Mr. H.
Diamond Member
To help wrap our heads around the insanity behind Obama's deliberate stalling on the Keystone XL project, maybe it would help to take a look at another Canadian pipeline - The Alberta Clipper...
The Alberta Clipper moves about 500,000 barrels of tar sands crude into the United States each day. It was approved by the State Department in 2009 and a Presidential Permit was issued to Enbridge Energy for its construction.
The Alberta Clipper crosses the international border with Canada (as would KXL), traverses several States (as would KXL), and terminates at U.S. refineries (as would KXL).
Take a close look at a couple of the comments from the Department of State website posted August 20, 2009 regarding the Alberta Clipper...
The Department found that the addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States.
Approval of the permit sends a positive economic signal, in a difficult economic period, about the future reliability and availability of a portion of United States’ energy imports, and in the immediate term, this shovel-ready project will provide construction jobs for workers in the United States.
Back to the KXL... it has been through 5 (count 'em, five) environmental impact studies in as many years. It is of the same scope and purpose as the Alberta Clipper Pipeline, and it will reduce crude oil imports from OPEC and other nations who aren't as chummy with us as Canada (to say the least).
This project has evolved into a blatant "political football" with no end in sight.
Forget the jobs figures- they're all over the chart depending upon whom does the regurgitating.
We're talking hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude per day that would NOT be coming from countries such as Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Liberia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, etc. etc. etc. blah blah blah....
It's going on SIX YEARS!
The Alberta Clipper moves about 500,000 barrels of tar sands crude into the United States each day. It was approved by the State Department in 2009 and a Presidential Permit was issued to Enbridge Energy for its construction.
The Alberta Clipper crosses the international border with Canada (as would KXL), traverses several States (as would KXL), and terminates at U.S. refineries (as would KXL).
Take a close look at a couple of the comments from the Department of State website posted August 20, 2009 regarding the Alberta Clipper...
The Department found that the addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States.
Approval of the permit sends a positive economic signal, in a difficult economic period, about the future reliability and availability of a portion of United States’ energy imports, and in the immediate term, this shovel-ready project will provide construction jobs for workers in the United States.
Back to the KXL... it has been through 5 (count 'em, five) environmental impact studies in as many years. It is of the same scope and purpose as the Alberta Clipper Pipeline, and it will reduce crude oil imports from OPEC and other nations who aren't as chummy with us as Canada (to say the least).
This project has evolved into a blatant "political football" with no end in sight.
Forget the jobs figures- they're all over the chart depending upon whom does the regurgitating.
We're talking hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude per day that would NOT be coming from countries such as Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Liberia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, etc. etc. etc. blah blah blah....
It's going on SIX YEARS!
