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REPORT: State Department (Read, Obama) To Reject The Keystone Pipeline
Business Insider ^ | 01/18/12 | Mamta Badkar

Posted on 01/18/2012 9:11:26 AM PST by MissesBush

The Obama administration is expected to reject the controversial Keystone Pipeline this afternoon, according to Fox News.

The State Department is expected to vote against the pipeline this afternoon. Transcanada will however be allowed to reapply with an alternate route going through Nebraska.

The administration will be unlikely to approve the pipeline under the timeline for the payroll tax cut extension law which requires a decision by February 21

The project has been extremely controversial for two main reasons. Those in favor of the pipeline point to the 8.5% unemployment rate, and point out that the pipeline could create much-needed high-paying jobs. Moreover, it would provide cash-strapped governments with tax revenues. On the other hand after the BP Deepwater spill of 2010 and ExxonMobil's July 2011 pipeline spill, environmentalists are pressuring the Obama administration to nip the project in the bud.

More to come...

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-to-deny-keystone-pipeline-2012-1#ixzz1jpVHzoGx

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To: Jeff Head
J.H. "Obama is a disaster, and is an enemy to traditional America and the moral foundational principles our constitution depends upon"......yes he is a disaster and all the rest however, isn't it time to call Barack Hussein Obama the child of Kenyan father what he is:

Stanley Ann Dunham - mother
Obama, Sr., an African Muslim
Indonesian Muslim Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo

Barry was raised in his formative years in Indonesia and as a Muslim.

Lived with Communist leaning grandparents

He felt ‘at home’ with left leaning, American hating, professors and friends

Living like a King and Queen, Barack and Michelle Obama are not Socialists, they are Communists. He is killing this nation with Marxist rule, and Communist and Socialist advisers like Valery Jarrett and Van Jones for starters.

. Time to call this imposter what he is…..a Communist like his fathers.

81 posted on 01/18/2012 11:56:55 AM PST by yoe
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To: MissesBush

This man is despicable. He’s killing us. Or maybe shooting his re-election in the foot. Yay, on that!


82 posted on 01/18/2012 11:58:59 AM PST by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it's the new black. Mmm mmm mmm...)
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To: Da Coyote
Lest the English majors squeel, yes, I know.

Actually, we'd "squeal". But otherwise, I'm with you.

83 posted on 01/18/2012 12:09:27 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Why, yes. I AM in a bad mood.)
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To: yoe
I call him an abject Marxist ideolog, with very strong affinity for and ties to fundamental Islam

That's who we have as a President. it's sad, trgic...and unbelievable that such a thing could happen. But with almost half the country getting government handouts, with a radical socialist political party in the DNC, and with a corrupt and in the tank main stream media...we see hpow it did.

Now its time to take it back.

84 posted on 01/18/2012 12:10:39 PM PST by Jeff Head (Liberty is not free. Never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: MissesBush
Oddly, the Colonial Pipeline is perfectly OK... the "pipeline of prosperity."



But the Keystone XL Pipeline is horrid... the "pipeline of death."





What is the difference?

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85 posted on 01/18/2012 12:26:07 PM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: MissesBush

Bipartisan import interests and NIMBYs with large, remote land properties (”property values”). Political activities of all kinds of corrupted. Some will say that it’s a global market, but the rejection of the Keystone XL will raise western hemisphere oil prices.


86 posted on 01/18/2012 12:47:36 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: MissesBush

Groucho Marx: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHash5takWU


87 posted on 01/18/2012 12:57:36 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Diplomacy is war by other means.)
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To: MissesBush
This is at the bottom of the article :

“The NRDC and Oil Change International today released a report that says the Keystone XL Pipeline will not protect America's energy interests, rather it will maximize the profits of "Big Oils". From the report:

"Keystone XL’s backers want to re-direct tar sands oil from the American Midwest to reach the international market where tar sands oil would fetch a higher price. The Keystone XL pipeline would thus add billions of dollars to their annual profits while raising the cost of oil for millions of American consumers in the U.S. heartland.

There are clear alternatives to allowing the United States to be to be an oil conduit merely to accommodate ever- growing profits for big oil companies. As American gasoline consumption continues to shrink, the United States can continue its current trajectory to reduce its oil dependency by making further clean energy investments to improve fuel efficiency and replace oil with environmentally sound renewable fuels. These investments will create tens of thousands more jobs than Keystone XL would without the risk of major oil spills.”

What a bunch of horse crap.yeah, those other green jobs worked out so great.

88 posted on 01/18/2012 1:05:51 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB (Congress: Looting the future to bribe the present.)
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To: crusty old prospector
Well, there you have it. If mermaids are against it, then it must be a bad thing for all life forms.

Who cares what that dried up old hog thinks? She's an actress, not a petroleum engineer or even an average Joe/Jane trying to make it in this thing called life.
89 posted on 01/18/2012 1:13:03 PM PST by Nowhere Man (Holodeck Computer: End Obama Administration simulation program, NOW!!!!)
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To: Nowhere Man

This just in, “The President is STUPID on this”. - Newt


90 posted on 01/18/2012 1:26:34 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Jeff Head

On the money as usual......thanks.


91 posted on 01/18/2012 1:29:48 PM PST by yoe
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To: sappy
what’s the opposite of save or create jobs....... Obama
92 posted on 01/18/2012 1:36:10 PM PST by Don Carlos (01/20/2009 - Begin the Obama Interregnum)
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To: nutmeg
EVERY SINGLE DECISION OBAMA MAKES IS INTENDED TO HARM AMERICA. PERIOD.

It does seem that way... Thanks for the ping.

93 posted on 01/18/2012 1:44:57 PM PST by GOPJ (GAS WAS $1.85 per gallon on the day Obama was Inaugurated! - - freeper Gaffer)
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To: massgopguy

Is Newt looking for a beer-summit?


94 posted on 01/18/2012 2:02:48 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
The debate on CNN tomorrow night should be fun with all this new material for Newt to chew on and chew up.

I think how these candidates handle this issue in the debate will be the final thing to cement my decision about the primary. I suspect others will be paying close attention.

This issue is NOT a winner for Obamer and if those Repub candidates are serious they'll get out the long knives for Obamer on this one.

95 posted on 01/18/2012 2:13:30 PM PST by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com/)
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To: nutmeg; Cheerio
I think #66 cleared this up (thanks cheerio)

Our repersenatives are NOT representing the people.

If something like this was done by a conservative president, Harry Reid Peloski et al would be all over it.

96 posted on 01/18/2012 2:17:31 PM PST by Syncro (Sarah Palin, the unofficial Tea Party candidate for president--Virtual Jerusalem)
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To: crusty old prospector

The Hollywood vote and money is a lot more important than real jobs.


97 posted on 01/18/2012 2:28:16 PM PST by Rennes Templar
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To: MissesBush

Many of the ranchers I talked to in Western Nebraska didn’t want the pipeline. The liability was to high, and they have been burned by energy companies before.


98 posted on 01/18/2012 2:55:32 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: April Lexington
The state department is mzzz clinton. mzzz clinton is still married to bj.

On the other side of clinton was nancy pelosi. This was taken immediately prior to the election. When action is required, the powers that be submit their 'needs' to bill who then directs the puppet in the white tent.

This is why poor wittle nancy can't retire.

99 posted on 01/18/2012 3:01:12 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: MissesBush

Who needs a pipeline when your friend, Warren Buffett, owns a railroad and has a $38B subsidy to haul the oil?
http://www.bnsf.com/customers/where-can-i-ship/ -map


100 posted on 01/18/2012 4:07:08 PM PST by griswold3 (Character is Destiny)
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