Obama “will not rest” until he finds a way to create jobs. But first, a nap! Washington Post:
The Obama administration will announce this afternoon it is rejecting a Canadian firm’s application for a permit to build and operate a massive oil pipeline across the U.S.-Canada border, according to sources who have been briefed on the matter.
However the administration will allow TransCanada to reapply after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive habitat of Nebraska’s Sandhills.
It’s TransCanada’s own fault: perhaps if they’d included in their proposal robots who sing Disney tunes and waterfall showers for all the new workers — as well as assured the EPA, the Interior, the Dept of Energy, and the State Department that the energy produced would be negligible — they’d have gotten both the Administration’s approval and its appreciation.
I blame the toxic culture of Sarah Palin, who has forever coupled calls for traditional means of energy production to twangy stupidity and winking whorishness. The unpolished bint. “Drill, baby, drill!” indeed. What are we, state schoolers? Savages?
(h/t Darleen)
Good. The clearer he makes his vision for America the better.
Oh, that blackout thing today? Practice.
Your tone is unhelpful.
Damn right.
Any decision on developments such as the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline should be left to Canadians, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says .
“It’s one thing in terms of whether Canadians, you know, want jobs, to what degree Canadians want environmental protection. These are all valid questions,” Harper said in an exclusive interview Monday with CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge.
“But just because certain people in the United States would like to see Canada be one giant national park for the northern half of North America, I don’t think that’s part of what our review process is all about.”
And the fault of the Republican
CongressHouse too. They’re the ones who forced theObama AdministrationState Dept. to rush the process in their ill-considered publicity stunt which put politics ahead of the careful consideration of all the concievable environmental consequences under review.After all, four years isn’t nearly enough time to come to a full and informed decision.
Gas – $4.50 by election time?
Remember this in 2022 when someone says it would take ten years before any oil could have been delivered, distilled, or used even if we built the pipeline.
Perry should call a press conference, and say, “I encourage our Canadian neighbors to proceed with the project as planned. I can assure them that once I’m elected, the government will no longer work to keep jobs and energy away from those who so desperately need them.”
Impeachment would throw a wrench into FROTUS’s gearworks.
The more I read about him, the more I’m liking Stephen Harper. He says what he means and he means what he says. Last week it was *poof* I hearby invalidate all foreigners who sneaked over our border to be SS married? Invalid, I say. (I’m paraphrasing.)
Refreshing, it is.
But just because certain people in the United States would like to see Canada be one giant national park for the northern half of North America, I don’t think that’s part of what our review process is all about.
Those same people have the same attitude about everything west of the Mississippi. “Don’t you DARE drill within 100 miles of this interesting red rock formation! It spoils the aesthetics (read: our photo ops)!”
Ain’t it the truth. I still can’t get over all of the perfectly good oil rig platforms sitting off the coast of California rusting away in the sea. Those people aren’t worried about the sealife or they’d put an end to the kelp-cutters, which look like giant seafaring combines that mow through the kelp beds and mulch unsuspecting seals in the process.
East, as well. Remember the windmills off Martha’s Vineyard? And the rigs in the Gulf of Mexico?
So, let’s see – taking the oil across a nice flat plain to the refinery is “too dangerous”, but piping it over the rockies, onto a tanker and shipping it across the Pacific ocean to a dirty refinery in China is better.
Gotcha.
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Brian Schweitzer, (D!) Montana’s governor is on Cavuto slamming Obama about the pipeline decision.
How exactly did Obama end up with the only vote on this?
Did our moronic critters gift this to us?
Who didn’t know he’d say no?
Don’t know how the admin. ended up with the only vote, di but he telegraphed this move shortly after Congress stuck him with the deadline. And really, even before then you could just tell that he wanted to block this pipeline. One of those unpopular decisions enlightened, knowledgeable leaders have to make
—particularly when the rubes want nothing to do with your vision of a future powered by green energy that they can’t afford.
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Um, so this ain’t the arugala thread deal?
Same difference, right?
I think I need a reminder of what FROTUS means — at least, the first two letters.
Seems to me SCOAMFOTUS would work too…
I thought it was “First Retard.”
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I predict Obama will approve the pipeline later this year, closer to the election. He will ride to our rescue after enough time has elapsed for him to plausibly say: “See, I told you environmental Luddites we just needed more time to study the possible impacts that we might have missed during the first three years of study.” Possible? No?
How exactly did Obama end up with the only vote on this?
Supposedly, the wrench in the works (and one that, coincidentally belongs to Obama, he says) is that the pipeline crosses a national border and not just state lines. Of course, the good people of Nebraska also don’t want the pipeline—for reasons I am unable to ferret out. Anyway, the border thing allows him to holler, “Hold on there!” and call in Hillary at State. And, since we all know how pro-jobgrowth and women-of-the-people Hills is, it’s a lead pipe cinch that nothing gets done until after the election.
It doesn’t get more transparent than this. But the sound-bite information voter will not hear the story.
Cyber Johnny is probably right, heard some costruction union dudes on NPR this morning who weren’t happy at all about this.
A friend of mine put it something like this: when’s the last time you saw a major oil spill from an oil pipeline running aground?
I guess there are a certain number of pipeline spills per year, but still. We’ve had single tanker spills that account for a decade of the volume of pipeline spills.
In the case of Nebraska it’s a combination of the usual environmentalist whackjobs and the agriculture lobby. Farmers are amongst the worst NIMBY-ites you’re likely to meet —until it’s time to retire to Florida or the Southwest, then they can’t wait for the developers to come around.
Slart, for pipeline spills there have been at least a couple of real doozies from the big one in Alaska, but the Exxon Valdez still dwarfs them all, combined.
Ron Radosh has an insightful take on why Obama killed the Keystone XL pipeline.
In short, it’s because the political calculus is that the thousands of jobs which would be created, and probably go to the the kind of white working class voters that Obama has written off, aren’t as important right now as the votes (and contributions!) of upper-middle class and upper class elitists who love gaia and think that gasoline comes from gas pumps —kinda like water from a well.