Posted on 11/06/2015 9:34:01 AM PST by jazusamo
Ending a review process that lasted nearly seven years, President Obama on Friday rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline, siding firmly with environmental activists and drawing the ire of business and labor groups who say the administration is willfully standing in the way of economic growth, job creation and energy security.
In a speech at the White House, Mr. Obama, flanked by Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, formally announced they'll block construction of Keystone.
"The State Department has decided the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interests of the United States. I agree with that decision," the president said, brushing off Keystone's potential impact on the economy and on North American energy security and saying the entire issue has been overblown and has occupied an "inflated role in our political discourse" over the past seven years.
Earlier this week, the company proposing the massive project, TransCanada, asked the State Department to halt its review while legal issues regarding the pipeline's proposed route through Nebraska are sorted out. The administration denied that request, fueling speculation that the president was on the verge of killing Keystone.
TransCanada's move widely was viewed as an attempt to stall a decision on Keystone until after Mr. Obama leaves office, potentially setting up a scenario in which a future president -- perhaps one more supportive of domestic oil-and-gas infrastructure projects -- would be the one to make the final call.
While Friday's announcement seems to eliminate that possibility, leading Republicans vowed to continue to fight for the project on Capitol Hill and said it’s a matter of time until Keystone is built.
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If I were the republican candidates, I’d reassure the pipeline folks in private talks that would have had to wait for the end of the Obama regime anyway, so just hang in there for another 14 months and it will go through.
You are so right.
IIRC the State Dept. approved this several years ago but Bambam nixed it, now all of a sudden Bambam says State made the decision to shoot it down.
This is outrageous and any candidate not willing to condemn this abomination is not worthy of consideration.
2013 U.S. LIQUIDS PIPELINE
USAGE & MILEAGE
SUMMARY
Liquid pipeline operators delivered 14.948 billion barrels of crude
oil and petroleum products by U.S. transmission pipeline in 2013
Total crude oil and petroleum products delivered by U.S
transmission liquids pipeline rose 6.2% from 2012 to 2013
Liquids pipeline operators delivered 8.306 billion barrels of
crude oil by U.S. transmission pipeline in 2013
Crude oil barrels delivered by U.S. transmission pipeline
rose 11.3% from 2012 to 2013
Over the last 5 years, crude oil barrels delivered by U.S.
transmission pipeline rose 1.351 billion barrels or 19.4%
U.S. liquids pipeline mileage totaled 192,396 miles in 2013
Over the last 5 years, total U.S. liquids pipeline mileage
increased 16,431 miles or 9.3%
Over the last 10 years, total U.S. liquids pipeline mileage
increased 25,727 miles or 15.4%
Pipeline operators operated 60,911 miles of U.S. crude oil
pipeline in 2013
Over the last 5 years, U.S. crude oil pipeline mileage increased
8,174 miles or 15.5%
Over the last 10 years, U.S. crude oil pipeline mileage increased
11,647 miles or 23.6%
8.3 Billion Barrels
14.9 Billion Barrels
192,396 Miles
+11.3%
+1.4 Billion Barrels
+6.2%
+16,431 Miles
+25,727 Miles
60,911 Miles
+8,174 Miles
+11,647 Miles
Transmission pipelines include interstate or other large intrastate, main
Ali Obama is a jackass
They can, if they have another open season of getting commitments from companies to use the pipeline to move their oil, another environmental impact study period, another round of public comment, etc.
Years after the application is submitted to approval for a border crossing pipeline.
Yay! We get more oil moved on rail for higher expense!
Absolutely. Check post #24, Cruz has already and we certainly know Trump will be all over this.
This is nothing more than a ‘rescue’ for the dems for the next election by eliminating the issue. A win for the left wing environmental whackos too.(those who write the big checks)
Unless it is Hillary.
can someone educate me on why they can’t they resubmit the application when we have a real president?....Maybe, just maybe, Canada got sick and tired of playing childish games with us and sold the oil to the Russia.
Gets Hillary off the hook.
But opens the door very wide for Trump to go after union votes by promising to build it aggressively.
Obama’s America at work once again.
Dead deal. The Canadians are beefing up pipelines to the BC coast, and they’re selling that oil to china. And for the NAFTA naysayers out there, the US is the one that broke the deal.
Don’t forget to mention jobs for Teamsters and other unionists.
Care to re-phrase that observation again?........LOL.
Fine. It will just make Trump a bigger hero when HE approves it.
Did we expect anything more than rejection?
Everyone knew this bass turd would try to kill it in the last year of his reign. Canada should have made their XL deal with.China years ago instead of dealing with our incompetent poseur.
Seven years of foot dragging makes this not a surprise.
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