Pipeline Supporters, Opponents Rally in Nebraska

[hue]

Source: ABC News/ AP

U.S. State Department representatives received an earful Tuesday from supporters and opponents of a proposed Canadian oil pipeline that would cross part of Nebraska's vast underground water supply.

Both sides of the Keystone XL pipeline debate booed and jeered adversaries and shouted encouragement to their allies at the federal hearing in downtown Lincoln.

The rowdy hearing marked the second day of hearings this week in the six states the pipeline route will cross. The debate has drawn the greatest attention in Nebraska, where the proposed route would cross part of the Ogallala Aquifer, which supplies drinking water to about 2 million people.

The sides staged dueling rallies in front of the Pershing Center with signs, songs and a black, inflatable mock pipe that opponents hauled down the street.

Pipeline supporters dressed in bright orange waved signs outside the Pershing Center that read, "Keystone Unlocks Good Jobs for Nebraska," and "Reason, Not Extremism." Opponents sported red with black arm bands, flashed "Protect the Sandhills" signs and handed out shirts that said, "But Dad, our cows can't drink oil."

Pipeline opponent Dan Rudnick of Lincoln said he'd like to see state and federal action to at least reroute the pipeline around the Ogallala Aquifer.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/state-dept-heads-neb-oil-pipeline-hearing-14613882

[Rainbowreflect]

1. I was there earlier. It is amazing how many people are there.

They are all ages and from all walks of life speaking against the pipeline. The pro speaker are not being looked at very fondly!

[fascisthunter]

2. supporters? Were they Paid too?

[hue]

4. supporters were probably paid since the project would greatly enrich

the Koch Bros. http://michiganmessenger.com/46493/keystone-pipeline-would-enrich-koch-brothers

[SpiralHawk]

3. I heard from friends that the multinational corp sent in two buses of orange-shirted 'supporters'

from Iowa -- where the pipeline will never go or never directly pollute -- carpetbaggers getting free lunch and snacks, and who knows what else in the way of freebies.

Friends at the event called me and reported that all the Nebraskans who attended -- the majority mostly wearing Big Red Husker/Stop the Pipeline gear -- spoke powerfully & eloquently in opposition to this MASSIVE CORPORATE BOONDOGGLE CLUSTERF*CK.

So the FreeLunch Corporate Socialism-sucking TeaPubliCon Carpetbaggers (R) bused in from far far away luvs them the pipeline payola.

The real Nebraskans know it for the Total Corporate (R) Travesty it will be for them, for America, and for the planet.

[Rainbowreflect]

5. I am very proud of friends and families that are there.

Our regional minister and other members of the Nebraska interfaith group just spoke out against the pipeline.

[hue]

6. Thanks You for being there!! n/t

[benld74]

7. The amount of money to build the damn thing, to fix the leaks,

to pay the lawsuits when the damn thing leaks, etc. They could build the damn refinery for a lesser amount of money in Canada, and truck the gas in,,,