According to the GOP.GOV website: Obama Canceled the Keystone Pipeline

[FogerRox]

For the past year, House Republicans have been working on an all-of-the-above energy strategy that will lower gas prices and create jobs. The Keystone XL Energy Pipeline will create over 20,000 jobs while battling the high price of gas.

The Keystone pipeline had been planned for years. It was supported by Republicans, Democrats, and Unions. President Obama canceled it.

President Obama's decision has not just overturned years of hard work to bring much-needed construction and manufacturing jobs to the United States, it has made the economy worse.




http://www.gop.gov/indepth/jobs/keystone

[DonCoquixote]

1. I only hope this is true

because this thing needed to die before we ruined what little water supply we had left. Let the Candians figure out a way to send their oil to China, I am sure the Chinese will try.

[FogerRox]

2. Read carefully. All of it. Look at the graphic.

[FogerRox]

3. Website: House Republicans=GOP=asshats=liars=blame Obama=more lies

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. Looks to me like the story is referencing something that happened in Jan of 2012. n/t

[FogerRox]

11. Right, the GOP had this lie up for over a year.

[Honeycombe8]

9. No, it's not true. It's from LAST YEAR, when O delayed the Pipeline decision for more studies.

One clue is: when you see an article by the GOP, a red flag should go up. The OP poster apparently didn't read the article himself.

[AverageJoe90]

4. This wouldn't hurt if it was true.

In fact, even if Keystone were somehow used as just as an intended bridge towards clean energy(which might actually happen, btw), I'd still very much prefer another way; TBH, even though James Hansen WAS demonstrably and undeniably wrong when he said that KXL was "game over" for the climate(when in reality, none of the most pessimistic scenarios have ever come close to reality, with the possible exception of the timetables of Arctic ice melt, perhaps), there are indeed plenty of real and valid concerns, and not just the .4*C or so that KXL could contribute to climate change if fully exploited, but also, ground-level environmental effects; try to imagine the spill that happened in Mayflower, Ark. last month.....and then imagine it occurring all over a good chunk of prime Kansas, Nebraska, or Oklahoma farmland: that very well could do what climate change alone couldn't(not within a couple of centuries anyhow!): completely and totally RUIN the land. Not just make stuff more challenging to grow. I'm talking about preventing crops from being grown AT ALL, at least in the worst affected areas.

[Coyotl]

6. One part was cancelled, the otyher part NOT YET.

[Hekate]

7. So are we going to hear rejoicing here? Huzzahs?

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Thought so.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Did you read that article yourself? It's from JANUARY 2012. Last year.

It's when he put off the decision for more environmental studies.

Is this your idea of a joke, or did you not read your article you posted?

[FogerRox]

10. They had this up for a year, yup.

Been lying for a year too, right? A bit more than a year.

And our tax dollars paid for this......

[Honeycombe8]

12. Oh, I see. Got it. nt