Keystone XL Pipeline Project thread

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The left getting infected by knee-jerk bourgeois environmentalism is unfortunate. This pipeline is significantly safer than the alternative (delivering the oil by rail) anyway.

And having it sent via pipeline to be refined in the U.S. is much safer (and would contribute less GHGs) than the alternative--ship it via oil tanker to China.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

A push by environmental groups against the project may be affecting public opinion: 58 percent of poll respondents say they want Canada to take steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as a condition for approval, with 32 percent opposing such a requirement.

Canada is a tiny country population wise.  What do their miniscule Green House emissions have to do with anything?

Although per capita their emission rates are pretty high.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

If they build it, then the U.S. should get some of the oil from it instead of letting it get shipped overseas. Fair is fair.

That's up to the companies who own the oil...

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

If they build it, then the U.S. should get some of the oil from it instead of letting it get shipped overseas. Fair is fair.

For free?

For free.

So what should American companies give other companies when they travel over their airspace?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

So what do you all think?  Is the State Department EIS on the pipeline so compromised by the oil industry that it is too biased to be reliable, as the Greens are claiming here? 

It absolutely is.

Evidence?

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

A Nebraska court just declared unconstitutional a law giving Governor Dave Heineman the right to approve the proposed Keystone route through his state.

And the saga continues....   

Does the Public Service Commission oppose the current pipeline plan?