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Obama to fast track southern half of Keystone XL Pipeline
CNN news blog ^ | 3/20/12 | Brianna Keilar

Posted on 03/20/2012 2:18:22 PM PDT by ruralvoter

President Obama plans to announce in Cushing, Oklahoma Thursday that his administration will expedite the permit for the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, a source familiar with the president's announcement tells CNN.

In January, the Obama administration denied a permit for the 1,700 mile long Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would stretch from Canada's tar sands development to the U.S. Gulf Coast. That decision was met by persistent Republican criticism that the president has not been doing everything possible to create jobs and combat high gas prices.

(Excerpt) Read more at whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: energy; fraud; gas; mediabias; nobama2012; obama; obamacampaign; oil; pipeline; pipelinetonowhere; youlie
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1 posted on 03/20/2012 2:18:35 PM PDT by ruralvoter
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To: ruralvoter

So do they carry the oil in buckets to where the pipeline starts?


2 posted on 03/20/2012 2:20:24 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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To: ruralvoter

So this is a “Pipeline To Nowhere”?


3 posted on 03/20/2012 2:21:07 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: ruralvoter

Isn’t that already permitted? Didn’t Keystone announce a couple weeks ago they were building that leg. So is Barry swooping in to try to take credit? Typical.


4 posted on 03/20/2012 2:21:42 PM PDT by RGF
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To: HereInTheHeartland

That should help gas prices! /s

What’s so sad is that most of his stupid voters will think this is great.


5 posted on 03/20/2012 2:22:00 PM PDT by No Socialist
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To: HereInTheHeartland

I know there is a huge railroad yard being planned near Williston to fill oil tankcars.


6 posted on 03/20/2012 2:24:00 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: RGF
Isn’t that already permitted? Didn’t Keystone announce a couple weeks ago they were building that leg.

He thinks we're all stupid.

7 posted on 03/20/2012 2:24:10 PM PDT by jersey117 (The Stepford Media should be sued for malpractice)
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To: ruralvoter
Q: What use is a pipeline in little random pieces?

A: No use at all, and that's the point.

Now he can say that he approved the project, jobs are crated building it, but no pesky oil will ever be transported in it on his watch.

8 posted on 03/20/2012 2:25:45 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: jersey117

He needs a major announcement because of a pre-planned campaign stop near the Pipeline project. I guess their internal polling about gas prices affecting the election has not been encouraging...


9 posted on 03/20/2012 2:26:06 PM PDT by ruralvoter
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To: ruralvoter

It has but his smoke and mirror tactics will fail as it will have no effect on gas prices. You need to be complete in your strategies and ways of thinking.


10 posted on 03/20/2012 2:28:02 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Artemis Webb

It’s to the refineries, it’s just that it doesn’t start where the oil is so I guess it would the “Pipeline From Nowhere”?

obama doesn’t even pretend to make sense.


11 posted on 03/20/2012 2:31:23 PM PDT by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: ruralvoter

Won’t help him at this point. America knows his true colors. Red, red, and red.


12 posted on 03/20/2012 2:31:28 PM PDT by Hoosier-Daddy ( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: jersey117
He thinks we're all stupid.

70 million people, many of them actually alive, voted for him in 2008. We don't all have to be stupid. He just needs enough morons to carry the electoral college.

13 posted on 03/20/2012 2:40:39 PM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (How bad would an Obama II administration be, without the constraints of re-election?)
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To: Kirkwood

Is this Buffett’s railroad and isn’t he and his railroad one of the major reasons why the northern half isn’t being built?


14 posted on 03/20/2012 2:42:06 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: ruralvoter

Election year politics, at its best.

Obama must be feeling some heat from his closest supporters/financial backers.


15 posted on 03/20/2012 2:44:42 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: ruralvoter

OK Newt.......here is your chance to REALLY score!


16 posted on 03/20/2012 2:47:53 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: ruralvoter
OBAMA KEYSTONE, OBAMA KEYSTONE
17 posted on 03/20/2012 2:49:53 PM PDT by FrankR
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To: ruralvoter

This section doesn’t need a permit. It’s done. They are building it. This lying sack is trying to take credit AGAIN where none is due.

He already has videos on the net taking credit for increased oil production. I have yet to see any media outlet call him out on it.


18 posted on 03/20/2012 3:03:24 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats love direct democracy until it's time to vote on something. Then they scream for a judge)
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To: ruralvoter
The issue with the pipeline in states like Nebraska is that a lot of the land owners are VERY worried about the risk of leaks.

That is high plains ranch country. Water rights have been a killing thing decades. I have friends who ranch out in western Nebraska, and they were not very happy about the pipeline. Many have had “promises” made regarding similar things (oil/gas exploration, other pipelines) not be worth the paper they are written on. They are looking for some more guarantees before they sign on.

19 posted on 03/20/2012 3:16:20 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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has anyone ever even HEARD ABOUT a land-based pipeline leak???

what’s the problem- the oid spills on the floor, you wipe it up

I cannot remember one singleland-based “disaster” from a pipleine leak


20 posted on 03/20/2012 3:18:04 PM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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