Posted on 11/06/2011 5:01:40 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Protestors circle White House in oil pipeline row Photo 7:06pm EST
By Jeff Mason and Patrick Temple-West
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters opposed to a new oil pipeline from Canada to the United States circled the White House complex on Sunday to press President Barack Obama to reject the project on environmental grounds.
Opponents to TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport crude produced from oil sands, have dogged the president for months, arguing against the carbon-spewing process of extracting oil from the sands.
On Sunday thousands of men and women, many of them wearing orange vests with "Stop the pipeline" printed on them, lined up around the White House grounds, which include the presidential mansion, the Treasury department and a sprawling executive office building.
Carrying signs that matched Obama's campaign colors of blue and red, some protesters chanted "Hey Obama, we don't want no climate drama" and "Stop the pipeline, yes we can," copying phrases connected to Obama's successful 2008 election effort.
The pipeline controversy threatens to loom over the 2012 presidential race. Obama faces political pitfalls whether his administration approves or rejects the project.
A decision in favor would support Obama's goal of creating jobs and diversifying U.S. energy sources, but it would alienate core Democratic supporters who are already disappointed by his progress in fighting climate change.
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Occupy the Oval Office. It’s public property after all. I am sure they won’t mind you flea bitten mongrels crapping in the floor for the next few weeks.
This smells funny. The WH compound is simply too big to be “surrounded” by a handfull of protesters. Need to see overhead pics.
Give them a spanking & send them home(via donkey).
Zer0’s laying pipe with Larry again?
This is a news story? Carbon spewing?
Environmetal posers at Rooters.
Send those Portland lice-infested protestors to occupy the Oval Office - what goes around, comes around.
If it speaks in groupspeak and stinks, it belongs to Obama.
Fluff protest. Allowable to keep the image.
The fact that they were being allowed to protest at all means that they had the blessings of the boy king.
Go up to the gate and/or perimeter fence...especially the corner and take picture of the corner post....
Guarantee.... a uniformed member of the company guard will be at your elbow in an instant...
Behind the corner post and that little glass oval is a camera and your personal connection to the Federal wanted list....
A pretty pleasant gent accosted me....but I didn't take much guff.... It is public property and I was just tak'n pictures.
Go up to the gate...especially the corner and take picture of the corner post....
Guarantee.... a uniformed member of the company guard will be at your elbow in an instant...
Behind the corner post and that little glass oval is a camera and your personal connection to the Federal wanted list....
A pretty pleasant gent accosted me....but I didn't take much guff.... It is public property and I was just tak'n pictures.
Obama was not at the White House when the protest took place. As he often does on the weekends, the president was playing golf.
40 hour work week, not bad
extracting it produces carbon?
Who is organizing the build-the-pipeline human-ring around the White House?
That will, of course, increase the amount of oil that the US will need to import by tanker, so the "environmentalists" will have eliminated extremely safe pipeline transportation of oil in return for a string of tankers leaving Canada, while others are coming here. This lack of intelligence is typical of "environmentalists," who show more evidence every day that they do their 'thinking' with their butts. |
How about we build a hippie pipeline.......into the ocean.
Spews carbon. Scientific term I’d say...
Speaking of golf, does he still play? Haven’t heard anything about his golf outings for quite a while.
I think the centipede model would work best for them.
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As others have noted, Obama has no say over the Trans-Canadian pipeline. It's the Canadians' oil, they want to sell it, and if the US won't buy it they'll be happy to point the pipe into the hold of a Chinese tanker and have it sail away.