He opposes that measure. Secretary of state john kerry and his saudi counterpart met and had a press conference today. The highest ranking american diplomat to visit the agency then. You can always get the latest news on are aljazeera. Com. Great divide where the tumble weed outnumber the locals. A new home on the rage. We want to be individual, we dont want the government to take care of us. A message about shared faith and common values. We talk about family, we talk about education, we talk about self dependence. We talk about opportunities for american dream. And flowing straight into trouble. A new front in the contest between energy and the environment. And good evening. Thanks for being with us. Im joie chen. Will they stay or will they go . It is a fair question on this day before offyear elections in many communities around the country truly is an offoff election year, races which might not attract a lot of attention in any other year. But this year political divisions on many levels make quite a few races be bellwethers. What we currently call colorado where secessionists want to form a new state. Might not have much of a success but it points to a Bigger Picture of divide. The great sky of colorados rural community. Chris bury begins in cheyenne wells, colorado. A belief that the federal government has lost touch with the their people. Have no idea how hard we work. His daughter, a nanny, a crop duster, the republican chair, the cafe owner and a water well driller share that sentiment if not the notion of severing ties with their home state. I dont necessarily disagree with a lot of the things that these guys are saying. I mean im just disagreeing with the fact that i dont think we need to create a new state. This town, cheyenne wells, population 864. Its main street has seen better days, like 10 of the counties voting for secession, cheyenne is in the eastern plains. Cattle and grain drive the economy. Oil and gas are a growing part of the picture. Whats moving counties like this to even consider splitting off from colorado . The main reason is the way the Colorado Legislature is acting. Extreme applicablism. These guys were not moderate, they are extremists. Their grievance begins with guns, expanding background checks. We want to be independent individuals. We do not want the government to take care of us. We dont want to live in a nanny state. We dont want them to tell us what to do, when to do it, how to do it it it. We dont want the government to jump in to pass laws to keep that from ever happening again because it wont work. But there is more to the anger here, including a state mandate for wind and solar energy that for now, cost considerably more than coal. Do you feel that Renewable Energy is being shoved down your throat . Yes, it is very high cost to produce Renewable Energy. And theyre forcing the marketplace to accept it. And many here feel rural colorado sends more tax money to cities than it gets back in services. Is there a sense that youre getting the short end of the stick when it comes to the money from denver . Im not one of these people that are going to be running to the post office and waiting for my government check. Waiting for the government to help them. As far as im getting short shortened you know by the government or the money, no im not, you know im just im more in the line of get off my back. Quit overregulating us, quit overtaxing us. The resentment in these rural areas also reflects a widening culturallism. Led the way for colorados approval of gay marriage and recreational marijuana. Those two counties in particular and mostly in rural were defeated hands down. And they were passed by the masses that are in the front range. And so that does directly go against our county as a whole. Because we voted it down. Marijuana, gay marriage. In my opinion are issues of the left. Tweaking conservatives. I dont see any socially benefits we get from any social benefits we get from especially marijuana. Why in the world do you want to push more intoxication . Thats crazy. Are you feeling forgotten . Yes. Just those other people out number you or are all bunched together, and that we will have to suffer for them, i cant agree with that. But the prospect of actually starting a new state is daunting. The logistics of it are mindboggling when you start thinking aboutin about setting x base, all the water rights and things that are established here. You seem to be saying, be careful what you wish for. Yes, these friends and those that will remain friends, we have the option to disagree with each other without getting mad, you know. George, youre not for seceding . No, im not. And i think the majority of the people that are supporting this dont think its going to happen. Well, im not going to deny, it seems like a huge mountain but you eat that elephant one bite at a time. And america would not be here if we didnt have Founding Fathers who were not willing to do hard things. And were willing. Exciting thing is, wed be able to write our own constitution. We would be able to write into the constitution things that would keep huge urban centers from overpowering the Rural Centers again. And i think thats exciting. I really do. Whats it going to be called, any ideas . Northern colorado. New colorado has been thrown around, north colorado has been thrown around. Liberty has thrown around, thats a minor detail. What do you think the odds are of this actually happening . Slim. Slim. I do want to send a message. I do want to have legislation hear our voice. But in all practicality, its monumental task. And even if it got to that point we could still take congress to okay this. And theyre not going to do it because theyre going to be afraid its going to happen in their own states. Before any new state flag could fly, the legislature in denver would have to approve. Then both houses of Congress Must agree, and even at nans cafe support for a split is soft. Let me take a show of hands. How many genuinely would like a new state . Kind of. So for most of you this is really at the end of the day, you dont want to secede from colorado, fair . Thats accurate. Fair for me. If our state legislature and our governor continues down the road theyre on, that opinion could change very quickly. If they do not hear us, when we do this 51st state initiative and continue on like you people out there dont matter, that opinion could change. So out here where the final fall harvest is underway, a chunk of rural colorado feels disconnected and disrespected and its threat to leave the state is really about sending a message that says, please listen to us. Thats correspondent chris bury reporting on the tbunlt state initiative 51st state initiative in colorado. A different kind of initiative, one that is pitched getting more energy through a community and protecting all important natural resources. Determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesnt contain language that specifically threatens you directly or is targeted towards you specifically, they may not consider it abuse. They may consider it offensive. And in that case they just recommend that you block that person. I dont want to minimise this, because i mean, theres some really horrible things that are on line, and its not its not just twitter, what has happened through social media and the anonymity of the net is that you see websites, hatefilled websites targetting all sorts of groups, popping up. There has been a huge number of those that exist as well. They say they did it because they were trying to protect my children. They didnt protect my children, they traumatized them. Fault lines examines why so many native American Kids are caught in the Child Welfare system. Any time they see a social worker its like seeing a police officer. The Immediate Response is, theyre here to take my kids. From the Indian Perspective who sees this in terms of history, this is as about as adversarial as it gets. As the white house wrestles with the Keystone Pipeline decision, a town in maine citizens are greatly divided. Whether a pipeline through the area will bring more. Anywhere in america. This is South Portland, maine and sarah la chance believes her state has become the next battle ground. The lifestyle we take for granted and now people are recovering they cant take it for granted. They have to stand up and fight for it. Because if we dont fight for it theres going to be big industry fighting for it. The are issue that has sparked controversy is the portlandmontreal pipeline. This pipeline carries oil up to canada but the new idea would reverse the flow and bring Tar Sands Oil down to maine to be shipped out on tankers. Environmentalists say extracting the oil is polluting, resource dependent and increasing dependence on fossil fuels. Its thicker, in order to move it through appliance you have to have it through pipelines you have to have it hotter and at higher pressure. People in South Portland will soon vote on a waterfront protection ordinance that could block the new facility will will be need which will be needed for the oil. They lost big and so they lost in mayflower arkansas. And we are asked to take the same gamble here, are you willing to take that same gamble, open yourself up to the mayhem and disaster that took players in those cities . No. Its a crime thats why im out doing this, because im sick and tired of it. It is one point we have a say. We have some influence. And whether its going to succeed or not, i know for myself, i will be able to sleep at night. But john martin isnt losing any sleep over an expanded industry, where they could build the new smoke stacks about the tar sands facility that has divided this town. I think it will help the city of portland, the state of maine, not take something out of here. I think if we work at banning it, whats going to happen is youre going to have people pull out of portland and send them someplace else. So until there actually is a problem you know lets give it a shop. But sarah believes that waiting for aproblem to happen could be too late. She takes us 45 minutes outside portland to show us why. Part of why this is such a crazy idea is here we are right along the shores of sabago lake. It supplies water to all the city of portland. Portland is our largest city. It runs through this wet land and this wet land obviously is draining off into the lake. This pipeline is over six decades old and the possibility of having a leak here will not only devastate the local economy and the folks who come here to enjoy the lake and the tourism but it would make the water supply no longer available to thousand of people here in the state. Sarahs opponents say highlighting pipeline breaks are just a scare tactic. Were being told its going to hurt their children but the reality is the ordinance does much more than that. Jamie says the water from protection ordinance is meant to cripple the industry. This is Third Largest port on the coast and he fears block the facility will prevent all businesses from expanding. Yes, this will be a slow orderly shut down of the terminals. Then youll be left with something that looks like detroit for the next 30 years. Proponents of the ordinance say the existing ordinance, will not be affected. If they want to have a Climate Change discussion and they want to start having that discussion at the local level feel free ohave it but this is not it. For sarah la chance this local fight is part of a bigger struggle. My wife is awesome. There we go, we have it on film. She was motivate whed she started her when they started her own family. I never did picture myself becoming an activist either. You always want a better place for your children than what you had. When you learn about Climate Change you quickly realize that we are setting them up to not have the same type of life that we all were blessed with. So i couldnt let that happen, not on my watch. In the end it is the residents of South Portland who will allow tar sands in town. But Oil Executives and environmentalistist environmentalists will be watching. A follow up on this report. You did hear the lobbyists say, this is just a matter of people wanting to fight back against fossil fuels most generally. Is it in your mind that way . No it isnt. Americans of every stripe rely on fossil fuels. They are good, brought a lot of prosperity. But we need to dramatically reduce the use and emissions from fossil fuels otherwise the climate will continue to heat up and see the extreme weather that has plagued the United States over the last few years, wildfires, droughts and horrible storms. Lets point to this particular pipeline and the possibility that we will be bringing tar sand oil. This particular type of fuel you say is particularly a problem. Tar sands from canada has up to a third more Carbon Pollution from its production than conventional u. S. Oil. Atmosphere. In fact the key stone pipeline its estimated would be the same as adding 4,000 more cars to our road in the percentage of more corrosion into our air. Its more prone to spills. So in this case in South Portland theyre talking about youve already got a pipeline here, instead of sending it up, were going to bring it back. Because its more corrosive, spills. For example, in michigan a few years ago there was spill of tar sands in the kalamazoo river theyre still cleaning up years ago later. Thats caused billions of dollars of damage. And thats a brandnew pipeline. And this pipeline has been in operation for a while. Thats right. Pall pipelines have a potential to leak. Others more potential. Tar sands because they are more corrosive will also have more tendency to leak. This would be bringing a more carbon relinquish, more polluting source of oil into the u. S. , more most likely to be refined here and then shipped overseas. Hang on. Isnt this another source of north American Oil Production . Wouldnt this be of benefit to the u. S. Economy this way . It would be a benefit to the Big Oil Companies who are shutting it down but like the key stone pipeline its very possible that this could be refined into gas or diesel. That doesnt help our Energy Security at all, but it does provide the risk of spills and more climate pollution. So away what happens if these so what happens if this South Portland community is effective in being able to stop the use of their pipeline . Then the oil will be stranded in canada and theyll either have to sell it another a at a great discount or it wont the creation of this oil creates a third more pollution than the conventional u. S. Oils or the heavier oils from the southeast, this is the worst of the worst. I do need to play devils advocate. Whether we like fossil fuels or not people are still going ouse them. Industry still uses them. You have this opportunity in the northern climates in canada to be able to use this Tar Sands Oil which is a relatively new innovation in fossil fuel production. So maybe its just not in my backyard, maybe its not our pipeline, maybe its somebody elses pipeline, its another direction. But at the end of the day this is the fuel that could help fuel industry. Festival you have to understand that in the United States we use most of the oil here for transportation. One of the great things president obama has done has strengthened the fuel economy standards for the first time in over two decades. So were going to be using a lot less oil as the years go on. Thats more important than whatever supply of oil this pipeline will bring. Second, we need to reduce our carbon production from where it is today, making it possible to use this kind of Tar Sands Oil will only increase our Carbon Pollution. Taking us in the wrong direction. Worse climb change, more extreme weather, more drought, wildfires, heavy rainstorms and tropical storms like Hurricane Sandy that hit more than ayear ago. A problem that extends beyond the South Portland community. This pipeline sounds like all risk and no reward. Thank you for being with us. Center for american progress. In our studio tonight. 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