The Indigenous Environmental Network has posted the dates and locations of public hearings regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline. They have a great deal of information regarding the Tar Sands Keystone XL Pipeline on their site. If you don’t know what the fuss is about then learn what the Indigenous communities have been fighting. Their fight to protect the Earth is ours too.
http://www.ienearth.org/index.html
http://www.ienearth.org/keystone-xl-pipeline.html
From the Indigenous Environmental Network site:
U.S executive approval is needed before the pipeline can be laid in place. The State Department has announced the schedule for a series of public input meetings in States along the route of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Written comments will be accepted by the State Department until October 9th, 2011.
Public Hearings on Keystone XL Pipeline
Monday, September 26, 2011
Texas:
Bob Bowers Civic Center
3401 Cultural Center Dr., Port Arthur, 4:30 – 10 p.m.
Kansas:
Kansas Expo Center
1 Expocenter Dr., Topeka, noon – 3:30 p.m., 4– 8 p.m.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Montana:
Dawson Community College
Toepke Center Auditorium, 300 Community Dr., Glendive, 4:30 – 10 p.m.
Nebraska:
Pershing Center
226 Centennial Mall, South Lincoln, noon – 3:30 p.m., 4. – 8:00 p.m .
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Texas:
University of Texas Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium,
2313 Red River St., Austin, noon – 3:30 p.m., 4 – 8 p.m.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
South Dakota:
Best Western Ramkota,
920 West Sioux Ave., Pierre, noon – 3:30 p.m., 4 – 8 p.m.
Nebraska:
West Holt High School, 100 N. Main St. Atkinson, 4:30 – 10 p.m.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Oklahoma:
Reed Center Exhibition Hall,
5800 Will Rogers Rd., Midwest City., noon – 3:30 p.m., 4 – 8 p.m.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Washington, D.C.: To be announced via website and public notice.
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Martin Rison said,
September 23, 2011 at 8:47 pm
I hope the pipeline gets built. The country needs to jobs, investment and less oil from regimes that treat women like dogs and homosexuals like rapist criminals. The US is already criss-crossed with pipelines (including two dedicated lines from the Alberta oil sands) I dont understand the hue and cry over this one, except that it is the ‘protest du jour’.
47whitebuffalo said,
September 23, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Martin Rison, if you do NOT comprehend the extent of the environmental impact then I wish you all the best when your drinking water turns toxic from an oil spill. Thanks for visiting. How is your crude oil evening cocktail agreeing with your intestines?
helenofmarlowe said,
September 14, 2011 at 2:48 am
I can’t get to Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, but I can write.
“Written comments will be accepted by the State Department until October 9th, 2011.” This is all good information. Do you have
the address? I looked recently for Hillary’s Clinton’s (Sec. of State)
email address, but I was not able to find it.
47whitebuffalo said,
September 14, 2011 at 2:52 am
Hi Helen. I have seen this address. i will find it and post!
slpmartin said,
September 12, 2011 at 8:44 pm
I suspect that the oil company had something to do with the two sites in NE for the hearings….both are not located near the Sand Hills and those who will suffer the most from spills…those at most risk will have to drive halfway accross the state to reach the hearings…this whole thing is more and more a corporate-government whitewash. 😦
47whitebuffalo said,
September 12, 2011 at 11:41 pm
Was there ever any doubt, Charles?
Red flags everywhere!
Hi. Thanks.