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Keystone XL Pipeline Does Little Environmental Harm, US Finds
ABC ^ | Mar 1, 2013 6:19pm | Devin Dwyer , Dana Hughes

Posted on 03/01/2013 8:23:03 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

The Obama administration today moved one step closer to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding in a draft environmental impact statement that the project would not accelerate global greenhouse gas emissions or significantly harm the natural habitats along its route.

The report, done by the State Department,  suggests that the proposed 875-mile pipeline, which would carry 830,000 barrels of crude oil per day from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to Steele City, Nebraska, has cleared a significant hurdle on its way to President Obama’s desk for final consideration.

“The approval or denial of any one crude oil transport project, including this proposed project, really remains unlikely to significantly impact the rate of development of the oil sands or the continued demand for heavy crude oil in the U.S.,” said Kerri-Ann Jones, the Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.

The State Department, which conducted the study because the pipeline would cross an international boundary, also suggested in a voluminous report that impacts on air, water and landscape would be minimal.

The agency found it “very unlikely” that the pipeline would affect water quality in any of the four aquifers through which it crossed.  It also concluded that along one part of the proposed route, in the case of a large-scale oil spill, “these impacts would typically be limited to within several hundred feet of the release source, and would not affect groundwater.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; keystone; keystonepipeline; keystonexl

1 posted on 03/01/2013 8:23:11 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: TigersEye; Marine_Uncle; justa-hairyape; onyx; NormsRevenge; SierraWasp; SunkenCiv; blam

More detail....Enviroidiots are hot!


2 posted on 03/01/2013 8:26:35 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ((The Global Warming Hoax was a Criminal Act....where is Al Gore?))
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Why not a pipeline carrying 830,000 barrels a day from the tar sands of Utah and Wyoming?..
OR MUCH MORE..


3 posted on 03/01/2013 8:26:43 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Uh-oh, ABC is off the reservation. They’ll soon get a call from the White Hut complaining about this.


4 posted on 03/01/2013 8:35:18 PM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Tango Sierra. If the Dick Tater doesn’t want it, it doesn’t happen.


5 posted on 03/01/2013 8:41:59 PM PST by Rembrandt (Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They’ll keep demanding more studies be done until the proposal is abandoned.

Standard operating procedure.


6 posted on 03/01/2013 8:47:18 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

RE: The Obama administration today moved one step closer to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline

Wake me up when that happens. My guess is after this environmental impact statement, Obama will kick the can once again and ask for another study, “just to make sure”.

Here in NY State, Andrew Cuomo has already done the same thing several times regarding hydrofracking even when each study results in exactly the same “It’s safe” conclusion. The former governor David Patterson ( another Democrat ) did exactly the same thing.

In the meantime, neighboring Pennsylvania has already been doing fracking for years without any problems.

Their plan is to appease the enviro wackos by studying the issue to death.


7 posted on 03/01/2013 8:48:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Just f’n build it already.


8 posted on 03/01/2013 8:59:30 PM PST by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Of course a lot in this case will fall to Hanoi John. He can send orders down the line to prevent the acceptance of the "connect" or not.
And by everything I have heard him say in recent years he is sold on so much of the bad-science/none-science bull shit spewed forth by the environmentalist establishment.
He thinks much of what he is told actually represents solid scientific fact, on primarily AGW and GW issues.

9 posted on 03/01/2013 10:15:37 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Galt level is not far away......)
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