Ken Bradley
MN State Director

“A web of pipelines has sprouted up throughout the Midwest, following the Great Lakes, moving all the way from the Dakotas to Chicago and Detroit. The Canadians have stumbled upon an estimated 1.75 trillion barrels of crude, arguably the second-largest usable oil reserve in the world.

"But it comes at a heavy cost, a price so large that one environmentalist remarked that in comparison to the nightmarish ramifications of the oil sands, offshore drilling is an 'environmental yawn.'

"‘It's just the most polluting new fuel we could bring into the economy,' says Ken Bradley of Clean Water Action Minnesota. 'It is horrible that we are even considering bringing it to the marketplace at all. We should be doing everything we can to stop it.’"