{"id":19618,"date":"2013-07-09T09:08:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T13:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19618"},"modified":"2013-07-09T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T13:08:05","slug":"if-the-mainstream-media-doesnt-scream-about-it-it-didnt-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19618","title":{"rendered":"If The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Scream About It, It Didn’t Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"

In April of this year, I noted the differences in coverage the media gave to two stories regarding oil spills<\/a> (rightwinggranny.com<\/a>). One story involved a pipe leak and one story involved a train derailment. The train spill was three times the size of the pipe leak, but because it wasn’t a pipe leak and would not feed into the narrative of the anti-Keystone Pipeline sentiment, the train leak was not widely covered.<\/p>\n

Today, the Wall Street Journal<\/a> Opinion Page (I am not including a link–the article is subscribers only) notes that the Saturday explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec<\/a>, of a train carrying North Dakota<\/a> shale oil will probably not get a lot of extended coverage.<\/p>\n

The article in the Wall Street Journal reminds us:<\/p>\n

The reason oil is moved on trains from places like North Dakota and Alberta<\/a> is because there aren’t enough pipelines to carry it. The provincial governments of Alberta and New Brunswick are talking about building a pipeline to cover the 3,000-odd mile distance. But last month President Obama<\/a> put the future of the Keystone XL pipeline<\/a> again in doubt, telling a Georgetown University audience “our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did the explosion at Lac-Megantic not<\/em> significantly exacerbate the problem of pollution, carbon or otherwise?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article points out that there is about half as much oil spilled from pipelines as railroads on a gallon-per-mile basis. Pipelines tend to be away from populated areas–railroads tend to run through populated areas. Common sense would choose pipelines over railroads for both safety and pollution reasons.<\/p>\n

The other aspect of the Keystone pipeline debate is the money. As long as there is no pipeline, Burlington Northern Santa Fe<\/a> will continue to move shale oil to its destination. Burlington Northern Santa Fe is owned by Berkshire Hathaway<\/a>, the conglomerate controlled by Obama supporter and Omaha billionaire Warren Buffett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Environmentalists are being taken for a ride by the very people (Obama supporters) that they consider their allies in the fight to ‘save’ the environment. Amazing.<\/p>\n

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