Keystone Pipeline debate heats up

Source: wash. post

Canadian ambassador Gary Doer has a straightforward analysis of whether TransCanada will win the Obama administration’s approval to build and operate an enormous pipeline to transport oil from Alberta to the Texas coast.

“If it’s made on merit, we’re confident,” Doer said in an interview. “If it’s made on noise, it’s unpredictable.”

Foes of the project — which has become a test of how President Obama balances environmental considerations against economic and energy supply concerns — will try to turn up the noise Sunday with a rally around the White House. Unemployed workers who support the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline are planning to counter with a blitz of media interviews over the weekend.

The Dec. 31 target date for a final decision is drawing closer, and it is unclear whether the State Department, which is in charge of the approval process, will meet it.

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but that trick hasn't worked yet for me on anything. Maybe if I write and tell him to go ahead, he'll continue to defy me and tell them no....?

line. I always figure they don't read the meat of the letter anyway, but they may tally the pros and cons. Worth a shot.

from dependence on oil imports: “The energy security argument is part of the debate,” Doer (Canadian Ambassador) said, adding that well before the uprisings started in the Middle East this spring he had joked with a State Department official, “What’s it going to take, a crisis in the Middle East to get this moving?” Very funny!

Seldom mentioned is the sister pipeline planned for British Columbia. Like the proposed Texas site it will also be an "export terminal". Now that's funny!
:rofl:

Who is he kidding?

There is NO merit to this pipeline. NONE.

It is an environmental disaster from start to finish.

It will spill, and into the large aquifer of the region, the Ogallala aquifer.

The oil is very very dirty. It won't reduce our need for oil. It will go onto the world's market, as oil producers have no loyalty to any country.

The jobs provided are temporary.

Merit. My contempt for the Canadian ambassador on this project knows no bounds.

once refined is being shipped out of country. Think it will help prices here, HA!!

Yes this would be a disaster of royal proportions. Here in Nebraska, as well as some other states, we pump irrigation and drinking water from the Ogallala Aquifer. We are only 1 of many states doing the same thing and this is a major producing area of the country.

They are playing russian roulette just like deep sea drilling and we all know how well that turned out.

anybody else?

My family and I will be there.