Friday, January 31, 2014

State Department Report Says Keystone Pipeline Will Have No Impact on Carbon Emissions, Clears Way For Approval…

Now it's up to the Man With The Phone.
Weasel Zippers   "There will be a freakout of epic proportions on the left if the Obama administration approves this."

(CNN) — A long-awaited environmental report by the government on the proposed Keystone oil pipeline indicates the project would have negligible immediate impact on overall carbon emissions.
The report released Friday by the State Department is considered crucial to the Obama administration’s eventual decision on whether to move forward with the project.
The pipeline that would transport oil from Canada to the Gulf Coast has been a political football, pitting the oil industry and its Republican backers against environmentalists and liberal Democrats who complain it bolsters the especially dirty fossil fuel production from the tar sands of northern Alberta.

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