He said it wouldn't benefit the United States. Let's see if the msm vets him about this lie. Doubt it.
"When considering the domestically-produced petroleum products that this pipeline would introduce into the American economy, as well as the new employment opportunities created by the pipeline and the increased profits accrued by American firms as a result of its operation, it’s clear that Keystone would have a measurable positive impact on the American economy.
“The White House declined to provide an on-the-record defense of the president’s statement,” Kessler concluded. “That certainly suggests officials are unwilling to make a public case contradicting the State Department findings.” He dubbed Obama’s statement a willfully misleading “
whopper” by giving it an ignominious four Pinocchios."
WaPo: Obama is lying to you about Keystone « Hot Air
Found it interesting during the coverage about this yesterday when they mentioned 'the oil's still coming, except instead of the pipeline it'll come by tanker trucks and railcars.' Dunno the stats but I'm assuming transport of oil through a pipe is a lot safer than on roads?
It truly is a matter of trying to find the safest way to ship the crude. Rail and transport trucks that travel thru populated areas pose a greater threat than a pipeline imho. And now using barges. Aye carumba!
With production on the rise, oil-by-barge traffic sets off greater safety concerns
Athabasca on the Mississippi
Up to five times a week, a train 100 cars long and brimming with heavy oil slows to a halt in the yard of Gateway Terminals, a rail-to-barge transfer station located on the edge of the Mississippi River in St. Louis, Missouri. Each train can carry up to 60,000 barrels of the viscous product, which needs to be heated before it is piped into one of four 98,000-barrel storage tanks located on site. From there the oil is loaded into the shallow hauls of river barges, each destined for heavy oil refineries in Texas and Louisiana. In a good week, the terminal can transfer 350,000 barrels of oil into the slow-moving, flat-bottomed vessels.
It is therefore unlikely, says Paul Topping, a regulator with Transport Canada, that crude oil will ever be tugged across the Great Lakes in a single-haul vessel.
It’s a fairly straightforward business. The throughput at Gateway Terminals, in terms of volume, hasn’t changed much in six years of operation. But there has been one subtle adjustment. Up until mid-2013, the company transferred ethanol onto barges, but the terminal has since been converted to accept a more lucrative commodity: oil sands bitumen.
“We are targeting the Canadian barrel. That’s the business that we’re looking at,” says Marshall Bockman, the vice-president of Gateway Terminals LLC, the operator of the terminal. On March 24, 2014, the company announced it had sent out its second-ever barge shipment of bitumen since converting from ethanol to heavy crude. Gateway, says Bockman, is now purchasing a fifth 98,000-barrel tank to expand its storage capacity
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With production on the rise, oil-by-barge traffic sets off greater safety concerns
dirtbag!!
