Vittorio Zucconi - January 25, 2011 A big
three thousand kilometers long oil pipeline
depart from Canada to the coast of Mexico. The plan has cleared the Republicans, Hillary
and trade unions. For owners of the pipeline there is no risk of
catastrophe such as the Gulf. It was the "iron horse" to destroy the American Indian Native
hundred and fifty years ago.
will be the "black blood" to destroy the remains of their house tomorrow,
the Great Plains. The Keystone project, 'keystone'
the new pipeline would pump the oil squeezed
tar sands of Canada to take him to the Gulf of Mexico cut
from north to south and the plains of West falsopiani, as in 1865, the Union Pacific rails
cut from east to west, from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
the heart of the continent.
will be a long river of crude oil almost three thousand miles, an artificial river
along a parallel course to the great river and the natural father
American fertility, Mississippi, that not even the strength of
nations and tribes of the Great North have launched a movement
able to prevent the construction to stop. As the hunger for land in the new nation
white devoured the Great Plains
penetrating with locomotives and rails, so the insatiable thirst for oil will not allow opposition. The
travel to West, such as running the pump fuel stops.
were the native peoples of Canada, "First Nations" as they call themselves
, to denounce this colossal project, the pipeline
capable of pumping almost one million barrels a day - 120 million gallons - from tar sands
of Athabaskan north of Edmonton, to the terminals
in Houston, Texas. From the state of Alberta in Canada, where this huge deposits of mud
bitumen, the third largest in the world
, lies the discovery of this new and deadly wound in the heart of the continent
nation has crossed the U.S. border.
Following the path of the project "Key of Time", reached
Montana Nebraska, Kansas, the "granary" of America, Oklahoma and Texas
, the last stage. He shook the white farmers as tribal councils
of Lakota, Cheyenne, Shoshone, Pawnee, Cree, and all the people who live
still clinging to what remains of the areas where the bison,
decimated by the railways and destroyed systematically by the guns of
hunters and soldiers ran. To warn that if the railways
annihilated peoples, animals, culture of the Grand Prairie,
this vein black standards will destroy the earth on which all still live
.
is a battle that they will lose, as the battles were lost, and the guerrilla
war against the railroad barons in 1860
decided, with the support of the government, to follow the "Manifest Destiny"
of the white race to spread in the New World in trains, rather than on
contraption of wood and canvas made by Mr. Studebaker for
pioneers. The pipeline has cleared the Department of State and the Secretary
Hillary Clinton, concerned about the energy dependence on oil from Arab and South American
.
has the support of the Republican Party, now the House majority,
where 40 MPs have signed a petition supporting the party
who sang the chorus of "drill, baby, drill" to Congress in 2008, to invite
John McCain and his vice Sarah Palin, governor of un'Alaska
to oil exist, to "drill, baby, drill" everywhere. And
enjoys overwhelming approval of motorists with the tank empty and the prices
uprights to distributors.
The myth of the 'self-sufficiency in energy
is difficult to leave, although United States is now dependent on the rest of the world
two-thirds of the burn. In these years of skinny cows, the
20 000 new jobs promised by the project are coveted. "The path to the mainland
assures us that will never happen again
disasters like the one in the Gulf," echoed the president's TransCanada,
the future new owner of Black River, the head of the oil workers' union
, William Hite. After all, are already in operation
conducted for 200,000 km of oil on American soil and
two thousand more or less what difference can I do? "Our studies show that
the environmental impact will be negligible and a minimum 'information the
TransCanada.
not negligible, or minimal, however, for the first sons of the land or
for those who still live in that land. 'Keystone' cross the water bodies
of Nebraska and Montana, they depend on to live
two million people. The aquifer
is often a few feet below the earth's crust and thus more easily cultivated
pollution in case of breakage or accidents.
But the thirst for oil scare of the thirst for water or 'Paturnie
nostalgic, "the tribal councils, Native North and
the Great Plains. The "great black tube" will, despite objections, contrary
signatures of 65 Democratic members, the chants of the shamans, as
railways were made. We will not see epic films such as "
Iron Horse" of 1924, John Ford to describe the "ferocity of the savages'
against the innocent passengers on trains, because the hatchet is
buried forever. As the spirit of the Prairie is buried under
sleepers, track and soon tubes.
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