This project’s purpose was to create three monologues from 3 different people and their point-of-view on the Keystone XL Pipeline. My goals were to create 3 people raising most of the important issues such as economic and environment. Also one of my goals was to raise unknown information.

So, Keystone XL pipeline. (Angry) Why doesn't anyone see the good in this? All people look at is the bad. Even some other members of Congress are against this. (Easing tone) I mean people underestimate that TransCanada and us have a plan to keep this as clean as possible. We have monitors running for oil leaks 24/7, 365 days a year if that's what they're worried about. That's not all though; this will create about 100,000 jobs. (Excited) People will finally work again and stop freeloading off our money. Available jobs can put people out of poverty. With the pipelines coming, we can then transport oil through it to a refinery in Texas. Don’t tell me that you would rather get our oil from overseas like the Middle East… We trust Canada more. (Excited) Now best of all, with the profit we make, we can work towards paying our huge debt off and rebuilding our economy. How can you argue with that? Don’t listen to environmentalists, all they do is scare people and look at the outdated plan that we already perfected. Like who does that? (Really hostile, aggressive) SO TRUST US ON THIS! DON’T LISTEN TO ANYBODY! WE WANT MONEY! (Play it off)...I’m sorry about that, I don’t know what came across me. Sometimes I wonder about Americans though; they use up all this energy but don’t like the way that we get most of it. Why don’t they cut down their use? It’s all right though; I hope you see that this plan is as genius as how we see it. You’re with me right? (Aggressive, hostile) RIGHT?

Job Opening?

I just found out there’s a possible job opening for about 100,000 people. (Excited) I’m so psyched! I’ve been unemployed for a little over a year. (Worried) I can’t live off unemployment and my wife’s money. It’s a job for a proposed pipeline that will need workers to install it. Online, it said that there can be an environmental problem with this, but what can you do? If you see something up for grabs and you really need it, wouldn’t you take it? Or you would pass it up for another job? (Worried) Maybe it is a bad idea; I would be one of the people responsible for the climate change caused by this crazy idea to connect a pipeline from Canada to Texas. People would be without clean drinking water, wildlife would die, and I would be breaking the earth. But then if I don’t take the job, someone else will. Leaving my family and I closer to being broke. What do I do?! What do I do?! What if this is the only job opportunity I have? What if I do take this job but I don’t do it right?! I would be responsible for spills and other things affected from that. Then again, I could help bring more oil into the US, so we could be more independent on foreign oil. Now, 1:30 in the afternoon in my own living room, I can sense myself turning psycho. I maybe really am psyched… So, without asking you, I will make my own decision and not apply for the job. (Has it all figured out tone) I’m sure there are plenty of other jobs that are open. I mean I didn’t go to college, but that doesn’t mean I still can’t. Besides, what if the proposal doesn’t go through?

 

They Don't Care About The Earth

It seems like some people don’t care about the climate change problem that we are facing, and how beautiful our environment should be kept. There is a plan now to make an addition to an already existing pipeline called “Keystone XL”. This pipeline will start from Alberta, Canada and go through Saskatchewan, Montana, South Dakota, and Nebraska to Texas. It’s going to be used to transport 800,000 barrels of tar sand oil everyday. This pipeline is underground too! Oil spills in our soil can ruin many crops. (Aggressive tone, slam table) Doesn’t congress know that? How do they not think about this? They’re creating jobs, but in the meantime putting people out of them. Oil spills can even affect drinking water. What about all the energy needed to transport those pipelines to where they need to be, the energy needed to dig the dirt to put the pipelines in, and then having to bury it again? I am most certainly against this! I’m always on my computer reading more about this, and the list of bad effects this has keeps getting bigger. Also, I’m protesting about this every chance I get because this proposal can be passed anytime. Now think about all the resources we’re going to be using! The pipeline stretches almost 2,000 miles long, and is 36in in diameter. Do we even have that many resources? That’s right; just ruin the environment to ruin it even more! Here’s another point I want to bring up; the pipeline goes through an active seismic zone, so it’s very likely for the pipeline to crack or leak. (Interested tone, look in the eyes) So tell me this; would you let this go through?

​My goal for this project was to show how this may affect others if this pipeline is accepted and to put the people for the pipeline in the people against the pipeline shoes and vise versa. For my project I did one of my monologues from a canadian residents point of view so that people could realize where the pipeline is going to have to run through and see how it could potentially effect a persons life and some of the many dangers of this pipeline. Then I also put myself in someones shoes is could be for the pipeline and talked about all of the good things this could do for the economy and how it may open up more jobs and a lot of the good things the pipeline could be used for and could do.

(sitting at a desk writing a letter)  Dear my fellow Americans this is your president of the United States Barrack Obama and I am here today to talk to you about the XL pipeline. For starters I understand people are trying to get me nervous by protesting in front of the white house and getting arrested, but I would like to tell you that I am not nervous at all and I don’t have much say in the choice to accept or deny this pipeline as of right now but I would like to tell you that I am for the pipeline. This is because I am trying to do what’s best for the economy, because by getting this pipeline we will have more money because we wont have to spend a lot on oil and then this will make more jobs so then maybe the US can get out of some debts and more people can have more money. With more money we might be able to cut down on crimes because we could open up more areas for kids to go after school and during the summer and we could get more cops on the streets to make sure that we can make sure to reduce the amount of street crime. I understand that this may cause some environmental issues as for the fact that the pipe may leak into the aquatic that we on going to run the pipeline through and if this happens we can and will lose some fresh water and maybe even some aquatic life but overall we are trying to see what we could possibly do to prevent this from happening. What the people of the united states need to realize is that this will save us money and make the economy better and could help us win the war, because with more money we can get more and better weapons and the big gas companies will pay more for the oil from us and we could possibly get out of the debt that this country has. That is all I have to say for now my fellow Americans I will have another letter when I have more information.

(standing outside of obamas office typing on a phone)  Hello everybody out there I’m one of Obama’s many security guards and from what I hear he is against the XL pipeline because of the environmental effects it can have. I also think that the people are putting a lot of pressure on him so he might be against it for that reason to. Me personally I am against this XL pipeline because there are to many risks and too much harm that could be done to the environment. For starters we could lose a lot of fresh water and that could also cause I to lose some sea life that we eat so it could make a lot of seafood extinct because if the oil is in the water long enough it will kill everything that’s in the water with it. Also since this oil is dirtier then the oil we already have it can pollute the air and then that might not be good for global warming and it wont be good for humans because if the air gets more polluted it may effect the trees and without tress humans cant live because we wouldn’t have enough CO2 so then we could die. So for all you people who want this pipeline you should think about these things because I don’t think that you realize how bad this is for the environment it not all about the economics it more about how this will effect the people and not about the amount of money we could possibly have.

(laying on a bed writing)  Hello everyone this is a local Canadian resident and I want to talk to you fellow Americans who want this pipeline to happen, if this happens this could ruin my house, life, and family. If this pipeline is approved they will have to put it through peoples backyards including mine and since this oil is dirtier then regular oil if it leaks out it will destroy my house and could possibly kill the people in it. Also I don’t know why Canada would sell oil that we could use and it could save us money instead of selling it to the united states now were going to have to spend more money on oil and have less money for are economy. Also this could endanger a lot of lives because of how many people’s homes this pipeline would have to run through a lot of peoples property and we could lose some great landmarks. So in my final statement I just want to say that you Americans should think about how this will affect everyone and not just yourselves before you accept this pipeline. I think you people who are for this pipeline should put yourselves in my position and realize how much this would affect you especially if you have a family