As soon as I logged onto the home page of my blogging sites yesterday, all I was able to see was censored, censored and censored. The google's logo was eclipsed and so was the wikipedia's home page which was blacked out for yesterday.
It was frustrating until I started receiving the news about the historical decision of our President to have rejected a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline -- a project that promised riches for the oil giants and an environmental disaster for the rest of us.
His decision represents a victory of historic proportions for the environmental groups and hundreds of thousands of committed activists like you and me who have waged an uphill, years-long fight against one of the most nightmarish fossil fuel projects of our time. To read more on the project please click here.
Getting ahead of my story, how could the news have been conveyed to us had the SOPA and PIPA been in place?
I could not have log on to the websites for information and historical background of the project and the repercussion that it’s going to have on us and our environment as a whole.
The battle is still not over as the Tar Oil companies won't let it die. There shall be further debate in the congress and elsewhere for the continuation of the project so as to reap the benefits of exploiting the natural resource and damaging the environment in the worst possible manner.
I am sure there are states in this country which receive sunlight on an average of more than 250 days a year. Why can't the federal agencies and private player look into that prospect so as to tap the only non polluting energy source in the world i.e. sunlight?
I just hope the government sees the light sooner than later and become pragmatic in both deciding about imposing the SOPA and PIPA as well as the energy resources’ choices.
It was frustrating until I started receiving the news about the historical decision of our President to have rejected a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline -- a project that promised riches for the oil giants and an environmental disaster for the rest of us.
His decision represents a victory of historic proportions for the environmental groups and hundreds of thousands of committed activists like you and me who have waged an uphill, years-long fight against one of the most nightmarish fossil fuel projects of our time. To read more on the project please click here.
Getting ahead of my story, how could the news have been conveyed to us had the SOPA and PIPA been in place?
I could not have log on to the websites for information and historical background of the project and the repercussion that it’s going to have on us and our environment as a whole.
The battle is still not over as the Tar Oil companies won't let it die. There shall be further debate in the congress and elsewhere for the continuation of the project so as to reap the benefits of exploiting the natural resource and damaging the environment in the worst possible manner.
I am sure there are states in this country which receive sunlight on an average of more than 250 days a year. Why can't the federal agencies and private player look into that prospect so as to tap the only non polluting energy source in the world i.e. sunlight?
I just hope the government sees the light sooner than later and become pragmatic in both deciding about imposing the SOPA and PIPA as well as the energy resources’ choices.
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