On Friday afternoon, the State Department released a
draft of its much-anticipated new analysis of the environmental impact of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Although the report makes no firm statement one way or the other about whether the controversial pipeline from Canada to Texas should be approved, some of its conclusions have enviros worried that a greenlight is inevitable.The administration has spent more than two years considering whether to approve the 1,600-mile pipeline that would carry oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries in Texas. Because the pipeline crosses an international border, the State Department gets to decide whether it should be built. Climate change activists have been holding rallies and civil disobedience actions outside the White House for the past year and a half in an effort to convince the administration to block the project. Obama delayed a decision on the pipeline in November 2011, asking the State Department to produce more research on the pipeline's potential environmental impact—the report, a "supplemental environmental impact statement," or SEIS, that was issued Friday afternoon.
i like that this Pres. is not driven by making money for big oil and other business. republicans love to shoot first and make excuses later maybe, the difference in looking out for you and allowing the worse kind of raw to cut through the US and on to overseas, not your local gas station Tuesday night by 7pm.
Enviros immediately seized on the new report, arguing against its claim that any spills associated with the pipeline are "expected to be rare and relatively small," and said it underestimated the project's contribution to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. They also challenged the idea that TransCanada's pipeline will not make a huge difference in the development of the tar sands, pointing to the industry's own claims that the pipeline is essential to their plans to expand export of this type of oil.
do you have any idea what te finished product would cost give this being the dirtiest of oil, they aren't going to let a good chance to guage us at the pump, hell they do it by creating false reasons why a real reason would be good for at least 3 times cost, not to mention getting back the Gil money.
they rre not doing this for affordable gas for you it's for more riches for them at our deregulated expense, who's zoomin' who?
