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Topic: Did Obama Just Block Keystone? |
Did Obama Just Block Keystone?
National Review Online, by Stanley Kurtz
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Posted By:Zarin, 3/16/2013 11:59:59 PM
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| Deciding whether to approve the Keystone XL pipeline is surely one of the toughest challenges of Barack Obama’s presidency. He hasn’t made up his mind yet, of course. Or has he? Bloomberg reports that the Obama administration “is preparing to tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider the impact on global warming before approving major projects.” Up to now, under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), federally approved projects had to consider potential impacts like dangerous spills or air pollution, but not global warming.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
wsdiego, 3/17/2013 12:04:34 AM (No. 9228900)
What did that general say? "Stuck on stupid"!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Penney, 3/17/2013 12:11:25 AM (No. 9228903)
Policy deemed upon nothing more than a PC political myth conjured up by global statist pols?!!! mmm mmm mmm
That´s no way to anchor Federal policy!!! -YIKES!!!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
janylou, 3/17/2013 12:22:03 AM (No. 9228908)
I can´t help but wonder if all those dims who are now on board legislation supporting Keystone, know what Ob is planning on and know that while they publicly support it, it won´t see the light of day because they know he will block it by hook or crook!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Aria, 3/17/2013 12:41:45 AM (No. 9228917)
Zero needs money from his whacko environmental donors to fund 2014 so he can get control of Congress.
Then stand back - we ain´t seen nothin´ yet. 2014 will be ugly...Obamacare kicking in, "elections". I suppose this is what the DHS weapons are for.
If this man leaves this WH in 2016 I will be VERY surprised. We´ve never seen anything like this before in this country.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 3/17/2013 1:57:40 AM (No. 9228939)
Listen up folks - we know what he is up, let´s stop worrying and calling it inevitable - we the people are not bound to do whatever his whim dictates - there´s a line in the Constitution about that.It´s time to get to work on Keystone.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Spidey, 3/17/2013 3:49:38 AM (No. 9228967)
There´s no compelling federal interest in this pipeline,so Obama really has no reason to stick his nose in it.Now he´s using outdated,archaic Nixon era laws as an avenue to stop it going any farther.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 3/17/2013 6:01:06 AM (No. 9228996)
If the president was truly interested in creating real jobs for Americans, the pipeline is a no-brainer. These delaying tactics display Obama´s anti-energy agenda. If Romney had been elected the pipeline would be underway with thousands of good paying jobs.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mickturn, 3/17/2013 11:24:16 AM (No. 9229352)
He won´t approve it simply because his buddy Buffet makes tons of cash shipping via railroad.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ratslayer, 3/17/2013 11:42:03 AM (No. 9229399)
Obama would rather buy Saudi oil. Certainly not American oil produced by tax paying Americans. He is happy to ship the jobs and money to his Islamic Big Oil buddies. He will continue to collect donations from the Commie Greens. Buffet´s diesel smoke belching trains will profit..more Buffet donations. Canada will sell the oil to China. You must hate really America to execute this.
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