Comments on: Obama’s Baffling Keystone XL Pipeline Denial
By florian schach on 02-08-12
Keystone is not going to cool off anytime soon, in fact until a real decision is reached itsgoing to continue to get more and more attention. As the title of the article suggests, this is
baffling to most because it is a vehicle by which we can provide 20,000 jobs to a number of
people who have been out of work for a long time. It also can spur other kinds of jobs down the
line in relation to the pipeline by providing other essential services. (http://bit.ly/sogpoX).
We may want to be a bit more supportive of a project like this and consider the people we are
affecting before we reject it outright.
By Frank Maycumber on 03-01-12
Should the economic short-term stimulus projects like Keystone Pipeline require us to ignore the social costs such as in the case of the murdered school teacher in Sidney, MT. Should the big oil
companies ever be held equally liable for the criminal, social as well as environmental impacts? Oil
boom towns have always had a dangerously disproportionate male to female ratio and higher than
normal population of registered and unregestered sex offenders. Even Louisiana oilworkers on land-
rigs in the 70s were offered work camps that kept their workers sequestered and out of the
communities and taverns for two weeks at a time. In Montana, oil companies are not required to
offer work camps such as even the Canadian lease companies do. Montana seems ill prepared for
the impact to it’s communities. For this reason Obama is correct in keeping the Keystone out of
Montana.
The views expressed in the comments section do not reflect those of the Beacon.