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Pipe Dreams: Patriotic Documentary Challenges Keystone XL

Last updated on 2011.10.13

Nebraska landowners trying to stop TransCanada from stealing their land and their environmental security have a friend in film. A couple, actually. Jane Kelly Kosek and Leslie Iwerks have created Pipe Dreams, their documentary on the Keystone XL pipeline. Iwerks screened the 40-minute documentary in Washington, D.C., last week; this week Iwerks gave two screenings in Nebraska, a hotbed of opposition to TransCanada's oily predations.

As I review the trailer for Pipe Dreams, I don't see any ill-mannered layabout hippies or other smelly figments of Dakota War College's imagination. I see patriotic Americans, fellow citizens who believe in hard work, property rights, and putting American interests above foreign oil companies' profits.

Mr. President, put America first: say no to Keystone XL.

3 Comments

  1. JohnKelley 2011.10.14

    Unfortunately the pipeline's approval is likely a foregone conclusion as it's lobbyist was a lead on Hillary's campaign. (This is again why voting appears not to matter because both parties are essentially the same corporate apologists at the expense of main street.) This pipeline is as cruel a joke as is the planned exporting of Wyoming coal and natural gas. Read that again - US politicians and corporations are planning and building facilities to export US energy while in the same breath hawking that the US needs "projects" for energy independence. Clearly corporations and their apologist politicians care not about nation or patriotism, only profit.
    http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/industry-executive-says-powder-river-basin-coal-exports-to-asia/article_a1b076f6-7216-55ba-9dbc-8d8eaea44f54.html
    http://trib.com/business/energy/wyoming-gas-likely-bound-for-overseas/article_cbb050f3-b138-5bf0-8835-5491d7ee0f32.html

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