The company behind the Keystone XL pipeline has filed a new permit application to build the northern part of the project.
But the administration says that its review won’t be done until after the presidential election.
Trying to fend off criticism of the Keystone project’s earlier denial, President Obama about-faced to support the southern part of the pipeline, from Cushing, Okla., to the Gulf of Mexico, and vowed to expedite the process for the rest of it once the company reapplied.
TransCanada Corp. has done just that, the State Department reported minutes ago.
“The new application includes proposed new routes through the state of Nebraska,” the media note states. “The Department is committed to conducting a rigorous, transparent and thorough review.
“Under Executive Order 13337, it is the Department’s responsibility to determine if granting a permit for the proposed pipeline is in the national interest. We will consider this new application on its merits. Consistent with the Executive Order, this involves consideration of many factors, including energy security, health, environmental, cultural, economic, and foreign policy concerns.
“We will begin by hiring an independent third-party contractor to assist the Department, including reviewing the existing Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) from the prior Keystone XL pipeline review process, as well as identifying and assisting with new analysis.”
The State Department said that the review conducted by Nebraska is expected to take six to nine months.
The federal review is expected to take a little bit longer.
“Previously when we announced review of alternate routes through Nebraska this past fall, our best estimate on when we would complete the national interest determination was the first quarter of 2013,” the department added.
Why does it take six to nine months to review an application? Get a team together, give them a week, two tops, and get it approved. Businesses in this country do stuff like this in days or weeks all the time. Whey does it takt eh government so long to do anything?
Because in this case Obama doesn’t want to approve it. By waiting until after he is re-elected he can kill it permanently, and consign us and our descendents to expensive energy that only the elites like him can afford (it will be difficult to see my keyboard if I have to light my house with candles made from animal fat).
Bla, blah, blah. 0b0z0 plays with lives and doesn’t give a darn about energy, except keeping his puppet masters in the middle east happy giving them our money.
Please, please, please, get rid of this middle east lover before we have the muslim brotherhood running our government.
“We will begin by hiring an independent third-party contractor to assist the Department, including reviewing the existing Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) from the prior Keystone XL pipeline review process, as well as identifying and assisting with new analysis.”
That’s it, when in doubt get yet another “third-party contractor” to tell you what the first contractor told you, that there is nothing wrong with the pipe line. And you would never know that people really needed the jobs, either. Think of the thousands of people who could be employed tomorrow if this pipe line was given the green light. Yet Obama, because of his hatred for fossil fuels, is willing to stop thousands of people from being employed simply because he doesn’t like it. Think about that. His principles are causing thousands of people NOT to have any work this year. And people still want to re-elect this guy? I just don’t understand some things anymore, and this is one of them.
Silly rabbit, this is how we help our bundlers.
C’mon, kick that football again, Charlie Brown.
The Obama team’s repeated deferral of issues until after elections is a threat to the idea of what elections are about in a Republic–how the people choose between competing ideas and express their approval or condemnation of the acts of those in the government.
If the executive has intentions of acting on something, but deliberately delays such action when he knows the people would disapprove–but, as said, has every intention of acting nonetheless in a particular way–then he has in some way essentially declared that he is at a certain level above the people and functionally independent, as he will not present before the people the action to be judged as fit or no. To do so is to start walking the path of the demagogue or tyrant, one who operates in a system of popular soveriegnty but will not act as if he believes it, but instead manipulates it. It is an act that deligitimizes that government, for the legitimacy it gained via election was based upon prevarication.
The word is “despot”.
Oh, good so President Romney will be issuing the approval.
The way you hand a recalcitrant employee or contractor is to deny anything beneficial to them until they stop dragging their feet. So, until this pipeline is approved, the answer to Obama is “No” or whatever is opposite of what he wants unless it is in the interest of the employers to say otherwise.
No on Obama until Keystone is approved.
Actually, after Obama loses the election, he will reject the new application as a lame duck President, forcing the whole application process to start anew.
Anything to stall. It’s almost as if the Keystone Project has become a personal affront to President I Won, and he’s determined to thwart it out of spite.
“Under Executive Order 13337″
Oh lord, I re-read that twice thinking that 4:20xxXHeadshotXwolfXSniper was somewhere in that paragraph
Oh internet, what have you done to me?
HAH! Very nice.
We need lower taxes and less government. More government automation, fewer employees. This review could be done in days, yet the BS artists in DC will make it take months. Time for a revolution, a revolution that makes government responsible for its actions instead of allowing every penny-ante bureaucrat to behave like a king in training. EPA, DHS, DOE, DOEdu, Commerce, Labor, and more are all useless relics from a bygone era of patronage political payback.
We either stand up for ourselves and stop this behavior or the nation will slip away under a mountain of bureaucratic BS and fiscal waste. Its up to us. My guess, we’ll screw it up and in 20 years the US will be just a memory. Don’t think so? Rome was the eternal city, its empire would not fall; how did that work out?
Are we supposed to believe that they actually plan to finish their review? They will stall until the cows come home. Eric Holder also says his review of the Fast and Furious gun fiasco will only happen after the election. Fat chance! He needs to be prosecuted and sent to jail for this and the racial infractions he refuses to investigate.
Reminds me of an episode of an old English comedy “Yes, Minister” Where the Minister was invited to tour a new hospital that had just won an efficiency award. When he got there and took a tour through it there were no doctors, no nurses, no patients, only two floors were busy, both filled with bureaucrats, sitting in little cubicles, busily typing away on reports saying absolutely nothing.
“Under Executive Order 13337, it is the Department’s responsibility to determine if granting a permit for the proposed pipeline is in the national interest. We will consider this new application on its merits. Consistent with the Executive Order, this involves consideration of many factors, including energy security, health, environmental, cultural, economic, and foreign policy concerns.”
EO 13337? Are you kidding me? So, is this review being handled by Anonymous or the Cult of the Dead Cow? So now H4CK3rZ are running 0ff1ciaL policy of the USA? LOLOLOL! We’ve been PWN3D!
And that list of concerns is moot. Health and environmental concerns have already been addressed by the EPA study which granted conditional approval. And the remainind concerns are not concerns considering that Canada and the US have not fought a war in 200 years and our two economies are as intertwined as two nations could possibly be.
The only question here is when does O stop hiding under Hillary Clinton’s dress.
Uhhhhhhm- someone correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Harper say that it was game over for the US when earflaps mcDowngrade bungled the original Keystone Crossing pipeline proposal?
We can pass all the approvals we want, but at this point sadly it’s down to whether or not the Canadians would trust us not to bollix it up again. And given the gallumping stooge we have running things currently who can blame them for this lack of trust?
I’m sure the Chinese will be sending our Pantomime Preezy a thank you note soon.
Yeah, Harper said they were aiming for the wider global market. Then the Premier of AB, Alison Redford, reaffirmed her intention to see the southbound Keystone XL pipeline to completion. So, the PM and the Premier are engaging a bit of good cop/bad cop, hoping to light a few fires in Washington. Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
Ron Paul WINNING State Delegate Majorities/Massive Turnout at Rallies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfrNz_2hvvM&feature=youtu.be
he’s voting “present” again
No, he’s voting “Up Yours, America”.
Which has been his default position from Day One. On any subject.
clear ether
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You guys have it all wrong. I just heard from Dear Liar O’stumble at the “Paw and Chaw Diner” and he says the really important question is “how would Julia be helped by Obama killing the pipeline and how she would be hurt by Romney approving it?”
It’s all going forward don’t you know?