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TransCanada had originally proposed several alternative routes and expressed a preference for a route that would detour around the Ogallala Aquifer tha is the subject of so much polical angst.

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.

1 posted on 12/02/2011 3:30:11 PM PST by Clive
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2 posted on 12/02/2011 3:30:45 PM PST by Clive
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To: Clive

Keep the heat on Obama over this pipeline. Shove those words about “shovel ready jobs” down his lying throat.


4 posted on 12/02/2011 3:35:05 PM PST by Rooivalk
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To: Clive

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.


6 posted on 12/02/2011 3:36:30 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Clive
Keystone XL the 'safest pipeline ever'

"... 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.

7 posted on 12/02/2011 3:39:05 PM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: Clive

Reroute it to avoid the aquifer and Nebraska.


9 posted on 12/02/2011 3:53:47 PM PST by Ingtar (Newt (four more for Obama) & Mitt (Obamacare) - what wonderful choices!)
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The Envirofreaks could not care less about the pipeline and know it can't hurt the aquifer. They simply don't want any oil sand development. They don't care about American energy independence. They hate America, Americans and human beings in general.

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.

10 posted on 12/02/2011 3:59:31 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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"...since the oil giant applied for a construction permit 40 months ago..."

40 Months.

This.
Is.
Insane.

11 posted on 12/02/2011 4:01:14 PM PST by rlmorel ("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
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"... that would detour around the Ogallala Aquifer..."

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.

12 posted on 12/02/2011 4:04:58 PM PST by rlmorel ("A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." Winston Churchill)
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Either way it is scientifically irrelevant since the Ogallala is hundreds of feet below ground, and over-lain by an impervious layer of calcified clay. Keystone XL is a pure, 100% political exercise in psychopathic power.
17 posted on 12/02/2011 4:33:12 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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“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.


18 posted on 12/02/2011 5:01:25 PM PST by Loyal Sedition
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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.

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.

23 posted on 12/03/2011 12:08:50 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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...including 21,000 censors linked to satellites...

Good. Keep those censors (sensors?) busy so the news can get out!

24 posted on 12/03/2011 12:10:00 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Clive

The enviro-wackos want us all living in grass huts like Obama’s half brother in Kenya living on $15 per year.


35 posted on 12/03/2011 6:28:43 PM PST by dennisw (I heard the old man laughing What good is a used up world and how could it be worth having-Sting)
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