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Activists incensed over Keystone XL pipeline
Visdukh, the FEIS stopped short on lots of stuff. For example, it failed to consider Texas and Louisiana refineries will process Keystone crude and produce a petcoke pile "the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza" every year, which, when burned, would produce more than "18 million tons of carbon pollution." Petcoke is a waste by-product in the refining process that can be burnt like coal. It is so dirty the EPA no longer issues licenses for its use, so it will all be exported to places like China, burned and then that foul air ends up drifting back over us in California. It is not just this pipeline but the dirty mining of Alberta bitumen tar and the avarice within the fossil fuels industry that is enriching a handful of billionaires at the expense of the rest of us. Why do you want to make these Canadians even wealthier with no benefit to Americans in terms of long term jobs and the resulting pollution from that bitumen tar? Why advocate for Canadian oil billionaires when you can instead support something like renewables for the rest of us?— February 5, 2014 11:43 a.m.