Added: Jun 9, 2011
From: democracynow
Duration: 14:1
DemocracyNow.org - President Barack Obama is due to visit Puerto Rico next week in what will be the first official U.S. presidential visit to the territory in 50 years. His trip comes as controversy grows over a proposed 92-mile natural gas pipeline that would cut across much of the island. Democracy Now! interviews Dr. Arturo Massol, a biology professor and director of the Scientific and Technical Commission of Casa Pueblo, a community-based organization that is leading opposition against the pipeline project. Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño has made the $450 million project a central goal of his administration and insists it is a safe and environmentally friendly way to lower utility bills. Called VÃa Verde (Green Way), the pipeline has been dubbed VÃa de la Muerte (Death Route) by critics who say it will expose people living near it to deadly explosions, and cause irreversible damage to the island's environmental and cultural resources. Massol calls for development of infrastructure that can harness the island's solar and wind power to meet its energy needs. For the podcast, transcript, and for more information about Democracy Now!, visit http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/9/critics_dub_planned_puerto_rico_pipeline FOLLOW DEMOCRACY NOW! ONLINE: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/democracynow Twitter: @democracynow Daily Email News Digest: http://www.democracynow.org/subscribe Please consider supporting independent media by making a donation to Democracy Now! today, visit http://www.democracynow.org/donate/YT
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Tags: amy goodman democracy now juan gonzalez puerto rico natural gas pipeline arturo massol
Rating: 4.7894735' max='5' min='1' numRaters='19' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#overall ( ratings) Views: 978 Comments: 8
joenrobo Says:
Jun 14, 2011 - This people even if we invested in green they would refuse to do it ....DO NOT BE MISINFORMED BY ARTURO MASOL Two years ago it was presented aproyect to build wind farms in Lajas and even that was refuse and protested and misinformed by people as Arturo and Rep Luis Gutierres
hulubuloo Says:
Jun 17, 2011 - natural gas is NOT green energy. Fracking is incredibley destructive to the environment. WIND AND SUN ftw!
punkduderock Says:
Jul 6, 2011 - Hey asshole stop tacking lies i live in Adjuntas and that pipe is gonna destroy center of the island.
snowwhitequeenpr Says:
Aug 30, 2011 - Arturo Massol es un joven admirable. Gracias Familia Massol por defender nuestra tierra, nuestra cultura, gracias por trabajar y luchar por un mejor Puerto Rico.
mfolmos Says:
Dec 9, 2011 - PR is a colony. More proof.
arnaldomaldonado Says:
Jan 12, 2012 - This is a poor liar of PR. What?? That EU doesn't have natural gas??? What are you saying? Arturo please say the true. Why don't you say that you has a political agenda agaist everything the goberment trys to do? Desperate liar politician that what you are.
arnaldomaldonado Says:
Jan 12, 2012 - Bla, bla bla bla bla. It looks that you havent studied logic. When you says that everybody is oposed to the pipe line, you are liying. Because once there is a single person who wanted, your sentence becomes false. I want this project so your premize is false. Bla Bla bla bla. Poor liar,
joenrobo Says:
Jun 14, 2011 - Another no man... who only want to deviate the current political status through lies with concerns on "via verde"... hided by a socialist agenda ... there is no green project that could be presented without being refuse by people like this "casa cultura" wich is formed by non local puertoricans wich does not represent the mayority of the island locals. only critism .... no ideas presented not even in this program.