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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (61552)1/26/2013 11:00:55 AM
From: Hope Praytochange2 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 71588
 
On Keystone project, no more fig leaf for Obama

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jan/25/on-keystone-project-no-more-fig-leaf-for-obama/

President Barack Obama no longer has a fig leaf to hide behind when it comes to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would allow Canada to send its burgeoning supplies of heavy, oil-like bitumen from Alberta to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Last year, the president rejected the project on the grounds that the proposed route had faced objections in Nebraska. This week, however, Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman gave his blessing to a new route after it was vetted by state regulators.

As a Washington Post editorial this week notes, Obama’s decision to please his green base with election-year grandstanding never made much sense. The environmental risks are minimal, and the U.S. decision wouldn’t stop Canada from developing its vast new fields. The main upshots of the decision are all negative: it antagonizes our longtime close ally, Canada; it makes likely a worrisome de facto Canada-China partnership to build a pipeline from Alberta to the British Columbia coast, where the bitumen would be shipped across the Pacific; and it prevents creation of thousands of construction jobs in the U.S.

For all these reasons and more, the president should drop his opposition to Keystone XL.
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