Laura Meusch - Comment

The proposed Keystone XL pipeline through Ne is wrong. The route takes the pipeline across the Aquifer that the entire state depends on for drinking water for people and livestock. It also provides the water to grow crops that feed countless people in Nebraska and the entire world. Why would we risk the contamination of the Aquifer? TransCanada's own website talks about a 1.5 % leak factor that can not be detected by their state of the art equipment. If you do the math on those figures that is over 70 semi tanker loads of tarsands and toxic chemicals leaking into the earth and water every day. That should not be acceptable to any ones standards. TransCanada claims to have 60 years of experience in pipelines but they only have one tarsands line and it has only been in use since 2009 and it leaked 14 times in the first year. That is not a good track record. This pipe is bigger under more pressure and it is going across unstable ground and the Aquifer. There are new rules that are to be followed for pipelines but Keystone XL does not have to follow them. This is not something that should be allowed for the sake of the people. Did we learn nothing from the Michigan disaster? This pipeline can not be allowed to cross the Aquifer or the areas of fragile soils that make up the entire north west side of Nebraska that are no longer considered sandhills. Protect the people now not after the disaster happens. With the drought this state and many others are experiencing it seems like a time to protect the water that is still here and not worry so much about getting a pipeline in the ground that has no benefit to the general public. We need our water here without it we will all die. We can live without the tarsands and toxins that this pipeline will carry that is not necessarily going to be used in the US. Do not sell out the people of this country. Protect us that is your job. Laura Meusch