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TORONTO (AP) — The company behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S Gulf Coast has asked the U.S. State Department to pause its review of the project.
TransCanada said Monday a suspension would be appropriate while it works with Nebraska authorities for approval of its preferred route through the state. The move comes before the Obama administration was widely expected to reject it.
For seven years, the fate of the 1,179-mile (1,900 kilometer) long pipeline has languished amid debates over climate change, the intensive process of extracting Alberta's oil and U.S. energy security
The pipeline has long been a flashpoint in the U.S. debate over climate change. Critics oppose the concept of tapping the Alberta oil sands, saying it requires huge amounts of energy and water, increases greenhouse gas emissions.
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As I have said before.....
Keystone XL Pipeline is a Canadian company owned pipeline, with Canadian oil being sold to the Asia Pacific rim nations.
It has little to no effect on our ability to be energy independent.
If Republicans had not made this a political issues, it would have passed 6 years ago. Making this a political issue doomed it from the beginning, because it could easily be demonized by the left with no effect on the economy. It created an easy political win for the left.
Keystone XL Pipeline is a Canadian company owned pipeline, with Canadian oil being sold to the Asia Pacific rim nations.
It has little to no effect on our ability to be energy independent.
If Republicans had not made this a political issues, it would have passed 6 years ago. Making this a political issue doomed it from the beginning.
Yep. Besides, we don't need it. The minute that I found out that a Canadian company threatened Americans with Eminent Domain, I was against it regardless of whether we needed it or not.
Yep. Besides, we don't need it. The minute that I found out that a Canadian company threatened Americans with Eminent Domain, I was against it regardless of whether we needed it or not.
I think Eminent Domain was the issue in Nebraska. This is what I found:
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But a fresh lawsuit brought by nearly 70 landowners has spurred a Nebraska judge to halt TransCanada’s eminent domain proceedings,
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“TransCanada sees the writing on the wall,” Jane Kleeb, director of Bold Nebraska, a group fighting the pipeline, said in a statement following the judge’s decision to issue an injunction. “Nebraska landowners are not going to cave to their threats and we will now see them in our Supreme Court to finally get clarity on the legality of a foreign corporation using eminent domain for private gain.”
Keystone XL Pipeline is a Canadian company owned pipeline, with Canadian oil being sold to the Asia Pacific rim nations.
It has little to no effect on our ability to be energy independent.
If Republicans had not made this a political issues, it would have passed 6 years ago. Making this a political issue doomed it from the beginning, because it could easily be demonized by the left with no effect on the economy. It created an easy political win for the left.
I saw this today..and finally we ( as Canadian's can move on) can stop listening to Harper's hype about this!! Finally, Canada can move forward and build refineries..transport both East and West Coast. with pipelines transerving across the country..way above most populated area's.....Harper spent and wasted so much time pursuing this XL Pipeline to transport "Dirty Oil" south..thru American lands..only to get refined and shipped out!!! No huge job's..and only OIL Companies profited..and taxpayer's paying that price!!
I just knew..Neither BO nor Hillary wanted this..and was able to delay delay and delay long enough to realize..only Oil Lobbyists were for it and their funded congressional folks..THE Country at large said NOPE.....TY Justin Trudeau!!
Let us not get carried away. Alberta oil sands are expensive for production and are running into the same problems as the US fracking producers. Expensive production is not viable at present prices. So they are cutting back and conserving funds.
They will be back when the market turns around...though that may not be any time soon.
Keystone XL Pipeline is a Canadian company owned pipeline, with Canadian oil being sold to the Asia Pacific rim nations.
It has little to no effect on our ability to be energy independent.
If Republicans had not made this a political issues, it would have passed 6 years ago. Making this a political issue doomed it from the beginning, because it could easily be demonized by the left with no effect on the economy. It created an easy political win for the left.
What is bothersome is that our Alaskan crude Oil is being sent to Asia instead :
It isn't the shortage of US Oil but who we are selling it to instead.
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