This is spin. The pipeline will be built, they re-routed a section around the Nebraska Sandhills to avoid most of the Ogallala Aquifer and site preparations such as running power to the compressor stations has already begun.
The Nebraska Governor is culpable in this a little, as he thought he could placate some environmentalists by agreeing with them when they were going to lose anyway, but the Obama machine saw it as a crisis in need of exploitation and make it a big deal.
I truly hope you’re right but I don’t trust him one bit.
He’s put hundreds if not thousands out of work in the coal and related industries and hasn’t backed down.
The enviros will expect support for their cause for them supporting him and we know he’s willing to throw billions into the “green” energy rip off because he already has.
I agree. The pipeline will be built, probably with a few other bits of political window dressing so Obama can claim he pushed through a “better” pipeline project. He’ll continue his regulatory encroachment on the industries, but he’s doing it through the proverbial ‘death of a thousand cuts’. He knows he can’t do it in one fell swoop without total backlash, so he makes a big deal about the pipeline and then quietly continues his agenda behind the scenes.
How certain are you that this gets built?
” The pipeline will be built...”
The only pipeline that will be built will be to deliver crude to the West Coast to be delivered in tankers to China. The tankers will have to get in line to allow the other ships, those carrying America’s coal, to dock so America’s energy can be used by the non-American commies, instead of Obama and his tools.