eminent domain to confiscate private land belonging to americans to build a massive oil pipeline so trans canada can ship oil from the you know from canada down to the gulf of mexico and then ship it from the gulf of mexico to non americans all around the world. oil by the way that's going to accelerate our planet's plunge into global warming induced catastrophe so the question is why last year president obama approved the southern leg of the keystone x.l. pipeline which will transport deadly canadian tar sands oil from oklahoma down to the gulf of mexico. where it's going to be refined and then promptly placed on oil barges to be sold in south america europe asia. and mexico they get the oil we get the poison coming out of the refinery smokestacks. odds are little oil from the keystone x.l. pipeline is actually going to make it into american markets according to trans canada itself this product will not reduce the price of gas the united states according to trans canada itself this project project will actually increase gas prices in the american midwest it will not reduce our dependence on for

and why is it that we've allowed this foreign corporation trans canada to launch numerous slap suits these are basically nuisance suits against peaceful activists and property owners threatening them with losing their homes and life savings. if they continue protesting for the construction of the bible. and most importantly why residing on a rapidly warming planet why are we doubling down on nine hundred centuries dirty energy sources like fossil fuels when we should be focusing on twenty first century clean energy sources like solar and wind i mean consider this last week in chattanooga looks like a river last week in chattanooga tennessee a massive solar for us power facility comprising over thirty three thousand six hundred individual solar modules capable of producing thirteen point one gigawatt hours of electricity every year it was just turned on. this big enough to power twelve hundred homes but instead it's going to use to power a volkswagen manufacturing plant they paid for it and put it there it's the biggest solar installation ever built in the state of tennessee the solar

eminent domain to confiscate private land belonging to americans to build a massive oil pipeline so trans canada can ship oil from the you know from canada down to the gulf of mexico and then ship it from the gulf of mexico to non americans all around the world. oil by the way that's going to accelerate our planet's plunge into global warming induced catastrophe so the question is why last year president obama approved the southern leg of the keystone x.l. pipeline which will transport deadly canadian tar sands oil from oklahoma down to the gulf of mexico. where it's going to be refined and then promptly placed on oil barges to be sold in south america europe asia and mexico they get the oil we get the poison coming out of the refinery smokestacks. odds are little oil from the keystone x.l. pipeline is actually going to make it into american markets according to trans canada itself this product will not reduce the price of gas the united states according to trans canada itself this project project will actually increase gas prices in the american midwest it will not reduce our dependence on fore

let's shift gears and talk about trans canada and the scar it's created that runs across a big chunk of north america you may have heard of the keystone pipeline and its controversial x. l. expansion currently the u.s. imports about eight hundred thousand barrels of tar sand oil from canada every single day and this expansion of the pipeline would drastically up that amount the project runs through six u.s. states montana south dakota nebraska kansas oklahoma and texas and it's causing quite a stir from environmental groups most recently adding fuel to the growing i don't know more movement which supports the rights of indigenous people who believe this pipeline is a threat to their national sovereignty and to the land itself sadly it seems the thousands of protesters against the project both in canada and the u.s. have been totally ignored president obama already has his support for the southern leg of keystone x.l. back in march dr rice has approved dozens of new orleans gas pipelines over the last three years including one from him and as long as i'm president we're going to keep

trans-pacific partnership itself there are currently nine countries involved in negotiations at this time united states australia brunei dar es salaam chile malaysia new zealand peru singapore and vietnam mexico and canada were also invited to participate there are a number one number of things that would do and we laid out a few for you first of all it would link all of those countries involved together in what would be designated a free trade zone investor disputes could also be removed from u.s. courts and then there's a provision in which criminal sanctions for copyright infringement could be adopted and finally temporary reproductions of copyrighted work without copyright holders authorisation would be treated in the future as copyright infringement so i want to take a look at some of the implications of the transfer to. partnership with celeste drake trade and globalization policy specialist with the a.f.l.-cio and celeste i know a lot of these meetings thus far have been done behind closed doors so there's not a whole lot that we do know but i want to get your take on what we know so far about the t.p. p. if it continues as it's been going who would be the winners who would be the losers . we don

trans-pacific partnership itself there are currently nine countries involved in negotiations at this time the united states of course australia doris allow. malaysia new zealand peru singapore and vietnam as well of mexico and canada now there are a number of things it would do here here's just a few first of all it would link those countries involved together in what would be designated a free speech zone also investor disputes could be removed from u.s. courts then there's a provision in which criminal sanctions for copyright infringement could be adopted and finally temporary reproductions of copyrighted works without copyright holders authorisation those would in the future be treated as copyright infringement for more on the trans-pacific partnership i was joined earlier by celeste drake trade and globalization policy specialist with the a.f.l. c.i.a.o. now i started out by asking her so far just what's known about the t.p. and who would benefit from it. we don't know part of the problem is we don't know how much we don't know but what we do know there have been public statements there's information available on the united states trade representatives website there have been some leaked tax of and if they're

we met with trans-canada. we got our oil producers together, we met with trans-canada and they agreed. trans-canada agreed to an on-ramp so that the keystone x.l. pipeline would move north dakota and montana light sweet crude from the bakken to refineries throughout the united states, to refineries in illinois and texas, in oklahoma and in louisiana. hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil from our oil fields day one. and that's what this chart shows. here you see the original keystone pipeline that was built out during my tenure as governor. here we show the route of the keystone x.l. pipeline. and you can see it comes through north dakota and montana, our bakken region, so that we can put oil into the pipeline, but it gives us access to all these refineries. as i say, refineries in illinois, in oklahoma, texas, and louisiana. so we're talking about u.s. energy, we're talking about u.s. jobs, we're talking about commerce in our country, getting our economy growing and growing. we're talking about generating t