I don't even think they're against it because they care about the environment, they're only fighting it because it's what their liberal whacko masters have instructed them to do. Most of them don't understand any of the details. That's how our whole political system works these days, someone makes some sweeping generalized statement without any fact to back it up, and it's just accepted and repeated by the zombies that will follow whatever they say without any thought.
you're attributing your own motives to others.
you only support it because you know that left-leaners don't want it... even if it has no lasting benefit.
pure spite.
I was just enlightened by a lefty why the pipeline had not been approved. The Koch Brothers own about 25% of the Canadian oil and would make a lot of money if it was completed. Is there any further doubt why Obama and his Senate won't approve it?
The Koch's own a quarter of Canadian oil? I'd be extremely surprised if that were true. Who said that?
Read it here or google Koch brothers canadian oil.
The biggest foreign lease holder in Canada s oil sands isn t Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It s the Koch brothers. - The Washington Post
The article states that the claim that the Koch's own "25% of Canadian oil" isn't true. What it says is that they are one of the largest leaseholders of acreage in the oil sands. Being a leaseholder and "owning 25% of Canadian oil" are two very different things.
Koch’s oil production in northern Alberta is “negligible,” according to industry sources and quarterly publications of the provincial government. ...
Last October, IFG said that Koch owned two million acres in the oil sands; now it says the true figure – based on the Alberta provincial government’s mineral lease records that it links to -- is smaller but still an impressive, industry-leading 1.1 million acres. ...
Suzanne Bayley, a biological sciences professor at the University of Alberta who studies the oil sands, said she was surprised to learn of the Kochs’ holdings, calling them "significant” given the fact that the total leased area in the region amounted to 35 million acres.
Here are some simple facts
So the claim is factually wrong.
- "Leaseholder" of land and "owner of oil" are two very different things.
- The Koch's are producing very little actual oil.
- 1.1 million divided by 35 million isn't 25%. Whoever said that might need to take a remedial math class.
- The oil sands aren't all of Alberta's oil production.
The Kochs are not the owners of these acres, they own the rights to explore the parcels themselves. They are the largest foreign lease holder in the area, and will make a lot of money when they develop the extract the oil. That is what people in the oil business do.