To: FReepers; everyone; All
Posted on 11/10/2011 6:05:51 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President Obama used to be fond of "shovel-ready projects." He's also demanding that Congress pass his jobs bill immediately because 9% unemployment is a crisis, and, by the way, he's for making the U.S. less reliant on energy from tyrants. So how about putting 20,000 Americans to work on a North American energy project that's as shovel-ready as they come? Sorry, Mr. Obama is voting present.
The $7 billion project is TransCanada's Keystone XL, a 1,700-mile underground pipeline that would deliver 830,000 barrels of heavy crude oil a day from Alberta to refineries in Oklahoma and Texas. TransCanada filed an application to build the pipeline in September 2008 with the State Department, which must approve it because the pipeline would cross the 49th parallel. In April 2010 and again this August, State produced multivolume environmental impact statements that concluded the pipeline would have "no significant impacts" on the environment. That should have ended the matter.
But the President's environmentalist friends have decided to make Keystone a test of his green virtue. "We'll see if [Mr. Obama] is an oil guy or a people guy," eco-agitator Bill McKibben recently warned at an Occupy Wall Street event, and the Sierra Club has threatened that it won't "mobilize the environmental base" in 2012 if he approves the project. Various Hollywood worthies have marched in front of the White House in protest.
And, what a surprise, suddenly the government is finding new reasons to delay its decision. The State Department's inspector general announced Monday that he is ordering a special review to examine alleged irregularities in the drafting of the impact statements. Then yesterday the White House said it would postpone any decision in order to "undertake an in-depth assessment of potential alternative routes in Nebraska." Expect that assessment to arrive after November 2012.
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WARNING: TAKE YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION AND SIT DOWN BEFORE YOU CONTINUE TO READ FURTHER!
"...over the next five years, Merkel’s government has now announced that in addition to going green, it will also build a dozen coal-fired power plants as part of the country’s future energy mix"
http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Germany-Faces-Sticker-Shock-Over-Renewable-Energy-to-Replace-Nuclear.html
Meanwhile, Canada is talking to China!
Ha! Ha! Gonna get me some popcorn and watch the special leftist interests have a cat fight!
The problem with that is you still have to transport the refined products (more than just gasoline), which would mean...more pipelines! And more trucks, more rail, etc. That infrastructure is already in place at the existing refineries.
Yup. Canada could simply choose to route the pipeline to Vancouver or somewhere else on the coast. Then the wouldn’t have to deal with the US State Department. I wouldn’t blame them at all.
Environmentalists are job-destroyers through their religious consecration to Gaia, the goddess of BANANAOAF — Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody Or Anything Forever.
May this phrase be known everywhere!
Getting permits from the EPA would be my guess. Or they would just happen to find some endangered insect or bird in exactly the place where you wanted to build your refinery.
Getting permits from the EPA would be my guess. Or they would just happen to find some endangered insect or bird in exactly the place where you wanted to build your refinery.
Certain refineries are set up to process specific types of crude oil. In Texas, we have refineries that are set up to process high sulfur (heavy) crude, like the Valero refinery in Corpus Christi.
Significant amounts of crude oil from Eagle Ford shale are now being produced that are close to Texas refineries, but there is talk that this oil may be exported, because the refineries don’t have the capacity to handle all of it, and it is a light/sweet crude that doesn’t require sophisticated refinery operations.
Hello. I’m Barry, and I’m a spendaholic.
First step to recovery........honesty.
Payback to the Shiekhs who sponsored his academic rise. Obama might not be able to push America away from Israel, but this he can do.
The very last thing the Arabs want, even more than the destruction of Israel, is the end of the oil gravy train. An energy-sufficient America would leave a lot less dough for palaces, blond prostitutes, umpteen-million-dollar yachts and all the other goodies that go with being a rich Arab.
That one decision in their favor paid their investment back a thousand fold.
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