Just imagine for a moment what an ecologically dirty project like Keystone would look like from out there in space. Not who stands to make money, but the planet itself.
Lobbyists can and DO work full time and overtime to advance the causes of their paymasters. That is simply what they do. According to www.keystone.org there is stealth legislation moving silently in the United States Senate to do just this – an end run against President Obama, an end run against the indigenous peoples who are fighting the Keystone Pipeline, and the 1000+ people who were arrested in this cause. To sign an online petition against the Keystone Pipeline go to: http://act.350.org/sign/kxl/
Further, there is now ALEC – the American Legislative Exchange Counsel writing legislation, with a large staff funded by corporate and plutocratic interests to do this full time, and then pitch and fund PACs for elected officials, and wine and dine staff so that the legislation written by ALEC is filed in state legislatures all over the country “as if” a legislator wrote it advancing the agenda of the Neo Robber Barons of this new gilded age, The 1% has weapons and resources that dwarf any individual, and only an alert, educated and united population will protect the future well-being of coming generations. Great editorial about this see The Big Money Behind State Laws. While I hope that OUR state legislators write their own legislation and are not pitching for ALEC, with 8000+ bills filed, it is hard for an outsider with limited time to monitor.
As to the current push to bring back Keystone and make it happen, for sure, that is the goal of big money and its paid minions out there. Stand up! Fight back! Don’t let this ecological disaster sneak by.
Individuals like the Koch brothers who seem to believe anything they believe is right and must happen. Big money oil firms we subsidize simply buy what they want – including subsidies while as a country we allow a 43% poverty rate in neighborhoods like Dorchester. It is impossible to fight this economic hydra of concentrated wealth without a conscience on all fronts – but lets make as big a pushback on the dirty oil Keystone project as we can.
