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Obama: No Keystone XL if it Warms the Planet
Christian Post ^ | 06/25/2013 | Napp Nazworth

Posted on 06/25/2013 2:09:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Keystone XL pipeline will not be built unless it can be shown that it will not lead to a net increase in carbon emissions, President Barack Obama declared in a major Tuesday speech on climate change at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. While appearing to appease environmentalists, the announcement could mean that the project will move forward.

"Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our national interest," he said. "And our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. The net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward."

If completed, the Keystone pipeline will carry oil from Alberta, Canada, to refineries in the Gulf Coast. Environmental activists have urged Obama to kill the project, arguing that it will exacerbate climate change and could damage environmentally sensitive areas. Supporters of the pipeline have argued it will boost the economy by providing jobs for the construction of the pipeline and by lowering the costs of energy once the pipeline is complete.

While Obama's announcement came in an ostensibly pro-environmentalist speech, supporters of the pipeline are suggesting that Obama's caveat means the project will eventually move forward. They believe the evidence shows that the pipeline will not lead to a net increase in greenhouse gases. Indeed, the State Department has already released a draft study showing that the pipeline would not significantly add to greenhouse gas emissions.

"The standard the president set today should lead to speedy approval of the Keystone pipeline," Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), told The Hill. "Based on the lengthy review by the State Department, construction of the pipeline would not have a significant environmental impact. It's time to sign off on Keystone and put Americans to work."

Obama also announced plans to increase regulations on coal power plants and subsidize wind and solar power. The Environmental Protection Agency will finalize new rules for coal plants designed to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide the plant release into the air. Obama has set new deadlines for when these new rules should be in place.

America will "set a bold example" for the rest of the world on climate change, Obama added, and he will encourage developing nations to "join a global low-carbon economy" by helping them utilize non-carbon based fuel sources.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: agwfraud; bhofascism; climatechange; democrats; energy; energycosts; envirofascism; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenfraud; keystone; keystonepipeline; keystonexl; nappnazworth; obama; obamaclimatespeech; pipeline; thegreenlie
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1 posted on 06/25/2013 2:09:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

It turns out that a large donation to the DNC will prevent the pipeline from warming the planet.


2 posted on 06/25/2013 2:11:03 PM PDT by palmer (Obama = Carter + affirmative action)
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To: SeekAndFind

How the hell is a pipeline going to warm the planet? That’s like saying we should stop construction of the new World Trade Center because the construction leaves garbage all over the place.


3 posted on 06/25/2013 2:11:07 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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To: SeekAndFind

One Big Ass Mistake America!


4 posted on 06/25/2013 2:11:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: palmer

From the checking account of Warren Buffett.


5 posted on 06/25/2013 2:12:46 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama: No Keystone XL if it Warms the Planet

An idiot of Biblical scale.
6 posted on 06/25/2013 2:12:51 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: SeekAndFind

..this clown would s*** his pants if someone didn’t show him the bathroom door


7 posted on 06/25/2013 2:13:32 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SeekAndFind

Why does this look like a bad make-over of Escape from the Planet of the Apes?


8 posted on 06/25/2013 2:13:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi --)
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To: SeekAndFind

We are ruled by the brain-dead and the dishonest. There’s not one lick of evidence that CO2 is the cause of planetary warming. Not that facts matter in religious controversies.


9 posted on 06/25/2013 2:14:44 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: SeekAndFind

Since there is no global warming, let’s build the pipeline.


10 posted on 06/25/2013 2:14:46 PM PDT by lurk
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To: palmer

Translation: No Keystone XL if it competes with my donor and tax hike advocate, Warren Buffet’s Oil transport company, Burlington Northern.


11 posted on 06/25/2013 2:15:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s pretty much said he’s not letting it get built, period. Just because.

I’m sure he will find plenty of oil to fuel his jet junkets and cavalcade of giant gas-guzzling limousines.

Environmentalism is for the serfs.


12 posted on 06/25/2013 2:15:32 PM PDT by henkster (The 0bama regime isn't a train wreck, it's a B 17 raid on the rail yard.)
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To: SeekAndFind

NO $100,000,000 AFRICAN VACATION IF IT WARMS THE PLANET!


13 posted on 06/25/2013 2:21:29 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Build it anyway. It’s not his decision. If the States give a thumbs up to the pipeline, JUST DO IT!


14 posted on 06/25/2013 2:23:06 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: lurk

The pipeline will come across the border after a new president is elected.


15 posted on 06/25/2013 2:24:46 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (NRA Life Member)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

More oil means more warming of homes in the winter. Is that what he means by warming the planet?


16 posted on 06/25/2013 2:25:11 PM PDT by Phillyred
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Is that what he means by warming the planet?

No,what he means is that if he can find some filthy Communist "scientist" who'll blog that the planet's temperate will rise by 0.00000000000000000000000000000001 degree then no pipeline.I'd say that they chances of such a blog appearing is about 99.9999999

Well,you get the picture.

17 posted on 06/25/2013 2:30:11 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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To: SeekAndFind

OK, if WE put in the pipeline and and use the oil in this country and it “warms the planet” then that’s bad.

If we DON’T put in the pipeline and the oil goes to China and other countries and it “warms the planet” then that’s OK.

Ah, typical lib/destroyer think. It always seems to make sense to them, but never to us.

Also typical obama to try to fire people up about something that is not on their radar.

It will probably make his ratings go even lower and he won’t be able to figure it our.


18 posted on 06/25/2013 2:30:28 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

OK, no pipeline, no dem house and senate starting in 2014, no dem president in 2016. Fine with me.


19 posted on 06/25/2013 2:30:29 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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"Based on the lengthy review by the State Department, construction of the pipeline would not have a significant environmental impact. It's time to sign off on Keystone and put Americans to work."

Ah, but that was the OLD atate department under Hillary. Now Jon Cary (who served in Vietnam, I just learned) is in charge and the review process will have to be repeated. It should only take 12-15 more years, I would imagine.

20 posted on 06/25/2013 2:33:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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