11/23/2016 / By Demo Super Admin
Construction is currently stalled on the Dakota Access Pipeline, which would connect North Dakota’s Bakken Shale development to oil tank farms in Illinois, by protests led by members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe. The Onion provides answers to key questions about the project.
Article by TheOnion.com
A: A proposed 1,172-mile crude oil pipeline that would carry 470,000 barrels of oil a day to wildlife habitats, Native American cultural sites, and drinking water sources across four different states.
A: A tribe of Native Americans who foolishly decided to settle in the path of the proposed pipeline centuries ago.
A: Many are fringe activists who actually believe Earth’s environment hasn’t already been destroyed beyond repair.
A: The only obstacle between you and getting gas for $2 a gallon.
A: Long enough for you to have learned more about them by now.
A: Oil companies; large corporations; your own unsustainable consumption habits.
A: Not without bringing it closer to people who the government actually cares about.
A: Red-throated loons, American badgers, interior terns, and harlequin ducks, just to name a few.
Q: Aren’t there alternatives to our continued reliance on fossil fuels?
A: Nothing that isn’t reliant on the fanciful, futuristic technology of the 1970s.
Read more at: theonion.com
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