From north to south and east to west, people across the United States and Canada are increasingly coming together to fight against the expansion of the Alberta tar sands and efforts to move the highly toxic bitumen — tar sands “oil” — through pipelines to the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf of Mexico. From US ports the bitumen would be shipped primarily to China.
Why do I care? Even before I learned that ExxonMobile is gearing up to try to send tar sands oil east through Vermont — my home state — and New Hampshire to a shipping port in Portland, Maine through decades old pipelines, I was opposed to tar sands expansion and pipeline projects.
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Why did you lead a delegation of women? Are there no men who oppose the pipeline? It seems like a strange conflation of identity politics and environmentalism.
I agree Matt. I'm against further tar sands development too, but this article feels needlessly devisive to me.
THE PERSON WHO WROTE THIS ARTICLE WAS GIVEN A NOBLE PRIZE----- FOR WHAT
I found it hard to believe this person won a Nobel Prize. Did someone do a background check? This reads like a B- 11th grade essay.
I'm still waiting for proof of global warming being more than statistical noise or variation.
Jody Williams (born 1950) is an American political activist known around the world for her work in banning anti-personnel landmines, her defense of human rights – especially those of women – and her efforts to promote new understandings of security in today’s world. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work toward the banning and clearing of anti-personnel mines.
So, what we have here is a professional activist getting herself involved in another cause. Guess she ran out of land mines, or is tired of traveling through 3rd world countries.
You cannot replace fossil fuel with wind and solar. This kind of misguided activism serves only to aggravate the Global Warming problem.