It's Official, President Trump approves construction of Keystone XL pipeline

[Spike]

President Donald Trump on Friday approved the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline linking Canadian oil sands to U.S. refiners, a project blocked by Barack Obama.

TransCanada said earlier in the day the U.S. Department of State had issued a presidential permit for the project.

Obama had said the pipeline would do nothing to reduce fuel prices for U.S. motorists and would contribute emissions linked to global warming.

A senior administration official told Reuters that Trump will make the announcement alongside TransCanada Chief Executive Russell Girling and Sean McGarvey, president of North America's Building Trades Unions.

"Our Government has always been supportive of the Keystone XL pipeline and we are pleased with the U.S. decision," a spokesman for Canada's minister of natural resources said.

"The importance of a common, continental energy market cannot be overstated," he added.

TransCanada tried for more than five years to build the 1,179-mile (1,897-km) pipeline, until Obama rejected it in 2015.

The company resubmitted its application for the project in January, after Trump signed the executive order smoothing its path.

The multibillion-dollar pipeline would bring more than 800,000 barrels per day of heavy crude from Canada's oil sands in Alberta into Nebraska, linking to an existing pipeline network feeding U.S. refineries and ports along the Gulf of Mexico.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/24/tran...it-to-construct-the-keystone-xl-pipeline.html

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White men will surely be blamed

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Obama had said the pipeline would do nothing to reduce fuel prices for U.S. motorists and would contribute emissions linked to global warming.

Well of course, when it comes to energy and economics, among other things, Bomma is an idealogue and a moron.

 

[Tibs]

 

[Superman]

good thing that's the ONLY pipeline in that area.

just for reference, Tibs is citing this:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...e-pipeline-oil-spill-reported-in-south-dakota

TransCanada, the company that owns and operates the Keystone Pipeline, says that an estimated 210,000 gallons, or 5,000 barrels, of oil have spilled near the small town of Amherst, S.D.

The cause of the leak is under investigation, according to the company's website. TransCanada crews detected a drop in pressure at about 6 a.m. CT Thursday morning and shut down the pipeline, which runs from Hardesty, Alberta, to Cushing, Okla., and Wood River/Patoka, Ill.

Amherst is about 200 miles north of Sioux Falls, S.D., and about 25 miles from the state's border with North Dakota.

The conduit is not the controversial and long-delayed Keystone XL Pipeline that TransCanada is still shepherding through the approval process.

But as NPR's Jeff Brady reports, the spill comes at a sensitive time for TransCanada.

"Regulators in the neighboring state of Nebraska are expected to announce a decision on the company's proposed Keystone XL pipeline next week. The project and its route through Nebraska have been controversial. Some landowners are concerned about how an oil spill might harm their property and water supplies."

The spill does nothing to enhance prospects for the XL Pipeline, which critics argue should not be allowed to operate.

"TransCanada cannot be trusted," said Jane Kleeb, head of the Nebraska Democratic Party and a longtime activist opposed to Keystone XL, as quoted by the Washington Post.

"I have full confidence that the Nebraska Public Service Commission is going to side with Nebraskans, not a foreign oil company," she added.

Brian Walsh, an environmental scientist manager at the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources, said the company was aware of the spill at about 5:30 a.m. CT. But his agency wasn't alerted until about 10:30 a.m. CT.

"There is a time lag there and I expect that that will be some of the questions we need to answer over the coming months," he told Jeff.

In its statement, TransCanada said, "The section of pipe along a right-of-way approximately 35 miles (56 kilometres) south of the Ludden pump station in Marshall County, South Dakota was completely isolated with 15 minutes and emergency procedures were activated."

 

[deljzc]

Part of the reason we need NEW pipelines is to put some of the older, more risky pipelines out of use. People think oil will just stop flowing if they don't build pipelines. That's not true. What will happen is oil companies will use old pipelines longer and transport massive amounts of oil using trucks on our highways that is far more dangerous to human life and the environment.

This type of accident is exactly WHY we need to continue to build more up-to-date pipelines.

 

[21STEELERS21]

Keystone is really for Canada being able to get it's oil to global markets. Canadian firms make more money and the US
gets the environmental damage like this spill.

 

[deljzc]

Keystone is really for Canada being able to get it's oil to global markets. Canadian firms make more money and the US
gets the environmental damage like this spill.

We get a pretty big cut to refine it.

 

[Iron95]

Keystone is really for Canada being able to get it's oil to global markets. Canadian firms make more money and the US
gets the environmental damage like this spill.

The oil is going to go somewhere. If it doesn't go to us, where do you think it will go? Ill give you a hint..............it begins with an R.

 

[deljzc]

The problem with the position against pipelines is it's not based in fact or science (funny how when the science is against liberals, they ignore it).

Pipelines are BY FAR the safest way to transport crude oil or unrefined natural gas. There is no scientific or logical reason to FORCE a change away from that transportation method unless you want to take the following position:

1. To artificially increase the cost of oil/natural gas energy through government regulation and oversight with the hopes it makes non-fossil fuels more cost competitive AND AT THE SAME TIME risk more accidents and potential human life loss in the process as oil/gas companies use old, outdated pipelines longer than they should and increase the use of tractor/trailers and trains to transport raw product.

That is the position these people are taking. Nothing more, nothing less. That is the SCIENTIFIC ramifications of putting up barriers to smarter, better pipeline construction in this country.

If that's the position they want to take, by all means go ahead. But lets call a spade a spade and describe your position correctly instead of sugar coating it as some bastion of environmental advocacy.

 

[Spike]

WINNING!


UN climate talks draw to a close as US holds firm on fossil fuels

UN negotiations on implementing the Paris climate change agreement wrapped up on Friday after two weeks of talks that were slowed down by the United States defending the use of fossil fuels.

A key stumbling block was on finance for the world’s poorer nations to help them prepare for, and deal with, the fallout from climate change including more frequent and severe superstorms, droughts and land- and crop-gobbling sea level rises.

Another obstacle was the insistence of developed nations led by the US that all countries share similar obligations under the Paris pact, while developing greenhouse gas polluters want a certain degree of leeway.

Not helping the mood, White House officials hosted a sideline event with energy company bosses Monday to defend the continued use of fossil fuels coal, oil and natural gas blamed for emitting planet-warming gases into the Earth’s atmosphere.

http://www.france24.com/en/20171117-un-climate-talks-draw-close-bonn-usa-fossil-fuels-trump

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Redistribution of wealth plot foiled again!


Thank you, Mr. President, for saving us billions of tax dollars by pulling the plug on this globalist scam.

 

[Tibs]

Thank you, Mr. President, for saving us billions of tax dollars by pulling the plug on this globalist scam.

More like... Thank you, Mr. President, for saving the filthy rich billions of tax dollars and keeping the screws clamped down on the poor and the middle class.

Just speak the truth, Spike. No need to beat around the bush.

 

[CoolieMan]

so how is a leak in an old part of the pipeline something to bash President Trump about? If the project had moved forward earlier, maybe this old pipeline could be out of service by now.....

 

[Supersteeler]

More like... Thank you, Mr. President, for saving the filthy rich billions of tax dollars and keeping the screws clamped down on the poor and the middle class.

Just speak the truth, Spike. No need to beat around the bush.

Oh yes, those compassionate Democrats on the other hand just looooooove that Middle class don't they? They love them so much they've been ******* them over at every opportunity for decades.

 

[3 Hypocycloids]

I'm just glad the pipeline doesn't run anywhere near me. When it leaks, it can be some poor farmer or ranchers' problem.

 

[CoolieMan]

I'm just glad the pipeline doesn't run anywhere near me. When it leaks, it can be some poor farmer or ranchers' problem.

you would likely be surprised by the number of pipeline near you

 

[SCSteeler4life]

you would likely be surprised by the number of pipeline near you

Some of these dumb ***** must think oil pipelines are something new. They are crisscrossed all over the country. Have been for years and still is the safest way to transport large quantities of oil from one place to another.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Some of these dumb ***** must think oil pipelines are something new. They are crisscrossed all over the country. Have been for years and still is the safest way to transport large quantities of oil from one place to another.

It's part of Leftist dogma. No affordable energy for anyone anywhere.

 

[Superman]

Pipes are permanent, never leaking and never needing maintenance. There's a reason there's no profession that caters to fixing or improving pipes of any kind in any capacity. Once a pipe is put in place, it is a permanent fixture. Always has been and always will be.

right, lefties?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Pipes are permanent, never leaking and never needing maintenance. There's a reason there's no profession that caters to fixing or improving pipes of any kind in any capacity. Once a pipe is put in place, it is a permanent fixture. Always has been and always will be.

right, lefties?

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. -- John Gardner

Kinda describes the current Liberal mindset.

 

[jitter77]

I'm not a fan of the pipelines. I would rather they put the money elsewhere into working on better alternative energy.

 

[Booted]

I'm not a fan of the pipelines. I would rather they put the money elsewhere into working on better alternative energy.

Unicorn farts get 36 miles per cubic liter. Scientists are hoping this energy source will be available to the public within the next 10 years. One scientist was quoted, saying, I live 28 miles from my job at Solyndra, and the gasoline costs are killing me.

 

[hamster]

I'm not a fan of the pipelines. I would rather they put the money elsewhere into working on better alternative energy.

And I would like to see the Steelers trade all of their bad players for everybody else's good players.

 

[jitter77]

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16...nced-price-release-date-electric-self-driving

This is a start

 

[DBS1970]

https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16...nced-price-release-date-electric-self-driving

This is a start

Pass.

Don't want to roll down the Rockies without compression breaking.

 

[Spike]

I'm just glad the pipeline doesn't run anywhere near me. When it leaks, it can be some poor farmer or ranchers' problem.

hahahahaha - farmers out west have the least of them