Dear Readers; Left wing environmentalists……, the same one’s that hug trees, love animals, take a bike to work, are probably vegetarians, or worse yet, vegans, drink green tea and recycle everything including their non-green friends, have managed to put the Keystone pipeline on hold until after next years U.S. election.
(The timing seems to be just right for the lefties since they can’t protest the clubbing of baby seals again until the spring, so they didn’t really have anything to do anyway!)
Never mind that tens of thousands of jobs are lost, and the States is still dependent on Middle-East blood-oil, this is one time I have to agree with the U.S. Republicans that delaying the pipeline is a bad idea.
The one thing I would change, as we have discussed in a previous article, is slightly altering the direction the pipeline takes so that it avoids a huge aquifer that provides drinking water to much of the Mid-West!
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By Mark Dunn, Senior National CNEWS Reporter;
The Americans gave the cold shoulder to an offer of a steady supply of Alberta crude, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper will get plenty of face time with potential energy buyers this weekend in Hawaii.
And Harper could use the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit to ask President Barack Obama why he is stalling on the Keystone pipeline — a project Harper once said was a “no-brainer” because of the number of jobs it would create on both sides of the border.
The postponement of a decision on the $7-billion pipeline to Texas from Alberta until after next year’s presidential election is being used by pro-oil Republicans to bash Obama as a job killer during tough economic times.
“More than 20,000 American jobs have just been sacrificed in the name of political expediency,” House Speaker John Boehner said after a review was ordered of a new route in Nebraska away from an aquifer.
In Canada, the delay is causing some headaches for Alberta Premier Alison Redford. Her opponents accuse her of standing on the sidelines while Keystone was unravelling in Washington.
“Our own premier…has been missing in action,” Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said Friday. “Others have made this their top priority and our premier has not even been on the radar screen.”
Environmentalists have been sniping at Obama for months to veto the project or he would lose their support and cash, arguing the oilsands produces unacceptable levels of greenhouse gases and a pipeline rupture would harm sensitive areas.
That flies in the face of environmental reviews that approved the project.
Republicans point to the safety record of pipelines south of the border, which Americans have become dependent on to feed their thirst for energy.
Republicans are framing Obama’s dithering as pandering to a pro-environment base — some with pockets deep enough to fund his re-election campaign.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he hopes the delay won’t “doom” the project.
“It may mean that we may have to move quickly to ensure that we can export our oil to Asia through British Columbia,” he told Bloomberg News from Hawaii.
Flaherty was referring to pipelines being proposed to the West Coast.
Mark.Dunn@sunmedia.ca
Twitter:MarkDunnSun
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/11/11/18957676.html
Dear Readers; Left wing environmentalists……, the same one’s that hug trees, love animals, take a bike to work, are probably vegetarians, or worse yet, vegans, drink green tea and recycle everything including their non-green friends, have managed to put the Keystone pipeline on hold until after next years U.S. election.
(The timing seems to be just right for the lefties since they can’t protest the clubbing of baby seals again until the spring, so they didn’t really have anything to do anyway!)
Never mind that tens of thousands of jobs are lost, and the States is still dependent on Middle-East blood-oil, this is one time I have to agree with the U.S. Republicans that delaying the pipeline is a bad idea.
The one thing I would change, as we have discussed in a previous article, is slightly altering the direction the pipeline takes so that it avoids a huge aquifer that provides drinking water to much of the Mid-West!
———————————————————————————————-
By Mark Dunn, Senior National CNEWS Reporter;
The Americans gave the cold shoulder to an offer of a steady supply of Alberta crude, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper will get plenty of face time with potential energy buyers this weekend in Hawaii.
And Harper could use the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit to ask President Barack Obama why he is stalling on the Keystone pipeline — a project Harper once said was a “no-brainer” because of the number of jobs it would create on both sides of the border.
The postponement of a decision on the $7-billion pipeline to Texas from Alberta until after next year’s presidential election is being used by pro-oil Republicans to bash Obama as a job killer during tough economic times.
“More than 20,000 American jobs have just been sacrificed in the name of political expediency,” House Speaker John Boehner said after a review was ordered of a new route in Nebraska away from an aquifer.
In Canada, the delay is causing some headaches for Alberta Premier Alison Redford. Her opponents accuse her of standing on the sidelines while Keystone was unravelling in Washington.
“Our own premier…has been missing in action,” Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith said Friday. “Others have made this their top priority and our premier has not even been on the radar screen.”
Environmentalists have been sniping at Obama for months to veto the project or he would lose their support and cash, arguing the oilsands produces unacceptable levels of greenhouse gases and a pipeline rupture would harm sensitive areas.
That flies in the face of environmental reviews that approved the project.
Republicans point to the safety record of pipelines south of the border, which Americans have become dependent on to feed their thirst for energy.
Republicans are framing Obama’s dithering as pandering to a pro-environment base — some with pockets deep enough to fund his re-election campaign.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he hopes the delay won’t “doom” the project.
“It may mean that we may have to move quickly to ensure that we can export our oil to Asia through British Columbia,” he told Bloomberg News from Hawaii.
Flaherty was referring to pipelines being proposed to the West Coast.
Mark.Dunn@sunmedia.ca
Twitter:MarkDunnSun
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics/2011/11/11/18957676.html