While reading “TheDailyGreen.Com” web site today Mr. Bob came across this article from the Salt Lake Tribune that was about “The Most Destructive Project on Earth. In the article they were discussing the major effect on the environment that the tar sand and shale oil reclamation project in Canada has had on the environment.
The resulting processes have had a major effect on pollution of the air and the surface and ground water. Damage that will take decades, if not long to repair. Now word has come that the United States “the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will open up discussions about similar projects across the American West”. This project has been termed,
“The Most Destructive Project on Earth”
Why is that this country never learns or worse, never learns from the mistakes of others when it comes to projects of this type? Why don’t our leaders believe that others have shown, both in the short term and the long term that there are some projects that are just to dangerous to continue?
Our personal belief is that it come down to one thing. The same one thing that it always come down too… someone is going to make money, or more likely make money to waste money. Which takes us back again to one of Mr. Bob’s most favorite sayings… We in the United States have the best government money can buy!
“The Bureau of Land Management is starting the environmental review necessary to open 2.3 million acres of BLM lands in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming for development of oil shale, primarily, and to a lesser extent, tar sands, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.”
Of course, no one has put a price tag on the cost of the project, or even ventured an estimate on the environment cost now and decades into the future. We believe it is time to stop the madness. Look for safer and ultimately cheaper sources of fuel be that, wind, solar, ocean or dare we say, nuclear power. Tar sands and shale have proved time and time again to be costly. Both in the return per gallon and in the damage to the environment.
Is this type of scar on the surface of the earth, and all of the problems that accompany it worth obtaining a few more gallons of fossil fuel? We believe the answer is a resounding “NO!”
Mr. Bob and Miss Ruby asking you to think and write your elected officials, before we have to but them on their butt’s.
Mr.Bob & Ms.Fran Speak Out 