That Pipeline

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Kinder Morgan Canada Rises On Pipeline Decision
By Kevin Orland
December 8, 2017, 11:29 AM EST

* NEB ruling on Burnaby spat eases fears of Trans Mountain delay
* Pipeline project would carry more Alberta oil to Pacific Coast

...Canada’s National Energy Board ruled on Thursday that the company could proceed with construction on the Trans Mountain project in Burnaby, British Columbia, without complying with two sections of the city’s bylaws. The ruling boosted confidence that the federal government, which has approved the pipeline’s expansion, will help the company prevail over local opposition that had threatened to bog down the work...

...The Trans Mountain expansion would nearly triple the capacity of the line, which carries crude from Alberta to Canada’s Pacific Coast... the project has the backing of the federal government and the province of Alberta...





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[richard_daily]

We get it, tryfail. You're a shill for oil and gas.

 

[trysail]

An outcome that was predictable— and is, in fact, occurring.

Canadian petroleum will be produced and sold.


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Kinder Morgan Canada Rises On Pipeline Decision
By Kevin Orland
December 8, 2017, 11:29 AM EST

* NEB ruling on Burnaby spat eases fears of Trans Mountain delay
* Pipeline project would carry more Alberta oil to Pacific Coast

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[cowslinger64]

An outcome that was predictable— and is, in fact, occurring.

Canadian petroleum will be produced and sold.


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Kinder Morgan Canada Rises On Pipeline Decision
By Kevin Orland
December 8, 2017, 11:29 AM EST

* NEB ruling on Burnaby spat eases fears of Trans Mountain delay
* Pipeline project would carry more Alberta oil to Pacific Coast

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Why does it need to go all the way to the Pacific coast? Isn't it for the United States of Amurica? So we can get cheap gas? It's not going overseas is it? That's OUR oil!




Good thing those things never leak.

 

[thør]

Where's the outrage?

 

[trysail]

Tougher Laws On Pipeline Protests Face Test In Louisiana

After a high-profile campaign to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, a number of states moved to make it harder to protest oil and gas projects. Now in Louisiana, the first felony arrests of protesters could be a test case of these tougher laws as opponents vow a legal challenge.

The controversy here is over the Bayou Bridge Pipeline, the last leg of the Dakota Access...

..."It wasn't too long ago when there were, I think, four protesters that broke through and tried to penetrate, and actually did pierce a pipeline up in the Midwest," he says. "And they used blowtorches. I mean that's the type of thing could actually explode and kill somebody."...

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Great idea!
Going for a double: A felony (in Louisiana) AND a posthumous Darwin Award.

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Environmentalists Knock Themselves Out On Keystone XL Pipeline

by Francis Menton, Esq. ("Manhattan Contrarian")
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com...ck-themselves-out-on-the-keystone-xl-pipeline

...It was in 2011 that then NASA/GISS administrator and climate activist James Hansen supposedly told fellow climate activist Bill McKibben that the Keystone XL pipeline, if built, would be “game over for the planet.” Exactly why this particular phase of a much larger pipeline project was the thing that would put an end to the planet — as opposed to phases I to III of the same project, let alone the thousands of jet planes and “fracked” wells and power plants being built around the world — has never been explained. However, it was in 2011 that McKibben began the organization of massive protests against Keystone XL. It became an icon of the environmental movement.

But the 2011 FEIS found no significant adverse environmental impact to warrant not proceeding with the project. The State Department indicated that it would approve. And then the project sat, waiting for some kind of go-ahead from the President, for year after year after year. The story was that the administration was continuing to “evaluate” the project. More study, and yet more, was undertaken. In January 2014, the State Department, now in the hands of John Kerry, issued a new document called the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Keystone XL. Here is a link to the Executive Summary, now 38 pages long. And, just to give you an idea of the magnitude of these things, here is a link to the whole thing. Of course, it has no consecutive numbering to make it easy to figure out how many total pages are here, but it is many, many thousands. Still, no significant environmental detriment could be found.

And then the matter continued to sit in the Obama administration for another nearly two years. On November 3, 2015, Kerry issued a determination rejecting the Keystone XL project as “not in the public interest.” The basis? Kerry found that there was a "perception" among foreigners that the project would increase greenhouse-gas emissions, and that, whether or not this perception was accurate, the decision would therefore "undercut the credibility and influence of the United States" in climate-change-related negotiations. (The FSEIS itself had found no significant impact on greenhouse gas emissions, since the Canadian crude would be produced whether or not this particular pipeline was built.). Three days later, President Obama followed Kerry’s determination. For the moment, Keystone XL was blocked.

But President Trump had a different idea...

...The environmental activists have knocked themselves out, and have achieved a great “victory.” Oh, and meanwhile the rail shipments use more energy and have more risk of spills than the pipeline. And China and India and Africa are building a few thousand additional coal power plants...
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https://www.manhattancontrarian.com...ck-themselves-out-on-the-keystone-xl-pipeline


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The reason you're not freezing to death in the dark:


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[trysail]

Canadian petroleum will be produced and sold.

It can be routed to the U.S. or it can be routed to the global market— those are the only choices.




Canada's Trudeau Approves Pipeline Expansion

by Scott Neuman

(NPR) Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given the green light for a second time to a $5.5 billion pipeline expansion that has attracted strong opposition from environmentalists and some indigenous groups.

Trudeau... has found himself defending the 620-mile Trans Mountain pipeline expansion since his government first approved it in 2016. The project is meant to bring petroleum from oil sands near Edmonton, Alberta, to tanks in Burnaby near Vancouver on Canada's Pacific Coast.


Last year, opponents won a suit in Canada's Federal Court of Appeals to temporarily halt the expansion, but Trudeau's government subsequently purchased the existing 715-mile pipeline from the Canadian division of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP for about $3.5 billion in an effort to move the project ahead...



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Nebraska Court Upholds State's Approval Of Pipeline Path

by Grant Schulte and Margery A. Beck

"LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska’s highest court lifted one of the last major hurdles for the Keystone XL pipeline in the state on Friday when it rejected another attempt to derail the project by opponents who wanted to force the developer to reapply for state approval.

The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld the decision of regulators who voted in November 2017 to greenlight a route through the state. The court’s decision was a victory for the $8 billion project, which has been mired in lawsuits and regulatory hearings since it was proposed in 2008..."


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