We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans

13 Replies to “We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans”

1. and think of all the F350’s down there and not Pius, I mean a Prius to be found.
   Drill baby, Drill!

2. Reading the comments from the people of North Dakota complaining about the extraction (burning of gas, crowded towns, trucks on the roads, people causing hotel shortages, no place for workers to live) – – – I begin to see the animus of the hate on for Keystone and I worry about it ever getting built.

3. They really are disconnected from their own life support systems, aren’t they?

4. “clearly see the oil sands near Fort McMurray”
   I think you can clearly see the lights of Fort McMurray which has something like 80,000 people. I am not sure you can see the oil sands although some sites might be illuminated. There aren’t big flames burning there.

5. What a terrific shot of the Bakken play. Thanks, Kate.

6. I think the coolest thing in the video, however, is at 3:38 (and after 4:30), where you see a “red ribbon”. I believe that’s the fortified border between Pakistan and India looking south-south-east.

7. Scar,
   I can assure you that you can see the Syncrude and Suncor sites. And I used to work in an office near the flare stack at Syncrude and during a coker upset I promise you there are some big flames.
   Check out: http://g.co/maps/b26r7 and let me know which is easier to pick out, The MLSB at Syncrude or the town.

8. It’s just that Red Deer is much brighter than Fort Mac and they are approx the same size. I’ve heard of gas plant failures where hundreds of millions of cubic feet of gas are flared. Apparently quite the show but rarely happens.

9. Perhaps the most disgusting aspect of the whole oil sands & binational pipeline debate, at least from the perspective of an American, is to hear Obama cast his juvenile criticisms at the Republicans for defeating the “job growth” his “plan” would have created. This coming from the same President who has – just in the past few months and weeks – interfered with Boeing’s attempt to bring a billion dollar 787 factory online in South Carolina, prevented the construction of the Keystone pipeline, and prevented the tapping of potentially huge shale resources in Ohio. These three things alone represent hundreds of thousands of jobs directly, and untold more indirectly. For him to talk about anyone else being against job growth is the height of hypocrisy.
   I certainly do not blame Canada if it ends up building a pipeline to a Pacific port and selling the oil to the Chinese. The USA is now so wracked with self-loathing and self-doubt that it would prefer to navel-gaze while it is swiftly left in the dust by other powers who are not similarly afflicted.

10. “They really are disconnected from their own life support systems, aren’t they?” These people are not the only ones disconnected. Most on the left with their back to the caves and eating grass ideology are disconnected.
    Great pictures and video. I sent it to some of my gkids.

11. Slowly we will see the lights go out in the South.

12. Shhhh indeed! Do you have any idea of how many aboriginal burying grounds are located in that space?

13. Spilling all that tar in the sand up there has to be the most heinous act of capitalism in the history of the world. We need to find out who is responsible, and we have to clean up this mess to return nature to its pristine state. I recommend a project to dig up this toxic waste and incinerate it safely.