[Nachum]

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[Former Proud Canadian]

"Canadian government officials are already planning to help build a competing pipeline from Alberta’s oil fields to new West Coast ports near Vancouver. The likely destination point is the port of Kitimat in British Columbia."

And from Kitimat the oil will be loaded into tankers headed for the People's Republic of China. So, US government policy is to feed your avowed enemy a secure supply of energy? This is unbelievable.

By the way, I have been telling you guys this will happen for months.

[Libloather]

Jobs, jobs, jobs...

[ZULU]

“We should take the time to ensure that all questions are properly addressed and all the potential impacts are properly understood,” said the professor, smoking his pipe and looking down his nose at the masses of uneducated peons who just are incapable of comprehending the great expanse of his wisdom.

I HATE this guy.

[Signalman]

Obama is intentionally stalling on the pipeline decision. If he approves it, he pisses off his base. If he doesn’t approve it, the GOP nails him on all the jobs that were prevented. So he’s waiting until after the election.

[throwback]

Yeah, and I have a Republican Governor and Senator that helped block this. So if Mitt’s at the top of the ticket, I have NO reason to go to the polls. But I still get mail from the governor inviting me to events to support the party. Oh yeah, be right there.

[EGPWS]

Roughly 20,000 oil industry construction jobs are being thrown under Obama’s 2012 campaign bus, largely because the president needs to pump up his sagging support among the environmentalists.

See, all you who think 0bama is nothing but politics before country, here is just another example of how patriotic 0bama is!

It's just tough love for all of us....

Did I pass my MSNBC audition?

[informavoracious]

"We should take the time to ensure that all questions are properly addressed and all the potential impacts are properly understood"

Too bad the Obama voters didn't take this approach before voting him in.

[blackdog]

In the spirit of compromise, might I suggest a refinery be built closer to the oil? After all, it’s the gasoline that’s retail distributed.

[shankbear]

From Southeast Texas where the oil would have been refined, I want to say thank you numbnutz Obsma. This area of Texas has 12 percent unemployment due to your idiotic policies already. These jobs would have helped, you communist punk puke thug.

[Izzy Dunne]

intended to bring oil from Alberta in Canada to oil refineries along the Gulf Coast.

The refineries are along the coast, because the main path for oil to travel is and has been by ship.

Is there a technical reason we cannot build refineries in Montana, ND, etc.?

I know nobody would risk the political firestorm of America trying to act grown-up, but is there a technical problem with it? Cold, maybe, or dryness?

[chimera]

Every time Obangi starts running his sewer about “Republicans not doing anything to create jobs”, they should throw this story right back in his ugly, smug face. Here is the ultimate “shovel ready” jobs “program” (not really that since it's private industry and not government work, which may be why Odouchebag opposes it) and they're trying to kill it with delay.

[ronnie raygun]

He’ll say no after the election if he wins.

[Chode]

[bkopto]

Present.

[BitWielder1]

A pipeline has much less environmental impact than a high-speed rail line would have, yet *that* would of course be fast-tracked.

[oneamericanvoice]

Hope no one was holding their breath.

[NorwegianViking]

To All: Even if the pipeline were to go through like TransCanada and so many of you want, the oil would not end up in the U.S., but it would be sold to Asian markets---namely China---that's why they want to get it close to the ports on the Gulf of Mexico.

Most of the jobs being created would be only temporary jobs...just long enough to get the pipeline built.

Chinese steel would be used because it is cheaper.....cheaper and less dependable...in the end...the oil, being 10 times more corrosive than regular oil....would eat through the pipeline. Example of this is the oil spill that happened last year on the Kalamazoo River----the oil spill is still not cleaned up!

The Ogallala aquifer, the third largest in the world--vital to Nebraska farmers, lies only a foot below the surface of the planned Keystone XL project......jobs are not worth the damage that this pipeline can do! The pipeline route also extends into Oklahoma...directly through the area where, just last week a 5.6 earthquake happened. If brick structures did not survive, a 34 inch pipeline certainly won't either.

Wishing this pipeline to go through is like wishing for a disaster to happen. Jobs can be made in other areas. We need to keep our clean water supply...and NO I am not an environmentalist....but a realist. There is nothing more precious than clean water. This drought has really made me appreciate clean water. I know I can't put water in my gas tank to make my car run....but I certainly can't put oil in my body and expect it to run either.