DD Support Board and Research Team

[jbsliverer]

Or maybe our best friend.

The direction that is being taken is among other things to reduce our usage and dependency on oil and reduce the environmental and climate impacts of oil. The pipeline is in the opposite direction of that path and would be based upon continued usage and dependency for many decades to come. Very long term profitable project (for a few) if that direction is chosen, but we (the many) will be much worse off from an ecological standpoint and I would argue a economical one too in many ways.

One could also compare the short term with long term results. The line gets done and in a relatively short term, your going to have a big section of rail and especially trucking industry with all the business and peoples livelihoods in-between that will be disrupted and income lost. Admitted, you do have a certain footprint with that group that could be debated. In the same relatively short time, your going to have millions of jobs terminated and any business and peoples income that were effected by the increase of money flow in that area that suddenly disappears, along with the chance for Godzilla and King Kong making their footprints on a main aquifer and the expense with that. I consider our diminishing water supply to be worth more than than all the gold in the world, and needs extreme protection especially given the current climate conditions. Can not take any chances no matter how low the risk and we've already seen hundreds of times what that low risk appraisal has done.

I like to think in 50 yrs we see a lot less of refineries, pipelines, and tanker trucks. The economic effects of reducing will be smoothed out, giving time for adapting, evolving, keeping profitability for most and even oil tycoons will have time to evolve into some other profitable ventures, instead of just dropping livelihoods off a proverbial cliff and wrecking the environment to boot. That time, money, and energy focus to the path of elimination or at least minimizing oil as much as we can, not continuance of it. There will be more expense to all of us in the long run if we continue the way we have. I have to believe that stopping this pipeline is one small part of achieving that goal. Can't let short-sightedness get in the way of the long term view.