Approves Asia Supply Route, Ignores US Route
H/T Eric Worrall and Breitbart – Obama’s inability to make a decision on Keystone has finally yielded a result – Canada has made the decision for him.
Breitbart reports Canada has just approved the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project – a major pipeline to ship Canadian oil to Asia.
The Canadian oil will still be burnt – in Asia, instead of America.
All the jobs and energy security which Canadian oil could have delivered to America, will instead be delivered to Asia.
Rather than purchasing crude from a friendly and allied neighbor, the United States will most likely need to continue its reliance upon hostile sources like Venezuela. Energy analysts had hoped that construction of Keystone could have replaced almost half of the current U.S. daily crude purchases from that volatile, anti-American dictatorship, depriving Venezuela of the resources it relies upon to stay in power and fund its Cuban allies.
You can’t say Canada didn’t give America a chance – they waited years for the American administration to come to their senses. But in the end, they couldn’t wait any longer, and have put the interests of Canadians first.
Below is a helpful timeline of Keystone events, courtesy of Al Jazeera.
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What a waste. Hard to think of a better trading partner than Canada.
Wo. There goes the price of gas here. Canada was selling us their oil for below the global rate.
This is what Obama wanted anyhow. He’s anti-colonial. He’s against the notion that any country, especially the US, should have power over others. So the US will keep siphoning money to those countries.
It will be an uphill battle to get that pipeline through BC so I have my doubts that this will happen anytime soon.
Will Obama ever make a decision that actually makes sense? It doesn’t seem likely. It will be a miracle if the US survives this community organizer who thought he could be president.
Thanks Obama, I sure our people didn’t need jobs! :-((
…yes, but the usual whiners are out to hold up Gateway via Native land claims and approvals
And there’s American money funding them.
Federal Liberal and NDP leaders have promised to kill Gateway.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/northern-gateway-decision/article19180594/
As a Canadian I’m both happy that Northern Gateway was approved but sad that Obama purposely delayed Keystone to no end. They are both very separate projects though, both have been in the pipeline (pun intended) for many years. I’ve heard nothing about Keystone being dead…it never had anything to do with Northern Gateway.
I victory for stupidity, inefficiency and anti-Westernism.
Well done obama.
Won’t make Buffet happy. With those oil carrying Rail tankers of his.
The “Little o” does it one more time
As a cunuck I’m sorry but suck it USA you should have to pay world price for all your oil from us and after we sell to the east you will have too . Good thing you stoped the pipeline now you will have to pay use frostbacks world price for our oil and gas not 1/2 price tank you obummer ;>)
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Well done, President Obama! I’m glad we can at least claim to take moral high road on ‘carbon pollution’. It’s the only consideration that really mattered (to you). After all, jobs in America only create more carbon pollution. Soon enough we can all be sitting at home watching the grass grow while twiddling our thumbs. The lucky ones will have no-show, no-work government jobs. God bless America!
The oil was never going to be used here anyway. We are already sending away our own fracking juice. Fine with me. Petrol prices remain the domain of the oil mafia.
The Canadian government approved Gateway, they did not cancel keystone. Keystone will go ahead as soon as Obama man’s up and grows some stones.
Our Dear Leader continues the path outlined by Cloward and Piven: Weaken the USA by every method and means available. Then overwhelm it with every crises you can manufacture. Expand the welfare state… and then invite all of central and south america to come to the US to enjoy ‘the socialist democrat benefits’, no questions asked.
Think of it as ‘wealth redistribution’, the Obama way…..
It will definitely be an uphill battle to get North Gateway actually built.
But at least one (or two or three) of Kinder Morgan (double the existing pipeline), the reversal of the Enbridge pipeline going East, one of the other proposals to build a pipeline to the coast and build an oil refinery….
And of course every where and any where there are a pair of steel rails oil will flow in ever increasing amounts.
For Keystone Enbridge is on record saying they will just use rail to get south of the border and then hook back into pipelines there.
What won’t happen is leaving the oil in the ground.
Oil is in demand. If China gets it from Canada, it will be produced and transported in as environmentally sound a fashion as can be done. If Northern Gateway is not built, China will be in touch with its friend Vladimir Putin, and tell him it needs crude. Putin will say ‘SURE!!’ and eventually will drill the Arctic seabed in order to supply. Now THAT is an environmental nightmare remeniscent of the BP blowout in the Gulf but in the frozen Arctic with no resources at hand.
Stalling or cancelling on Keystone is, of course, extreme posturing. Much of the damn pipeline is already or almost in place, and will eventually start carrying oil. O needs to suck on the environmental left FIRST to secure the next election for his party and friends. In fact, there is the Northern Gateway project, but there is also another pipeline in process to the west coast as well. Kinder Morgan operates an existing pipeline from Alberta to Vancouver and is in the process of jumping through the environmental hoops to triple its capacity.
It is, however, very true that much American money is being funnelled into the Canadian arms of Sierra Club, WWF, Greenpeace ..etc.. to fund activities to block both pipelines plus Keystone. This has been documented by Canadian journalist Vivian Krause ( read about it on her website [.http://fairquestions.typepad.com/rethink_campaigns/%5D. It wont be an easy fight for either side and the green strategy is to stall the approvals and construction until the next Canadian federal election (October, 2015). If the old Liberal party gets in, you’ll see the pipelines complete but a few years down the road after they have sucked in the Green vote.
As an American working and living in China, this reenforces my belief that you would have to be mental to hire Americans and build a business in the US these days. The only exceptions are in some service industries/ positions, bare-bones management, and industries tied to massive political rents (accounting, law, auditing, clean tech, finance, insurance, and whathaveyou). And this is coming from an extremely patriotic, involved citizen.
The US is my country, but that monstrosity isn’t my government. Three cheers for Canadian crude. This is good news for our 200 Chinese workers and their families.
I have never in my life been so dissatisfied with a US President. It is one thing to disagree on policy but I see this President as going out of his way to do things to hurt this country. And this isn’t being done in a vacuum, either.
It isn’t just Canadian oil affected. Ninety percent of Bakken oil will move by train in 2014 for lack of pipelines.. Yep, that’s ten 100 car unit trains rolling through small town America each day. After what happened in Quebec, how is this safer than a brand new, state of the art pipeline built to the highest standards in history?
You take a guy from Indonesia with no experience, no accomplishments, and average intelligence and put him in the White House, then you expect leadership?
Time to give Biden a chance.
Absolutely disgusting.
The Greens will only be happy when they have driven the economy back into medieval times.
Presumably the mass starvation, huge increase in disease and freezing to death of people, is a price worth paying to “save the planet”!