{"id":186124,"date":"2014-05-01T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/01\/not-the-onion-15\/"},"modified":"2014-05-01T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T00:52:00","slug":"not-the-onion-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/05\/01\/not-the-onion-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The energy company Kinder Morgan is arguing for putting an oil pipeline through an environmentally sensitive area because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressprogress.ca\/en\/post\/kinder-morgan-says-oil-spills-can-be-good-economy\">oil spills can be good for the economy<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">That&#8217;s according to a 15,000 page application Kinder Morgan has submitted to the National Energy Board for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (a document so large that it &#8220;stands over two metres tall and fills 37 binders&#8221;).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In a section of the application dedicated to the risks and effects associated with oil tanker traffic and the possibility of oil spills, Kinder Morgan finds that &#8220;spills can have both positive and negative effects.&#8221; In particular, &#8220;spill response and clean-up creates business and employment opportunities for affected communities, regions, and clean-up service providers.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MKLXzTf.png\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/MKLXzTf.png\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great googly moogly!<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/blogs\/politics\/kinder-morgan-oil-spills-050114\">Charlie Pierce observed<\/a>, this is on a par with a parent murderer asking for for mercy as an orphan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The energy company Kinder Morgan is arguing for putting an oil pipeline through an environmentally sensitive area because oil spills can be good for the economy: That&#8217;s according to a 15,000 page application Kinder Morgan has submitted to the National Energy Board for the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (a document so large that it &#8220;stands &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1135,969,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-energy","category-evil","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}