Originally Posted by
JABIII
Again, don't be used. The Keystone Pipeline is up and running today and will be tomorrow.
What the new administration did was cancel a proposed new branch of it, known as the Keystone XL. While speculative construction was underway, the permits were not in place and not a drop of oil had come close to being moved through it.
This is the perfect example of how Americans are being used on both "sides".
The hippies all think that the pipeline is STOPPED and all that dirty old oil isn't flowing South anymore. Yay environment!
Conservatives are all running around wailing about the pipeline being STOPPED and all that rich creamy oil being trapped up in Canada where we can't get it. Boo hippies!
Both are completely false narratives like most everything else these days...
Keystone XL was being built to allow transport of of the nasty stuff being produced by the oil sands processing (tar sands mining) in northern Alberta. This oil costs near $50 / barrel to mine and process so it's not viable currently so the only reason to finish it would be looking to the future. The pipeline was to be utilized for the most part by TC Energy (old TransCanada) which is very strong politically in Texas (Houston) oil circles. The real reason Obama shut it down in 2012 when oil was nearly $100/barrel though was not really environmental, it was because the Canadians were/are being forced to utilize the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to ship it ($20/barrel). It just happens to be owned by Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffet who contributed significant money to his campaign. While working on these deals Berkshire decided to buy the Canadian electrical transmission company that provides the electricity to the Oil Sands so they win either way, no dummies here. This stuff is harder to clean up than pumped oil when it spills so environmentalists have a good point. JAB is right about all this and things are never as they seem. When smoke is being blown, look elsewhere cause well tended hot fires don't make smoke..........
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” Lord Byron
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