A column by Robert J. Samuelson in the liberal minded Washington Post blasts the Obama Administration's rejection of the Keystone Pipeline as an act of "national insanity" with no benefit for the American people, coupled with achieving no redeeming virtues, and only partisan symbolism as it's result.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...6AQ_story.html

Originally Posted by RichieLion

A column by Robert J. Samuelson in the liberal minded Washington Post blasts the Obama Administration's rejection of the Keystone Pipeline as an act of "national insanity" with no benefit for the American people, coupled with achieving no redeeming virtues, and only partisan symbolism as it's result.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...6AQ_story.html

Ain't that the truth.

we the people are getting what we deserve!!

btk

Originally Posted by billethkid

we the people are getting what we deserve!!

btk

Damn if I deserve it.

For the life of me, I cannot understand this one. Why, what for ?????????????

I'm sure you read the article in today's newspaper that said "Exxon Mobile agreed Thursday to pay Montana $1.6 million in penalties over water pollution caused by a pipeline break last summer that fouled dozens of miles of shoreline along the scenic Yellowstone River".

Originally Posted by janmcn

I'm sure you read the article in today's newspaper that said "Exxon Mobile agreed Thursday to pay Montana $1.6 million in penalties over water pollution caused by a pipeline break last summer that fouled dozens of miles of shoreline along the scenic Yellowstone River".

The benefits far outweigh the risks involved.

the impacts are never presented is perspective. Only with sensationalized focus.
Where was the leak? Size of area impacted out of the total sensitive area? Did Exxon do the right things when it happened?

No different than the drilling for oil smoke job issues in the Alaskan outback. The size of the area to be drilled in comparison to the overall was akin to a grain of sand on the beach. The notion of affecting the caribou was touted by the opposition. Yes they were correct it did affect the animals, but in a positive way. They prefer to migrate around the facilities as they generate small amounts of heat....which they like!!!

Out of context case making is so easy to present...unfortunately too many Americans only source of information is the media and they believe only what they hear and see.

As a media executive once told me in a discussion regarding truth/accuracy; he said their priority was to be first. The truth and accuracy would sort itself as a story unfolds.

btk

First the Boeing plant in South Carolina, and now the pipeline. Does this current president ever learn by any of his mistakes?

Have you forgotten about that BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010?

Originally Posted by janmcn;4***82

Have you forgotten about that BP oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010?

Have you forgot our huge dependence on foreign oil?

The BP oil spill is now just a memory, like the Exxon Valdez.

Still well worth the risks involved.


Do you know the oil will go to China instead, pumping into and shipping off in tankers off our coastline? Any chance for a spill there?

Only in that scenario we only get the spill and not the energy. Great plan liberals...............great plan.

Think of what the Obama decision really says...

The United States, with all it technological skill and business expertise, is incapable of building and operating a long steel tube that won't leak.

That notwithstanding the desirability of tapping new sources of oil and the jobs the project might produce.

This is the same country that put a man on the moon? And we're going to make wind or solar power a major industry? Yeah, right.

Unbelievable!

Yep, it's not like the Pickens Plan grew any legs.

Last November, the State Department ordered TransCanada to find a new route so the pipeline would not cross the Sand Hills, following vocal protest from Nebraska landowners, environmentalists and state legislators.

TransCanada had agreed to work with officials in Nebraska and at the State Department on the new pipeline path — a decision that eliminated opposition from Nebraska legislators — but the company had not yet proposed the route.


vancouversun.com

Please someone enlighten me. What does the State Department have to do with oil pipelines? Origin Canada?