Trump administration grants approval for Keystone XL pipeline

[Kilgore]

Source: Washington Post

The Trump administration has granted a permit for construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, according to the company behind the project.

TransCanada, the Calgary-based firm that has been trying to win approval for the pipeline for years, announced Friday morning that the State Department has signed and issued a construction permit for the project.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/24/trump-administration-grants-approval-for-keystone-xl-pipeline/?utm_term=.3b00aa4c0e57

[Sunlei]

1. anyone actually seen how the permit was filled out to bypass/ignore state/federal laws?

[turbinetree]

2. FUCK HIM and the horse he road in on, the sexual predator one at that

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Assholes! nt

[yuiyoshida]

5. Whats the LAKOTA word for

Asshole? In Japanese its 下衆野郎. In Hawaiian : Okole puka!!

[Botany]

4. Oh good now some of the dirtiest sources of energy in the world can now be sold and burned.

This is madness.

NASA James Hansen

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html

If Canada proceeds, and we do nothing, it will be game over for the climate.

Canada’s tar sands, deposits of sand saturated with bitumen, contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history. If we were to fully exploit this new oil source, and continue to burn our conventional oil, gas and coal supplies, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere eventually would reach levels higher than in the Pliocene era, more than 2.5 million years ago, when sea level was at least 50 feet higher than it is now. That level of heat-trapping gases would assure that the disintegration of the ice sheets would accelerate out of control. Sea levels would rise and destroy coastal cities. Global temperatures would become intolerable. Twenty to 50 percent of the planet’s species would be driven to extinction. Civilization would be at risk.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Exxon-run State Dept permits oil pipeline

It was inevitable. It's not as if they care about the environmental risk to the USA, or Canada, or the climate change implications.

[not fooled]

7. Biggest beneficiaries?

Those vile sociopaths the koch bros., who own large swaths of Alberta tarsands.

Money hoarders.