Frozen Rats That Have Thawed For At Least Three Days
June 1, 2013, 10:56
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bitumen, burying beetle, frozen rats, Garmin-Sharp, Keystone XL, Nebraska, oil transportation, rats, TransCanada, TRP, Vaughters
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bitumen, burying beetle, frozen rats, Garmin-Sharp, Keystone XL, Nebraska, oil transportation, rats, TransCanada, TRP, Vaughters
No, not Congress.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service this month said that Keystone’s proposed route across Nebraska put the endangered American burying beetle at risk. The agency said the black and orange-spotted insect could be spared, and the project move forward, if proper procedure is followed.
That means pipeline builder TransCanada Corp. (TRP) will have to trap and relocate the one-inch beetles, using frozen rats that have thawed for at least three days for maximum pungency, according to detailed protocols U.S. authorities have drawn up to protect the burrowing bug.
via Beetle-Bedeviled Keystone XL Needs Dead Rats to Let It Be – Bloomberg.
Rats are much maligned.
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