toxicmedia
Gold Member
TransCanada Corp will refile a revised route that avoids the environmentally sensetive area in Nebraske that caused all the delays, and that will be approved, so the jobs will be created just a bit later than they would haveNice work, Mr President.
peace...
TransCanada says the project will create 20,000 jobs, and the many other esitimates by industry folks say somewhere between 6000-20,000.
You can't just discount the claims of the environmentalists without even looking at them. What they're trying to prevent, is the possible tainting of the Ogallala aquifer, which could affect the drinking water in a 174.000 square mile area, in SD, NB, WY, CO, KS, OK, NM, and TX. It's not like they're hugging some redwood tree.
What happened here is the GOP forced a deadline that they knew could not be met, so they could use it to accuse Obama of hating new jobs, for electioneering purposes. At least that's why the GOP and Rush/Fox are presenting it that way.
And I'm not a liberal and I didn't vote for Obama