It's Obama's fault...

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Originally Posted by Danzig

keystone pipeline shot down today. they already have one line, but can't build a second one because the state dept 'can't get it all cleared soon enough'....uh, they already cleared it, but now there was a discussion about moving the thing, so they had to re-clear it...

yeah, he can sign ndaa on new years eve when no one is paying attention, but not this....might have cost him some votes in november.

The Keystone Pipeline has to be move out of the aquafier zone. The Republican party put a rushed approval without that plan as part of the tax deal.

At the time, the President said he wouldn't approve Keystone without the alternative plan, so he didn't. This was no surprise that State would not sign off on an incomplete plan, nor the President.

I don't know why anybody would support not doing the required environment review, just ignoring that. Maybe Ron Paul and Dell want the free market to protect our largest aquifier from an oil company. Not me, thanks. Love me some regulation about my water, thanks.

The GOP gambled they could force a rushed deal, and they were wrong.

Boehner owning thousands of dollars in pipeline company stock - well, he has alot of 'esplaining to do to his corporate masters about this delay.

Keystone can and will be brought back when they have the completed alternative plans avoiding the possibility of contaminating our largest aquafier supplying water to 1/3 of our country.

It's alot of fuss for something that Canada will not allow due to environmental threats, that they are only trying to divert through the much longer route through the US to get to our gulf, where the tar oil will be exported. The other downside, aside from environmental threat, is that it will raise prices on our Midwestern oil as they share the same pipeline components now.

Not much benefit for the US with the pipeline, just alot of threat to our environment. We do not get the tar oil from this pipeline refined in the US or used in the US. This pipeline will not be providing us with any "energy" or oil at all. It's all gonna be shipped overseas where the market is better. The jobs are in the hundreds, not the "thousands" as falsely maintained.