A HOLE IN KEYSTONE XL?! Join The #ForwardOnClimate Rally On 2/17!

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- Anne Frank
17 FEB 2013 will see tens of thousands of Americans rally at the Washington Monument (I will be there), calling on the government take the lead in addressing climate change. Dozens of environmental, faith-based, social justice and organized labor organizations and groups are united in this call for action because it is an issue that has an affect on the programs and goals of each of these groups. High on the agenda of the rally is stopping the keystone xl pipeline. This project is a threat to the Ogallala aquifer, the main source of water in the American Midwest, and so threatens the health and lives of the people living there and our nations breadbasket, because you can't irrigate crops with polluted water. transcanada has not been honest regarding it's environmental record to date or the environmental risk posed by this pipeline. The southern portion of the pipeline is already being laid, and now we have proof of the shoddy construction (photos of holes in the pipeline already in the ground shown below), corporate deception and poor government oversight that shows us just what to expect if the pipeline from the Canadian border to Oklahoma is approved. This from SumOfUs, click the link to sign the petition and be sure to check out the linked articles. And if you can get yourself down to the rally this Sunday! http://action.sierraclub.org/site/PageServer?pagename=forwardonclimate

Activists who snuck into the Keystone XL pipeline to protest its construction found something shocking inside -- holes in the pipeline. Tell TransCanada to inspect every inch of this faulty pipeline before a massive spill destroys our water and land.

Two Photos of Daylight Shining Through a Girth Weld on the KXL Tar Sands Pipeline Incidentally Found During December 3, 2012 Pipe Occupation

20 year-old Isabel Brooks and two of her friends locked themselves inside a segment of the Keystone XL pipeline -- a controversial pipeline being built to carry toxic tar sands oil to the US coast for export -- to protest its construction. While inside the pipe, they discovered something shocking: there are already holes in the Keystone XL pipeline, created by faulty welding.
But moments after snapping a photo of the light coming into the supposedly airtight pipe, Isabel was arrested and held for 24 days in prison. An hour after her arrest, TransCanada laid that segment of pipeline in the ground without inspecting it.
Sign our urgent petition to TransCanada to get independent inspection for every single inch of the Keystone XL pipeline to identify and fix any holes in the pipe.
Despite federal regulations making independent inspection mandatory, TransCanada pipeline contractors hire their own pipeline inspectors. Without truly independent oversight, TransCanada can cut corners and rubber stamp inspections. And when TransCanada cuts corners, our communities, farmland, water, health and planet suffer.
What’s really scary is that if Isabel found one segment of faulty pipeline, it’s likely there are others.
TransCanada has a legacy of pipeline spills. In the Keystone pipeline’s first year of operation, it spilled 12 times -- more than any other first-year pipeline in US history. This is a huge moment to show just how dangerous the KXL pipeline really is. With each day that passes, TransCanada is moving ahead with the construction of this pipeline, potentially burying more uninspected pipe, and putting more communities at risk.
If we speak out now we can make sure that TransCanada’s legacy of spills is stopped before it’s too late.
Sign our urgent petition to TransCanada now demanding independent pipeline inspection.
Thanks for being one of us,
Emma, Angus, Kaytee and the rest of us
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Further Reading:
Photos of KXL's life-threatening weld confirm pipeline opponents' fears, Tar Sands Blockade, Feb. 12, 2013
Is TransCanada Laying Defective Keystone XL Pipe in Texas? DeSmogBlog, Feb. 6th 2013
Keystone Pipeline Infographic: ‘Built to Spill’. Huffington Post, Aug. 29th, 2011
 

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