Obama's bogus Keystone talking points

Washington Examiner ^ | 1/18/12 | Conn Carroll

[Nachum]

President Obama is expected to announce he is killing the Keystone XL pipeline project later today and will audaciously blame Republicans for forcing him to do it. Here is how White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer messaged on the decision last December: "The House bill simply shortens the review process in a way that virtually guarantees that the pipeline will NOT be approved." Obama is also expected to say today that TransCanada is free to reapply for the permit after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive Nebraska’s Ogallala Aquifer habitat.

Both these talking points are completely bogus. The Keystone project has already been studied for three full years at a cost to TransCanada of $1.9 billion. The State Department has already completed one entire Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Another Environmental Impact Statement will provide zero additional environmental protection to anyone. But it will delay the project even further. Another EIS would push construction back somewhere between one and six years at a cost of up to $2 million.

The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality already identified a new route for the pipeline that would not threaten the Ogallala Aquifer. But environmentalists don't care about the Ogallala. They don't want Alberta's tar sands oil fields developed at all. No matter what the next EIS says, or when it is issued, the same environmental activists that sat on Obama's front lawn will sue to stop the pipeline in court.

[dennisw]

Right... This is how evil b!tch Jug Ears screws a few Red States the pipeline passes through and screws eager pipeline workers in those states. Jug Ears will screw firms that want to work on that pipeline and my guess is pipeline construction firms are mostly run by Republicans and conservatives. Flip side of that is liberals are big in Solyndra and other solar firms that feed at the Guvm’t tit

Meanwhile Jug Ears will go all out for unions in states that voted for him. Jug Ears is full steam ahead on more tax dollars for quasi-reparations, welfare and food stamps for Democrat constituencies

Boot Obama Nov2012!

[RC51]

This is what counts as an "ecologically sensitive" area in the Obama administration.

[bert]

The Governor of Montana on Neil Cavuto who signed the permit for the pipeline across Montana, says the State of Nebraska is at fault.

The State Department cannot sign the permit for the simple reason is that there is currently no route across Nebraska. Nebraska has not issued a route permit. Until Nebraska finalizes and permits the route, the feds do not know where it is gong and thus cannot complete the permit.

The governor says everyone involved knows that the state of Nebraska is the real culprit. He is pro pipeline and has approved the permit in his state

[dennisw]

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2012/01/18/nebraska-governor-suggests-conditional-keystone-approval/?mod=google_news_blog

What’s really going on as far as Nebraska’s approval of the Keystone pipeline

[Smokin' Joe]

Well, y'know, like, it's like all green, with like, grass and stuff, y'know... (/s)

The Buffalo Commons people were out here from New Jersey in the '80s telling us we needed to 'give the land back' to the Buffalo...

They and others of their ilk are still trying to tell us how to live from 2000 miles away.