Obama administration backs oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas

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What happened to our environmental President?... They even arrested Global Warming "Quack" Scientist James Hansen today in front of the White House as well as many "out of work" actresses, Great way to get your name in the news in hopes of landing a new part in a movie.

If Obama sticks with his decision to allow the pipeline, it will be the 2nd thing he's done RIGHT as President by helping reduce our dependance on Foreign oil. My guess is, Obama will spend a month or more dithering on it, looking at poll data and deciding what decision will give him the most votes in his re-election bid, It's all about votes and getting re-elected, It's never about doing what's right for the good of the Country.



Obama administration backs oil pipeline from Alberta to Texas


Campaigners disappointed as White House says 1,700-mile pipeline will not cause significant environmental damage

* Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
* guardian.co.uk, Friday 26 August 2011 22.16 BST

The Obama administration gave an important approval yesterday to a controversial pipeline that will pump oil from the tar sands of Alberta to the Texas coast.

In a blow to campaigners, who have spent the last week at a sit-in at the White House, the State Department said the proposed 1,700-mile pipeline would not cause significant damage to the environment.

The State Department in its report said the project – which would pipe more than 700,000 barrels a day of tar sands crude to Texas refineries – would not increase greenhouse gas emissions. It also downplayed the risks of an accident from piping highly corrosive tar sands crude across prime American farmland.

Campaigners accused the State Department of consistently overlooking the potential risks of the pipeline. "The State Department… failed to acknowledge the true extent of the project's threats to the climate, to drinking water and to the health of people who would breathe polluted air from refineries processing the dirty tar sands oil," Friends of the Earth said in a statement.

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http://content.usatoday.com/communit...e-protesters/1




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip..._b_940617.html