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wtmusic

(39,166 posts) Fri May 10, 2013, 11:19 PM May 2013

Keystone XL: Obama urged by Democrat backers to reject pipeline

"The biggest backers of the Democratic causes urged Barack Obama on Friday to take historic action on climate change by rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline.

In a letter seen by the Guardian, 150 high-profile figures, who between them raised millions for Obama's two election campaigns, urged the president to use the next four years to avoid the most catastrophic consequences of climate change. "Yours is the last presidency in which it is possible for America to choose a responsible path forward for itself, before climate disruption becomes unmanageably dangerous," the letter said.

Opponents of the pipeline fear the project seems headed for approval, despite Obama's promises to act on climate change in his second term. Obama told a group at a west coast fundraiser last month: 'the politics of this are tough.'"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/10/keystone-xl-obama-democrats-backers-pipeline

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Keystone XL: Obama urged by Democrat backers to reject pipeline (Original Post) wtmusic May 2013 OP

K&R patrice May 2013 #1

I think his mind is already made up. russspeakeasy May 2013 #2

IMO that was true before the Mayflower spill. wtmusic May 2013 #3

Reuters: U.S. decision on Keystone XL pipeline seen dragging past summer Eugene May 2013 #4

patrice

(47,992 posts)

1. K&R

Reply to wtmusic (Original post)

Fri May 10, 2013, 11:29 PM

May 2013

russspeakeasy

(6,539 posts)

2. I think his mind is already made up.

Reply to wtmusic (Original post)

Fri May 10, 2013, 11:44 PM

May 2013

"the politics of this are tough".

wtmusic

(39,166 posts)

3. IMO that was true before the Mayflower spill.

Reply to russspeakeasy (Reply #2)

Sat May 11, 2013, 12:11 AM

May 2013

His money people are against it, his VP is against it, his party is against it, and his SOS is (presumably) against it. Prevailing wisdom is it will define his environmental legacy.

I'm holding out hope.

Eugene

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4. Reuters: U.S. decision on Keystone XL pipeline seen dragging past summer

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Sat May 11, 2013, 11:19 AM

May 2013

Source: Reuters

Exclusive: U.S. decision on Keystone XL pipeline seen dragging past summer

By Timothy Gardner
WASHINGTON | Fri May 10, 2013 8:41pm EDT

(Reuters) - The Obama administration is unlikely to make a decision on the Canada-to-Nebraska Keystone XL pipeline until late this year as it painstakingly weighs the project's impact on the environment and on energy security, a U.S. official and analysts said on Friday.

The decision may not be made until November, December or even early 2014, said a U.S. official, as President Barack Obama will not rush the process, which still has a number of stages to work through. One of those stages has not even begun yet and will run for months.

"The president has to be able to show that the administration looked under every stone to ensure it knew as much as it possibly could about the impact of Keystone," said the official, who did not want to be named given the sensitive nature of the project.

Analysts agreed that a decision would not be made by this summer as the State Department had suggested when it issued an environmental review on the pipeline on March 1.

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