{"id":5992,"date":"2013-05-20T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2013-05-07T10:21:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:21:49","slug":"year-4-month-5-day-20-my-biggest-mistake-was-loving-you-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-5-day-20-my-biggest-mistake-was-loving-you-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 5, Day 20: My Biggest Mistake Was Loving You Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even Forbes Magazine thinks the KXL is a disaster in the making<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With over 16,000 sensors tied to automatic shut-offs, the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline (as in Xtra-Large) is not your father\u2019s pipeline. However, it\u2019s still a pipeline, and the long history of ruptures, leaks, spills and other \u201cincidents\u201d call attention to the problems that face all pipelines in America.<\/p>\n

We just don\u2019t maintain them like we should.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s the same for all critical infrastructure. The corporations that build and operate this infrastructure talk about all the bells and whistles they have to make them safe, and promise to do so, but history says differently. Decades after these things are built, the industry just doesn\u2019t care anymore.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that these pipelines and rigs can\u2019t be run safely, it\u2019s that they aren\u2019t. Maybe the managers and operators who originally built them once cared, but after they\u2019ve retired or died, the new managers don\u2019t have the same ownership.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hippie. May 7:<\/p>\n

Whether it’s coal or oil, the core mentality underlying fossil fuel is essentially simple-minded: make a hole in the ground and burn the stuff that comes out. When your goal is to enrich your investors, then it’s good business to transfer the costs and consequences of leaks, spills, collapses, and containment failures to ordinary people, who’ll take care of it with their tax dollars. Furthermore, given the short attention span of most citizens, TransCanada and other pipeline promoters have nothing to lose by downplaying the risks and inflating the benefits of projects like the Keystone XL \u2014 and nothing to gain by making huge investments in safety, infrastructure, and maintenance.<\/p>\n

As a path to riches, it’s not complicated \u2014 but as a way to encourage good citizenship, it’s a failure. As the climate crisis intensifies, the extractive industries can no longer ignore the grave moral dimensions of their environmental irresponsibility.<\/p>\n

Warren Senders\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even Forbes Magazine thinks the KXL is a disaster in the making: With over 16,000 sensors tied to automatic shut-offs, the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline (as in Xtra-Large) is not your father\u2019s pipeline. However, it\u2019s still a pipeline, and the long history of ruptures, leaks, spills and other \u201cincidents\u201d call attention to the problems that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[680,1092,1005,990],"class_list":["post-5992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-ethics","tag-keystone-xl","tag-tar-sands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5993,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}