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XL Pipeline Sues USA

Mike

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Buckwheat should have to pay for the expenses out of his pocket. :???:


TransCanada Corp. filed a claim under the North American Free Trade Agreement Friday seeking $15 billion over the Obama administration's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The company filed the claim seeking arbitration under the trade agreement, arguing that they had reason to believe that they would emerge and win approval to build the Keystone pipeline, which was ultimately rejected by the Obama administration in November.

In the filing, TransCanada said that the U.S. spent seven years using "arbitrary and contrived" analyses and justifications as they delayed making a final decision.

"None of that technical analysis or legal wrangling was material to the administration's final decision," TransCanada said in the filing. "Instead, the rejection was symbolic and based merely on the desire to make the U.S. appear strong on climate change, even though the State Department had itself concluded that denial would have no significant impact on the environment."


The administration announced in November that the pipeline was not in the national interest.

The Keystone XL pipeline would have carried Canadian crude oil from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico, but was opposed from the start by climate change organizations. Republicans had pushed for the administration to approve the pipeline, partly as a job creation tool.
 

Faster horses

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Plus the fact that early on, Hillary approved the pipeline.

I don't blame XL one bit for pursuing this. I know they put a lot of money in the little town of Baker, MT and many other
small towns as well.

The people who stopped this from happening should have to pay for it, but we know who will wind up paying. :mad:
I wonder who will hear the case.
 

Faster horses

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Interesting that I tried to copy and paste the original post from here to facebook, but when I hit the 'post' button on fb, it wouldn't work....
 

mrj

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I'm with you on this, FH. Absolutely would rather oil be transported by modern pipeline than by rail tankers or trucks on our hiways for safety and efficiency.

Many of those against it in SD are provincial people to start with, don't like much they didn't think of first, or stand to make a financial 'killing' from. The points they make against XL have been so contrived and just plain foolish for the most part. Never mind records of recent spills or comparing with spills by rail and truck transport. Suspicion of anything they don't control, and yet some jealousy of others who might benefit from may be a factor. So much time and energy wasted on fighting the less damaging things when there are more important battles to spend the energy on!

mrj
 

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