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By Daniel Foster
January 18, 2012 11:41 A.M. Comments
So far unconfirmed, but Fox News’ White House correspondent Ed Henry is tweeting that the State Department will announce today that it is not going forward with the Keystone XL pipeline.
Great timing, considering the president’s “Council on Jobs and Competitiveness” just released a year-end report calling for an “all-in approach” to energy that allows “more access to oil, natural gas and coal opportunities on federal lands.”
The report does not specifically mention the Keystone XL oil pipeline, but it endorses moving forward quickly with projects that “deliver electricity and fuel,” including pipelines.
“The Council recognizes the important safety and environmental concerns surrounding these types of projects, but now more than ever, the jobs and economic and energy security benefits of these energy projects require us to tackle the issues head-on and to expeditiously, though cautiously, move forward on projects that can support hundreds of thousands of jobs,” the report says.
The report retreats slightly from an interim report released in October that addressed the Keystone XL pipeline directly. The interim report appeared to offer cautious support for Keystone, calling on officials to “balance” environmental protections while realizing what it called the benefits of the pipeline.
More here.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-to-deny-keystone-pipeline-2012-1
All while Obama is at Disney World!
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I dont even know if I can feel more disappointed... He is running the country into the ground and he actually arrogant enough to think the things he's doing are fixing things.
This man is going to go down as a terrible black mark in our history, the man that destroyed the country while promising to save it and was stupid enough to believe his own bullshit.
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Congrats on your oil, China.
Also, Shockwave reported for racism.
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Congrats on your oil, China.
Also, Shockwave reported for racism.
But, but, but, Obama said he was going to decrease dependance on foreign oil!
Oh, I get it,
His actions dont matter, only his words. His words must magically make oil appear in our refineries.
Duh. How stupid was I.
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Alarmist rhetoric. He is vetoing the proposed route, keystone are already planning to change the route.
Canada's oil isn't going to China, the northern pipeline isn't going through for years.
Next year this will be approved to be built along a less ecologically sensitive area.
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Alarmist rhetoric. He is vetoing the proposed route, keystone are already planning to change the route.
Canada's oil isn't going to China, the northern pipeline isn't going through for years.
Next year this will be approved to be built along a less ecologically sensitive area.
You realize, that is exactly what people say, except they seem to forget the seller has wants too.
Like when you buy a car, the seller is only going to wait for you to make up your mind for so long.
If China offers the right money, that oil is gone. It would be completely retarded of you to think otherwise. Like Canada is just going to sit on it when there is no guarantee Mr. Greenpeace Obama is going to say yes.
I find your answer incredibly naive to think they wont take it elsewhere, when there is no incentive not to.
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You realize, that is exactly what people say, except they seem to forget the seller has wants too.
Like when you buy a car, the seller is only going to wait for you to make up your mind for so long.
If China offers the right money, that oil is gone. It would be completely retarded of you to think otherwise. Like Canada is just going to sit on it when there is no guarantee Mr. Greenpeace Obama is going to say yes.
I find your answer incredibly naive to think they wont take it elsewhere, when there is no incentive not to.
News flash - China isn't offering more money than America. They pay what the market dictates. Due to the cost intensive nature of oil sands extraction and refinement that number will be upwards of $70 per barrel minimum.
The problem is getting it to Kitimat in Northern BC. You have legal challenges from First Nations, Environmental groups and a provincial tanker moratorium to deal with. These issues will mean the northern pipeline will take years.
Meanwhile, the keystone pipeline route will change, it will be approved and America can be happy paying market rates for oil from Canada rather than market rates from Saudi Arabia.
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Whatever - the message being sent is clear, we will remain slaves to OPEC thanks to ghettobama
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Obama: More jobs in jobless benefits than Keystone
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-more-jobs-jobless-benefits-keystone/244871
by Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer
President Obama said that he will delay his vacation and keep Congress in session until the passage of his desired payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits extension -- two proposals that Obama said would create more jobs than the Keystone XL pipeline that his administration recently delayed.
"I would not ask anyone to do something I'm not willing to do myself," Obama said when asked if he would go on vacation while keeping Congress in Washington D.C. "We are going to stay here as long as it takes [to get unemployment extended and pass the payroll tax cut]."
As Obama called for passage of those bills, he also responded to a recent Republican push to require him to approve the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada. "However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline," he said, "they're going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance."
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President Obama Bows to Special Interests: Refuses to Approve Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada
Ronald Bailey | January 18, 2012
http://reason.com/blog/2012/01/18/president-obama-bows-to-special-interest
The 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta, Canada, would daily transport more than 500,000 barrels of oil derived from oil sands to the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. already imports about 2 million barrels of oil per day from Canada. Since the pipeline crosses our border the president has the reponsibility to decide if it is in the national interest. President Obama under pressure from the environmental lobby punted on approving the pipeline - bravely putting off his decision until after the elections in November. In December, the Republicans in Congress passed legislation that required the president to make his decision by February 21st. Apparently, he now has.
Proponents of the pipeline point out that the project is shovel-ready and would create 20,000 construction jobs. In addition, the pipeline has passed environmental muster twice already. And the company has agreed to re-site a portion of the pipeline in order to allay exaggerated fears that a leak from it might harm the Ogallala aquifer. Nevertheless, the National Journal is reporting:
The State Department is expected to deny a permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline on Wednesday afternoon ....
The announcement is expected at 3 p.m. by Deputy Secretary of State William Burns, the sources said.
Rejection of the permit would not necessarily kill the 1,700-mile project to carry oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries in Texas, however.
The Obama administration has said it simply could not adequately review the proposed project in time to meet a 60-day deadline for a decision on the permit imposed by Congress in the payroll-tax package enacted in December.
In a statement emailed to the media, Daniel Weiss, Senior Fellow and Director of Climate Strategy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress in Washington, DC, praises the decision to further delay the project:
Today President Obama made a courageous decision that says that special interests will not decide our clean energy future.
Depends on what the meaning of "special interests" is.
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This thug and ghetto madoff needs to be impeached over this.
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impeached? haha get a grip.
The pipeline is going to be built, just not on the route they originally planned for.
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impeached? haha get a grip.
The pipeline is going to be built, just not on the route they originally planned for.
Yeah ok KC. and obama was going to have a public option, not sign NDAA, etc.
Keep Hoping for Change moron, it aint coming from this piece of garbage in the WH
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Canadian Leader Says He's Profoundly Disappointed Obama Turned Down the Keystone XL Pipeline
TORONTO January 18, 2012 (AP)
Canadian leader says he's profoundly disappointed Obama turned down the Keystone XL pipeline.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/canadian-leader-profoundly-disappointed-obama-turned-keystone-xl-15388481
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Hahahaha...I love the weak defense of this. That cock sucking, limp wristed...douchebag has done it again. There is ZERO doubt that this guy is a fucking traitorous asshat. He just caved to the wack job leftists that idiots like 240 said he would never do....or more to the point, swore Obama would drift to the Center once he won...yeah real centerist 240. I hope its all oil pipeline all the time from here on in. This was going to create tons of private sector jobs....jobs Barry can't have because its not on the gov tit. This further erodes the Union and business vote that Barry has confused at his actions. He let go the voice of moderation that was Daley...so he could pander to the maxist wing of the dem party...good job Barry. ::)
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Hahahaha...I love the weak defense of this. That cock sucking, limp wristed...douchebag has done it again. There is ZERO doubt that this guy is a fucking traitorous asshat. He just caved to the wack job leftists that idiots like 240 said he would never do....or more to the point, swore Obama would drift to the Center once he won...yeah real centerist 240. I hope its all oil pipeline all the time from here on in. This was going to create tons of private sector jobs....jobs Barry can't have because its not on the gov tit. This further erodes the Union and business vote that Barry has confused at his actions. He let go the voice of moderation that was Daley...so he could pander to the maxist wing of the dem party...good job Barry. ::)
Traitorbama does not want private sector jobs - he is intent on collapsing America. This is but one more prime example.
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Boehner: Obama approved Solyndra, but not Keystone
by Joel Gehrke Commentary Staff Writer
House Speaker John Boehner said that President Obama has put politics ahead of job creation, and faulted the president for approving the high-risk Solyndra loan guarantee, but then denying a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline to be built.
"President Obama expedited approval of the Solyndra loan project, but won't approve a project that's been under review for over three years," House Speaker John Boehner said in a press conference today on Obama's decision not to grant a permit for the Keystone pipeline. He declared that "President Obama is destroying tens of thousands of American jobs and shipping American energy security to the Chinese."
He argued that "the President is selling out American jobs for politics," and declared that Obama's promise to work to create jobs "was broken" today.
President Obama said he was "disappointed" in the Republicans for forcing a Keystone decision ahead of the environmental studies timetable. "The rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environment," Obama said in his statement on the Keystone rejection. "I’m disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision, but it does not change my Administration’s commitment to American-made energy that creates jobs and reduces our dependence on oil."
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impeached? haha get a grip.
The pipeline is going to be built, just not on the route they originally planned for.
Yeah, he already vetod it once, there is no way hell do it again, and NO way that Canada will not take that chance and head to a guaranteed buyer. ::)
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I really think there should be a serious move to impeach Obama on grounds that he alone is intentionally acting against American interests and national security.
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You realize, that is exactly what people say, except they seem to forget the seller has wants too.
Like when you buy a car, the seller is only going to wait for you to make up your mind for so long.
If China offers the right money, that oil is gone. It would be completely retarded of you to think otherwise. Like Canada is just going to sit on it when there is no guarantee Mr. Greenpeace Obama is going to say yes.
I find your answer incredibly naive to think they wont take it elsewhere, when there is no incentive not to.
A controversial deal signed by a B.C. First Nation official with Enbridge on the Northern Gateway pipeline project has been rejected in a vote by aboriginal leaders.
A meeting of 36 Gitxsan hereditary chiefs Tuesday officially rejected the agreement signed by Gitxsan Treaty Society negotiator Elmer Derrick in December.
The pipeline to China is a "pipe dream"
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Under Obama, Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands Is Down 40%
Heritage ^ | 1/18/12 | Rob Bluey
In his announcement rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline today, President Obama boasted that under his administration, “domestic oil and natural gas production is up.” Obama, of course, failed to mention that his administration can’t actually take any credit for the increase.
The vast majority of America’s oil and gas production is happening on private lands in states like North Dakota, Alaska and Texas.
It’s not that Obama is devoid of responsibility. His administration oversees oil and gas production on federal lands by issuing leases. But when measuring oil and gas production in areas under Obama’s jurisdiction, the numbers tell a different story.
Citing publicly available federal data, the House Natural Resources Committee noted these figures:
Oil and natural gas production on federal lands is down by more than 40 percent compared to 10 years ago.
Under the Obama administration, 2010 had the lowest number of onshore leases issued since 1984.
The Obama administration held only one offshore lease sale in 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...
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A controversial deal signed by a B.C. First Nation official with Enbridge on the Northern Gateway pipeline project has been rejected in a vote by aboriginal leaders.
A meeting of 36 Gitxsan hereditary chiefs Tuesday officially rejected the agreement signed by Gitxsan Treaty Society negotiator Elmer Derrick in December.
The pipeline to China is a "pipe dream"
And you think that they wont find a way around that? The difference being, our home enviro-nazis will never let that Pipeline go across our soil if they have their way.
The Canadians know this. And they will not allow all that money to go to waste.
I feel like youre really fumbling around for a way to not make this a big deal, when everything Ive read everything says the same thing - this is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, and since Obama is far too deep in "big greens" asshole, I dont see any different outcomes later on down the road.
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Under Obama, Oil and Gas Production on Federal Lands Is Down 40%
Heritage ^ | 1/18/12 | Rob Bluey
In his announcement rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline today, President Obama boasted that under his administration, “domestic oil and natural gas production is up.” Obama, of course, failed to mention that his administration can’t actually take any credit for the increase.
The vast majority of America’s oil and gas production is happening on private lands in states like North Dakota, Alaska and Texas.
It’s not that Obama is devoid of responsibility. His administration oversees oil and gas production on federal lands by issuing leases. But when measuring oil and gas production in areas under Obama’s jurisdiction, the numbers tell a different story.
Citing publicly available federal data, the House Natural Resources Committee noted these figures:
Oil and natural gas production on federal lands is down by more than 40 percent compared to 10 years ago.
Under the Obama administration, 2010 had the lowest number of onshore leases issued since 1984.
The Obama administration held only one offshore lease sale in 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.heritage.org ...
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Lol, but he'll the country with a straight face that he's helping to decrease our dependancy on foreign oil
Maybe by that, he means he's going to run the country so far into the ground that we wont need oil.
Or maybe he just plans to flat out ban oil so that he can keep his enviro nazi friends.
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Lol, but he'll the country with a straight face that he's helping to decrease our dependancy on foreign oil
Maybe by that, he means he's going to run the country so far into the ground that we wont need oil.
Or maybe he just plans to flat out ban oil so that he can keep his enviro nazi friends.
Bingo - I have learned exactly who to read into thugbama by now. You are exactly right.
With everyone jobless and imobile due to being broke they wont need as much energy for transportation.
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A controversial deal signed by a B.C. First Nation official with Enbridge on the Northern Gateway pipeline project has been rejected in a vote by aboriginal leaders.
A meeting of 36 Gitxsan hereditary chiefs Tuesday officially rejected the agreement signed by Gitxsan Treaty Society negotiator Elmer Derrick in December.
The pipeline to China is a "pipe dream"
there is a big difference in the way of thinking between china and its leadership and the US and our current leadershit KC.
China wants the pipeline to go through for them, do you honestly think obama wants this pipeline to go through for the US?
Honestly?
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http://patdollard.com/2012/01/boehner-savages-obama-for-approving-solyndra-but-rejecting-keystone
Boom.
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In Keystone XL Rejection, We See Two Americas At War With Each Other
Forbes ^ | 1/18/2012 @ 7:16PM | Joel Kotkin
Posted on January 18, 2012 9:53:21 PM EST by dila813
America has two basic economies, and the division increasingly defines its politics. One, concentrated on the coasts and in college towns, focuses on the business of images, digits and transactions. The other, located largely in the southeast, Texas and the Heartland, makes its living in more traditional industries, from agriculture and manufacturing to fossil fuel development.
Traditionally these two economies coexisted without interfering with the progress of the other. Wealthier gentry-dominated regions generally eschewed getting their hands dirty so that they could maintain the amenities that draw the so-called creative class and affluent trustifarians. The more traditionally based regions focused, largely uninhibited, on their core businesses, and often used the income to diversify their economies into higher-value added fields.
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The EnviroNazis won't be satisfied until we all live by candlelight. Of course we'll all freeze to death as we won't be anle to cut down trees, either.
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We need energy but we, the people, would see none of the oil flowing through the extended pipeline. The oil in the Keystone XL would be destined for Latin America and China. Plus, I did a bit of reading on The Oil Drum and was able to find that the company the would build it didn't have the best safety record.
If the above is true then we, the people, would take ALL of the risk and get none of the reward.
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'We're Complete Fools' for Cancelling Pipeline: Pickens
CNBC ^ | January 18, 2012 | Margo D. Beller
"We're complete fools" for scuttling the Keystone Pipeline because it would've brought energy security to the U.S., well-known oilman T. Boone Pickens told CNBC Wednesday.
The chairman of BP Capital Management spoke after the Obama administration rejected TransCanada's $7 billion pipeline project running from the western province of Alberta to Houston.
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We need energy but we, the people, would see none of the oil flowing through the extended pipeline. The oil in the Keystone XL would be destined for Latin America and China. Plus, I did a bit of reading on The Oil Drum and was able to find that the company the would build it didn't have the best safety record.
If the above is true then we, the people, would take ALL of the risk and get none of the reward.
Exactly. Just because it's refined and flowing through the US doesn't mean it will be cheaper, or even used by US consumers.
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Exactly. Just because it's refined and flowing through the US doesn't mean it will be cheaper, or even used by US consumers.
Its called security and independence. What happens if ME war breaks out or iran blows up or nigeria or some bs? What do we do?
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Its called security and independence. What happens if ME war breaks out or iran blows up or nigeria or some bs? What do we do?
What we currently do. Import Canadian oil.
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And you think that they wont find a way around that? The difference being, our home enviro-nazis will never let that Pipeline go across our soil if they have their way.
The Canadians know this. And they will not allow all that money to go to waste.
I feel like youre really fumbling around for a way to not make this a big deal, when everything Ive read everything says the same thing - this is a clusterfuck of epic proportions, and since Obama is far too deep in "big greens" asshole, I dont see any different outcomes later on down the road.
A crude, but deadly accurate, description.
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'We're Complete Fools' for Cancelling Pipeline: Pickens
CNBC ^ | January 18, 2012 | Margo D. Beller
"We're complete fools" for scuttling the Keystone Pipeline because it would've brought energy security to the U.S., well-known oilman T. Boone Pickens told CNBC Wednesday.
The chairman of BP Capital Management spoke after the Obama administration rejected TransCanada's $7 billion pipeline project running from the western province of Alberta to Houston.
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I don't trust Pickens. His huge wind farm play years ago complete with commercials..."Hello, I'm T Boone Pickens and I'm an oilman...." was to control the land to get the aquifers and get tons and tons of tax payer cash and his nat gas play involving converting our truck fleet to nat gas (which isn't a bad idea, not sure how feasible) was also a tax payer cash play...and now he is pimping the XL. Look behind the curtain when it comes to players like him and Buffet.
Again, we wouldn't see a drop of that oil, but our environment, water, crops etc would take all the risk and again the company that would be building it doesn't have the best safety record. The Canadian oil will always be there for us, there is time to chart a safer course for the pipeline anyways.
I would usually come down on the Pro side of the pipeline but not this time. To much shady business involved.
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From a strickly political point of view - this shows obama is so full of shit its not funny. Both sides wanted this, fuck, even the State Department wanted this originally, and now obama goes against what everyone wants and he complains no one wants to work with him?
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Dakotas officials unhappy with Keystone pipeline decision
Share Posted: Jan 18, 2012, 3:47 pm
Associated Press
BISMARCK, N.D. — Officials in North Dakota and South Dakota say they are disappointed President Barack Obama's rejection of an application for an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.
Obama said Wednesday an arbitrary deadline set by Republican lawmakers in a recent tax bill gave his administration too little time for a full review of the $7 billion Keystone XL project.
Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota says he believes the pipeline should be built and that it's in the national interest.
Republican South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard says the pipeline would create thousands of jobs and help strengthen the nation's economy and energy security.
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/stories/display.php?id=1482816
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A crude keystone calculation
Last Updated: 12:07 AM, January 19, 2012
Who knows how many potential jobs President Obama killed yesterday when he bowed to hard-core environmental activists and put an indefinite hold on the mammoth Keystone XL oil pipeline?
Beyond doubt, it was a lot.
At the same time, he planted a big wet one on his greenie base — which he’ll need to hold on to if he’s to win re-election.
Obviously, he has his priorities.
To be sure, the hold Obama placed on Keystone is temporary — but long enough to get past November.
The 1,700-mile pipeline would carry crude oil from the Canadian province of Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries in Texas.
Frustrated with a review process that has already taken more than three years, congressional Republicans last month included a Feb. 21 deadline in their support for the payroll-tax-cut extension.
Now, Obama and the State Department — which must approve international deals — have given their answer: Nope.
That will make the left very happy. But, again, it does nothing for job-creation and — more important over the long term — does even less for energy independence.
(Whatever happened to Obama’s promise to find ways to wean the nation off of Middle Eastern oil, anyway?)
Moreover, it’s an open invitation to Canada to instead build the pipeline for another major oil consumer — China.
Ironically, Obama’s announcement came just a day after his own Council on Jobs and Competitiveness called for an “all-in approach” to energy — including expanded oil and gas drilling and expediting new projects.
“The jobs and economic and energy security benefits of these energy projects require us to tackle the issues head-on and to expeditiously, though cautiously, move forward on projects that can support hundreds of jobs,” the council’s report concluded. Ya think?
But apparently, no one in the White House was paying attention — or cares.
Yes, Obama’s decision means that the TransCanada company can submit a new Keystone proposal with a new route through Nebraska.
And who knows — maybe Obama will even approve it.
Once the election is over, anyway.
After all, he only promised hope and change — not political courage.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/crude_keystone_calculation_ZexagCTQC7IqdUee7mE06L#ixzz1jw8gv7iB
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January 20, 2012
Keystone Madness
By Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON -- President Obama's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is an act of national insanity. It isn't often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues and -- beyond the symbolism -- won't even advance the goals of the groups that demanded it. All it tells us is that Obama is so obsessed with his re-election that, through some sort of political calculus, he believes that placating his environmental supporters will improve his chances.
Aside from the political and public relations victory, environmentalists won't get much. Stopping the pipeline won't halt the development of tar sands, to which the Canadian government is committed; therefore, there will be little effect on global warming emissions. Indeed, Obama's decision might add to them. If Canada builds a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific for export to Asia, moving all that oil across the ocean by tanker will create extra emissions. There will also be the risk of added spills.
Now consider how Obama's decision hurts the United States. For starters, it insults and antagonizes a strong ally; getting future Canadian cooperation on other issues will be harder. Next, it threatens a large source of relatively secure oil that, combined with new discoveries in the United States, could reduce (though not eliminate) our dependence on insecure foreign oil.
Finally, Obama's decision forgoes all the project's jobs. There's some dispute over the magnitude. Project sponsor TransCanada claims 20,000, split between construction (13,000) and manufacturing (7,000) of everything from pumps to control equipment. Apparently, this refers to "job years," meaning one job for one year. If so, the actual number of jobs would be about half that spread over two years. Whatever the figure, it's in the thousands and important in a country hungering for work. And Keystone XL is precisely the sort of infrastructure project that Obama claims to favor.
The big winners are the Chinese. They must be celebrating their good fortune and wondering how the crazy Americans could repudiate such a huge supply of nearby energy. There's no guarantee that tar-sands oil will go to China; pipelines to the Pacific would have to be built. But it creates the possibility when the oil's natural market is the United States.
There are three things to remember about Keystone and U.S. energy policy.
First, we're going to use lots of oil for a long time. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that American oil consumption will increase 4 percent between 2009 and 2035. The increase occurs despite highly optimistic assumptions about vehicle fuel efficiency and bio-fuels. But a larger population (390 million in 2035 versus 308 million in 2009) and more driving per vehicle offset savings.
The more oil we produce domestically and import from neighbors, the more we're insulated from dramatic interruptions of global supplies. After the United States, Canada is the most dependable source of oil -- or was until Obama's decision.
Second, barring major technological breakthroughs, emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, will rise for similar reasons. The EIA projects that America's CO2 emissions will increase by 16 percent from 2009 to 2035. (The EIA is updating its projections, but the main trends aren't likely to change dramatically.) Stopping Canadian tar-sands development, were that possible, wouldn't affect these emissions.
Finally, even if -- as Keystone critics argue -- some Canadian oil were refined in the United States and then exported, this would be a good thing. The exports would probably go mostly to Latin America. They would keep well-paid industrial jobs (yes, refining) in the United States and reduce our trade deficit in oil, which exceeded $300 billion in 2011.
By law, Obama's decision was supposed to reflect "the national interest." His standard was his political interest. The State Department had spent three years evaluating Keystone and appeared ready to approve the project by year-end 2011. Then the administration, citing opposition to the pipeline's route in Nebraska, reversed course and postponed a decision to 2013 -- after the election.
Now, reacting to a congressional deadline to decide, Obama rejected the proposal. But he also suggested that a new application with a modified Nebraska route -- already being negotiated -- might be approved, after the election. So the sop tossed to the environmentalists could be temporary. The cynicism is breathtaking.
Copyright 2012, Washington Post Writers Group
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Townhall.com ^ | January 20, 2012 | Michelle Malkin
Posted on January 20, 2012 7:03:04 AM EST by Kaslin
Where did President Obama go after killing off thousands of Keystone XL pipeline construction and manufacturing jobs? Why, Disney World, of course. Sabotaging work is hard work for Goofy and his pals.
_And where'd he head after that? Why, up to Manhattan for more high-priced campaign fundraisers charging up to $38,500 per partier. The business of wining and dining politically connected donors ain't child's play, you know.
Obama touted a White House foreign tourism initiative on Thursday with Cinderella's castle as his backdrop. "America is open for business," he proclaimed chirpily to the rest of the globe.
Tell that to the Keystone managers in Canada whom Obama and his State Department rebuffed -- after years of planning and review -- in order to appease militant environmentalists and Hollywood celebs. The Animatronic Divider robotically lambasted Republicans for pushing him to make a decision this week. But Senate and House Democrats issued the sharpest rebukes to White House obstructionism:
"President Obama's decision on the Keystone XL pipeline is a major setback for the American economy, American workers, and America's energy independence," Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said.
"The rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline permit is a missed opportunity to drastically turn this economy around. This pipeline would have created thousands of new jobs and helped to ensure our energy independence," Rep. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., lamented.
"This delay is just playing politics with American jobs and American energy security," Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, pointed out.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle scratched their heads as the job-snuffer-in-chief bolted to Orlando's fantasyland to promote economic growth. But there's no more fitting place on Earth for the man whose escapist administration occupies the land of make-believe and no consequences. (Bonus moment: Obama got to shake hands with Mickey Mouse, who infamously turned up on a Florida ACORN voter registration form in 2008. Constituent outreach at its most surreal.)
On the very same day he quashed Keystone, Obama released his first campaign ad of 2012 -- hyping his stellar record on energy jobs. It's Opposite Day at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 365 days a year. Even more comically, the ad touted his exemplary ethics record by quoting a moldy three-year-old endorsement from left-leaning Politifact. And as bipartisan Capitol Hill outrage over the half-billion-dollar Solyndra solar stimulus bust mounts, Obama had the nerve to sprinkle his inaugural campaign spot with -- wait for it -- solar panels.
Instead of supporting new infrastructure jobs in America through an energy independence-enhancing project that has bipartisan legislative support on Capitol Hill, the president flew to Disney World to peddle looser visa restrictions in China and Brazil by executive order. He also will expand the Visa Waiver Program (a security loophole-ridden program that was suspended temporarily after the 9/11 terrorist attacks) to speed foreign travel.
In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers. Brazil is just the latest base for al-Qaida and other Islamic jihadi groups. It does not consider Hezbollah or Hamas terrorist groups, and it disbanded its anti-terrorism force in 2009.
The Visa Waiver Program and other efforts to expedite the tourist visa process also pose continuing security risks because -- as the Government Accountability Office itself admitted last year -- there is still no comprehensive, systematic way to track the 70 million-plus foreign visitors who enter the country on tourist and other short-term visas. Indeed, half of the nation's estimated 20 million illegal aliens are visa overstayers.
How many of the new Disney foreign tourists whom Obama is touting as America's economic salvation will fail to return to their home countries after their Obama World visas expire? We'll likely never know. And Team Obama doesn't care.
In his opening campaign ad salvo, Obama accuses his opponents of being "untethered to facts." But this is an administration that believes lowering visa standards and risking homeland security to pump up Disney foreign tourism is a better path to economic recovery than supporting direct American job creation and enhancing energy security. Like the Disney characters he posed with this week, our cartoonish president is wholly untethered to reality.
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Canada Pledges to Sell Oil to Asia After Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline
By Theophilos Argitis and Jeremy Van Loon - Jan 19, 2012 2:14 PM ET .
Obama’s Keystone Pipeline Rejection Sets Up Campaign Battle Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Laborers' International Union of North America hold up signs in support of the Keystone XL pipeline during a rally in Washington, D.C.
Laborers' International Union of North America hold up signs in support of the Keystone XL pipeline during a rally in Washington, D.C. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) -- Chris Huntington, partner at New Energy Advisors, and Sabrina Willmer and Jeff Green of Bloomberg News talk about President Barack Obama's decision to deny a permit for TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL Pipeline. They also talk about the prospects for a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. private-equity fund dedicated to energy. They speak with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's "Taking Stock."
Obama’s Keystone Denial Prompts Canada to Look to China
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed disappointment with President Barack Obama's decision to reject a permit for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Photo: Pete Marovich/Getty Images
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed disappointment with President Barack Obama's decision to reject a permit for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. Photo: Pete Marovich/Getty Images
.President Barack Obama’s decision yesterday to reject a permit for TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL oil pipeline may prompt Canada to turn to China for oil exports.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in a telephone call yesterday, told Obama “Canada will continue to work to diversify its energy exports,” according to details provided by Harper’s office. Canadian Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver said relying less on the U.S. would help strengthen the country’s “financial security.”
The “decision by the Obama administration underlines the importance of diversifying and expanding our markets, including the growing Asian market,” Oliver told reporters in Ottawa.
Currently, 99 percent of Canada’s crude exports go to the U.S., a figure that Harper wants to reduce in his bid to make Canada a “superpower” in global energy markets.
Canada accounts for more than 90 percent of all proven reserves outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, according to data compiled in the BP Statistical Review of World Energy. Most of Canada’s crude is produced from oil-sands deposits in the landlocked province of Alberta, where output is expected to double over the next eight years, according to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
“I am sure that if the oil sands production is not used in the United States, they will be used in other countries,” Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, said in an interview before a speech at Imperial College in London today.
‘Profound Disappointment’
Harper “expressed his profound disappointment with the news,” according to the statement, which added that Obama told Harper the rejection was not based on the project’s merit and that the company is free to re-apply.
Canada this month began hearings on a proposed pipeline by Enbridge Inc. to move crude from Alberta’s oil sands to British Columbia’s coast, where it could be shipped to Asian markets.
Environmentalists and Canadian opposition lawmakers welcomed the Obama administration’s decision. Megan Leslie, a lawmaker for the opposition New Democratic Party, said the Keystone pipeline project was harmful to Canada’s energy security.
“What I’m opposed to is continuing the unchecked expansion of the oil sands,” Leslie said by telephone.
New Flashpoint
Enbridge’s pipeline may now become the new flashpoint between Harper and the opposition. Harper has said building the capacity to sell the country’s oil to Asian markets is in the national interest, and the government will review regulatory- approval rules for new energy projects so they can be done more quickly. Harper has also said he will look more closely into complaints that “foreign money” is being used to overload the regulatory process.
“We have to have processes in Canada that come to a decision in a reasonable amount of time, and processes that cannot be hijacked,” Harper said at a press conference Jan. 6 in Edmonton.
The Keystone decision is the latest of several U.S. moves that have irked Canadian policy makers. Canada objected to “Buy American” provisions in the Obama administration’s $447 billion jobs bill that was blocked by Republicans in Congress, as well as the restoration of a $5.50 fee on Canadian travelers arriving in the U.S. by plane or ship.
Approval of Keystone is a “no-brainer,” Harper said in a Sept. 21 interview with Bloomberg.
Cornerstone of Development
Yesterday’s rejection “certainly introduces new uncertainties into the economic relationship,” said David Pumphrey, deputy director of the energy and national security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “This is a cornerstone of economic development for the country.”
The denial came before a Feb. 21 deadline set by Congress after Obama postponed a decision in November. TransCanada said the 1,661-mile (2,673-kilometer) project would carry 700,000 barrels of crude a day from Alberta’s oil sands to refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast, crossing six U.S. states and creating 20,000 jobs.
“I’m disappointed that Republicans in Congress forced this decision, but it does not change my administration’s commitment to American-made energy,” Obama said today in a statement. “We will continue to look for new ways to partner with the oil and gas industry to increase our energy security.”
Canadian policy makers said they remain optimistic TransCanada will eventually be able to proceed.
Still Supporting
Alberta Premier Alison Redford said in a press conference in Edmonton that it is still “entirely possible” the pipeline will be built and said it was good news that TransCanada planned to apply again.
Canada will continue to support TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s plans to build the Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said, adding that it is in the best interests of both Canada and the United States.
“We strongly believe that Keystone’s in the best interests of both countries,” he said. “We’ll continue to be an active supporter of the project.”
To contact the reporters on this story: Theophilos Argitis in Ottawa at targitis@bloomberg.net; Jeremy van Loon in Calgary at jvanloon@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Chris Wellisz at cwellisz@bloomberg.net; David Scanlan at dscanlan@bloomberg.net
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-19/canada-pledges-to-sell-oil-to-asia-after-obama-rejects-keystone-pipeline.html
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TransCanada considers new plans: Keystone pipeline may be built in stages in U.S. first
Calgary Herald ^ | January 20, 2012 | Rebecca Penty
TransCanada Corp. is considering building U.S. portions of its Keystone XL pipeline and later seeking approval of an Alberta link to circumvent the Obama administration's rejection of the $7-billion project.
There is no requirement for a presidential permit to lay pipe anywhere in the United States, provided the line doesn't extend across the border into Canada.
On the table is a segment between the oversupplied oil storage hub of Cushing, Okla., and Gulf Coast refining centres in Texas, as well as a longer line from Montana to the Gulf Coast, executives said Thursday.
"I think that clearly, with yesterday's decision, we are now open to amending or changing our plans to building this in segments," TransCanada chief executive Russ Girling told an investor conference in Whistler, B.C. "As we've said before, that's dependent on the interest of our shippers in doing that."
Building an Oklahoma-to-Texas section alone would cost TransCanada $2 billion, said Girling, who told investors the company has already spent $1.9 billion on the Keystone XL project.
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Keystone XL: Voting for the Stone Age
Yesterday, as expected, President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, a private infrastructure project meant to bring Canadian oil to Gulf Coast refineries. In doing so, he was not quibbling over the pipeline’s route, but pandering to a group of his supporters who want nothing so much as to roll back modern industrial society.
Ostensibly, Obama made the decision to block the pipeline because of concern over contamination of the Ogallala Reservoir, a vast underground water source that makes much of Midwestern agriculture possible. And I am sure there are folks whose concerns are narrowly about the Ogallala or other enivornmental and NIMBY concerns along the proposed route. But the US has tens of thousands of miles of petroleum pipelines, many cris-crossing this same general area. There is nothing unprecedented or unmanageable about this particular line. Had these routing issues been the actual problem, the Obama Administration could easily have approved the line with conditions or route modifications.
But local environmental concerns were merely the public pretext for a decision that is much more troubling. Opposition to the pipeline began to rally among radical environmental groups long before any of them had the first clue about the pipeline route. The real goal of these groups was not to protect water along the pipeline route, but to make it impossible to develop new sources of oil in Canada. Unable to stop Canadian oil drilling and tar sand extraction programs, environmental groups are now trying to block any pipeline that is proposed out of the oil producing regions.
Some would argue that these opponents aren’t anti-energy, they just want to shift energy use from fossil fuels to “green” energy like wind and solar. This is either disingenuous or unbelievably naive. The Keystone XL pipeline would have single-handedly carried more energy to the United States than the sum of all the green energy projects funded by the Obama Administration. And it would have done so entirely with private funds rather than the Administrations increasingly ill-fated and ham-handed attempts at venture capitalism with taxpayer funds. The fact of the matter is that, for the foreseeable future, opposing fossil fuels is equivalent to opposing energy use.
The Keystone decision only makes sense in the context of a general push to limit energy supply and roll back our industrial economy and all its amazing gifts. Part and parcel of this same effort has been the growing opposition to natural gas fracking. Fracking is an underground procedure that has been used safely and succesfully for decades to extend the life of older oil wells. Fracking is one reason that serial predictions of older fields “running out of oil” have been repeatedly incorrect.
Recently, though, fracking has presented the promise of substantially inreasing our domestic energy supply by opening up new shale formations previously thought to be impossible to produce. With this new promise, anti-growth, anti-energy environmentalists have suddenly taken notice, and are gearing up to try to kill this exciting (and ironically quite clean) new energy source.
Both the opposition to the pipeline and fracking share a quasi-irrational (“I’m blogging against the modern economy from my iPhone”), almost aesthetic distaste for energy production, the modern industrial economy, and capitalism itself. Fortunately, though, a quest for a sort of Medieval socialism does not play well with American voters, so opponents cast about for logical-sounding arguments that focus-group better. My guess is that the appeal of inexpensive, domestically-sourced energy will be strong enough to overcome these attacks.
First postscript: Does anyone doubt that had this exact same route been for high speed rail, rather than a pipeline, it would already have been approved and President Obama likely would have been proposing to throw a pile of taxpayer money at it to boot? This despite the fact that high-speed rail almost certainly has more environmental negatives than an underground pipeline. The route has always been a red herring — the real goal is reducing energy supply.
Second postscript: The “science” behind the opposition to fracking has been amazingly similar to that behind global warming alarmism. Global warming supporters count on ignorance when they try to blame modern droughts on CO2, hoping folks will forget much worse droughts in the 1930′s when Co2 was at a supposedly “safe” level. Similarly, there have been examples of methane in drinking water for decades, but because this fact was never widely publicized, fracking opponents can count on this ignorance to try to blame this long-existing effect on recent fracking.
Third postscript: I find the contrast between the California High Speed Rail line and the Keystone XL pipeline to be simply amazing. In the case of the rail line, the Obama administration continues to try to perform CPR on an infrastructure project that makes no sense, is way to costly, and will likely bankrupt the state of California with all the taxpayer money required. In the case of the pipeline, the Obama administration killed a private infrastructure project that is widely supported, covers its own costs, and requires no taxpayer money. I wonder where Thomas Friedman is — does he still lament our inability to do large infrastructure projects of the kind President Obama just blocked, or does he only support large state-funded triumphal projects? This seems yet another example of what I called the tendency of government to shift capital from the productive to the sexy.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer/2012/01/19/keystone-xl-voting-for-the-stone-age
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President Obama reveals who he really is -- and this picture isn't pretty
By Michael Goodwin
Published January 23, 2012
| New York Post
By rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Obama did more than just pander to environmentalists. He shredded attempts by his handlers to cast him as a pragmatic and reasonable man who can appeal to independent voters.
Instead, he stands naked as an ideologue willing to sacrifice workers on the altar of special-interest politics.
Thousands of jobs were cast aside with no more thought than yesterday’s socks. Demolished, too, is the promised commitment to energy independence.
The $7 billion pipeline would carry Canadian oil to Gulf Coast ports. Despite three years of study by the State Department, Obama tried to put off the decision until after the election.
But Canada offered to change the route to avoid an aquifer in Nebraska, and unions demanded to know whether he would approve a permit, so Republicans put a 60-day deadline in December’s payroll-tax legislation.
Now we have undeniable proof of the president’s priorities. The man who insisted that “making sure jobs are available is the first thing I think about when I wake up every morning” was just reading empty words from a TelePrompter.
Obama didn’t even have the decency to explain himself, sending out a lame statement that hinted he wasn’t making a decision on the merits, only reacting to the deadline.
The suggestion that he might ultimately approve the project is a shameless bid to deny the obvious. He made his choice because that’s who he is.
Meanwhile, Canada, saying it is “profoundly disappointed,” is turning to Plan B. It likely will build a pipeline to its West Coast and sell the oil to China.
Michael Goodwin is a Fox News contributor and New York Post columnist. To continue reading his column on other topics, including Obama adviser David Axelrod, click here.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/23/president-obama-reveals-who-really-is-and-this-picture-isnt-pretty/#ixzz1kJZazp9H
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Disgusting. so disgusting it's beyond words. Screw Obama. What a treasonous fucking failure.
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Its called security and independence. What happens if ME war breaks out or iran blows up or nigeria or some bs? What do we do?
|Lol this is why your such a fucking a joke, your paranoia is based on emotions rather than reality. The fact of the matter is our military costs us far more than a temporary shortage in oil ever will. Far more importantly the fact is we can't afford to import oil from canada even if it's 10-30 bucks a barrel cheaper. It's still horrid for our balance of trade, and is causing the main overall problem that our economy is stuck on. Which is high oil prices, 2008 crisis wasn't just about banking it was about oil. The GDP predictions for china were around for a while, the fact is we can't compete on the world market for oil at our current consumption rates, we need to get off it, whether or not it's from the middle east or not is irrelevant.
In the future we can't be reliant on oil, canada is currently very progressive, they could easily slip into a socialist gov like they were in the past and shut down the tars sands all together, we can't generate electricity from oil, and we can't use it for transit, this isn't an opinion it's a direct fact.
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This Keystone deal really has me thinking for the first time that Obama isn't just incompetent but really out to hurt America.
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|Lol this is why your such a fucking a joke, your paranoia is based on emotions rather than reality. The fact of the matter is our military costs us far more than a temporary shortage in oil ever will. Far more importantly the fact is we can't afford to import oil from canada even if it's 10-30 bucks a barrel cheaper. It's still horrid for our balance of trade, and is causing the main overall problem that our economy is stuck on. Which is high oil prices, 2008 crisis wasn't just about banking it was about oil. The GDP predictions for china were around for a while, the fact is we can't compete on the world market for oil at our current consumption rates, we need to get off it, whether or not it's from the middle east or not is irrelevant.
In the future we can't be reliant on oil, canada is currently very progressive, they could easily slip into a socialist gov like they were in the past and shut down the tars sands all together, we can't generate electricity from oil, and we can't use it for transit, this isn't an opinion it's a direct fact.
You really are an ignorant moron. $4 gasoline at the pump was one of the main reasons we went into recession in 2007-2008.
There is no viable alternative anywhere in the near future so we need oil, and better to get it from friendly neighbors instead of tyrants.
Until energy prices come down, we will be stuck in the mudd.
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You really are an ignorant moron. $4 gasoline at the pump was one of the main reasons we went into recession in 2007-2008.
There is no viable alternative anywhere in the near future so we need oil, and better to get it from friendly neighbors instead of tyrants.
Until energy prices come down, we will be stuck in the mudd.
I just said 2008 was about oil, do you even read what i said. There's no viable alternative so we wait until price comes down?
News flash prices aren't going down. There's a limited supply and growing demand. And for the record there is alternatives, it's not just cars running on beerfarts. It's about getting consumption rates down, we gotta phase out inefficiencies. America consumes far too much oil for it's population. We don't need a slightly cheaper import source, it changes nothing.
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I just said 2008 was about oil, do you even read what i said. There's no viable alternative so we wait until price comes down?
News flash prices aren't going down. There's a limited supply and growing demand. And for the record there is alternatives, it's not just cars running on beerfarts. It's about getting consumption rates down, we gotta phase out inefficiencies. America consumes far too much oil for it's population. We don't need a slightly cheaper import source, it changes nothing.
Consumption in america is down asswipe.
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Consumption in america is down asswipe.
By was 10-30 percent, ::) Your a fucking nimrod, I'm talking about 100-200 decrease in oil imports. It can be done and it dosen't need to be in a depressed economy.
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This Keystone deal really has me thinking for the first time that Obama isn't just incompetent but really out to hurt America.
it really tells me that no US prez will drill domestically or put in that kinda pipeline.
mid east owns us. no denying it. i'll be chirping about it in 2016 when prez mitt has also made up a reason to avoid the pipeline.
I dont think it's malicious, or based upon protecting nature. The mid east is probably just saying "you make a move for independence and that threatens OUR way of living - so if you do that we are going to jack up prices". It's like giving good prices on books to your friends - then threatening to jack up the prices should he start building his own book store on your block. They LIKE the usa buying all their oil.
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The Hutchinson News ^ | 2/4/12 | GREGORY BONTRAGER
Posted on February 8, 2012 7:05:46 PM EST by kathsua
The keystone pipeline was one of the most well studied, environmentally safe projects in modern history. It was not blocked by Obama because of environmental concerns, it was simply another casualty in a long list of cynical vote-getting ploys to appease Obama's radical base of support, the American People be damned.
It is clear: Our Chicago politician considers his re-election more important than American jobs or energy independence. Better to dump billions into Solyndra and a host of other feel-good, politically correct scams.
This administration has gone beyond corrupt or incompetent; it is placing the survival of the United States in jeopardy. The decline of our country pivots around one point - the failed policies of the Obama administration.
The Chinese laugh while they will fuel their economy with Canadian oil that should have been flowing into the heart of American industry.
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it really tells me that no US prez will drill domestically or put in that kinda pipeline.
mid east owns us. no denying it. i'll be chirping about it in 2016 when prez mitt has also made up a reason to avoid the pipeline.
I dont think it's malicious, or based upon protecting nature. The mid east is probably just saying "you make a move for independence and that threatens OUR way of living - so if you do that we are going to jack up prices". It's like giving good prices on books to your friends - then threatening to jack up the prices should he start building his own book store on your block. They LIKE the usa buying all their oil.
I dont have the words to properly express the idiocy that you present to us on a daily basis.
Lets just leave it at your a fucking moron and you shouldnt be allowed near a computer let alone a voting booth.
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China, Canada reach deals on oil, uranium and air travel
Ottawa Citizen ^ | February 9, 2012 | Jason Fekete
China and Canada declared Thursday that bilateral relations have reached "a new level" following a series of multibillion-dollar trade and business agreements to ship additional Canadian petroleum, uranium and other products to the Asian superpower.
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Harper has said building pipelines to the West Coast — such as the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline and a separate one for liquefied natural gas — is a national priority as Canada looks to ship its vast resources to Asia.
Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel said the commitment by the Chinese and Canadian governments for a strategic energy partnership will allow Canada to diversify its oil-and-gas export markets beyond the United States and enable China to broaden its supply base.
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WTF is this place? is this what america is like, do you guys have to suffer morons like this each day?
the fucking pipeline would have wrecked a very sensitive ecologically important area. The right thing to do for our future is to find a route to get the oil that doesn't rape the world. Are you fucking morons not aware that we live on a planet? that we can destroy it by ecologically devestation. You sound like you are unaware of what the removal of various ecosystems will have on earth, look at the issues with honey bees, no pollinators no food moron.
you guys are stupid people, you have been propagandized to the moon, its like a comedy show, you act like the people in congress act, completely fucking oblivious and opinionated at the same time.
Bill o'reilly type dumb.
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WTF is this place? is this what america is like, do you guys have to suffer morons like this each day?
the fucking pipeline would have wrecked a very sensitive ecologically important area. The right thing to do for our future is to find a route to get the oil that doesn't rape the world. Are you fucking morons not aware that we live on a planet? that we can destroy it by ecologically devestation. You sound like you are unaware of what the removal of various ecosystems will have on earth, look at the issues with honey bees, no pollinators no food moron.
you guys are stupid people, you have been propagandized to the moon, its like a comedy show, you act like the people in congress act, completely fucking oblivious and opinionated at the same time.
Bill o'reilly type dumb.
LOL - i bet you still believe in global warming too.
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LOL - i bet you still believe in global warming too.
LOL troll. you have to be bluto, theres no way someone like you exists and is able to use a computer.
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LOL troll. you have to be bluto, theres no way someone like you exists and is able to use a computer.
Global warming is dead and buried. Only an idiot buys into that lie.
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Global warming is dead and buried. Only an idiot buys into that lie.
try harder
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LOL - i bet you still believe in global warming too.
only idiots believe man is causing it.
I'd insert the quote bunching in Palin, Romney and newt with Obama and Al Gore on this topic, but why bother.
You're well aware they're all phony idiots.
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Following Keystone Rejection Canada's Oil Sands Headed to China
oilprice.com ^ | 21 February 2012 | John Daly
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 8:02:42 AM by Former Proud Canadian
Beginning in 2005, Congressional Republicans and the oil industry touted the 2,147 mile-long Keystone XL 830,000 barrel per day (bpd) pipeline, running from Canada’s Hardisty, Alberta oil sands to U.S. refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
But last month, in an attempt to force a decision from the Obama administration on the pipeline, congressional Republicans tacked a rider onto legislation extending the payroll tax cut by requiring the government to decide within 60 days on the issue, which was rejected for the foreseeable future.
Furious at the setback, Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper threatened to sell the output to China. Last week Harper made an official visit to China and the fruits of that trip are already evident. During a Canada-China business dinner in Guangzhou Harper informed his audience, “We are an emerging energy superpower. We have abundant supplies of virtually every form of energy. And you know, we want to sell our energy to people who want to buy our energy. It's that simple,” adding that virtually all of Canada's energy exports currently go to the U.S. and that it was “increasingly clear” that Canadian commercial interests are best served by diversifying its energy markets.
Guangdong Province Governor Zhu Xiaodan, who attended the dinner, noted that southern China consumes an enormous and ever growing amount of energy and needs additional supplies, telling his guest, "It's our hope in the future we can import more high-quality energy and resource products from Canada." U.S. government statistics bear Harper’s assertions out - according to the U.S. Energy Administration Canada is now the leading exporter of oil to the United States, providing 2.6 million barrels per day (mbpd) of the 9.03 mbpd the U.S. imports every day.
But for Ottawa finding alternative markets is an increasingly high priority, as oil sands have been under development in Alberta since 1967 and investments there now exceed $97 billion.
An alternative to the fickle Americans seems to be on the horizon and Zhu’s hopes have been answered. The Calgary Herald reported on 17 February that Canadian oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. has sent its first shipment of crude oil to China.
Not via the controversial alternative to Keystone XL, the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, designed to ship oilsands to Canada’s Pacific coast. According to Cenovus Energy Inc. president and chief executive officer Brian Ferguson, the company has sent its first half tanker-load of oil of roughly 250,000 barrels, to an unspecified Chinese customer.
After telling reporters that Cenovus Energy Inc. tripled its fourth-quarter 2011 profits over the corresponding period in 2010 Ferguson said, "We actually just sold our first cargo last week. It's very significant because what it allows us to do is establish a relationship with refineries in terms of how they value and price Cenovus crude. So it's very significant strategically."
Perhaps not surprisingly, Ferguson participated in Harper's trade mission to China.
How did the Cenovus Energy Inc. oilsands reach Canada’s western coast for transshipment?
According to Ferguson, his firm utilized the existing TransMountain Pipeline, which runs from Edmonton to the Westridge Marine Terminal near Vancouver, sending 12,000 bpd through the facility. While most of Cenovus Energy Inc. oilsands’ oil began to be shipped in late 2011, the majority was sent to customers in California and represents less than 10 percent of Cenovus Energy Inc.’s overall oil output, it helped generate the massive profits that Ferguson crowed about, because the crude received a premium over mid-continent Canadian oil by being priced in relation to Brent crude instead of the less expensive West Texas Intermediate.
As Ferguson noted, “It's allowing us to get tidewater pricing off Brent so there's a significant uplift per barrel in terms of price realization.”
Cenovus Energy Inc. has bigger long-term export plans for its oilsands production beyond a mere 12,000 bpd. Cenovus Energy Inc. is a major backer of Enbridge Inc.'s controversial proposed 745 mile-long, $5.5-billion, 525,000 bpd Northern Gateway pipeline, which would stretch from Bruderheim, northeast of Edmonton, to the coastal community of Kitimat in British Colombia, providing an export link to customers in Asia.
But the Northern Gateway pipeline, with a projected operational date of 2017 is hardly a done deal, having aroused the ire of Canadian environmentalists nationwide.
And Cenovus Energy Inc. is thinking beyond the present, as Ferguson noted that the firm is continuing to seek a joint venture partner for its Telephone Lake oilsands assets in northern Alberta, with international investors increasingly expressing interest.
So, floods of yuan or a pristine environment? It seems that Harper’s government and Cenovus Energy Inc. have no doubt where Canada’s future lies.
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Following Keystone Rejection Canada's Oil Sands Headed to China
oilprice.com ^ | 21 February 2012 | John Daly
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 8:02:42 AM by Former Proud Canadian
Beginning in 2005, Congressional Republicans and the oil industry touted the 2,147 mile-long Keystone XL 830,000 barrel per day (bpd) pipeline, running from Canada’s Hardisty, Alberta oil sands to U.S. refineries on the Gulf of Mexico.
But last month, in an attempt to force a decision from the Obama administration on the pipeline, congressional Republicans tacked a rider onto legislation extending the payroll tax cut by requiring the government to decide within 60 days on the issue, which was rejected for the foreseeable future.
Furious at the setback, Canadian Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper threatened to sell the output to China. Last week Harper made an official visit to China and the fruits of that trip are already evident. During a Canada-China business dinner in Guangzhou Harper informed his audience, “We are an emerging energy superpower. We have abundant supplies of virtually every form of energy. And you know, we want to sell our energy to people who want to buy our energy. It's that simple,” adding that virtually all of Canada's energy exports currently go to the U.S. and that it was “increasingly clear” that Canadian commercial interests are best served by diversifying its energy markets.
Guangdong Province Governor Zhu Xiaodan, who attended the dinner, noted that southern China consumes an enormous and ever growing amount of energy and needs additional supplies, telling his guest, "It's our hope in the future we can import more high-quality energy and resource products from Canada." U.S. government statistics bear Harper’s assertions out - according to the U.S. Energy Administration Canada is now the leading exporter of oil to the United States, providing 2.6 million barrels per day (mbpd) of the 9.03 mbpd the U.S. imports every day.
But for Ottawa finding alternative markets is an increasingly high priority, as oil sands have been under development in Alberta since 1967 and investments there now exceed $97 billion.
An alternative to the fickle Americans seems to be on the horizon and Zhu’s hopes have been answered. The Calgary Herald reported on 17 February that Canadian oilsands producer Cenovus Energy Inc. has sent its first shipment of crude oil to China.
Not via the controversial alternative to Keystone XL, the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, designed to ship oilsands to Canada’s Pacific coast. According to Cenovus Energy Inc. president and chief executive officer Brian Ferguson, the company has sent its first half tanker-load of oil of roughly 250,000 barrels, to an unspecified Chinese customer. After telling reporters that Cenovus Energy Inc. tripled its fourth-quarter 2011 profits over the corresponding period in 2010 Ferguson said, "We actually just sold our first cargo last week. It's very significant because what it allows us to do is establish a relationship with refineries in terms of how they value and price Cenovus crude. So it's very significant strategically."
Perhaps not surprisingly, Ferguson participated in Harper's trade mission to China.
How did the Cenovus Energy Inc. oilsands reach Canada’s western coast for transshipment?
According to Ferguson, his firm utilized the existing TransMountain Pipeline, which runs from Edmonton to the Westridge Marine Terminal near Vancouver, sending 12,000 bpd through the facility. While most of Cenovus Energy Inc. oilsands’ oil began to be shipped in late 2011, the majority was sent to customers in California and represents less than 10 percent of Cenovus Energy Inc.’s overall oil output, it helped generate the massive profits that Ferguson crowed about, because the crude received a premium over mid-continent Canadian oil by being priced in relation to Brent crude instead of the less expensive West Texas Intermediate.
As Ferguson noted, “It's allowing us to get tidewater pricing off Brent so there's a significant uplift per barrel in terms of price realization.”
Cenovus Energy Inc. has bigger long-term export plans for its oilsands production beyond a mere 12,000 bpd. Cenovus Energy Inc. is a major backer of Enbridge Inc.'s controversial proposed 745 mile-long, $5.5-billion, 525,000 bpd Northern Gateway pipeline, which would stretch from Bruderheim, northeast of Edmonton, to the coastal community of Kitimat in British Colombia, providing an export link to customers in Asia.
But the Northern Gateway pipeline, with a projected operational date of 2017 is hardly a done deal, having aroused the ire of Canadian environmentalists nationwide.
And Cenovus Energy Inc. is thinking beyond the present, as Ferguson noted that the firm is continuing to seek a joint venture partner for its Telephone Lake oilsands assets in northern Alberta, with international investors increasingly expressing interest.
So, floods of yuan or a pristine environment? It seems that Harper’s government and Cenovus Energy Inc. have no doubt where Canada’s future lies.
Wheres that fag KCballer to continue telling us "Wont happen, cant happen, WILL NEVER HAPPEN, you guys are complete morons but I know whats up, lol, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
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Well guess what fag, it happened.
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Wheres that fag KCballer to continue telling us "Wont happen, cant happen, WILL NEVER HAPPEN, you guys are complete morons but I know whats up, lol, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
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Well guess what fag, it happened.
The government rightly decries the length of some environmental hearings. But the opposition to the Gateway pipeline isn’t largely foreign inspired. That argument is a hypocritical diversion – hypocritical, given Canadian interventions in U.S. decisions. The main opposition comes from the multiplicity of aboriginal groups.
The National Energy Board will eventually rubber-stamp the project. It always does, but not until years of hearings – unless the Harper government changes the legislation. Even then, legal challenges will go all the way to the Supreme Court. That court has issued an opaque ruling obliging governments and private interests to consult aboriginals before using land to which they’ve claimed title.
Since B.C. aboriginals have claimed the entire province, sometimes with overlapping claims, and since the B.C. commission supposed to settle land claims has been almost a total bust, the Gateway pipeline has entered the impenetrable thickets of aboriginal politics, title and law – meaning it won’t be built for a very long time, if at all.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/foreign-money-is-a-hypocritical-diversion/article2297904/ (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/jeffrey-simpson/foreign-money-is-a-hypocritical-diversion/article2297904/)
People continued to listen politely as I explained the considerable protection accorded un-extinguished Aboriginal rights under Section 35 of the Constitution Act 1982, as elaborated in the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in the Delgamuukw Case. I quoted The Globe and Mail's Jeffrey Simpson, who in January wrote that "the Gateway pipeline has entered the impenetrable thickets of Aboriginal politics, title and law -- meaning it won't be built for a very long time, if at all."
I reminded the audience that Aboriginal concerns postponed the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline for 10 years, even before Section 35 was adopted. A pipeline that ultimately was not built, after technological change -- in the form of shale gas extraction by fracking -- rendered it unnecessary and uneconomical.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/03/09/Fight-In-Fort-McMurray/ (http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2012/03/09/Fight-In-Fort-McMurray/)
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Along with other first-nation communities, the Dene alliance has taken a firm stand against Enbridge Inc.’s plan to build a crude oil pipeline across their land to transport oil-sands bitumen to the B.C. coast for export to Asia.
“We will defend our rights, no matter what bully tactics the federal government throws at us,” she said. “Our decision has been made: Enbridge will never be allowed in our lands.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/decrying-ottawas-bully-tactics-bc-natives-vow-to-block-pipeline/article2367739/ (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/decrying-ottawas-bully-tactics-bc-natives-vow-to-block-pipeline/article2367739/)
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I hope these eco-nazis keep it up - obama will be sent packing.
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Canadian oil going to Asia, no matter what: Harper
QMI Agency via Sun News Network ^ | 2012-04-02 | Bryn Weese
Posted on April 2, 2012 10:08:44 PM EDT by Clive
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Even if President Barack Obama approved the controversial Keystone XL pipeline tomorrow, at least some Canadian oil would still flow to Asia, according to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
In a public one-on-one interview here with Jane Harman, head of the Wilson Centre think-tank, Harper said Obama's rejection of the controversial pipeline -- even temporarily -- stressed Canada's need to find other buyers for oilsands crude.
And that wouldn't change even if the president's mind did.
"Look, the very fact that a 'no' could even be said underscores to our country that we must diversify our energy export markets," Harper told Harman in front of a live audience of businesspeople, scholars, diplomats, and journalists.
"We cannot be, as a country, in a situation where our one and, in many cases, only energy partner could say no to our energy products. We just cannot be in that position."
His wide-ranging question-and-answer at the influential non-partisan think-tank -- which also touched on border security, trade, the Arctic and Syria among other topics -- followed a meeting with Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the White House for the sixth North American Leaders' Summit.
Harper also told Harman that Canada has been selling its oil to the United States at a discounted price.
So not only will America be able to buy less Canadian oil even if Keystone is eventually approved, the U.S. will also have to pay more for it because the market for oilsands crude will be more competitive.
"We have taken a significant price hit by virtue of the fact that we are a captive supplier and that just does not make sense in terms of the broader interests of the Canadian economy," Harper said. "We're still going to be a major supplier of the United States. It will be a long time, if ever, before the United States isn't our number one export market, but for us the United States cannot be our only export market.
"That is not in our interest, either commercially or in terms of pricing."
Earlier this year, Obama rejected TransCanada's bid to build the $7 billion pipeline that would carry crude from Alberta to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
Obama blamed Republicans in Congress for imposing an arbitrary timeline on him to decide on the project, which he said did not allow enough time for sufficient reviews even though Keystone had been under review for three years already.
Supporters of the project, which include big labour unions and the business community, estimate construction jobs alone to build the pipeline would be in the thousands at a time when the U.S. economy is struggling to recover from the recession.
Polls show some 60% of Americans also support building the pipeline.
But opponents argue developing Canada's oilsands cause high greenhouse gas emissions and worry the pipeline could leak in sensitive environmental areas along the route.
Last month, Obama tried to take credit for expediting the southern leg of the pipeline from Oklahoma to Texas that is going ahead, but the White House has no jurisdiction over the pipeline except where it crosses an international border.
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Barack Obama opened the way for the oil sands to cultivate Asia as a more reliable energy customer
Associated Press
ADAM WATEROUS
The Keystone XL delay was a gift to Canada
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/the-keystone-xl-delay-was-a-gift-to-canada/article2391122/print
Vladimir Putin spent much of 2008 in a dispute with Ukraine over the price of natural gas supplied by Gazprom, the state-owned Russian energy company. Negotiations culminated in early 2009, when, in a moment of brinkmanship, Mr. Putin briefly cut off supplies to Ukraine, through which Russia ships 80 per cent of its Europe-bound gas.
While this muscle-flexing may have given Moscow a short-term political boost, the incident signalled to Europe the danger of depending on Russia for its gas supplies. Europe has since worked to diversify its energy sources, including potentially restarting nuclear facilities and increasing the amount of imported gas from Norway and the Caspian. Major European oil and gas companies (including Shell, BP, Total, Statoil, BG and Repsol) have all since invested tens of billions of dollars in U.S. shale gas, in part to learn techniques for developing that resource in Europe.
The results are clear: Ukraine has pledged to reduce Russian gas imports by two-thirds, and the European Union as a whole reduced Russian gas imports by 30 per cent last year. In other words, Mr. Putin’s political grandstanding backfired – it has actually made Europe more energy independent.
U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to delay, for a second time, approval of the Keystone XL pipeline has become his Putin moment.
For most of the previous 80 years, Canada and the United States enjoyed a mutually beneficial supplier-customer relationship. In 2011, Canada supplied the U.S. with 2.1 million barrels of oil and 8.9 billion cubic feet of gas a day, making Canada the largest source of imported U.S. oil and gas.
Keystone XL was designed to further strengthen the Canada-U.S. relationship by shipping bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries for upgrading. It received Canada’s National Energy Board approval in March of 2010, and South Dakota Public Utilities Commission approval in February of 2010. Later that year, the Environmental Protection Agency said that, with proper safeguards, the pipeline would present “no significant impact” on most resources.
Since Mr. Obama’s decision, the Canadian government and private enterprise have been doing what any supplier would do when it discovers that a customer is not reliable – they are working to diversify their market. Fortunately for Canada, Asia is more than willing to step in. Prime Minister Stephen Harper went to China in February to encourage Chinese investment in the oil sector. He has declared that regulatory approval for Northern Gateway, a proposed oil sands pipeline to the West Coast, is a national priority.
Asia has responded enthusiastically. Since Mr. Obama first raised concern about Keystone in September, the pace of Asian investment in the Canadian energy sector has increased. In October, Sinopec announced it was acquiring Daylight Energy for $2.1-billion. In February, Mitsubishi invested $2.9-billion in a joint venture with Encana on its B.C. gas assets. Both are looking at the potential to ship gas to B.C. for the Asian liquefied natural gas market. In January, PetroChina expanded its oil sands investments by acquiring, for $680-million, additional oil sands assets from Athabasca Oil Sands Corp. In February, PetroChina acquired a 20-per-cent interest in Shell’s Groundbirch asset for an undisclosed amount. Sinopec is also a major investor in the Canadian oil sands market and an investor in the Gateway pipeline.
In addition to diversifying away from its unreliable customer, Canada will get two additional benefits of forging a relationship with Asia.
First, Canada will get better oil prices. Canadian oil currently sells at a discount to world markets due to lack of capacity out of the U.S. Midwest at Cushing, Okla. In 2011, this discount between West Texas Intermediate and Brent cost producers amounted to $4.6-billion, according to oil consultant Peter Tertzakian. Keystone XL would help to alleviate this bottleneck. Canada has awakened to the fact that it does not need to be a price taker, dependent on internal U.S. price dynamics. According to a December report by oil consultant Wood Mackenzie, Canadian producers will lose $8-billion in revenue a year by 2020 if U.S. bottlenecks are not loosened.
Second, Canada will get cheap capital. As Canada shifts its focus away from the U.S. to Asia, the Canadian oil and gas industry is getting access to lower cost Asian capital. With more than $134-billion in oil sands projects under construction or about to start, Canada needs to find investment dollars with the lowest investment hurdle rate.
Perhaps sensing his foolishness, Mr. Obama recently welcomed TransCanada’s proposal to build the southern leg of Keystone XL. Unfortunately, his actions may be too little, too late. Even with the likely eventual approval of Keystone XL in 2013, Mr. Obama will be closing the barn door after the horses are gone. He has clearly given Canada (and China) a wonderful gift.
Adam Waterous is vice-chairman, head of Scotiabank Global Investment Banking, and president and head of Scotia Waterous, the oil-and-gas mergers and acquisitions division of Scotiabank’s Global Banking and Markets division.
© 2012 The Globe and Mail Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Obama sucks. Period. He puts his "green" buddies ahead of the good of his nation, and history will remember that. I was watching the history of Rome and Greece the last few days, and he reminds me of one of Rome's emperors that took over and basically decimated Rome pushing his ideological views on what it "should be".
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This Keystone deal really has me thinking for the first time that Obama isn't just incompetent but really out to hurt America.
I was beginning to think the same thing, ...UNTIL his nixxing of Keystone.
That decision quite frankly may just turn out to be a blessing in disguise for you Americans, and here's why.
the Global elitists that run your country, and dictate orders to your politicians wanted that pipeline.
When Obama nixed it, ...he double-crossed the elite. Right now they are so hopping mad, their heads are about to explode!
As a Canadian, these are my thoughts on the matter. I believe Canadian oil will continue to be sold to the US.
Harpers recent trade mission to China was a carefully staged piece of theatre designed to give Americans apoplectic fits.
China will get her energy needs met, whether it be via Iranian, Russian, Nigerian, or Canadian oil... she will get it, and with the assistance of the Saudi's who are building them a massive refinery, she will be able to refine all the crude she needs.
Harper is wise to diversify the market for Canadian exports. Having only one customer is not smart.
His approach is a familiar one we use in network marketing everyday.
It's far better to have 10,000 customers buying $1 worth of goods every month, than it is to have 1 customer who purchases $10,000 every month. You lose 1 customer in the first scenario, you barely feel it, ...but in the latter scenario, you're screwed. As it is we don't have the demographics to support all of our industries. We're an exporting nation who's biggest customer is the USA who takes approx. 70% of our exports. Pretty soon, our biggest customer will not have the ability to pay for our products anymore. Forging trade deals with other countries is the wise & prudent move to take IMO
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White House threatens veto over Keystone amendment
4/17/12 4:07 PM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2873363/posts
In a statement, the Office of Management and Budget said it would recommend the president veto the House transportation extension bill because it incudes a Keystone pipeline amendment that "circumvents a longstanding and proven process for determining whether cross-border pipelines are in the national interest by mandating the permitting of the Keystone XL pipeline before a new route has been submitted and assessed."
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White House threatens veto of highway bill over Keystone pipeline provision
By Ben Geman - 04/17/12 04:28 PM ET
The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto House legislation to extend transportation programs because it contains GOP language that mandates approval of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
The House is slated to vote Wednesday on the bill that keeps the transportation programs funded through September, the end of the fiscal year.
It would take permitting of the proposed Alberta-to-Texas pipeline away from the State Department and task the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission with approving the project.
“Because this bill circumvents a longstanding and proven process for determining whether cross-border pipelines are in the national interest by mandating the permitting of the Keystone XL pipeline before a new route has been submitted and assessed, the president’s senior advisers would recommend that he veto this legislation,” the White House said in a formal “statement of administration policy” Tuesday afternoon.
The threat continues the political thrust-and-parry between the White House and Republicans over the controversial project that is increasingly at the center of election-year energy battles.
The White House in January rejected TransCanada Corp.’s permit for the pipeline, but stressed the decision was not on the “merits.”
Instead, the White House said that a permitting deadline the GOP demanded in late 2011 payroll tax legislation would short-circuit proper review of Keystone, including the route around ecologically sensitive regions of Nebraska.
The White House has invited TransCanada to reapply but does not plan to make a decision until 2013.
The statement issued Tuesday says the House bill wrongly demands approval of the project “despite the fact that the pipeline route has yet to be identified and there is no complete assessment of its potential impacts, including impacts on health and safety, the economy, foreign policy, energy security and the environment.”
Republicans and business groups have in recent months launched a political assault against the White House over the lack of a permit for Keystone, alleging Obama is missing a chance to boost U.S. energy security and create thousands of jobs. Some Democrats and major unions also back the project, although labor is not unanimous on the matter, and the AFL-CIO has not taken a position amid the divide.
Environmentalists and a number of Democrats strongly oppose Keystone because of greenhouse gas emissions from extracting and burning oil sands, forest damage from the massive projects and fear of spills along the pipeline route.
The Senate in March blocked an amendment to its multi-year transportation package that would have forced approval of the project using somewhat different language than the current House plan.
But 11 Democrats broke ranks with the White House even though President Obama personally lobbied against the GOP-led amendment.
Tuesday’s White House statement also criticizes other aspects of the House bill to extend transportation programs, noting the administration “strongly opposes” the bill.
“By simply extending current authority through the end of the fiscal year, this legislation would miss a critical opportunity to provide more certainty to states and localities as they undertake the long-term planning and execution of projects and programs that are essential to creating and keeping American workers in good paying jobs, improving the nation’s surface transportation infrastructure, and ensuring roadway safety,” the White House said.
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For the first time since President Obama issued a controversial order halting its progress, the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline is once again on track for bureaucratic review after TransCanada submitted a new route through Nebraska designed to avoid environmentally sensitive areas.
The new plan, which TransCanada submitted to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality on Wednesday, takes the Keystone project out of the deep freeze that began in January when Obama agreed with the recommendation of the State Department to reject the initial pipeline application.
This new development, first reported by Fox News, allows Nebraska officials to review the impact of the pipeline's adjusted route. It also opens the door for the pipeline's builder, TransCanada, to submit a new complete proposal covering the entire length of the pipeline to the State Department for its review.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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There is an article on BI this morning showing how Canada is writing us off and becoming buddies w China now due to this asshole in office.