The Climate Letter Project is now in its fourth year of daily letters to the editor, and if you exclude "idiotic Republican denialists," there's probably no single topic which has triggered more LTEs than the Keystone XL pipeline.
Since Transcanada's pipeline project first reared its ugly head some years ago, it's provided me with fodder for indignant 150-word outbursts to print media outlets all over North America. Many have seen print, but far more have languished in editorial file-and-forget folders. That's okay; writing letters is what I do.
There are so many ways that Keystone is a disaster in the making. Whether it's the devastation of millions of acres of forest, the likely contamination of aquifers providing drinking and irrigation water to uncounted millions of people, the virtual certainty of spills and leaks, the nourishment of corrupt and unethical corporate sociopaths, or the massive acceleration that burning Tar Sands oil will give to the already careening-dangerously-out-of-control greenhouse effect, the pipeline offers misery to millions and the prospect of increased wealth to a privileged few.
Below the copulating croissants of hive-mind-progressivism, you'll find an assortment of letters on Keystone themes, all sent within the past 8 months.
All of them, alas, are still pertinent today. Only a few have been published. Please help yourself. Simply by rearranging a few sentences and inserting a few synonyms, you can have your very own "Why KXL Is A Terrible Idea" letter, ready for submission. It's easy.