Reality Check: New Keystone XL Report Blows Up Steven Chu's
"Energy Security" Claim  Fri, 2011-09-02 14:16Ben Jervey Ben
Jervey's picture   Earlier this week, in an interview with
EnergyNow!, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu hinted that the
administration would likely approve the Keystone XL tar sands
pipeline. The controversial pipeline, which would carry filthy
diluted bitumen (or DilBit) crude 1,700 miles across six Great
Plains states, 1,904 waterways, and the nation’s largest
freshwater aquifer, needs State Department approval to cross the
international border. Opposition to the pipeline is fierce --
over the past two weeks over 1,000 activists have been arrested
at the White House in a massive act of civil disobedience -- as
environmentalists, Great Plains landowners, scientists, and
public health activists alike warn of the inevitable oil spills
and immense carbon pollution that would result from Keystone
XL’s construction. Proponents of the pipeline have been pushing
the claim that building this pipel