dr. hanson. dr. hanson's warn the completion of this pipeline will only reinforce our dependence on fossil fuels, not strengthen our nation's energy independence, as has been argued by some of our friends on the other side. when you brush aside the studies funded by transcanada and other oil companies and you analyze the pure scientific studies that have no political motivation, every analysis clearly demonstrates the keystone x.l. pipeline poses major threats at every turn in extraction, in transportation, in refining and in consumption. nationwide, about 3.2 million gallons of oil spill from pipelines every year. spills such as those pollute drinking water, ruin american farmland, potentially destroy sacred tribal lands and become inhabitable for homeowners. in kalamazoo, michigan, there was a spill in 2010 of tar $1.2 billion and years and years and years to clean up. that's where the permanent jobs are going to be created in cleaning up the spillage, and that's not the kind of jobs the merican peo