Beer and Energy Corporations
By Like the role Ommegang has played in fighting fracking in New York, I am glad to see Bell’s Brewery take on the tar sands company Enbridge after an oil spill near the brewery dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River three years ago. The more attention that is brought to the great environmental damage caused by tar sands and oil pipelines, the better. The linked article also makes the point that while proponents of Keystone are talking jobs, jobs, jobs, the reality is that environmental degradation can often cost regions jobs when the reasons why people wanted to move there disappear. Bell’s creates jobs too. If its water supply is ruined from oil spills (not the case with the Kalamazoo spill, so don’t worry about your delicious Two-Hearted Ale becoming undrinkable), it and other companies will have to close or move.