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Hillary Clinton weighs in on Keystone XL pipeline
AP via Fuel Fix ^ | June 16, 2014 | Rob Gillies

Posted on 06/17/2014 5:00:14 AM PDT by thackney

The pipeline is critical to Canada, which needs infrastructure in place to export its growing oil sands production. Alberta has the world’s third largest oil reserves, with 170 billion barrels of proven reserves.

“I did not see it nor should it be a proxy for the relationship. It is, after all, one pipeline. We already have a lot of pipelines that cross our border,” Clinton said

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TOPICS: Canada; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; energy; keystonexl; noshedoesnt; oil; opec; pipeline
So why is this pipeline different than all the others? Why is it not already in service? Why has it been debated longer than US in WW2?
1 posted on 06/17/2014 5:00:14 AM PDT by thackney
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However this Keystone decision is finally made, some people are going to be very happy, relieved and think it was the right decision and some people are going to be distraught and even angry and upset, thinking it was a terrible decision so I don’t think we should put our relationship on the backs of this decision.

How is that "weighing in"?? She didn't say anything.

2 posted on 06/17/2014 5:03:51 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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We DO have a lot of pipelines crossing our border ?

Where ?

How many ?

The only one I know of that I'm sure is still operational is the one on our southern border, pumping mexicans and others into our country.

3 posted on 06/17/2014 5:04:58 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Yep.

Hillary Clinton keeps coy on Keystone
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/hillary-clinton-keystone-pipeline-no-comment-107899.html

In an interview with the Globe and Mail , a Canadian publication, the former secretary of state and possible 2016 Democratic frontrunner declined to give her personal opinion about whether America should proceed with the pipeline.

“I can’t respond,” she said.

She has so far avoided wading too deep into the issue, which is a controversial one even among Democrats as the progressive base vehemently opposes the pipeline, while others in the party and beyond see it as a good way to grow jobs.

Speaking more broadly about the pipeline issue, Clinton said, “This particular decision is a very difficult one because there are so many factors at play.

“I can’t really comment at great length because I had responsibility for it and it’s been passed on and it wouldn’t be appropriate, but I hope that Canadians appreciate that the United States government – the Obama administration – is trying to get it right,” she continued. “And getting it right doesn’t mean you will agree or disagree with the decision, but that it will be one based on the best available evidence and all of the complex local, state, federal, interlocking laws and concerns.”


4 posted on 06/17/2014 5:07:00 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Hillary Clinton weighs in on Keystone XL pipeline

I was just wondering this myself! I think she has a few pounds over any little pipeline, but that's just my opinion....

5 posted on 06/17/2014 5:08:40 AM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: knarf
Lots. The Original Keystone Pipeline for one example.


North America Pipelines map
http://www.theodora.com/pipelines/north_america_oil_gas_and_products_pipelines.html

And for those just carrying crude from Canada:

6 posted on 06/17/2014 5:11:13 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Disgraceful.


7 posted on 06/17/2014 5:11:17 AM PDT by Williams
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Well, on the bright side, she’s not nearly as good of a politician as her husband so we can watch her dance around on this issue and flub responses for the next year or so.


8 posted on 06/17/2014 5:12:29 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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Isn’t it helpful that SHE doesn’t think Canada should care about it?

A Clinton specialty. Ignore reality and spread whatever brand of BS is helpful to her.


9 posted on 06/17/2014 5:16:10 AM PDT by Williams
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
She is a poor politician, and her book is a dud. She suffers from such a sense of exasperated entitlement that she just may not be willing to do what any candidate has to do to win an election. It is also becoming more clear what I have suspected for a long time-- she just isn't very intelligent--not nearly as smart as the servile media has made her up to be.
10 posted on 06/17/2014 5:18:51 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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We already have a lot of pipelines that cross our border,” Clinton said.
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I hope she never finds out that remaining silent tends to improve public approval ratings.

Just keep pontificating on everything, old woman.


11 posted on 06/17/2014 5:19:54 AM PDT by RetSignman (MODERATE Islamist are not as extreme, they stop cutting just before the jugular vein.)
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That was some “answer”. I’m beginning to sense a real trend of “what difference does it make?” in this privileged witch’s thinking.

I really think she sees every inconvenient problem as just a bother to her.


12 posted on 06/17/2014 5:20:30 AM PDT by Williams
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Since the media she deals with never challenges non-answers, why would she think it was bad?


13 posted on 06/17/2014 5:21:19 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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She can’t express an opinion?? Which office is she running for again?


14 posted on 06/17/2014 5:21:47 AM PDT by Williams
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It’s called talking out of both sides of her mouth.


15 posted on 06/17/2014 5:24:42 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Williams; All

Her comments, to me, are just advertising for dollars - in other words, her “real” opinion is for sale.


16 posted on 06/17/2014 5:27:18 AM PDT by PenguinM
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To: thackney

For the uninitiated in Clintonistaspeak, stories are planted to provide the Clintons and their sycophants with the ability to say, “We’ve already gone over that. It’s old news.” This covers topics such as cattle futures, Gennifer Flowers et al., zigzagging under sniper attack, and Whitewater. One of the corollaries is saying something on a subject that amounts to nothing in order to be able to say, “The President/First Lady/Senator/Secretary has already addressed that topic and has moved on.”


17 posted on 06/17/2014 5:30:58 AM PDT by Dahoser (Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
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“It is, after all, one pipeline. We already have a lot of pipelines that cross our border,”

Which is another way of saying: “What difference does it make?”


18 posted on 06/17/2014 5:49:00 AM PDT by odawg
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She will position herself like any other Progressive Democrat. She will be for it before she will be against it.

If John Kerry can do it so can she. And being a woman she can change her mind without reproach ;)

19 posted on 06/17/2014 5:57:38 AM PDT by sr4402
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Remember that for years the Greenies tried to stop the Alaska Pipeline and were successful.

I said that when the Arabs have another oil embargo the pipeline would be built.

They embargoed the oil not long after and the Alaska Pipeline was rushed through over the weeping and wailing of the Greenies.
All the gloom and doom situations that the Greenies said would happen did not happen.


20 posted on 06/17/2014 5:58:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
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