Stop the Bluegrass Pipeline of Death 'n Destruction

UPDATE: Read this op-ed in the Herald.

The why-are-these-motherfuckers-still-in-business fossil fuel industry isn't content with murdering Kentuckians by coal mining; now they want to destroy horse country with a Death Pipe of liquid gas.

James Bruggers at the Courier:

A plan to build a roughly 150-mile underground pipeline across Kentucky, carrying natural gas liquids from shale-drilling zones in the northeast, is stirring concern among some area landowners and environmentalists.

"Shale drilling" my ass.  It's the toxic product of fracking, pouring south from the poisoned water, uninhabitable homes and ruined lives in Pennsylvania Gas Land.

Land agents are starting to secure easements from property owners in as many as 18 Kentucky counties across the northern tier of the commonwealth for the pipeline, even as attorneys seek landowner clients to negotiate the best deal possible.

But some residents, concerned about pollution, safety and property values, are gearing up to fight a pipeline they don’t want crossing their land or communities. They, along with some environmental advocates, say the pipeline, which would cut through scenic and sensitive areas of Kentucky, could rupture and pollute surface and groundwater.

From the LA Times, pipeline ruptures and explosions are the rule, not the exception:

The images from Mayflower, Ark., after a March 29 oil spill were particularly repulsive: A river of black goo running through yards and down the street of a subdivision, and hundreds of workers arriving to clean up an industrial mess in a peaceful burg.

But the Exxon Mobil pipeline spill, initially estimated to have released at least 157,000 gallons of crude oil and driven more than 20 families from their homes, represents only a fraction of the regular oil losses from the huge network of pipelines stretching across the United States.

Between 2008 and 2012,  U.S. pipelines spilled an average of more than 3.1 million gallons of hazardous liquids per year, according to data from the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, the nation's pipeline regulator. Those spills -- most commonly caused by corrosion and equipment failure -- caused at least $1.5 billion in property damage altogether.

Don't let them turn this:



Into this:


This is personal. I live in the path of this abomination, and there isn't enough money in the universe - not even enough in the untaxed, subsidy-swollen accounts of Exxon-Mobil - to get me to allow it within miles of my house.