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Obama Speech On Keystone XL Pipeline Filled With Lies And BS
President Obama says he agrees with the State Department’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline.
President Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline – Outnumbered
President Barack Obama announced that he would not approve the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Obama explained that he was primarily concerned that the pipeline could contribute to global warming.
Approving the pipeline, he said, would have “undercut America’s leadership on climate change.”
The decision comes seven years after the pipeline was first proposed in 2008. In 2011, a State Department review found that the Keystone Pipeline would have few to no adverse effects on the environment, a decision that was denounced by environmental activists.
In response, President Obama delayed the final decision until at least 2013, a move The New York Times noted at the time helped “push thorny environmental matters beyond next November’s presidential election.”
President Obama on Friday announced that he has rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a flash point in the debate over his climate policies.
President Obama’s denial of the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline, which would have carried 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast, comes as he is seeking to build an ambitious legacy on climate change.
“The pipeline would not make a meaningful long term contribution to our economy,’’ Mr. Obama said in remarks from the White House.
The move was made ahead of a major United Nations summit meeting on climate change to be held in Paris in December, when Mr. Obama hopes to help broker a historic agreement committing the world’s nations to enacting new policies to counter global warming.
While the rejection of the pipeline is largely symbolic, Mr. Obama has sought to telegraph to other world leaders that the United States is serious about acting on climate change.
President Obama at a TransCanada pipe yard in Cushing, Okla., in March 2012.
TransCanada would have built the Keystone XL pipeline.
The once-obscure Keystone project became a political symbol amid broader clashes over energy, climate change and the economy.
The rejection of a single oil infrastructure project will have little impact on efforts to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, but the pipeline plan gained an outsize profile after environmental activists spent four years marching and rallying against it in front of the White House and across the country.
The rejection of the pipeline is one of several actions Mr. Obama has taken as he intensifies his push on climate change in his last year in office.
In August, he announced his most significant climate policy, a set of aggressive new regulations to cut emissions of planet-warming carbon pollution from the nation’s power plants.
Republicans and the oil industry had demanded that the president approve the pipeline, which they said would create jobs and stimulate economic growth.
Many Democrats, particularly those in oil-producing states such as North Dakota, also supported the project.
In February, congressional Democrats joined with Republicans in sending Mr. Obama a bill to speed approval of the project, but the president vetoed the measure.
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Source: http://fusionlacedillusions.com/2015/11/06/obama-speech-on-filled-with-lies-and-bs/
The Republicans real reason for wanting the Keystone XL Pipeline is Filled With Lies And BS also.
NONE of the oil coming out that pipe is going to USA markets!!!! Not one drop, its simply going through the USA to the Gulf to be exported, as a matter of fact it will likely cause oil prices here to go UP NOT DOWN because some of it is going to refined before its exported, taking refinery capacity from producing domestic oil here.
http://priceofoil.org/2014/11/20/fact-checking-keystone-xl-exports/
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/nov/20/barack-obama/obama-says-keystone-xl-exporting-oil-experts-disag/
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/policy_library/data/01614
It’s simple. George Soros’ railroad company currently carries the oil that pipeline would transport.
Now if we could only get the numbers of people to DEMAND the release of suppressed free energy technology!!