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VIDEO: Union Pipefitters Speak Up About the Keystone XL Pipeline
The United Association of Plumbers, Fitters, Welders and HVAC Service Techs (UA) has released a video touting the potential sustainability and job-creation of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, what one speaker calls “the hundred year pipeline.”
Focused partially on refuting claims of environmental danger beneath American soil, partially on the need to grow the union workforce through the pipeline’s construction, and partially on the ability to free the nation from international oil dependence, the UA supplies three sides of the argument not frequently articulated in media coverage of the project.











[...] dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico across American soil. Their argument for the pipeline in the video, which is: Focused partially on refuting claims of environmental danger [...]
by Unions Split Over Keystone XL Pipeline | FavStocks on September 30, 2011 at 9:27 am.