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Source: Reuters
Keystone pipeline review looming, likely to show little climate risk
BY LESLEY WROUGHTON AND JEFF MASON
WASHINGTON Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:32am EST
(Reuters) - The U.S. State Department is poised to issue an environmental review of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline that will likely say the project will not appreciably increase carbon emissions, sources said late Thursday, forcing President Barack Obama closer to a tough decision.
Rumors swept through Washington late Thursday that the long-delayed review of the 1,179-mile (1,900-km) pipeline to bring oil from Canada to Nebraska would finally be released as soon as Friday.
"The Environmental Impact Statement is in the final stages of preparation and we anticipate a release of the document soon," a senior State Department official said late on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The comment gives a clearer insight into where the long-awaited assessment stands. One government official said the overdue report, part of a process lasting more than five years that has strained relations with Ottawa, would be released on Friday.
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yellerpup
(12,253 posts)with this project, specifically the Oglalla aquifer, which supplies the entire middle of the country with drinking water. If this pipeline is built, there will be accidents that will dwarf the chemical spill in PA last week.
OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)This one is no different aside from people's rightful dislike of where the oil is coming from. There is no more risk of contamination from Keystone than any other pipeline already existent (probably less risk as it will be built with modern standards unlike some of the others which are 50 years old or more).
yellerpup
(12,253 posts)through Keystone XL, they will be pushing hot tar sands extract and it is filthy beyond oil.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)We are concerned about contaminating a large aquifer.
quadrature
(2,049 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)The whole tar sands scheme is a nasty bit of business, whichever way you look at it.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)This disaster-in-waiting was ALWAYS going to be approved...When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we cant eat money
Say G'night Gracie...
arachadillo
(123 posts)This is just the Wall street Ds in cahots with the oil and gas industry deploying the old Viet Nam strategy of needing to destroy the village in order to save it.
NickB79
(19,257 posts)SkatmanRoth
(843 posts)A few profit from the sale of the fossil fuels, a few more benefit from their use, but it is everyone who has to suffer from climate change.
The oil companies and car manufacturers offload the carbon pollution into everyone's atmosphere while they keep the monetary gain for themselves.