Pipeline Paradigm (4/26/13)

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🗓️ 1 May 2013

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Are the Canadian tar sands and Keystone XL pipeline huge economic drivers or climate killers? Pipeline supporters such as Canadian diplomat Cassie Doyel say it’s better for America to get its energy from Canada than unfriendly nations. But Sam Avery, Author of The Pipeline and the Paradigm, warns that there’s enough carbon in the tar sands “to send Earth’s climate into an irreversible tailspin.” Dan Miller, Managing Director of the Roda Group, looks at the long term saying “as a price on carbon kicks in, and it starts to build over time, the tar sands will be the first things that will be knocked off the list.” Greg Croft, Lecturer at St. Mary’s College of California, points out that “the carbon problem is global and we haven't solved any problem on a global basis.” A conversation on matching energy supply and demand in a carbon constrained world This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on April 26, 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy?
0:05.0	Climate One at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy, economy, and the environment.
0:11.4	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time,
0:15.2	Climate One is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:18.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,
0:22.7	Climate One founder Greg Dalton gets to the heart of the matter. It's our future. It's time to come
0:28.5	together. Welcome to Climate One and conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment.
0:33.6	To understand any of them, you have to understand them all. I'm Greg Dalton. Today, we're debating the Keystone XL and other pipelines plan to deliver oil from the Canadian
0:42.0	tar sands to refineries in Texas.
0:44.7	The pipeline has become a symbol of the fierce debate over how to create jobs and meet
0:48.9	energy needs without wrecking the climate that supports life on Earth.
0:53.3	Supporters say Keystone and other pipelines will boost America's economy
0:56.6	and help replace oil from unfriendly nations.
1:00.1	Opponents say building pipelines for some of the dirtiest fuels on Earth
1:03.4	commits the United States to a fossil-fueled future and will accelerate severe weather.
1:09.0	The Obama administration appears poised to approve the pipeline
1:12.2	and is expected to issue a final decision soon.
1:16.0	Over the next hour, we'll discuss keystone and broader issues
1:18.8	around oil markets and climate disruption.
1:21.4	Joining our live audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco,
1:24.0	we're pleased to have with us two people on each side of this debate.
1:29.3	Greg Croft is a lecture on the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at St. Mary's
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