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TransCanada has applied for a new permit. All states involved approve and want the project to go forward. One man and his political decision stands in the way.
Obama should do the right thing and approve this project. He gets a do-over, he should take it and the issue off the table.
“Today there is just one person standing in the way of tens of thousands of new American jobs: President Obama,” said House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican. “After nearly four years of review, delay and politics, he is out of excuses for blocking this job-creating energy project any longer. Every state along the proposed route supports the pipeline, and its builder has jumped through every bureaucratic hoop.”
“Certainly our expectation is that the only required new review would be on the actual reroute itself . . . What we are talking, in the scheme of things, (is) a relatively modest reroute,” said Pourbaix, president of TransCanada’s pipeline division.
“As we look at it, we don’t see anything material that was not reviewed in the original application, other than the specific reroute in Nebraska.”
The environ Left/obama WILL find something other than the new route to object to.
Boehner really should be ashamed of lying like that.
There are no "tens of thousands of jobs."
This has been debunked so many times it is not even funny:
"The reality is that according to the State Department, Keystone XL will only create 6,000 direct jobs with only 10%-15% of those workers being hired locally."
Boehner really should be ashamed of lying like that.
There are no "tens of thousands of jobs."
This has been debunked so many times it is not even funny:
"The reality is that according to the State Department, Keystone XL will only create 6,000 direct jobs with only 10%-15% of those workers being hired locally."
I didn't know it was one of the State Department's duties to predict jobs.
Has the gov't EVER predicted correctly?
"Department Mission Statement
Shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere.
--From the FY 2011 Agency Financial Report,
released November 2011"
But didn't Pres Obama tell us that this kind of thing acts as "stimulus" that reverberates thru the economy? Say you spend $25,000 to fund a puppet show (that was an actual "stimulus" project in my state, and others). Not only is a job created for the puppeteer, there is work for someone to sweep the stage, sell popcorn to the kids, run the cash register at the shop where the puppet supplies are purchased, and so on. Wouldn't the same thing happen with the pipeline? Or is that theory 'void where prohibited.'
Our country stands to benefit from this pipeline by more than just the creation of jobs. Existing businesses/jobs will be bolstered, too. It will mean job security for a lot of people that are on the edge of being laid off, and it will keep open businesses that are currently on the verge of closing their doors.
In other words, it will SAVE JOBS! Obama & Co. invented the term to get his spendulous plan through. He got to invent an ambiguous and unprovable concept. He owns it, but like Clinton's term "assault weapon," it's not reserved exclusively for use by the President. If he wants it out there, it can be used by his political opponents, as well.
This pipeline will create AND SAVE many thousands of jobs, at a time during which every single job counts. Heck, once work begins on it, there's a reasonable chance that it'll provide a significant enough push to my little business, a thousand miles away, that we may need to hire an additional person.
Of course, the Left wants you to believe only a a few hundred will do the job.
Even that number is a lie. The teams will move along the route. Thousands maybe, not tens of thousands, surely not hundreds of thousands. And of cpurse, as with any construction project, the jobs will be gone in a few months.
Boehner really should be ashamed of lying like that.
There are no "tens of thousands of jobs."
This has been debunked so many times it is not even funny:
"The reality is that according to the State Department, Keystone XL will only create 6,000 direct jobs with only 10%-15% of those workers being hired locally."
Don't you realize that this OP propaganda BS is not put out there for the benefit of the informed and intelligent portion of the populace? It's put out there to further reinforce the dumbing down of the already dumbed down misinformed, low infirmation portions of the right wing. If you repeat the lie often enough, something is bound to stick somewhere. The GOP has wound up with a candidate that makes them gag, which will prompt them to pull out all of the stops before the election...anything to detract from the real issues and the laundry list of shortcomings of their candidate.
Our country stands to benefit from this pipeline by more than just the creation of jobs. Existing businesses/jobs will be bolstered, too. It will mean job security for a lot of people that are on the edge of being laid off, and it will keep open businesses that are currently on the verge of closing their doors.
In other words, it will SAVE JOBS! Obama & Co. invented the term to get his spendulous plan through. He got to invent an ambiguous and unprovable concept. He owns it, but like Clinton's term "assault weapon," it's not reserved exclusively for use by the President. If he wants it out there, it can be used by his political opponents, as well.
This pipeline will create AND SAVE many thousands of jobs, at a time during which every single job counts. Heck, once work begins on it, there's a reasonable chance that it'll provide a significant enough push to my little business, a thousand miles away, that we may need to hire an additional person.
Funny, work is going on along the route as we speak, based on the last two weak jobs reports your theory is deeply flawed.
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