For all the pompous prognostications by Keystone XL tar sands pipeline boosters in Congress about jobs and economic impacts, you don’t have to look much further than the devastated communities of the Kalamazoo River to get to the truth about the dangers this project will pose to America’s heartland.
That’s where an Enbridge Energy pipeline carrying toxic Canadian tar sands crude burst in July, 2010, spewing over a million gallons of a chemically-treated tar sands brew into a tributary of the Kalamazoo River. The result was the biggest oil pipeline spill in U.S. history, adding economic insult to a region wracked by recession and high unemployment. About 40 miles of the Kalamazoo River are still closed as cleanup operations to try to remove huge submerged oil deposits sunk to the bottom.
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