For those who think that VP candidate Sarah Palin appeared fully formed like Athena from the head of Zeus, I have found some things that contradict the script which Team McCain has written. You know, the one that goes
Gov. Palin was just minding her own business, when we asked her out of the blue “Would you be our Vice President?” and she said “What does a Vice President do?” . As if anyone ever believed that story, even for a second.
Exhibit One: From July 23, 2008, at a site called The Pink Flamingo, some one started promoting Palin for VP. The reason given (get this), because she was pushing for a deal with TransCanada for a great big fat exclusive contract in which the state of Alaska would pay the foreign company $500 million to build a (redundant) natural gas pipeline through the state. The deal would have to be cleared by the FERC. Now, who would love to see Palin become VP for doing something like that? I don’t know.
Maybe the folks at TransCanada?http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/7/23/3807197.htmlExhibit Two: From Aug. 1, 2008, this one if called “Draft Sarah Palin for VP: New Energy for America”. Same story, different site. Sarah Palin is described as the perfect VP pick, because she has just signed a deal to pay a foreign company, TransCanada half a billion dollars so that they have the exclusive right to build the state a natural gas pipeline to carry the gas that other companies will drill. I can see how she would be the perfect VP choice----
for TransCanada.http://palinforvp.blogspot.com/2008/08/breaking-senate-authorizes-palins.htmlNow, here is the really weird part of the story. From Reuters/MSNBC:
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=OBR&date=20080801&id=8975915TransCanada has estimated that the project will cost $26 billion, while consultants hired by the state put the estimate at $31 billion. Under TransCanada's plan, the pipeline would start shipping natural gas in 2018.
BP and Conoco have a separate plan for a similar gas pipeline, which the companies have called "Denali," that was not vying for a state license. Field work on the Denali project started this summer, the companies reported.
The TransCanada license does not preclude that project or any other North Slope natural gas pipeline project. But it forbids the state from entering into contract negotiations with a pipeline sponsor other than TransCanada.
Opponents of the TransCanada license said it was too risky for the state.
Sen. Bert Stedman, a Republican from Sitka, said he opposed the license because it would lock the state to TransCanada for years, eliminating flexibility and the option to strike a better deal with a different gas pipeline sponsor.
Now, with the people who are actually pumping the natural gas already building their own natural gas pipeline, why on earth do TransCanada and Gov. Palin think that BP, Conoco and the others are going to want to pay to use the pipeline that TransCanada is building? Does Palin plan to use her power as Vice President to force the FERC to force the natural gas drillers to use TransCanada’s pipeline in Alaska? Given her history of abusing her power---her threat to fire a librarian who would not ban books to further her career, the way she fired an employee who would not fire her brother-in-law, her history of misappropriating money to give multimillion dollar gifts to friends and favorite causes---it is easy to imagine that she would abuse the office of the Vice President to reward those who helped her political career.
A friend in high places could also help TransCanada with another project, a great big fat crude oil pipeline that is supposed to run from oil fields in Canada, down through Montana all the way to Port Arthur, Texas.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Keystone_XL_PipelineHowever, first TransCanada has to navigate FERC's complicated permitting process.
Under FERC rules, Barrett said TransCanada cannot promise any companies access to the pipeline. It can only solicit bids from interested suppliers in the north and refiners to the south.
"When they get enough interest to make it an economically viable project, they can apply to FERC," he said. "So, it's kind of like an auction."
The application to FERC for what is called an "open season" permit should occur in the next few months, Schweitzer said.
Here is what one blogger had to say about Sarah Palin’s deal with TransCanada:
http://dakota21.typepad.com/dakota_21/2008/08/sarah-palin-is.htmlIt appears that fellow blogger, Corey Allen Heidelberger (Madville Times) has also done some homework and actually researched some interesting and true political history on the Conservative’s latest hero:
“Governor Sarah Palin is sending 500 million tax dollars to foreign-owned TransCanada, the same company that spent the past year siccing lawyers on South Dakota landowners to seize their land through eminent domain.”
The same blog quotes Palin:
“After dreaming of a natural gas pipeline for more than 30 years, Alaskans have now created the framework for the project to advance,” Governor Palin said. “This legislation brings us closer than we’ve ever been to building a gas pipeline and finally accessing our gas that has been languishing for so many decades on the North Slope.”
This is yet another Palin lie, since, according to Reuters, the natural gas on the North Slope is actively being drilled by several companies who have already started work on their own natural gas pipeline, meaning that Palin paid TransCanada half a billion dollars of Alaska state money for what---?
I am guessing she paid them to advance her career. She looked at Hillary Clinton and decided she wanted to be like her---only she did not want to do the work necessary to get there, when she could just buy her way to the top with someone else's money.
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