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Obama Still Holding Up Keystone

Mike

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Just think. Some on here blamed the NIMBY's. :lol: :lol: :lol:

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/house-passes-gop-bill-to-bypass-president-to-speed-approval-of-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline/
 

Whitewing

Well-known member
Perhaps it's a problem of his staff not informing him of the pipeline? :lol:

He doesn't seem to know about much else going on around him, why should this subject be any different? :roll:
 

Big Muddy rancher

Well-known member
Whitewing said:
Perhaps it's a problem of his staff not informing him of the pipeline? :lol:

You'd think he would have heard about it in the media.

He does hold all those press conferences so the media can tell him what is going on. :?
 

Faster horses

Well-known member
There is a 'Bakken Market Link' that will link the pipeline to storage tanks that will cross our property. They are ready to talk price for the easement across our place, so that makes me think that they feel eventually the pipeline will be approved. As for me, I'm not convinced. This has gone on too long at the whim of Obama. Who knows which way the wind will blow? :mad:
 

Whitewing

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It's good to see the do-nothing congress doing things these days.....upholding their precious constitutional mandate by investigating The King's lies, fraud, scandal, law breaking and now doing his job for him.....pushing ahead with legislation to create American jobs.

Good thing somebody's decided to run the country.
 

Steve

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as for those do nothing congressmen..


Congress Passes Bill To Speed Keystone XL Pipeline Approval

House Republicans have pushed through legislation to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

The bill was approved 241-175 largely along party lines. It's unlikely to be taken up by the Democratic-controlled Senate.

The measure would deem the project approved without a presidential permit, as required under current law, and with no further environmental review. It also would limit legal challenges to the project.

President Barack Obama has twice thwarted the pipeline project

TransCanada Corporation proposed the project on February 9, 2005.

The application was filed in September 2008 and the National Energy Board of Canada started hearings in September 2009.[21]

On March 11, 2010 the Canadian National Energy Board approved the project.[9][22][23]

The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission granted a permit on February 19, 2010


The final environmental impact report was released on August 26, 2011.

On November 10, 2011, the Department of State postponed a final decision.

On November 22, 2011, the Nebraska legislature passed unanimously two bills with the governor's signature that enacted a compromise agreed upon with the pipeline builder to move the route.

On November 30, 2011, a group of leading Republican senators introduced legislation aimed at forcing the Obama administration to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days.

In December 2011, Congress passed a bill giving the Obama Administration a 60-day deadline to make a decision on the application to build the Keystone XL Pipeline.

On January 18, 2012, President Obama rejected the application

On January 19, 2012, TransCanada announced it may shorten the initial path to remove the need for federal approval.[113] TransCanada said that work on that section of the pipeline could start in June 2012[114] and be on-line by the middle to late 2013

In April 2013, it was learned that the government of Alberta was investigating, as an alternative to the pipeline south through the United States, a shorter all-Canadian pipeline north to the Arctic coast, from where the oil would be taken by tanker ships through the Arctic Ocean to markets.

the longer this lingers.. the greater possibility we will lose out.. on jobs and revenue this pipeline would have created...
 
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