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Originally Posted by Guest
Why did this Administration approve the Alberta Clipper Pipeline way back in 2009 and will not approve the Keystone XL Pipeline now?
Doesn't such construction create thousands of infrastructure jobs that pay excellent money that would help our unemployed and the economy?
Hasn't pipeline construction been determined to be the safest way to transport product?
Doesn't transport by pipeline reduce transport by rail and tanker; the latter of which is alleged to be creating pollution and having an adverse impact on the environment, global warming, and climate change?
What is the difference between the Alberta and the Keystone - Tom Steyer?
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The veto, as with just about 100% of what happens in the WH, has nothing to do with anything but politics. Pure and simple.
The NY Times, amazingly, published a nice article on Keyston and Alberta and how it became a political football and I suggest all read it. It will show how the politics of this overshadow anything else and the President's ego also.
"“The political fight about Keystone is vastly greater than the economic, environmental or energy impact of the pipeline itself,” said Robert N. Stavins, director of the environmental economics program at Harvard. “It doesn’t make a big difference in energy prices, employment, or climate change either way.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/us...bill.html?_r=0