The national political “debate” over the Keystone Oil Project is an exercise in insanity, not least of all because it ignores one of the most basic lessons we all learned in grade school biology – there is no life without water.

Given that eventually ALL pipelines leak (it’s not a matter of if but when), and that when it does, it contaminates the water around it, which then destroys our ability to grow the crops we need to eat to survive. then the debate over the project becomes what we call “a no-brainer,” as it is not a debate over science, but a struggle over power.