Keystone XL Pipeline Builder Suspends Request For Permit
At least for now. TransCanada, the company that has been eager to build a tar sands pipeline running through the United States, has requested that the Obama Administration suspend the review of their application to construct Keystone XL. Canadian and American politics played decisive factors:
[T]he Calgary-based company seeking to build the 1,179-mile pipeline, announced the move in a letter to the State Department, which must approve cross-border projects and had been reviewing its application for a presidential permit. The pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast, and the question of its approval has weighed heavily over Mr. Obama as he sought to build an ambitious legacy on climate change.
A delay would be almost certain to put off a final decision on the pipeline until Mr. Obama left office, making it likely that the pipeline would be a hotly debated topic in the 2016 presidential race.
Environmental advocates and liberal activists, many of whom are convinced that the Obama administration will ultimately reject the pipeline, called TransCanada’s request a ploy to avoid having its proposal killed.
“This is nothing more than another desperate and cynical attempt by TransCanada to build their dirty pipeline someday if they get a climate denier in the White House in 2017,” said Tiernan Sittenfeld, the senior vice president of government affairs at the League of Conservation Voters, calling the request “absurd.”
Mr. Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry “have all the information they need to reject this dangerous pipeline, and we are counting on them to do just that,” Ms. Sittenfeld said.
Copyright 2015 Liberaland
By: dave-dr-gonzo
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13 responses to Keystone XL Pipeline Builder Suspends Request For Permit
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CandideThirtythree November 2nd, 2015 at 21:21
I think it had something to do with the very low price of oil right now and the fact that liberals took back the government a few weeks ago. They did vow to clean up the messes that the conservatives made there over the last 10 years.
tracey marie November 2nd, 2015 at 21:25
Absolutely correct, Canadians voted against the pipeline in their country and are against the company as well
alpacadaddy November 2nd, 2015 at 21:32
As we should…beyond the obvious environmental risks, the issue of Eminent Domain, seizing private lands for a for-profit company, a foreign company no less, goes against everything I learned growing up on a family farm!
Sharon Williams November 3rd, 2015 at 08:44
robert November 2nd, 2015 at 21:29
ask the new Canadian president what he thinks of this project ?
Obewon November 2nd, 2015 at 22:35
In Canada, B.C. and Quebec use carbon taxes as part of their strategies to reduce emissions and encourage investments in energy-efficiency and renewable energy. Report All Over the Map details these and other provincial climate efforts. http://www.davidsuzuki.org/issues/climate-change/science/climate-solutions/carbon-tax-or-cap-and-trade/
rg9rts November 2nd, 2015 at 23:07
Prime Minister
Obewon November 2nd, 2015 at 22:29
Canada’s “Cap and trade”-CO2 emission environmental laws are far stricter than USA’s EPA.
rg9rts November 2nd, 2015 at 23:06
I wonder how much of the decision is the new liberal government’s idea???
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William November 3rd, 2015 at 10:58
Damn liberals cost us 35 jobs.
Thanks Obama.
amersham46 November 3rd, 2015 at 19:55
Most people are making Trans Canada Pipelines the villain in the story , They are building it for American Big Oil to keep their Texas refineries busy
tracey marie November 3rd, 2015 at 20:11
They are the villians as well as Texas. Several ranchers are in court, Perry gave TC legal rights of emminite domain. They stole the land and sliced through working ranches.