It was the United States, not TransCanada that chose the direct route. Its grounds appear to have been that it was shorter and so involved less real estate and that it crossed fewer rivers.
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Keep the heat on Obama over this pipeline. Shove those words about “shovel ready jobs” down his lying throat.
What the hell is wrong with Democrats? have they all lost their minds.
Can they really be this loyal to the POS in the White House.
20,000 jobs, Energy independence from the Middle east.
This is a Nationa Security decision in my mind.
What possible reason can they offer for not wanting this pipeline, other than to give more money to the alterniative energy producers who have already made many of them rich.
We need a Republican President bad, but we need a Repoublican House and Senate even more. A House and senate filled with Real Republicans, not the RINO’s that fill those slots now.
"... and the Titanic is 'unsinkable'."
Personally, yes, keep up the pressure on ODrama. we want and need this for many good reasons.Just don't jinx it.
Reroute it to avoid the aquifer and Nebraska.
Somehow in those weird things they call brains, they'd rather see the oil go to China if oil sand development continues without the U.S. pipeline. These people are not sane.
40 Months.
This.
Is.
Insane.
Seriously, though...does anyone even think if they DID make that detour, that the opponents would smile broadly and say "Oh, well then...we are fine with it!"
If the pipe goes over a creek where the Obsidian Striped Borer Beetle lives, that would be the next obstacle. Detour around that...
It will never end. These people are determined to ruin us.
“The $7 billion pipeline would transport 830,000 barrels of crude daily to the Gulf Coast, where specialized refineries process a similar product from Venezuela.”
I support the pipeline, but I have to wonder.
Maybe, just maybe, it would make more sense to build a refinery closer to the source?
Short pipeline, new refinery, for the WIN.
Gulf Coast is prone to shutdown due to severe weather, it might make sense to put a refinery or two quite a bit further inland.
NE U.S. still uses a lot of heating oil, a nearby refinery might cut transport cost.
Of course the NIMBY’s and eco-nuts have prevented any new refinery being built for decades.
Maybe the pipe line would be less offensive to them than a new refinery?
Of course we all know the real eco-nut goal is to destroy our way of life by denying us any new source of oil/energy.
If the Canadians stepped up production, that might leave little Hugo with less refining capacity needed here for those refineries. Can't be messing with 'bammy's homies, now.
Good. Keep those censors (sensors?) busy so the news can get out!
The enviro-wackos want us all living in grass huts like Obama’s half brother in Kenya living on $15 per year.