Saturday, November 19, 2011

Thems That Can...

...work for corporations. Thems that can't, go into politics.

"...with Nebraska state politicians now saying they want the State Department to expedite the review process, Obama's hand has been exposed in a way he never imagined.

The mistake was that Obama hooked Keystone XL to the issue of the routing.

If he deferred the decision, he could placate key supporters and voters in both the environmental and union camps until after the 2012 election.

Obama had said in a television interview the risk of water contamination trumped a few thousand jobs.

But with TransCanada coming out with a viable option, backed by Nebraska Democrats and Republicans, the White House has been caught flat-footed."
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"Their (environmental protesters) issue, apparently, was with routing of the pipe through the area occupied by the aquifer. Now that this is off the table, which presumably means the need for protest against Keystone XL has similarly disappeared, one assumes the enviros can go bother someone else - the coal folks, perhaps.

They could start with the emissions generated by coalfired power, which is responsible for 65 per cent of Nebraska's electricity."

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