Keystone XL: The Pipeline That Won't Die
source: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/national-affairs/keystone-xl-the-pipeline-that-wo...
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You might think that the Obama administration's decision last month to delay the construction of the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline pending further review would have put an end to Big Oil's pipeline dreams. After all, the whole approval process, which dragged on for three years, was a textbook example of corrupt energy politics and shoddy science working in the service of Big Oil. The U.S. State Department, which had final say in the pipeline's approval, wisely and deftly put the pipeline on ice for at least a year.
But you don't kill off Big Oil's pet project that easily.
Last week, Keystone re-emerged as a bargaining chip in end-of-the-year negotiations over extending the payroll tax break for 160 million U.S. workers, which is set to expire Dec. 31. House Majority leader John Boehner has attached a "project rider" to the tax bill, essentially trying to force Obama – and Senate Democrats – to approve the pipeline as a price for passing the tax-relief bill. Boehner and House Republicans are playing up the Keystone policy rider as a jobs project, suggesting that the Obama administration failed to approve last month it because the president is beholden to crazy enviros. A vote on the bill could come as early as today.
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gump
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Thanks Vic_Romano . I live in th desert southwest USA and would prefer a giant water pipe from Canada to phx AZ . I heard the Coke brothers own most of these pipelines . I was set to work a job building one of the related pipe lines and was conflicted . Lucky for humanity it was put off for a short time at least. But if it was a big water pipe to bring water to the desert here to create both jobs and greater human food security it would be worth haveing . Water is worth much more than oil to me. Maybe it ( the xl pipeline ) will be nationalized and used for water some day.
- 5 months ago
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gump
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Vic_Romano
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Can't say that the whole GOP plan to put this in the latest budget/payroll tax bill comes across as much of a surprise to me. And from here, I'll just defer to JanforGore's amazing coverage of this whole pipeline fiasco....hat's off to ya.
- 6 months ago
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Vic_Romano
