On Wednesday, Hannah appeared on CBC’s Power & Politics to debate Alykhan Velshi, founder of Ethicaloil.org, a website devoted to defending Canada’s oil industry.
Velshi said it wasn’t fair to compare the first Keystone pipeline, which had a number of high-profile leaks, with Keystone XL. He said that was like using the bad engineering of the Ford Pinto (a car produced in the ’70s) to say Fords shouldn’t be built today. (Though Hannah quickly pointed out that the first pipeline was only a year old).
For the most part, Velshi stuck to his main argument — that the U.S. will continue to need oil and should be supplied from “friendly” countries like Canada.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2011/09/01/daryl-hannah-oil-sands.html
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