Posted on 01/18/2012 1:13:24 PM PST by Nachum
President Obama is expected to announce he is killing the Keystone XL pipeline project later today and will audaciously blame Republicans for forcing him to do it. Here is how White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer messaged on the decision last December: "The House bill simply shortens the review process in a way that virtually guarantees that the pipeline will NOT be approved." Obama is also expected to say today that TransCanada is free to reapply for the permit after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive Nebraska’s Ogallala Aquifer habitat.
Both these talking points are completely bogus. The Keystone project has already been studied for three full years at a cost to TransCanada of $1.9 billion. The State Department has already completed one entire Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Another Environmental Impact Statement will provide zero additional environmental protection to anyone. But it will delay the project even further. Another EIS would push construction back somewhere between one and six years at a cost of up to $2 million.
The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality already identified a new route for the pipeline that would not threaten the Ogallala Aquifer. But environmentalists don't care about the Ogallala. They don't want Alberta's tar sands oil fields developed at all. No matter what the next EIS says, or when it is issued, the same environmental activists that sat on Obama's front lawn will sue to stop the pipeline in court.
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There has never been a more destructive force in this nation than ghettobama.
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The GOP leadership and the GOP candidates need to beat that Commie POS over the head with this every day twice a day til he gives the go ahead. This is pushing the envelope on impeachable.
The reasons used by the 0bama administration to block this pipeline are the same and just as invalid as the reasons for blocking oil drilling in the Gulf.
DEFEAT 0bama to elect a Republican who will deliver an energy policy that is good for Americans not one that 0bama has that is destructive to the American economy.
“Environmentalists” can all rot in hell for all I care.
This will play well in an election season if the $5 gas prediction plays out. It probably wouldn’t have reduced the price in any case, but it will be a nice bad optic for President Fraud.
There is nothing, nothing, nothing about this man that has any redeeming value whatsoever! Anyone who buys this insane explanation has got to be out of their frikking mind.
Can someone here tell me why the STATE Dept. is calling the shots on this pipeline? Seems to me that Interior, or Commerce, or Energy should be doing this.
Is it because the pipeline comes from Canada? Just seems strange, but . . .
What a punk.
Here yah go;)
The Obama administration just announced the rejection of the controversial $7 billion Keystone Pipeline.
Juliet Eilperin of The Washington Post, first broke the news that the State Department, which led the review of the project, would reject a permit for the pipeline.
The rejection is expected to come from the State Department which has led the review
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-to-deny-keystone-pipeline-2012-1#ixzz1jqYHjQ9M
Because it crosses an international border, the State Department gets to approve or reject it based upon being in the interest of the nation.
http://www.keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/clientsite/keystonexl.nsf?Open
In September 2008, TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, LP filed an application for a Presidential Permit with the Department of State to build and operate the Keystone XL Project. Executive Order 13337 directs the State Department to review applications for Presidential permits when the proposed project would cross an international border with the United States. It also directs the Secretary of State, or her designee, to consult with at least eight other federal agencies, and then issue a decision as to whether granting a permit is in the national interest.
More info:
It has been this way for a while:
Executive Order 13337 of April 30, 2004
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-10378.pdf
Except with respect to facilities covered by Executive Order
10485 of September 3, 1953, and Executive Order 10530 of May 10, 1954, the Secretary of State is hereby designated and empowered to receive all applications for Presidential permits, as referred to in Executive Order 11423, as amended, for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance, at the borders of the United States, of facilities for the exportation or importation of petroleum, petroleum products, coal, or other fuels to or from a foreign country.
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Executive Order 11423 of Aug. 16, 1968
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/11423.html
Except with respect to facilities covered by Executive Orders No. 10485 and No. 10530, the Secretary of State is hereby designated and empowered to receive all applications for permits for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance, at the borders of the United States, of: (i) pipelines, conveyor belts, and similar facilities for the exportation or importation of petroleum, petroleum products, coal, minerals, or other products to or from a foreign country; (ii) facilities for the exportation or importation of water or sewage to or from a foreign country; (iii) monorails, aerial cable cars, aerial tramways and similar facilities for the transportation of persons or things, or both, to or from a foreign country; and (iv) bridges, to the extent that congressional authorization is not required.
Thanks. Most interesting to learn something new.
A caller to the Tom Sullivan show made an excellent point that Obama's fellow-traveling comrade, Geo Soros, owns much in the way of Venezuelan oil; and scuttling the Keystone pipeline enriches the greedy fungus Soros (at the expense of the American economy).
One must keep in mind that this...
Why is this difficult for some to see?
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“I’m Barack Obama and people like me because I’m impolite and usually late. I like Ice Cream and a nice pair of slacks. One day a doctor will tell me I have an I.Q. of 48. Or as some people would call, Mentally Retarded”.
Well, some people like that woman in Florida, are not having to worry about putting gas in their car or paying their house payments, so it really hard to convince them.
I surely would like to see that POS when she is filling up her car at 5 bucks/gallon.
Right... This is how evil b!tch Jug Ears screws a few Red States the pipeline passes through and screws eager pipeline workers in those states. Jug Ears will screw firms that want to work on that pipeline and my guess is pipeline construction firms are mostly run by Republicans and conservatives. Flip side of that is liberals are big in Solyndra and other solar firms that feed at the Guvm’t tit
Meanwhile Jug Ears will go all out for unions in states that voted for him. Jug Ears is full steam ahead on more tax dollars for quasi-reparations, welfare and food stamps for Democrat constituencies
Boot Obama Nov2012!
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