And this means ... Canada can ship their oil shale largess to China more cheaply?
It means American jobs if Obama chooses
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And this means ... Canada can ship their oil shale largess to China more cheaply?
It means American jobs if Obama chooses
Sierra Club Chief to Risk Arrest Over Oil Pipeline - Yahoo! News
Executive director Michael Brune would be the first Sierra Club leader to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history as a way to oppose the pipeline, which would carry oil derived from tar sands in western Canada to refineries in Texas.
Sierra Club Chief to Risk Arrest Over Oil Pipeline - Yahoo! News
Executive director Michael Brune would be the first Sierra Club leader to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history as a way to oppose the pipeline, which would carry oil derived from tar sands in western Canada to refineries in Texas.
My problem with this is disaster recovery.
Henry Henderson: Kalamazoo River Spill: Two Years Later and the Tar Sands Mess in Michigan Still Looks Ugly
2 fucking years is not disaster recovery. It's just plain disaster.
Sierra Club Chief to Risk Arrest Over Oil Pipeline - Yahoo! News
Executive director Michael Brune would be the first Sierra Club leader to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history as a way to oppose the pipeline, which would carry oil derived from tar sands in western Canada to refineries in Texas.
My problem with this is disaster recovery.
Henry Henderson: Kalamazoo River Spill: Two Years Later and the Tar Sands Mess in Michigan Still Looks Ugly
2 fucking years is not disaster recovery. It's just plain disaster.
Sierra Club Chief to Risk Arrest Over Oil Pipeline - Yahoo! News
Executive director Michael Brune would be the first Sierra Club leader to be arrested in an act of civil disobedience. The club's board of directors approved civil disobedience for the first time in its 120-year history as a way to oppose the pipeline, which would carry oil derived from tar sands in western Canada to refineries in Texas.
My problem with this is disaster recovery.
Henry Henderson: Kalamazoo River Spill: Two Years Later and the Tar Sands Mess in Michigan Still Looks Ugly
2 fucking years is not disaster recovery. It's just plain disaster.
And an entire industry should be vilified over this? Why?
With millions of barrels of crude and billions of cubic feet of natural gas coursing through tens of thousands of pipeline-miles within this country... each and every day.
Not to diffuse or deflect, but to merely point out and put in perspective... agriculture has fouled our environment (air, water, ground) for a century at least. And it will continue to do so in perpetuity.
In my 3-1/2 years at USMB I don't recall such vitriol with respect to farming practices. Nor have I seen it in state or national political discourse. Nor will I ever. And why not?
The hydrocarbon industries represent a very small voting bloc. Yet these industries contribute substantially to our country's GDP, tax payments, and employment.
Without hydrocarbons all industry would grind to a halt.
Don't confuse priority with allegiance. Bandwagon mentality may play well in the Liberal political arena, but it does nothing to address reality.
South Dakota Supreme Court upholds permit for $10 billion oil refinery - Omaha.com
Hyperion's proposed refinery would process 400,000 barrels of Canadian tar sands crude oil each day into low-sulfur gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and liquid petroleum gas. If constructed, the 3,300-acre tract of farmland north of Elk Point would become the first new U.S. site for an oil refinery since 1976.
So, I guess the Keystone won't actually move Canadian oil straight to our Gulf coast and out the back door?
*****These are some specific instances of how northern oil is making its way to American refineries:
In North Dakota alone, oil producers have built rail terminals capable of handling nearly 1 million barrels of oil per day.
Refineries are also building rail terminals. Last month, Delek U.S. Holdings, a subsidiary of the Israeli energy company Delek Group, announced that it will begin refining 15,000 barrels of Canadian crude at its El Dorado, Ark., refinery. All of that oil is being shipped in by rail. A refinery in Delaware, owned by PBF Energy, recently completed a rail terminal that will allow it to take up to 110,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The Sunoco refinery in South Philadelphia as well as a Phillips 66 refinery in Bayway, N.J., are also ramping up their ability to accept more crude by rail.
If the Obama administration holds firm on blocking Keystone, the big loser will be TransCanada Corporation. But who will the big winners be? American railroads:
Americans are only paying the highest portion of their paychecks for gas in 30 years!
...if you exclude the 2008 spike in oil prices (to be fair, seemingly a unique anomaly and unsustained), Americans are paying the highest portion of paychecks toward gasoline prices in the past 3 decades. 30 years.
Pipeline maps;
EIA - Natural Gas Pipeline Network - U.S. Natural Gas Pipeline Network Map
Oil and gas pipelines in the US are over 400,000 miles long. They are everywhere.
Chicken Little is on a rampage...again...
So, I guess the Keystone won't actually move Canadian oil straight to our Gulf coast and out the back door?
But it`s so typical. Add to that the double standard when it comes to oil revenue sharing. The conservative Canadian Midwest Provinces already pay huge "transfer payments" to BC, Ontario and Quebec who`s left-thread-wingnut policies have tallied up a huge debt. All the while they have cursed us, for developing our resources. And the first thing Liberal Christy Clark demands is an even "larger share" :So, I guess the Keystone won't actually move Canadian oil straight to our Gulf coast and out the back door?
I still crack up at that bullshit talking point the left were throwing out on the board that we in Canada "needed to build the pipeline to the Gulf so we could ship our oil to the Chinese".
Obviously geography was never a strong suit of our USMB left wingers.