Posted on 11/15/2011 4:41:20 PM PST by jazusamo
A day after Canadian oil company TransCanada agreed to reroute its proposed Keystone oil pipeline around Nebraska' ecologically sensitive Ogallala Aquifer, the State Department refused to budge on a new environmental review of the project that is not slated for completion until 2013 -- after the presidential election.
The State Department on Tuesday denied that the delay is designed to appease environmentalists, a core constituency of the Obama administration.
"I can only say, as we've said repeatedly on the record, that the White House had no bearing on the decision-making process," State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday. "The State Department has the lead on this issue, and we're going about it in a very transparent and apolitical way."
But representatives of the oil industry beg to differ.
"Unfortunately, this was clearly a political decision on the part of the president. He sacrificed 20,000 new American jobs to save one and that was his own job," said Jack Gerrard of the American Petroleum Institute. "We believe the president should quickly reconsider that the decision to delay the Keystone XL pipeline determination and to get focused on jobs and energy production."
The delay has sparked a firestorm of political broadsides. At a time when the president has been effectively accusing congressional Republicans of blocking his energy and job creation agenda, they used the Keystone delay to fire back during a Capitol Hill Press conference Tuesday.
"Here we have a president going off to Australia and playing golf in Hawaii. The guy sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is destroying this country," said Rep. Allen West, R-Fla.
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There is no way it should have a say in pipelines between the US and Canada.
This is what happens when you have people working to destroy our country so they can try and rebuild it the way they want it. What they don’t realize is that the American people won’t let it happen. But....they will keep trying until they are out of office. The sooner the better.
What a sad commentary that the US State Department gets to rule on whether a pipeline within the US can be built just because it will cross the US -Canada border.
So, the Canadians will sell their oil to China, and we will continue to purchase oil from the fanatical Muslim Arabs. Great job Hillary. Great job Obama. Two bigger idiots would be hard to find. On second thought, two bigger individuals intent on destroying America would be hard to find.
They have to be lying. The Environmental Impact Statement said the pipeline would have no adverse effect on the Ogallala aquifer. Politics is the only explanation for the delay.
Hammer -> nail!!
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Exactly!
Tar. Feathers.
Here’s all you need to know.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/11/warren_buffets_keystone_bonanza.html
November 15, 2011
Warren Buffet’s Keystone Bonanza
BS. The State Dept. is part of the Executive branch, which is headed by the President.
Good find. Thanks.
Surprise - Surprise-—not
Thanks for the link.
Cannot take credit.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2807948/posts
Warren Buffet’s Keystone Bonanza
American Thinker ^ | November 15,2011 | Frank Friday
Posted on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 3:39:48 PM by Hojczyk
Finally someone says it.
Is there syill time for West to run for the Presidency?
Finally someone says it.
Is there still time for West to run for the Presidency?
And I deny that I'm middle-aged and overweight. But who am I fooling?
It seems some here are forgetting what role the Governor of NE has played in the scenario. Essentially delaying the process in search of more guarantees of protection from spills. Following his objections, and after achieving a better deal from XL Dept of State got into the act with their “not before next year” stance.
I doubt Canada is going to sit on their oil until the idiots in the state dept get their act together.
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