{"id":3175,"date":"2013-04-05T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2013-04-05T16:46:44","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T20:46:44","slug":"the-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-keystone-xl-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"The Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pipeline.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/pipeline.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"pipeline\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big decisions on complex projects are invariably reduced to soundbites by advocates and opponents.  We know from experience that soundbite-driven decisions are often bad ones.  It&#8217;s human and very understandable to throw up your hands in the face of complexity and fall back on whichever of the soundbites resonates more naturally.  <\/p>\n<p>The upcoming decision on approval or rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline is one of those decisions.  If you&#8217;re heard about Keystone XL, but haven&#8217;t really had a chance to learn about it, you&#8217;re probably experiencing that feeling of soundbite whiplash.  <\/p>\n<p>Our friends at MCAN (Massachusetts Climate Action Network) have put together a thoughtful and readable post on Keystone XL.  It is not about the climate implications of Keystone that are the basis of MCAN&#8217;s (any many people&#8217;s) opposition to Keystone.  Instead the article takes on the arguments being made in favor of the pipeline &#8211; jobs and cheap oil.  It&#8217;s all done in clear terms, with references you can research further.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth reading.  <a href=\"http:\/\/massclimateaction.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/01\/a-differently-winged-argument-against-keystone-xl\/\" title=\"MCAN Blog - a different argument against Keystone XL\" target=\"_blank\">Check it out here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big decisions on complex projects are invariably reduced to soundbites by advocates and opponents. We know from experience that soundbite-driven decisions are often bad ones. It&#8217;s human and very understandable to throw up your hands in the face of complexity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fossil-fuels","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}