Canadian Pipeline To Replace Keystone XL

by JASmius



Play hard to get long enough, and the suitor will eventually give up, walk away, and seek other options (via Newsmax Insider):

With the Obama administration still not approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, citing environmental concerns, Canada is seriously considering building a pipeline to deliver its oil to a port on its own east coast.

The 1,200-mile Keystone XL would [have] transport[ed] crude from Alberta's oil sands to refineries in Texas and Louisiana.

Instead, the proposed $11 billion Energy East Project would send 1.1 million barrels of oil per day 2,900 miles east to Saint John, New Brunswick, which has supertanker access.

"Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the country's largest energy concern, TransCanada Corporation, seem ready to develop the Energy East Project as an alternative" to Keystone, the International Business Times reported.

The project would convert an underutilized 1950s-era natural gas pipeline to carry oil, and add extensions to each end: one to a terminal south of Alberta's oil sands, and the other from Montreal, Quebec, to a refinery in Saint John. From there it could be shipped globally, in particular to Europe and India.

And not to the United States.  Chalk up one more "mission accomplished" banner to hang in the Oval Office.

Bloomberg observed: "Still, if this end run around the Keystone holdup comes to fruition, it would give a lift to Canadian oil and government interests who feel they're being played by Obama as he sweeps aside a long understood 'special relationship' between the world's two biggest trading partners to score political points with environmental supporters at home."

Are you kidding?  The only "special relationship" Barack Obama has is with the Muslim Brotherhood.

So the planet is saved, right?  And the American people will bow down once again to their elected lord and savior in rapturous adulation, correct?

Probably.  But it won't be because he's successfully killed Keystone XL for good:

Registered voters consider climate change the least important of thirteen issues in determining who they will vote for in November's congressional elections, a new Gallup poll reveals.

Just 40% of those polled said they consider climate change extremely or very important to their vote.

Secretary of State John Kerry said recently that climate change may be "the most serious challenge we face on the planet."

Evidently Americans don't agree.

So what issues do Americans think are important?:

Of the thirteen issues cited, the economy was deemed extremely or very important by 88% of registered voters. It was followed by the availability of good jobs (86%), the way the federal government is working (81%), the situation with Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria (78%), equal pay for women (75%), and the federal budget deficit (73%). [emphases added]

The economy and jobs.  Precisely the issues to which building Keystone XL would have been such a boon.

You know, in a constitutional federal republic, you can only govern against the will of the people for so long before you trigger a backlash.

Good thing for Barack Obama and the Democrats that they've fundamentally transformed Obamerikastan into something other than a constitutional federal republic, huh?