The proposed XL will be TransCanada’s second pipeline carrying tar sands crude from Alberta through the U.S. It will enter in Montana and travel through South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, to end at the Gulf Coast oil refineries. This network cuts through our countries breadbasket and aquifers, where a spill would be devastating.
Why is this important?
The oil sands are now the largest industrial project in the world. Extracted from Canadian forests, this process is causing devastation the size of Belgium, with up to 7,000 liters of water wasted to produce one barrel of oil. Such toxic waste water is stored in tailing ponds which can be seen from space. America is the main consumer of tar sands oil, imported through the Keystone pipelines.
