project on hold.