Drought Intensifies in U.S. South, No End in Sight

Manitoba Co-Operator - Kansas City | Reuters

Triple-digit heat breaks records, prolongs misery...Details here.

Low water in the Big Blue River, Nebraska

Rupture in Planned US Pipeline Could Release 7m Gallons of Oil (Tar?), Study Warns

Environmental engineers say pipeline operators TransCanada Corp have significantly underestimated the chances of a Keystone XL spill. Details here.

guardian.co.uk

PLT: Apparently we are to believe spills 

like that of another company, into the Yellowstone R. recently, 

simply won't happen quite as much with Keystone! 

yeah, right!

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Why I Joined the Tar Sands Action - Maude Barlow - Council of Canadians (Video)

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Swollen Lake Winnipeg Slowly Killing Wetland

Bartley Kives - Winnipeg Free Press - 08/31/2011

People and vegetation disappearing, too. Details here.

Courtesy of 

Greenpeace

Nebraska Governor Calls on Obama to Deny Permit for Keystone XL Pipeline

Grant Schulte-Associated Press-08/31/2011

WASHINGTON - The governor of a midwestern state that would be affected by a pipeline proposed to go from Canada to Texas urged President Obama to deny a federal permit for construction of the pipeline. Details here.



PLT: Isn't it sad that the world is so short of enlightened politicians such as this!