EPA Confirms: Keystone XL Threatens American Water Supplies
The EPA reviewed the State Department’s Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (DSEIS) on the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and found that the DSEIS included “insufficient information” to evaluate “environmental objections” that the EPA has about the project. Among EPA’s key conclusions was that Keystone XL provides significant “risks to groundwater resources.”
EPA’s letter outlined serious concerns regarding missing and inaccurate information from the State Department analysis, covering the following issues:
· Greenhouse gas emissions
· Pipeline safety
· Alternative pipeline routes
· Community and environmental justice impacts
These were the same concerns voiced in more than one million comments to President Obama and Secretary Kerry and during the State Department hearing in Nebraska.
These risks are enormous, especially given that Keystone XL will be an export pipeline that creates only 35 permanent jobs.
Keystone XL. All risk, no reward.
