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The environment of which one may consider as nature, their surroundings, or habitat, is critical to maintain in order for its components and future generations to meet their needs. In many cases, the environment can be argued as a scientific object as it is oftentimes observed based on the principles of the natural sciences. Therefore, the environment has scientific implications that affects its’ components, which further validates that it is a scientific object. The Great Lakes is an exquisite body of water located in the upper midwest of the United States.

It is estimated to cost over 3.7 billion (Yan). And the project is already 60 percent complete (Energy Transfer Partners). A pipeline that is said to create 8,000 to 12,000 construction jobs and spawn the birth of safe oil transportation (Yan). As for you and me gas prices will drop significantly and we will witness an economical boom. Why end construction on The Dakota Access Pipeline now?

Canadian company TransCanada hopes to build Keystone XL a pipeline that carries Canadian tar sand oil from Canadian border to the Golf Coast. According to Derber “the pipeline extracts some of the dirtiest oil on the planet, a process that sends many polluting chemicals into the ground waters and releases methane, the most potent greenhouse gas, into the air, creating one of the greatest climate threat” (p. 115). A leak from a pipeline carrying the tar sand oil could cause environmental damage and pollute our drinking water and agricultural irrigation. The builders of the Keystone XL Pipeline are wilders. According to Derber, “environmental wilding in the natural environment, such as reckless polluting that causes global warming” (p. 11).

The Pipe Dreams Documentary shows the vast amount of struggle and determination it takes for farmers to win their own land back. It shares a controversial issue on the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. “It’s just like a diamond in the world, the Ogallala Aquifer isn’t just Nebraska, it isn’t just the United States, it’s a clean and big lake” states Cornelius Murphy a rancher in Stuart, Nebraska. TransCanada has been requesting the US government for the approval of a 7 billion dollar pipeline known as the Keystone XL. This pipeline would be used to ship heavy crude oil from Hardisty, Alberta to around the Gulf Coast of Mexico.

Have you ever wondered about the Dakota access pipeline and thought is it good or bad. The Dakota access pipeline is an “Oil pipeline that would run diagonally across Iowa, through 18 counties, from northwest Iowa to southeast Iowa” (Tyler Durden, 2016). Even though I do not support the pipeline, because of damaging reasons, it does help our economy become more desirable. First I do not support this pipeline considering it does not help our environment.

Supporters of the pipeline claim that the construct meets all of the safety regulations, thus there is no need to worry about the water supply. In an issue of the Oil Spill Intelligence Report, pipelines are described as “the safest, most efficient, and cost effective way to move oil to the market.” The president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council said products reach their destination virtually all of the time and the pipe lays 90 feet under the river, so “it’s not going to leak right into the river”. The pipe also has detection equipment and shutoff valves on each side of the pipeline. The source also includes arguments voice by the opposition of the pipeline including: that the Tribe was never consulted for the project and that the proposed route of the pipeline would desecrate sacred tribal lands.

The North Dakota Oil rush can be both good and bad for the state. First of all, people are coming in to work for companies to support their families. Since some people don 't make a lot of money, they travel to North Dakota to make the money that is needed. Second of all, the population has boomed since the Oil rush. This can be both good and bad for the state.

In my opinion I am against the pipeline. The negative effects out way the positives of the pipeline. To begin with, there isn't a real need for the pipeline, so why spend billions of dollars on a pipeline that isn't needed. The cost of the pipeline is extremely high whereas the pipeline might not actually be worth that much to the residents here. There would be taxes and fees that the residents and the business owners would have to pay to pay for the pipeline that could be avoided.

There are numerous dangerous threats to uncontacted, indigenous tribes throughout the world. Disease is one of them, which is the biggest threat to them all. Drug runners are a great part of showing how drugs can get a little too risky. Indigenous people can be different in sending messages like us. Indigenous people don't have the best medicine skills which is similar to the first topic.

In Dimock Pennsylvania, Natural gas fracking caused a gas leak which caused many long term and short term impacts on the earth and town itself. Cleanup has been ongoing for over eight years, and it seems that the area may never return to its original condition. Even though it provides many jobs to unemployed people, natural gas fracking damages the environment, poses health problems, and damages manmade and natural infrastructures. According to Rafuse in “Don’t let extremists undermine fracking boom.” , “gas jobs have grown by 18 percent in the last five years, compared to just 4 percent for the rest of the economy.” Natural Gas fracking damages the environment in many ways, including contaminating water.