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Economy
Burrowing Beetles Delay Trans-Canada/Keystone Pipeline
2012-10-25
Pipeline developer TransCanada's Gulf Coast project has been dogged by protesters in east Texas but its progress in Oklahoma has been slowed by concerns about the American burying beetle.
I was just worring about them the other night. Kept me awake, it did!
Some of the endangered insect's habitat is along the route of the $2.3 billion pipeline being built from the crude oil storage hub at Cushing to refineries in the Houston area. The American burying beetle has been a troublesome issue for oil and gas companies in Oklahoma for more than a decade.
Since it was declared endangered.
Goulet said crews are making steady progress, and is expected to be finished by late next year, despite protests in east Texas.

Members of the Tar Sands Blockade have spent almost a month in a "tree village" near Winnsboro, Texas, to protest the project. Protesters contend the pipeline and "dirty" oil from Canada's tar sands could cause irreparable damage to the environment if it is allowed to proceed.
Posted by:Bobby

#7  Yokay, I'll bite, I thought the mortal threat was from cute Jihadi Squirrels???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-10-25 22:23  

#6  Burrowing Beetles and Burrowing, LL.M
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-10-25 17:47  

#5  Obama's Keystone Cops at it again.
Posted by: Victor Emmanuel de Medici6825   2012-10-25 17:10  

#4  You know extinction is a perfectly natural process of evolution and species which are on the verge of extinction are usually in that condition for a reason. Over-specialization for example.

Seems to me the burrowing beetle is one such species and should be allowed to follow the natural course and die out.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-10-25 16:38  

#3  Do they have these in Brazil?
Posted by: Shipman   2012-10-25 16:05  

#2  Bury the swampies next to the beetles.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2012-10-25 15:03  

#1  Well look on the other side of the coin, by proceeding with the pipeline, that is digging up the ground and burying the pipeline, we are encouraging the burrowing beetles, to go for the gold and dig deeper.
Posted by: Au Auric   2012-10-25 13:53  

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