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truedelphi

(32,324 posts) Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:40 PM Mar 2013

So fracking gets approval from State Dept Study - Just released study Mar 1st

This will give all of our fine friends in the Political Class their ability to have a cover story while they help get Industry what it wants.

Study was released to be buried inside the 4Pm on Friday news cycle - the usual "PR trick" so that no one in America knows what is going on.

On edit: The study is showing "no apparent harm" will come to the nation from tar sands pipeline, known as the Keystone XL Pipeline. The opening sentence of the above article:
WASHINGTON — The State Department issued a revised environmental impact statement for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline on Friday that makes no recommendation about whether the project should be built but presents no conclusive environmental reason it should not be.

This gives our President the cover he needs to go merrily about his way. It also helps 53 Senators who on an average got over a half million dollars apiece from the Fracking Industry feel A-okay, conscience-wise, about their maneuvering to help Industry:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/02/us/us-report-sees-no-environmental-bar-to-keystone-pipeline.html?ref=earth&_r=0

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So fracking gets approval from State Dept Study - Just released study Mar 1st (Original Post) truedelphi Mar 2013 OP

To be rapidly followed by the Keystone Pipeline report that proves Jackpine Radical Mar 2013 #1

That's what this report was. Sorry about the midlead. truedelphi Mar 2013 #2

Jackpine Radical

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1. To be rapidly followed by the Keystone Pipeline report that proves

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Sat Mar 2, 2013, 05:44 PM

Mar 2013

that the project poses no threat to the environment.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)

2. That's what this report was. Sorry about the midlead.

Reply to Jackpine Radical (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 06:43 PM

Mar 2013

In the OP, i should have printed out the first sentence of the study:
WASHINGTON — The State Department issued a revised environmental impact statement for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline on Friday that makes no recommendation about whether the project should be built but presents no conclusive environmental reason it should not be.

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