[Newsbot]

Title: Keystone XL bill vetoed by Barack Obama after approval by Congress
Category: Economics
Posted By: DanSC
Date: 2015-02-24 15:04:27
Canadian

[DanSC]

"Hey Canada, screw you!"

-President Obama

[BartSimpson]

DanSC DanSC:

"Hey Canada, screw you!"

-President Obama

[Zipperfish]

We won't take 'No' for an answer!

[Regina]

Maybe Bama wants to drive trucks and trains after he retires.

[Thanos]

I'm more concerned about the self-sabotaging that my fellow Canadians are doing to the industry that finances this country with their opposition to Northern Gateway, the Line 9 reversal, and Energy East. Keystone will pass someday when the GOP either ties the bill to an omnibus package that Obama can't even consider vetoing or when they (or even H. Clinton) get the White House in 2016. Keystone is an inevitability. Gateway and Energy East though? Good luck getting those two past the rabid domestic opposition from the Natives/Suzuki's drones/Libs/Dippers in this stupid country.

[Jabberwalker]

Back to Congress.

What a dysfunctional system.

[N_Fiddledog]

Just cause I love this one...

[sandorski]

I would feel insulted, if there was a reason to be.

[BRAH]

Barry likes the taste of Opec C***!

[xerxes]

No he prefers canadian bacon. Over 80% of the foreign oil that goes to the US is from Canada.

But that that doesn't matter the the diseased right wing mind of course. There, Obama is simply a lefty saboteur who hates America and does what he can to undermine it. Unlike real american heroes like Reagan who sell weapons to Americas enemies to fund illegal drug wars and fascist murders of nuns and children in the name of freedom.

[BRAH]

xerxes xerxes:

No he prefers canadian bacon. Over 80% of the foreign oil that goes to the US is from Canada.

But that that doesn't matter the the diseased right wing mind of course. There, Obama is simply a lefty saboteur who hates America and does what he can to undermine it. Unlike real american heroes like Reagan who sell weapons to Americas enemies to fund illegal drug wars and fascist murders of nuns and children in the name of freedom.

Obama doesn't hate America that's a load of shit, he just has a naive view of the World. If bashing Reagan and the United States makes you feel better just remember to throw the used Kleenex in the trash.

[herbie]

OMG he's gonna force us to build that pipeline East and use our oil ourselves? What bext, make us turn those Burnaby refineries back on and make our own gas?

[Freakinoldguy]

And this is news how? He's been saying he'd do it since he took office.

All this does is prove that he's a man of his word when it comes to screwing over private business, his own people and foreign Governments in favour of some poor billionaire.

So who really cares? Put it on the back burner and when we get a President amenable to the pipeline revisit it and get it put through.

But in case people were really interested in what caused Obama to veto the pipeline you have to look no further than the King. Elvis Presley.


http://nationalinterest.org/feature/how ... e-xl-12059

[martin14]

Thanos Thanos:

I'm more concerned

About the 8 billion dollar project with thousands of jobs lost, all because Obongo

wants to be seen as a 'green' president ?


Seems like a pretty high price to pay, especially for Alberta people.



http://business.financialpost.com/2015/ ... =11ad-aeff

$1:

I think you should take this personally … Canada is being singled out

Yet the move is another slap in the face to Canada, which has championed the pipeline for years and did everything by the book to get it approved, only to be led down the garden path, through a maze of roadblocks and traps, by its supposed best friend and ally.

“I think you should take this personally,” said Matt Koch, vice-president at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy.

“We have had a long relationship with your country as far as trade, been key allies for decades or centuries, and we have tried to highlight the importance of the relationship at the U.S. Chamber. Some of it has been caught up in U.S. politics. But we think that Canada is being singled out.”

To not see it that way is to miss the obvious: that relations with Canada are less important to the President than securing his climate-change legacy, no matter how hollow, misguided, or fact-challenged, as defined by the green lobby.

Indeed, environmental organizations have not pulled punches toward our country — and no other oil supplier to the U.S. — throughout their campaigns to put Keystone XL through unprecedented scrutiny.

“This veto is conclusive proof that activism works,” 350.org executive director May Boeve said in a statement Tuesday. “After four years of rallies, marches, sit-ins, and civil disobedience, we’re thrilled to see President Obama take an important first step by vetoing this love letter to Big Oil. As the President himself has argued, Keystone XL would worsen climate change, threaten the safety of farmers and landowners in America’s heartland, and create essentially no long-term jobs — all so a Canadian oil company gets to ship dirty tar sands to the rest of the world.”

Kimble Ainslie, president of Nordex Research, a long-time analyst of Canada/U.S. relations, said the veto underscores the damaged relations between Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Obama administration.

“There is no personal feeling between these guys,” Mr. Ainslie said. “Indeed, as far as I can see, Harper has written him off on this file. And Obama could not care less about Canadian interests on KXL. Not when his legacy issue, climate change, is at stake. It is complicated and it is a mess. The next best opportunity is likely 2017, post-Obama.”

Thanks a lot, Obama.