This is a bunch of bullshit! There are at least six major and dozens of secondary pipelines running through the Ogallala Aquifer right now.
The aquifer is colored in purple.
Posted on 01/24/2012 8:31:29 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Reports of the death of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to supply Alberta crude oil to Texas refineries appear to be greatly exaggerated.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed his "profound disappointment" to President Barack Obama for rejecting TransCanada's proposed $7 billion pipeline.
Obama was up against a political deadline for approving the project opposed by environmentalists and wanted more time for further reviews of the plans.
In a phone call to Harper, Obama said TransCanada can submit an amended plan to reroute the pipeline around an environmentally sensitive aquifer in Nebraska.
"This outcome is one of the scenarios we anticipated," CEO Russ Girling said, adding that TransCanada would reapply for a presidential permit.
Keystone is "in the best interests of both countries," Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said.
The controversy shows the need for Canada to diversify its energy markets, which it is attempting to do with China, he added.
Proponents say the Keystone project would have created thousands of jobs in both countries and supplied energy to the United States from a trusted source.
Warren Buffet’s rail road interests benefit greatly from Keystone Pipeline cancellation.
I thought the reroute had been proposed some months ago. If so, Obama would have had that information when he decided to deny the permit. This looks like the administration is trying to walk back it’s decision and keep the possibility of the pipeline on the table. Maybe they saw the polling on the decision. It’s just a ploy though.
It seems to me that this pipeline would serve more of the country than it appears. It seems to me that crude could be moved north to other refineries during hurricane and such.
Rail Road transportation story here:
Darn right it is, Mr. Baird. That's why Zero opposes it.
Ignore this American-hating POS and make plans to build it anyway. Force his hand. Let him call out the Marines to stop it.
Start the pipe at Cushing and head north.
By the time they reach the Canadian border, Barky will be history.
I believe that is the plan — the State Department decision only affects the actual border. The rest of the pipeline can go ahead without that.
An outright fraudulent environmentalist claim. I was just down in Nebraska and they are all confounded by these crazy "enviro" assertions by communists in their midst.
It will take 300 years to do the environmental impact study for needed to build a new refinery in this country. Last new one built was in 1976, IIRC.
Getting a PERMIT from the Feds will take another 200 years, at least.
/sarc...partially
bttt
This is a bunch of bullshit! There are at least six major and dozens of secondary pipelines running through the Ogallala Aquifer right now.
The aquifer is colored in purple.
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