{"article":{"id":263112,"heading":"Comment on Keystone XL Pipeline - Open until March 7, 2014","author":"www.citizen.org","created":"2014-02-18 20:04:07","modified":"2014-02-18 23:03:17","last_modified":"Wed, 19 Feb 2014 06:03:17","article":"

Comment on the Keystone XL pipeline - until March 7, 2014

30-day public comment period for State Dept Final SEIS started yesterday:

http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/#<\/a>!documentDetail;D=DOS-2014-0003-0001

A future of community centers and free Internet books is brighter than a future of coal trains and pipe lines!

Nature is our partner and basis for future survival, not a free good, external or sink.

According to environmental economist Hans Christoph Binswanger, the three crises - mass unemployment, environmental destruction and trade balance - can only be solved by abandoning the model of quantitative growth and embarking on qualitative growth. A job in education costs 1\/10 what a joy in a capital intensive industry like chemical dyes costs.

Conservation saves more energy than building power plants. An we mend our own pockets and rescue the world from financialization\/commodification and short-term profit worship? <\/p>\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"http:\/\/www.freembtranslations.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Building pipelines means abandoning a decent infrastructure. European train do not derail all the time. They have invested in the infrastructure and a longer horizon that saves money and prevents environmental degradation. Vancouver B.C. has 26 community centers!","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2014\/02\/263112.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":263113,"heading":"corrected URL","article":"http:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/#!documentDetail;D=DOS-2014-0003-0001 ","author":"marc","parent_id":263112,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2014-02-18 23:20:02","modified":"2014-02-18 23:20:02","fileurl":""}]}