Posted on 01/19/2012 11:45:18 AM PST by Nachum
TransCanada plans to file a second application to begin building Keystone pipeline by 2014, but the company might have to wait even longer, as the State Department says it will have to undergo "a completely new review process." "If TransCanada comes in with a new application, it will trigger a new review process, a completely new review process," Assistant Secretary Kerri-Ann Jones told reporters yesterday. "We cannot state that anything would be expedited or at this time." The Keystone XL pipeline has already undergone three years of review. Jones was responding to a TransCanada statement that they
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Where are all of the “applications” and three year long “environmental impact studies” for all of the “high speed rails” that the communists want to build?
Let’s cut through all the crap. This pipeline is not going anywhere unless, and until, Obama and his criminal regime are defeated in November.
If you’ve ever gone down to your local town council meetings, and there is something they don’t want to do, you have been jerked around exactly this way.
When they want to do something, it happens so fast no one can believe it.
The Obama Administration is like your local hacks on steroids.
Perhaps the State Dept is being honest.
After all, if there’s anything technical in the new app, the State Depart marshmallow majors will have to send it to someone more qualified in science than Hillary and her minions.
The nearest high school should do.
“...The Keystone XL pipeline has already undergone three years of review.”
Now, if it were bailing out a bankrupt solar company, they would move immediately.
From every source there is one “H” of a backlash against the Obama Administration for denying this pipeline. The only ones in favor of Obama’s actions are the extreme Leftist Environmental-cases, yet the idiot continues to deny the pipeline. Only because it’s good for this country to have that pipeline, and that isn’t what Obama is there for.
Delay, obfuscate, lie, delay.
IF this pipeline ever gets approved the envirowackos will tie it up with lawsuits just like they did to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline back in the 60’s and 70’s.
Re post 3. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
Re post 3. Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
Somebody educate me. Why is the State Dept. involved in a Nebraska issue? I know it’s International, but everything but Neb is done.
This morning it seemed that the media was spinning the Democrat talking points--this is just a temporary delay because more studies need to be done and it's just the Republicans who want to rush it because they don't care about the damage to the environment and the drinking water in Nebraska.
Somebody educate me. Why is the State Dept. involved in a Nebraska issue? I know its International, but everything but Neb is done.
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It has been this way for a while. International border for petroleum import/export:
Executive Order 13337 of April 30, 2004
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2004/pdf/04-10378.pdf
Except with respect to facilities covered by Executive Order
10485 of September 3, 1953, and Executive Order 10530 of May 10, 1954, the Secretary of State is hereby designated and empowered to receive all applications for Presidential permits, as referred to in Executive Order 11423, as amended, for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance, at the borders of the United States, of facilities for the exportation or importation of petroleum, petroleum products, coal, or other fuels to or from a foreign country.
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Executive Order 11423 of Aug. 16, 1968
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/11423.html
Except with respect to facilities covered by Executive Orders No. 10485 and No. 10530, the Secretary of State is hereby designated and empowered to receive all applications for permits for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance, at the borders of the United States, of: (i) pipelines, conveyor belts, and similar facilities for the exportation or importation of petroleum, petroleum products, coal, minerals, or other products to or from a foreign country; (ii) facilities for the exportation or importation of water or sewage to or from a foreign country; (iii) monorails, aerial cable cars, aerial tramways and similar facilities for the transportation of persons or things, or both, to or from a foreign country; and (iv) bridges, to the extent that congressional authorization is not required.
Obama’s War on Oil
If you want the lower gas prices, lower oil prices, and lower energy prices necessary for a booming economy, you are going to have to get yourselves another President.
http://spectator.org/archives/2011/05/04/obamas-war-on-oil/
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