Robert Redford today released a video on the New York Times website asking the president to say "no" to the Keystone XL pipeline. During the video, he spoke of the risks of tar sands oil and how it can negatively impact the environment and the lives of those people who depend on the resources the pipeline could destroy.
This is one of the very few issues that has been able to draw support from people on both sides of the political spectrum, from ordinary folks in East Texas to ranchers in Montana. Redford supplemented the video with a vignette of photos, maps, and graphs to get his point across, and that point is that tar sands oil is much too risky and environmentally devastating to even consider. Tar sands oil is exactly as it sounds: tar mixed in with sand, which creates an extremely abrasive substance. The force with which the pipeline will push this gooey substance through will be higher than normal pipelines, creating more opportunity for disaster. As Redford stated, it's "the dirtiest oil on the planet."
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