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		<description><![CDATA[Just about every week another story comes to my attention confirming the complete and total government-dependency of fracking &#8212; beloved of so many self-proclaimed &#8220;free market&#8221; advocates on the libertarian right. Something about eminent domain to build the pipelines, or liability caps for spills, or regulatory approval of unsafe pipelines superseding tort liability for negligence, and...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just about every week another story comes to my attention confirming the complete and total government-dependency of fracking &#8212; beloved of so many self-proclaimed &#8220;free market&#8221; advocates on the libertarian right. Something about eminent domain to build the pipelines, or liability caps for spills, or regulatory approval of unsafe pipelines superseding tort liability for negligence, and ad nauseam. I have another couple of them right here.</p>
<p>First, an article in Monthly Review (Lauren Regan, <a href="http://monthlyreview.org/2014/07/01/electronic-communications-surveillance/">&#8220;Electronic Communications Surveillance,&#8221;</a> July/August) describes the revolving door of personnel between federal law enforcement and the oil and gas industry&#8217;s private goon squads, and how &#8220;the U.S. government has colluded with private corporations and extractive industries to ratchet up their COINTELPRO-esque tactics upon climate justice activists.&#8221; The fossil fuel industries like to spin off private &#8220;security&#8221; and &#8220;public relations&#8221; firms (often staffed by retired federal and state cops) to spy on perfectly legal activist groups, infiltrate and disrupt them, and give intelligence to PR staff &#8212; who then cook up scary &#8220;fact sheets&#8221; to discredit activists to both media and law enforcement. Extractive corporations like TransCanada also give PowerPoint presentations to various levels of law enforcement advocating surveillance and prosecution of activists as &#8220;terrorists&#8221; &#8212; something the cops are all prepared to eat up, what with the proliferation of &#8220;Fusion Centers&#8221; looking for stuff to panic over.</p>
<p>The other item: According to a study by Katie Keranen of Cornell University, almost all of the 2,500 small earthquakes in Oklahoma in the past five years have been the result of high pressure wastewater injections related to fracking. The change of stress on existing fault lines from the injection of water can trigger them &#8212; with water travelling along fault lines and causing earthquakes up to 22 miles away. And other states &#8212; Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Ohio &#8212; have also seen sharp rises in small earthquakes corresponding to the introduction of fracking there. Youngstown, Ohio &#8212; which hadn&#8217;t previously been bothered by earthquakes &#8212; was hit by 109 of them in 2011 following the creation of an injection well.</p>
<p>Somehow I&#8217;m guessing even the minor structural damage to homes from thousands of earthquakes in five states, breakage of possessions, and the like, would cumulatively amount to a significant sum of money &#8212; enough to have a real impact on the bottom line of an industry that has problems with financial sustainability as it is and is highly reliant on a bubble financing Ponzi scheme. And we haven&#8217;t even gotten into the poisoning of groundwater from injection of toxic chemicals into geologically unstable areas.</p>
<p>At every step of the way, the state steps in to subsidize the operating costs of the fossil fuel industry, steal land for it to build pipelines on, and indemnify it against liability through regulatory preemption of tort law or even flat out statutory caps on liability for damage. And yet self-proclaimed libertarians like the Koch Brothers and much of the right-wing libertarian think tank and periodicals establishment loudly proclaim their support for fracking and Keystone in the name of the &#8220;free market.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sorry, folks. Fracking and pipelines have nothing to do with the free market. They&#8217;re creations of the state from beginning to end.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The following article is translated into Spanish <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/17368" target="_blank">from the English original, written by Jason Lee Byas</a>.</p>
<p>El oleoducto Keystone XL ha inspirado una buena cantidad de controversia. Sin embargo, la controversia debería ser nula para los que estamos a favor de los mercados liberados. Cualquiera que se considere un libertario debería oponerse a su construcción enfática y definitivamente.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, la revista libertaria estadounidense <em>Reason</em> publicó un <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mflq8whDQDU" target="_blank">video</a> en el que se detallan &#8220;tres razones para construir el oleoducto&#8221;. El editor Nick Gillespie nos explica que, &#8220;1. El petróleo no se va a quedar enterrado bajo tierra para siempre… 2. El oleoducto no es un desastre ecológico en potencia… 3. El oleoducto es bueno para la economía&#8221;.</p>
<p>Aunque sea tan solo en aras del argumento, concedamos los tres puntos anteriores. Aún así, los libertarios deberíamos oponernos a la construcción del oleoducto, porque los libertarios valoramos los derechos de propiedad &#8212; y el oleoducto tal como está concebido es un gigantesco monumento a la manera en que el gobierno <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/13169" target="_blank">viola los derechos de propiedad de la gente de común y corriente</a>.</p>
<p>Desde que comenzó a planificar la construcción de Keystone XL, TransCanada Corporation ha utilizado doctrinas de dominio eminente para robarse <a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/news/opinion/respect-landowners-keystone-fight/nSgsb/" target="_blank">más de cien terrenos solamente en el estado de Texas </a>. Y si se le da la luz verde, el oleoducto correrá por la llanura como bandido en en el mejor estilo de película western.</p>
<p>Por supuesto, la empresa en principio ofrece a aquellos que están contentos viviendo donde viven la oportunidad de negociar su evacuación. Pero cuando eso no dé el resultado esperado, los dueños de las tierras recibirán cartas <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/us/old-texas-tale-retold-farmer-vs-transcanada.html" target="_blank">como la que recibió Julia Trigg Crawford</a>, diciendo que &#8220;Si Keystone no puede negociar exitosamente la adquisición voluntaria de las servidumbres necesarias, tendrá que recurrir al ejercicio de su derecho estatutario de dominio eminente&#8221;.</p>
<p>Tal como una vez <a href="http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm" target="_blank"> lo señaló Lysander Spooner</a>, al menos el ladrón de carretera &#8220;no pretende tener ningún derecho legítimo&#8221; sobre la propiedad de su víctima.</p>
<p>Si uno se encontrase en la situación de los Crawford, cualquier desviación de la oferta final lo llevaría a no oír nada de TransCanada hasta que su tierra esté condenada. A medida que se corre la voz, los dueños de las tierras se sienten amenazados. Y <a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/keystone-xl-texas-farmer-battles-transcanada" target="_blank">se resignan a aceptar cualquier migaja que les tiren</a> a cambio de sus tierras, antes de que se las arrebaten.</p>
<p>Incluso cuando no se usan directamente las doctrinas de dominio eminente, es difícil caracterizar la transacción como &#8220;voluntaria&#8221;. Y esta manera de actuar se vuelve aún más turbia cuando consideramos que se están llevando por delante la soberanía tribal para construir sobre cementerios indígenas, <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/sovereignty_kxl/" target="_blank">como los de la Nación Sac y Fox</a>. Aparentemente ni siquiera la muerte puede salvar a los Sac y Fox de los colonizadores dispuestos a destruir sus hogares.</p>
<p>¿Por qué nos pide Gillespie que aceptemos este descarado robo, intimidación y dominación de los dueños de las tierras por parte de las élites corporativas y sus títeres políticos? Porque &#8220;el oleoducto es bueno para la economía&#8221;.</p>
<p>En otras palabras, exactamente el mismo razonamiento que le permitió a la ciudad de New London robarle su casa a Susette Kelo en el 2005. Para ese entonces, el co-editor de Gillespie, Matt Welch, <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2005/10/01/why-the-new-york-times-s-emine" target="_blank">denunció acertadamente</a> la defensa de esa usurpación que hizo el New York Times como un enfoque &#8220;crudamente anti populista en el que el fin justifica a los medios&#8221;.</p>
<p>Al menos que Gillespie y otros libertarios que apoyan la construcción del oleoducto estén dispuestos a disentir con Welch y defender el dictamen Kelo, deberían revisar su posición sobre Keystone. Obviamente, los derechos de propiedad de los Crawford, los de la Nación Sac y Fox y los de las otras víctimas de TransCanada son tan sacrosantos como los de Kelo.</p>
<p>Un libertario que apoye el oleoducto pueda que responda que no apoya las doctrinas de dominio eminente, sino que simplemente apoya la construcción del oleoducto. Pero eso es imposible. El oleoducto de TransCanada es inseparable de las acciones criminales que conlleva su construcción.</p>
<p>Cualquiera sean las justificaciones para un oleoducto hipotético que se construya bajo condiciones pacíficas, éstas no justifican el oleoducto de la vida real. Al menos no lo justifican más que un argumento similar que podría hacerse a favor de la construcción de un estacionamiento que requiriese la demolición de la casa de Nick Gillespie.</p>
<p>El calificativo de &#8220;libertario&#8221; pierde su significado si no implica la <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/13837" target="_blank">defensa de la justicia</a>. No puede, ni debe, significar la legitimación del <a href="http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/eleven.asp" target="_blank">feudalismo</a> siempre que éste &#8220;sea bueno para la economía&#8221;.</p>
<p>Artículo original <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/17368" target="_blank">publicado por Jason Lee Byas el 23 de febrero de 2013</a>.</p>
<p>Traducido del inglés por <a href="http://alanfurth-es.com" target="_blank">Alan Furth</a>.</p>
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		<title>One Reason Not to Build the Keystone XL Pipeline: Justice</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Keystone XL pipeline has inspired a lot of controversy. For defenders of freed markets, however, it shouldn&#8217;t. Libertarians should emphatically and unequivocally oppose the pipeline.</p>
<p>Yet leading libertarian magazine <em>Reason</em> has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mflq8whDQDU">put out a video</a> detailing &#8220;three reasons to build the pipeline.&#8221; Editor Nick Gillespie explains, &#8220;1. The oil isn’t going to stay buried &#8230; 2. The pipeline isn’t a disaster waiting to happen &#8230; 3. It will help the economy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just for the sake of argument, let’s concede all three of these points. Libertarians should still oppose the pipeline, because libertarians value property rights &#8212; and the pipeline as conceived is a giant monument to political government’s <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/13169">disregard for the property rights of everyday people</a>.</p>
<p>Since beginning to plan Keystone XL, TransCanada Corporation has used eminent domain to steal <a href="http://www.statesman.com/news/news/opinion/respect-landowners-keystone-fight/nSgsb/">more than a hundred tracts of land in Texas alone</a>. If it gets the green light, the pipeline will run up through the plains like a burglar on a spree.</p>
<p>Of course, the company does initially offer those who have what they want a chance to make the transaction voluntarily. When that doesn’t work, though, unsuspecting landowners receive letters like <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/us/old-texas-tale-retold-farmer-vs-transcanada.html">the one Julia Trigg Crawford got</a>, saying “If Keystone is unable to successfully negotiate the voluntary acquisition of the necessary easements, it will have to resort to the exercise of its statutory right of eminent domain.”</p>
<p>As <a href="http://praxeology.net/LS-NT-6.htm">Lysander Spooner once remarked</a>, at least a highwayman “does not pretend that he has any rightful claim” to your property.</p>
<p>If you’re like the Crawfords, any deviation from that final offer and you’ll hear nothing from TransCanada until your land’s condemned. As word spreads, <a href="http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/keystone-xl-texas-farmer-battles-transcanada">landowners feel threatened</a>. They scramble to agree with whatever crumbs they’re offered, before their land just gets taken instead.</p>
<p>Even when eminent domain isn’t directly used, the transaction can hardly be called “voluntary.” Such means become darker still when we consider that they’re being used to override tribal sovereignty and build over Native American burial grounds, like <a href="http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/sovereignty_kxl/">those of the Sac and Fox Nation</a>. Apparently not even death can save the Sac and Fox from colonists intent on destroying their homes.</p>
<p>Why does Gillespie ask us to accept this outright theft, intimidation, and domination of landowners by corporate elites and their state puppets? &#8220;It will help the economy.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, literally the exact reasoning that let the city of New London steal Susette Kelo’s home in 2005. Back then, Gillespie’s co-editor, Matt Welch, <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2005/10/01/why-the-new-york-times-s-emine">rightly called</a> the defense offered by the New York Times an &#8220;anti-populist, ends-justify-the-means approach on &#8230; naked display.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unless Gillespie and other pro-pipeline libertarians are willing to disagree with Welch and start defending the Kelo decision, they should rethink their position on Keystone. Surely the property rights of the Crawfords, the Sac and Fox Nation, and TransCanada’s other victims, are just as sacrosanct as Kelo’s.</p>
<p>A pro-pipeline libertarian might respond that they don’t support the eminent domain, just the pipeline. But this is impossible. TransCanada’s pipeline is inseparable from its criminal actions pursuant to building that pipeline.</p>
<p>Whatever justifications are offered for a hypothetical, peacefully acquired pipeline do not justify the real world pipeline. At least no more than justifications for a hypothetical parking lot would justify one built by taking a wrecking ball to Nick Gillespie’s home.</p>
<p>If the title “libertarian” is to mean anything, it must mean <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/13837">a defense of justice</a>. It cannot, and must not, mean endorsing <a href="http://mises.org/rothbard/ethics/eleven.asp">feudalism</a>whenever “it’s good for the economy.”</p>
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