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Fall 2011
Exposing the State Department's Rigged Review of the Dirty Keystone XL Pipeline
By Kim Huynh
A hush fell over the crowd of more than 300 gathered at the Ronald Reagan building as Randy Thompson, a farmer, stockman and landowner from Merritt County, Nebraska spoke.
“History will be the ultimate judge of this project. And we are about ready to write that chapter of our history. Will our descendants look back and say, ‘Thank God our great-grandfathers had the foresight to protect the resources that we are now depending upon’ or will they say, ‘What were the damn fools thinking about?’ ”
Randy traveled to a public hearing in Washington, D.C., last month to testify against the proposed Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, a 1,700-mile mega-pipeline that would transport the world’s dirtiest oil from beneath Canada’s Boreal forest, through Randy’s and other landowners' property in the U.S. heartland, to refineries on the Gulf Coast of Texas, wreaking havoc on public health and the environment. Randy’s testimony captivated the audience in the expansive, sterile auditorium, but he didn’t once break eye contact with the panel of State Department officials presiding over the hearing.
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