This sounds far more like one of those "green" windfarm projects that are supposed to create hundreds of jobs but then only create 10. What's wrong deanie, it's OK if it's a windmill that slaughters birds but not if it's a pipeline? You must have stock in Buffets company which is why you don't want the competition.
This MOD makes a good point that it's similar to Wind Farms and a movement.
Sadly the fool is focused on "slaughter birds" and ignores that Oil Refineries can be built closer to Canada instead of making a pipeline through the entire nation. One leak and it will be our water sources that are slaughtered. I mean, ever since oil fracking was exposed for killing people they stopped pumping the water back into the soil causing people to have to import their water supply in some area's, including Texas.
Birds are cool. Humans are better.
We have our own refineries and pipelines.
Canada is your number one supplier of crude. It's coming to you on rail, by truck and by pipeline already.
Keystone I and II went to Illinois and Oklahoma. Your refineries on the Gulf have been chomping at the bit for Keystone XL. As it stands now the southern leg of the pipeline has been completed. The northern leg will bring not only Canadian crude but your Bakken fields crude.
Look you only produce 8 or 9 million barrels a day but America uses 18 million barrels a day. Your EIA predicts imports easily up to 2040.
And this issue over Keystone XL has just turned into a politcal circus because of Obama and his penchance for aligning himself with enviro whackos who have deep pockets.
Here's the proof that there has been no problem with importing crude via pipeline before. Best letter of recommendation TransCanada could hope.
Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
March 14, 2008
Keystone Pipeline Presidential Permit
On March 14, the Department of State issued a Presidential Permit authorizing TransCanada Keystone Pipeline LP to construct, operate and maintain facilities related to the Keystone crude oil pipeline project. The Keystone pipeline will extend 1,300 miles from the Canadian border through the U.S. Midwest. When fully operational, the Keystone pipeline is anticipated to increase U.S. oil imports from Canada by an amount equivalent to as much as 4.5 percent of total U.S. daily imports.
Canada is the United States' largest supplier of oil, natural gas, and electricity. The Department has determined that issuance of the permit to TransCanada Keystone Pipeline LP is in the national interest, in part, because it increases U.S. market access to crude oil supplies from a stable and reliable trading partner, Canada, that is in close proximity to the United States.
Canadian oil represents a safe, secure supply for the North American market. In 2004, Canada became the largest supplier of crude oil to the United States. In 2006, Canada supplied the United States with 2.3 million barrels of oil per day (mbd), equivalent to 17% of total U.S. imports.
The permit was signed in the State Department’s Treaty Room by the Undersecretary of State for Economics, Energy and Agriculture Affairs, Reuben Jeffery III, who also serves as the Department’s International Energy Coordinator. Canadian Ambassador Michael Wilson witnessed the signature.
The United States and Canada have a wide array of bilateral and multilateral mechanisms to discuss energy and the environment, and will continue to address the importance of mitigating greenhouse gases from all sources of energy production.
Prior to making its determination to issue the permit to TransCanada Keystone Pipeline LP, the Department completed an environmental review of the entire project.
All public documents related to the Department’s decision regarding TransCanada Keystone LP’s application can be downloaded at
www.keystonepipeline.state.gov.
2008/192
Released on March 14, 2008
Keystone Pipeline Presidential Permit
