The Democrats should kill it in the Senate. Then when the new congress is sworn in, Obama can veto it.

Cassidy's bill (XL), passed by the House,
will not be popular in the Senate.

expect the usual endless bickering

This matter is in the hands of the State Department, no one else.

that toxic goo going through your backyard.

a Canadian tar sands oil pipeline leaked something horrible for days and polluted the Kalamazoo River not too far away to where it drains into Lake Michigan. Four years later they are still trying to clean it up. At least with a train if something bad happens, it will be a smaller spill and easily contained.

There is no intrinsically safe way to transport much of anything. But this oil is going to get to market and there is no better way to do it.

The potential points of failure and disruption are innumerable.

if you want to keep pushing oil company propaganda, there is nothing more to say here. If you Canadians want to pipeline it across Canada, go for it, but keep it up there!

Between Canada and the US. Just look at the DOT-111 taker car fiasco. Spills happen.



And for the record, I'm an American from Southern California. Although I'm perplexed by the fury over Keystone XL when similar pipelines moving the exact same product were a source of remarkably little concern.

If you don't want Canadian crude, we're either going to have to kill that peasant whackjob in Venezuela, drill off-shore in California or build new refineries more adept to the lighter product the US is producing.

It accepts applications for say pipelines crossing international borders, takes comments, and makes a recommendation to approve or disapprove the application. If the President agrees with a recommendation to approve, a Presidential Permit is issued. If the President disagrees with a recommendation to approve, the Presidential Permit will not be issued and the application will be denied.

The State Department received the authority to process these applications by virtue of an Executive Order.

The Legislature alone cannot usurp an Executive Branch function and vice versa.

Sam