Pipeline Monologue Project
Monologue #1: Teenage highschool student.
Finally after all these years of searching and searching for oil on american lands, we found it.
This could be the greatest discovery, or it could be the worst.
There’s many things this could bring to our country.
Both positive and negative.
American jobs, american oil, and american money
It all sounds so sweet and wonderful.
But then you have to think about all of the risks.
What if, the pipeline has a leak
What if, it covers the entire east coast in a greasy slime killing all of our plant life and animals
What if, there's an oil spill worse than the gulf of mexico.
What if, the giant lakes of waste leak into our drinking water. What if.
In some aspects I can understand why people think it’s such a good idea, and in others I am totally against everything they stand for.
The whole american land, american money part i'm totally down for.
But the environmental damage that it's going to cause i'm not too excited about.
Ninety percent of the water used for this pipeline is going to turn into toxic sludge that is going to be stored in giant ponds around the country potentially damaging our drinking water.
So before you go and encourage this pipeline, think about the harm that it could do to our environment first.
Monologue #2 The ocean
I’m so scared, I don’t know how to feel. They say this pipeline is gonna be a good thing, but how can I trust any pipeline after what happened down the gulf of mexico a year or two ago. That spill caused me to lose tons of my children, and to think that this could possibly happen again if this pipeline is put in completely and utterly terrifies me. I mean they say that it’s safe and with all the money they’re putting into it there’s no possible way that it could even leak, crack, or break for at least a century. But when your children are at risk you have to be especially cautious.
Monologue #3 Man living in the territory of the pipeline
Hello all. My name is John Damien and I live in Lincoln Nebraska. I’ve lived here for all 48 years of my life. I have a wife, two young daughters, and a baby boy on the way. Just last week I received a letter in the mail stating that my family and I have 6 months to evacuate from our land. Said they’re buildin’ some type of pipeline that transport oils all the way from Canada down to Texas. What I care bout some stupid pipeline? This is my home, my land, my life. From the brief bit of research i've done on the pipeline it seems quite harmful to the environment. God I beg you to please not let the president pass this and potentially harm my life, job, and kids childhood.
Click here-----> https://vimeo.com/52085447 https://vimeo.com/52085447re.
Appendix:
-Create lots of american jobs. Around 600 thousand. (Fox News Keystone Pipeline)
-Help part ways from the dangerous middle east (fox news keystone pipeline)
-It’s clean. Better than importing dirty, expensive crude. (fox news keystone pipeline)
-Better for the environment because we don’t have to transport all that oil from the middle east and cause all the air pollution from the planes. (mixture of different websites)
-Tailing will ruin the water ponds (dirtyoilsand.org)
-“The people downstream from the toxic tailing ponds have high rates of rare cancers, renal failure, lupus, and hyperthyroidism” (KeystoneXL new york times)
-90 percent of the water used will turn into toxic waste and not be able to used again (foe.org)
-The destruction of the land is going to threaten the caribou and destroy forest (dirtyoilsand.org)
Bibliography:
- http://www.nrdc.org/energy/keystone-pipeline/?gclid=COmMnrX2mbMCFYZM4AodqnIAfg
- http://www.transcanada.com/keystone.html
- http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy/tar-sands/keystone-xl-pipeline
- http://greenliving.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/a/Keystone-Pipeline.htm
- http://greenliving.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/a/Keystone-Pipeline.htm
- http://www.tarsandsaction.org/?gclid=COWcn_mEmrMCFQZnOgodg3QAug
Finally after all these years of searching and searching for oil on american lands, we found it.
This could be the greatest discovery, or it could be the worst.
There’s many things this could bring to our country.
Both positive and negative.
American jobs, american oil, and american money
It all sounds so sweet and wonderful.
But then you have to think about all of the risks.
What if, the pipeline has a leak
What if, it covers the entire east coast in a greasy slime killing all of our plant life and animals
What if, there's an oil spill worse than the gulf of mexico.
What if, the giant lakes of waste leak into our drinking water. What if.
In some aspects I can understand why people think it’s such a good idea, and in others I am totally against everything they stand for.
The whole american land, american money part i'm totally down for.
But the environmental damage that it's going to cause i'm not too excited about.
Ninety percent of the water used for this pipeline is going to turn into toxic sludge that is going to be stored in giant ponds around the country potentially damaging our drinking water.
So before you go and encourage this pipeline, think about the harm that it could do to our environment first.
Monologue #2 The ocean
I’m so scared, I don’t know how to feel. They say this pipeline is gonna be a good thing, but how can I trust any pipeline after what happened down the gulf of mexico a year or two ago. That spill caused me to lose tons of my children, and to think that this could possibly happen again if this pipeline is put in completely and utterly terrifies me. I mean they say that it’s safe and with all the money they’re putting into it there’s no possible way that it could even leak, crack, or break for at least a century. But when your children are at risk you have to be especially cautious.
Monologue #3 Man living in the territory of the pipeline
Hello all. My name is John Damien and I live in Lincoln Nebraska. I’ve lived here for all 48 years of my life. I have a wife, two young daughters, and a baby boy on the way. Just last week I received a letter in the mail stating that my family and I have 6 months to evacuate from our land. Said they’re buildin’ some type of pipeline that transport oils all the way from Canada down to Texas. What I care bout some stupid pipeline? This is my home, my land, my life. From the brief bit of research i've done on the pipeline it seems quite harmful to the environment. God I beg you to please not let the president pass this and potentially harm my life, job, and kids childhood.
Click here-----> https://vimeo.com/52085447 https://vimeo.com/52085447re.
Appendix:
-Create lots of american jobs. Around 600 thousand. (Fox News Keystone Pipeline)
-Help part ways from the dangerous middle east (fox news keystone pipeline)
-It’s clean. Better than importing dirty, expensive crude. (fox news keystone pipeline)
-Better for the environment because we don’t have to transport all that oil from the middle east and cause all the air pollution from the planes. (mixture of different websites)
-Tailing will ruin the water ponds (dirtyoilsand.org)
-“The people downstream from the toxic tailing ponds have high rates of rare cancers, renal failure, lupus, and hyperthyroidism” (KeystoneXL new york times)
-90 percent of the water used will turn into toxic waste and not be able to used again (foe.org)
-The destruction of the land is going to threaten the caribou and destroy forest (dirtyoilsand.org)
Bibliography:
- http://www.nrdc.org/energy/keystone-pipeline/?gclid=COmMnrX2mbMCFYZM4AodqnIAfg
- http://www.transcanada.com/keystone.html
- http://www.foe.org/projects/climate-and-energy/tar-sands/keystone-xl-pipeline
- http://greenliving.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/a/Keystone-Pipeline.htm
- http://greenliving.about.com/od/scienceandtechnology/a/Keystone-Pipeline.htm
- http://www.tarsandsaction.org/?gclid=COWcn_mEmrMCFQZnOgodg3QAug
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