The Keystone Pipeline, Eminent Domain and Government Duplicity
“There is a great deal of confusion, mis-information, propaganda and outright lies flooding the Internet and the airways about the Keystone XL pipeline. Most people aren’t aware that three phases of the pipeline are already built and operating. It is the fourth phase that is creating all of the hot air and acrid smoke among the competing parties and the mostly uninformed public. There are many competing parties, most at odds with each other.
First, there is Canada who wants to sell a huge valuable resource to the market. Eventually, that resource will reach the market, it is only a question of who and when. Energy-hungry countries would beg, borrow and steal the resource if it was economically feasible. All Canada has to do is to make a right turn and run the pipeline to its west coast to load up oil tankers and send them to the far east.
Since crude oil was discovered in the middle 19th Century, it smacks and smells of big money. John D. Rockefeller, (1839 – 1937) the founder of Standard Oil, reaped unbelievable profits from the sale of oil products and gasoline to create a wealthy, powerful, politically influential empire. By the early 1880′s Standard Oil controlled some 90% of the oil refineries and pipelines. Standard Oil no longer exists today, having been broken up into 33 different companies by a 1911 Supreme Court decision upholding the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. New Jersey Standard, one of the 33 companies, eventually became Exxon.”
Ewart, ROn. The Federal Observer 17 August 2014.