Topic: Obama Regime Wins War Against Oil - Keystone Pipleline is Gone

[Libertas]

Canada, tired of being dicked around by a dickless wonder...pulls the plug on Keystone...plans to sell to Asia...

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/report-canada-pulls-plug-on-keystone-pipeline-will-send-oil-to-asia/

But hey, O'Bongo says everything is so much more awesome since he came around because he is so fricken awesome! 

Aren't you awesome?  If so, thank O'Bongo!

[AlanS]

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/canada-oks-oil-pipeline-pacific-coast

The fear of oil spills is especially acute in the pristine corner of northwest British Columbia, with its snowcapped mountains and deep ocean inlets. Canadians living there still remember the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989. British Columbia Premier Christy Clark set out five conditions for British Columbia's support, and on Tuesday she repeated her contention that those conditions have yet to be met. Harper will have win support in British Columbia where he'll want to preserve the 21 seats he has there. The British Columbia government can deny permits. Aboriginals could also get in the way of construction trucks.

Environmentalists and Canada's native tribes could delay approval all the way to the Supreme Court, and the tribes still hold title to some of the land the pipeline would cross. That means the government will have to move with extreme sensitivity.

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said aboriginal people will blockade any attempt by Enbridge to start work.

A statement issued by a broad coalition of British Columbia aboriginal groups vowed that they would "defend our territories whatever the costs may be."

Environmental groups said Ottawa's approval is no guarantee that the controversial project will be built.

"We are deeply disappointed, but you need to look no further than the spate of legal challenges filed against this project to know that Cabinet's approval is by no means a guarantee that this project will ever be built," said Barry Robinson, a lawyer for Ecojustice.

Hundreds of people protesting (translates into a couple dozen) the decision blocked streets in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia by late afternoon. Police circulated through chanting crowds beating aboriginal drums and carrying anti-pipeline and anti-tanker banners.

These asshats are everywhere.

And yes, I remember the Exxon Valdez. And I haven't heard about it since it happened BECAUSE MOTHER NATURE DID A FINE JOB OF FIXING HERSELF!

But back to your point. Yes, everything is allsome.

[Glock32]

Yeah, and what about Gulf oil spill a few years ago? Wasn't the entire ecology supposed to be ruined? All these people who get up on their high horse of sanctimony, I'd just love to see energy companies quit jumping through their increasingly impossible hoops. Just stop providing oil and electricity to entire regions.

Liberals really do think they can create an adult kindergarten where everything is beneficial and there are never detrimental aspects that we must tolerate through proper mitigation and management. I see all these people breathlessly screaming about oil and nuclear energy, demanding an end to them, and it's because their childish tantrums have simply been entertained and abided for too long. So they want an end to oil and nuclear? Ok, and replace them with that? What alternative technology has both the thermodynamic capacity to provide similar amounts of energy, and can do so on an economy of anything close to the same scale?

Yeah, crickets on that. But it doesn't matter, because they have copped the correct pose. It's kind of the same with the explosion in ridiculous programs of study in universities. Nobody is busting the bubble with a needed dose of reality.