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Trump administration to approve Keystone pipeline Monday: Report
The Washington Times ^ | March 23, 2017 | Ben Wolfgang

Posted on 03/23/2017 10:03:33 AM PDT by jazusamo

The Trump administration on Monday will formally approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, according to media reports, finally ending a years-long series of starts, stops and delays, and kicking off the kind of massive infrastructure project the president promised during his campaign.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; keystone; keystonepipeline; keystonexl; pipeline; statedepartment; trump
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To: jazusamo

I’m all for energy self-sufficiency, but I wish they wouldn’t be running this thing through Tornado Alley. Even a smaller tornado could cause millions of dollars in damage to this pipeline. There are far fewer tornadoes just west of these states, where the pipeline could go with very little risk of being damaged by a twister.


21 posted on 03/23/2017 12:09:45 PM PDT by lbtbell
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To: factoryrat

The pipeline to the coast has been in the works for a long time.

As for shutting down the oil sands — not happening. Lower petro prices do reduce new development. However, once production has been started, the marginal cost of extraction is far, far lower than the average cost (which includes all the sunk costs). Furthermore, government royalty payments are reduced, when the price of oil drops. The oil companies thus take a larger share of the sales, when the price is lower.

Meanwhile you (i.e. Americans) continue to get a bargain, because you have considerable monopsony powers, until the pipeline to the coast gets built.


22 posted on 03/23/2017 12:16:25 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: lbtbell

That’s my worry as well, but the people who actually worked on and planned the pipe that I talked to said that after some titanic scale meetings and research the path they chose was the absolute minimum headache in terms of legal battles, land rights, etc. So if this was the EASY way I can only imagine what was the HARD way.


23 posted on 03/23/2017 2:10:18 PM PDT by Laser_Ray
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To: jazusamo

THEN .. HIRE A COMPLETE SQUAD OF (former military types - with police training), TO STAND WATCH OVER THE PLACE (they needs the jobs)... WE DON’T NEED ANY MORE PEOPLE SHOWING UP WITH A BLOW TORCH AND CREATING A HOLE IN THE PIPELINE .. ESPECIALLY DURING THE NIGHT WHEN THE PIPELINE IS FILLED WITH OIL.


24 posted on 03/23/2017 2:11:57 PM PDT by CyberAnt ("Peace Through Strength")
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To: jazusamo

Will they build a refinery or other processing facilities at the end of the pipeline?


25 posted on 03/23/2017 2:18:18 PM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: 353FMG

The oil in the Keytone pipeline will be going to refineries on the Texas coast designed for this type crude.


26 posted on 03/23/2017 2:35:56 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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