WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner and other supporters of the long-delayed Keystone oil pipeline from Canada say a new State Department report is the latest evidence that the long-delayed project should be approved.
The draft report, issued Friday, found there would be no significant environmental impact to most resources on the proposed route from western Canada to refineries in Texas. The report also said other options to get the oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries are worse for climate change.
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Can someone explain to me why the State Department is conducting a study on the environmental effects of this project? We don't let the Environmental Protection Agency conduct studies of foreign aid to the Middle East. I generally don't ask my electrician to fix my plumbing. Does anyone else see this as problemmatic? Or is this just part of the script to ignore the actual impacts of the project and lay the groundwork for the President to approve it?
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Since it's a joint project with a foreign nation (Canada), the State Department needs to be involved. That's elementary.
This pipeline will eventually be constructed after due consideration and careful planning to hopefully avoid unintended consequences. There's a surplus of natural gas at present, so what's the rush?
The rush, of course, is because those involved want their profits to start rolling in as soon as possible. The government, though, needs to be worried about the country, not the profits.