{"id":5779,"date":"2013-01-25T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5779"},"modified":"2013-01-25T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T21:55:10","slug":"my-1700-mile-hike-across-the-xl-pipeline-salon-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/my-1700-mile-hike-across-the-xl-pipeline-salon-com\/","title":{"rendered":"My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline – Salon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well worth reading. peace, mjh<\/p>\n

My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline – Salon.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

I wanted to learn everything about the environmental battle. I saw a country marked by apathy, and flickers of hope <\/h4>\n

By Ken Ilgunas<\/a> <\/p>\n

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On a cool morning in September 2012, I strapped on my backpack, stuck out my thumb north of Denver, Colo., and hitchhiked 1,500 miles to the Alberta Tar Sands. After viewing the Tar Sands \u2014 a horizon-to-horizon Ayn Rand wasteland of bulldozed Boreal Forest, eerie yellow sulfur pyramids, and Armageddon-black tailing ponds<\/font> \u2014 I hitchhiked south to Hardisty, Alberta, the northern terminus of the pipeline-to-be, where I\u2019d begin my hike. My ultimate destination would be Port Arthur \u2014 an oil refinery city on the Gulf Coast of Texas, which would be the southern terminus of the XL. \u2026<\/p>\n

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More than just another pipeline, the XL, to me, is a historic battleground: the first-ever fight \u2014 led by Bill McKibben and his organization 350.org<\/a> \u2014 over a project because of climate change. Even if its path would lead me through the \u201cmiddle of nowhere,\u201d with the fate of a warming world at stake, I thought of the XL as the center of the universe. And I wanted to be there and learn everything I could about it.<\/p>\n

If President Obama approves the XL \u2014 which he may or may not do in the next few months \u2014 the Tar Sands of northern Alberta will continue to be developed (perhaps to the size of Florida), a prospect that one climate scientist has called \u201cgame over\u201d for climate change. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline – Salon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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