From Tom Nelson: Keystone pipeline passes environmental review: It’s the [CO2-induced] end of the world as the Sierra Club knows it, and I feel fine
The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday afternoon, suggesting the project would have little impact on climate change.
Live Blogging the Keystone XL Environmental Assessment Release | DeSmogBlog
Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune just released the following reaction in a press release just sent out:
“The Sierra Club is outraged by the State Department’s deeply flawed analysis today and what can only be interpreted as lip service to one of the greatest threats to our children’s future: climate disruption…”
From Junkscience:
Read the full Keystone EIS
It’s is driving the enviros crazy this afternoon.
Who’s to say it is going to US consumers? Isn’t it just going on the open market for the highest bidder? What we do get is the jobs building and maintaining the pipes and the refinery fees as I see it. If we buy it the delivery fees should sure be less than if it comes from the far east.
Obama can stick it to the enviro crowd. What are they gonna do, vote Republican?
Would this threat include GAS? Bloody hypocrites.
$25 million, if I recall rightly. Or was that $26 million. Hey, what’s 1 million between friends?
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/04/sierra-club-took-26-million-from-natural-gas-lobby-to-battle-coal-industry/
“Obama can stick it to the enviro crowd. What are they gonna do, vote Republican?”
Damn good question. And who has actually shown you where a bear poops in the woods?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/03/01/friday-funny-john-cooks-withdrawal-symptoms/#comment-1236236
This was always getting done right after the election, it makes too much sense not to do.
Why do these people oppose the very thing they use so much of and enjoy??? It has made some of them rich. Just look at Gore. Al (6 fireplaces) Gore, the ex-tobacco chopper and seller, got rich from oil, mining and now selling the air we breath. Is there no limit to what these scammers can do????
It’s rumoured that they sometimes fly on private jets on their co2 reduction conferences. You really can’t make this stuff up. Hypocrites.
WTF says:
March 1, 2013 at 4:18 pm
“Correct me if I am wrong here but the only section of this pipeline that needs to be approved by the US Federal Government is the 1 mm wide section that crosses the 49th. All the States that it goes through have now given the go ahead. So build the pipeline to the border from each side and use duct tape on the crossing…….You are welcome ;-)”
You are wrong. As each side approaches the limit, the limit on either side goes to zero…. 1 mm my @ur momisugly$$. Someone just needs to spit on the joint and call it a cold weld. ;o)
Global Warming,
Climate Change,
Extreme Weather Events,
Irreparable Weather Patterns
“Climate Disruptions” (today’s catch phrase)
I am glad there are only 26 letters in our alphabet they’ll run out soon.
Lets see….pipe the oil from Canada to Texas….OR….railroad the oil to Vancouver, then ship to China….and replace it with oil you ship for OPEC. Where’s the enviromental damage ?
Hydrocarbons are natural fission by-products on every planet in the solar system, every star in the galaxy and every galaxy in the universe. See “Fracturing the Fossil Fuel Fable” for the supressed chemistry and geology. Hydrocarbons are far more sustainable than solar, wind and bio-fuel scams.
This was always the plan, I think at least. Wait until after the election, but do it far enough away from the next election that it will not matter much.
tobias says:
March 1, 2013 at 5:05 pm
Global Warming,
Climate Change,
Extreme Weather Events,
Irreparable Weather Patterns
“Climate Disruptions” (today’s catch phrase)
I am glad there are only 26 letters in our alphabet they’ll run out so
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Unfortunately they have the many other alphabets to go through and when those are done with they will use hieroglyphics because we all know the Egyptian Dynasties failed because of Climate Distruption /sarc….kinda
And lets remember that the Oil Sands account for no more than one tenth of 1 per cent of global GHG emissions.
http://www.oilsands.alberta.ca/
http://environment.alberta.ca/apps/osip/
No approval needed to EXIT the U.S., so build the pipeline up to the southern border and then ask Canada for permission to ENTER the country.
The pipeline at the border might be required to be buried underground:
“The best-known border vista is a six-meter (20 ft) cleared space around unguarded portions of the Canada – United States border.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_vista
Also, because of thermal expansion / contraction, the “Infinitesimally” small distance mentioned up thread would be difficult to obtain. 🙂
gofer says:
March 1, 2013 at 5:28 pm
No approval needed to EXIT the U.S., so build the pipeline up to the southern border and then ask Canada for permission to ENTER the country
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That may not be as easy as you might think. There is already a pipeline from Alberta to the refineries in Sarnia and a pipeline from the refineries and ports in Montreal and the east coast (that refine middle eastern oil) back to Sarnia. Sarnia doesn’t have the capacity to refine all the bitumen that the Alberta pipeline can send so an application has been made to reverse the flow from Sarnia back to the Montreal refineries. The antis have held that up for a couple years now for a pipeline that already exists……wholey within Canada. This is not about the oil sands. This is about something entirerly different. For them it is a crusade.
Interesting, how they always release this stuff on a Friday. I guess the weekend readers are the lowest of the low information voters.
Why should we suffer for HIS childrens future?
Why should I endure the misery of a frigid winter unable to pay for heating because of a 60% increase in electricity charges to supposedly benefit HIS children?
Why should millions starve because agriculture has switched to growing fuel crops to enhance HIS childrens future?
Those of us without children have no duty to suffer to benefit those who do. Anyone who has had children has already done lifetimes’ more harm (in their accounting) than any of us can ever who have no children.
The answer for those who worry about climate change is very simple: DONT HAVE CHILDREN.
This kind of thing has made me VERY angry this winter. Believe me, I am suffering. And yes, it IS because of a$%^&oles like THAT.
All it will cost us is the implementation of a carbon tax. What could go wrong?
arthur4563 says:
March 1, 2013 at 4:22 pm
I see that the State Dept made exactly the same observation that I have made for more than a year : oil is a valuable commodity and it’s going to market regardless of whether there’
a Keystone pipeline or not. Now exactly why is this simple fact so hard for these Nobel prize winners to grasp?
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Because they are also working to stop proposed pipeline routes to Canada’s west coast as well and they have Canadian tribal groups also opposing those routes, so they are fairly confident that if they can stop Keystone they can keep the tar sands from going anywhere.
I believe that they are wrong, but that is what they are thinking.
I’m truly shocked. I can only guess why. Did Obama have a knock down drag out fight with Warren Buffet? Or, did Tiger Woods have money invested in the Keystone? Or, is the administration worried that the Benghazigate problem may just display its hidden skeletons one more time and needs the State Department to take a second fall: Hillary’s paid her dues, now it’s John Kerry’s turn. Or. Or. Heck, I don’t know.
Pas de Panic Mes Amis….Just another 10 to 15 years of Satellite and Argo data to acquire and we will really have a data set to talking about and to draw conclusions from. As the planet approaches its new load of 10 billion humans, their pets and their walking food supply….we may in the future wish to geo-engineer the planet with doubled or tripled CO2 emissions in a concerted effort to forestall the next glacial maximum for as long as possible. One km of ice over canada, northern europe and asia will kick the stuffing out of our food production and knock our species back to 1-2 billion or worse.
Food for thought.
So let’s see… the ecos don’t want to clean up an oil spill because it’s natural? Huh? Now if mankind had caused it, it would be “killing the Earth and our future children” and no doubt would have to be cleaned up immediately.
It’s fairly clear, right? They don’t care if it’s cleaned up or not, they just don’t want us USING it.
Dang, it must be painful, juggling all the lies, keeping the spin going and being “holier than thou” all the time. I feel sorry for them.
Reblogged this on Public Secrets and commented:
That sound you hear in the distance are screams of outrage and fear from the temples of the Green Cult, for the Demon Keystone XL is one step closer to…. creating a lot of good jobs, which they’ll never understand.
Some commenters here that are supportive of the oil sands are using the term tar sands. Tar sands is the term used by those wanting to shut the operations down. There is no ‘Tar’ in the oil sands. The term ‘Tar Sands’ started being used in Canada to equate them with the Sydney tar pits in Nova Scotia which are a legacy of industrial pollution to give people a bad impression by association with the oil sands. Those that support the oil sands should use the term oil sands….just sayn’