Joe wrote:
"NOT replacing the pipeline just ensures that, sooner or later, there WILL be a problem with a leak."
"Replacing aging infrastructure before there is a problem is the only way to go, and if the locals can't see that, they are being misled."
The left doesn't want new pipelines, but...
They don't want the old ones either.
Get your "thinking attuned to theirs":
It's not just about "stopping new construction" any more.
Soon it will become:
If the pipeline infrastructure is aging, don't repair it -- SHUT IT DOWN.
If the pipeline is working, shut it down and then REMOVE IT.
That's the direction their thinking is going...
Well, you see, that just exposes what their thinking is....not.
They don't want to 'save the planet' because they know they can't.
They don't give a sh*t about 'the environment' or they would take the best steps to ensure the safest transport method would be allowed to proceed along an already used right of way with the best and newest equipment, to greatly reduce the likelihood of any spills, now and in the future (and keep the rice harvests pristine for decades to come).
Nope, they want to do the classic holdup, where they will hold up the project until they get more funds to hold up other projects.
They are invoking the sacred fallacy of all indigenous residents in harmony with nature--which these bands of Chippewa may well be, but I'd wager they are using some gasoline here and there to get around, even if they are paddling to do the rice harvest, because that's the most effective way to get around. I notice a quick search for traditionally harvested wild rice shows the product in plastic bags, the bags, ironically, a product of good chemistry from petroleum feedstocks.
(I'm not belittling the Lake bands of Chippewa by any means, nor their relationship with the environment, just the whole overall theme of 'earlier residents living harmoniously with nature', and if we only went back to wearing animal skins and living in wikiups, all would be well with our dung fired world).
So we can add BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) to the Fruits of NIMBY.
If I had the operation to 'think' like these people allegedly do, my skull would implode.