Funny how quiet pipeline supporters have become this week. You know, the ones who jump up and down, waving their arms every time an oil train derails or springs a leak. "Pipelines are safer than trains!" They yell it over and over, pushing for a "safe" alternative, crying crocodile tears for the people affected by the spill. Our friends at Media Matters, who keep track of such things, note that every train mishap gets Fox News in an uproar to push Keystone XL.
But where are they now, Fox News and their pipeline-pushing cohort? Why have they suddenly gone radio silent? Is it because anoil pipeline ruptured on the California coast, spilling as much as 105,000 gallons of crude onto a popular beach in an area whose economy relies on bringing in more than one billion tourist dollars annually?
The pipeline ruptured Tuesday near Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara County, just north of the city of Santa Barbara. Visitors to the beach had to be evacuated, while residents of the city wait while the ocean current drives the massive nine-miles long slick in their direction, harming wildlife and seabirds as it goes. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has declared a state of emergency in the county.
"All pipes leak. That's why we have plumbers." That's what the Sierra Club's Kate Colarulli told us in "Keystone PipeLIES Exposed."
She's right; they do. We've seen it many times.
Read the full article at PipeLIESexposed.org.