Marcia McNutt, former head of the U.S. Geological Survey under President Barack Obama until 2013 and now top editor at Science magazine, is no longer opposed to the approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline.“I believe it is time to move forward on the Keystone XL pipeline to transport crude oil from the tar sands deposits of Alberta, Canada, and from the Williston Basin in Montana and North Dakota to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast,” McNutt wrote in a Feb. 21 editorial in the magazine.
Keystone is a proposed 1,179-mile 36-inch diameter pipeline that will transport crude oil from Hardisty, Alberta, Canada to Steele City, Neb., according to the website of TransCanada, the company in charge of the project.
“Along with transporting crude oil from Canada, the Keystone XL Pipeline will also support the significant growth of crude oil production in the United States from producers in the Bakken region of Montana and North Dakota,” the explanation on the company’s website stated.
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…and Miss McNutt’s audit begins in 3,2,1….
Too late, McNutt. You’re no scientist or you would have said this to begin with. You are just a sycophant for Obama and can’t back out of it now.
Heard the NPR interview with her last week. Can’t get the link to work so I don’t know if she talks about it but she mentioned that the pipeline is a far more ecologically-friendly way of transporting the oil. She made the point that the oil is going to get produced and nothing is going to change that fact. She also mentioned that transporting it by truck and rail left a far greater ‘carbon footprint’. ( I detest even having to use that nonsensical term and as a carbon-based life form I find it disparaging ). She added that a pipeline is safer and the best means of transport.