Obama points to blocking Keystone as key accomplishment

A state department analysis determined that the project would have created 42,000 short term jobs over the two year construction period and estimated that the number of permanent jobs would have only been 35. New Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau supported the Keystone XL pipeline during his campaign and supports oil sands development.

“The US has brought 64 percent more Candidan crude so far this year than it did in the same stretch of 2008, the year TransCanada first asked the USA government for permission to build the pipeline that would run from Alberta to Texas”, the Wall Street Journal reported last week.

The president admitted as much.

Girling said one option is a new application for a USA presidential permit for a Canada-U.S. pipeline.

Obama, siding with an assessment from the State Department, said the Keystone XL project isn’t in the USA national interest and that it “would not make a meaningful long-term contribution to our national economy”.

About Green America Green America commends President Obama’s decision to halt the Keystone XL pipeline, urges a cessation of new natural gas pipelines, and calls on the President to continue to exert the leadership required to move our nation towards a clean energy future.

Issued in January 2014, the report acknowledged that the oil-sands crude that would be carried in the pipeline had higher greenhouse-gas emissions than the lighter, sweeter crude it might replace in the US, but it also said that “the proposed Project is not likely to impact the amount of crude oil produced from the oil sands”, because the Canadian oil would be exploited regardless of whether it went to market via the Keystone pipeline or by a few other route.

“It’s a clear signal to the worldwide community that the United States is serious about addressing climate change”, Swift said.

December 23, 2011 – Congress tries to force Obama’s hand by passing legislation requiring approval of the Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days unless the president determines the project does not serve the national interest. That’s 17% more – gallon per gallon – of the risky carbon pollution that’s driving climate change. Instead, it announces to the world that the United States will no longer enable the alarming warming of the planet.

The stupid-from-the-beginning Keystone XL pipeline is dead.

“Dangerous climate change is the central environmental challenge of our time, and it’s time for everyone to step up now and meet that challenge”, Suh said.

Obama will travel to Paris at the end of the month for talks on a global climate agreement, which the president hopes will be the crowning jewel for his environmental legacy.

ROTT: Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, says he’s heard both of those arguments before, and he’s got his disagreements with both. Keystone XL would put 2,200 skilled Canadians to work nearly overnight, with thousands more workers benefiting along the full value chain. The US has begun to move away from coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel.