I give up on him.
"Obama officials back oil pipeline from Canada; Groups warn of danger to environment
" August 27, 2011|By John M. Broder and Clifford Krauss, New York Times
WASHINGTON - President
Obama’s administration gave a crucial green light yesterday to a proposed
1,711-mile pipeline that would carry
heavy oil from Canada across the Great Plains to terminals in Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, saying the project would provide a
secure source of energy without significant damage to the environment....
Related: Oil Spill Cleanup Update
The administration dismissed criticism from environmental advocates who said that extracting the oil would have a devastating impact on the climate and that a
leak or rupture in the 36-inch-diameter pipeline
could wreak ecological disaster....
The State Department said in an environmental impact statement that the pipeline’s owner, TransCanada, had
reduced the risks of an accident to an acceptable level and that the
benefits of importing oil from a friendly neighbor outweighed the potential costs....
And so was deepwater drilling.
For many in the environmental movement, the administration’s apparent acceptance of the pipeline was yet another disappointment, after recent decisions to tentatively approve drilling in the Arctic Ocean, to open 20 million more acres of the Gulf of Mexico for oil leasing and to delay several major air quality regulations. The movement is still smarting from the administration’s failure to push climate change legislation through Congress.
Analysts and environmental advocates said these decisions had opened a wide and perhaps unbridgeable breach between the Democratic president and environmentally minded voters....
He doesn't give a shit about you. Where else you going to go, right?
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Related:
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65 arrested at oil pipeline protest
Sixty-five environmentalist
protesters were arrested outside the White House yesterday, the first day of a
planned two-week protest over a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the US Gulf Coast, Park Police said.
This flashback brief hidden under another heading was all I saw about it.
The protesters want President Obama to deny a permit for the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline. It would go through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. TransCanada says the pipe would provide jobs and needed oil (
AP)."
And OIL is what lubricates the war machine.
Also see:
"Canada’s military reclaims former names
" August 17, 2011|Associated Press
TORONTO - Canada’s navy and air force regained their traditional royal names yesterday as
Canada’s pro-monarchy Conservative government continued its efforts to
promote a more conservative national identity.
Defense Minister Peter MacKay said they will again officially be known as the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force. MacKay said the change is intended to help those in uniform
reconnect with their heritage.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who leads Canada’s most pro-monarchy government since the 1950s, has been
shifting the country’s ideological bearings from center-left to center-right, a project that lays
greater stress on such traditional symbols as the
monarchy, the military, hockey, and the Arctic....
Public relations imagery is everything, isn't it?
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