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Canada was irrelevant in Obamas decision to reject Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Globe and Mail: Rejecting Keystone XL was not about Canada. It was about U.S. President Barack Obamas legacy and his credibility. The President has decided that global warming poses an existential threat. And so, for Mr. Obama to head to Paris next month seeking to save the planet after giving the go-ahead to an $8-billion pipeline that has come to symbolize Big Oil digging up some of the worlds most carbon-laden fossil fuel would have looked like hypocrisy. The Presidents ability to make the case to other...
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Republicans are very mad about Obama's Keystone XL decision
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Friday morning, after years of heated battles between environmentalists and Republicans, President Barack Obama announced that he is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. In a speech, the president criticized both supporters and detractors of the pipeline from placing too much emphasis on a project that, according to the State Department's analysis, would neither create many jobs nor ruin the climate if approved. Still, reactions to his decision from Republicans in Congress and the 2016 presidential...
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Will Obamas No on Keystone Curtail Canadas Oil Boom?
2015-11-06 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: President Barack Obamas rejection of a controversial U.S.-Canadian oil pipeline signals U.S. leadership on climate change, but its not expected to stop the growth in Canadas oil production at least not anytime soon. Ending an eight-year saga, Obama announced Friday that his administration would not give Calgary-based TransCanada a U.S. permit to build the Keystone XLs northern leg, which would carry heavy crude from Albertas oil sands into the U.S. Midwest. Obama said the pipeline would not...
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Heres What You Need to Know About President Obamas Decision to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline
2015-11-06 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateDesk: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Heres What You Need to Know About President Obamas Decision to Reject the Keystone XL Pipeline Posted by Tim McDonnell on Friday, November 6, 2015 Watch Climate Desks explainer video. In the years biggest victory for environmentalists, President Barack Obama announced Friday that he will reject an application from Canadian company TransCanada to construct the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, which would allow crude oil from Canadas oil sands to reach...
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Keystone backers look to Obama's successor to make the call
2015-11-04 02:00:22| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
" The company pleading for permission to build the Keystone XL pipeline looked beyond President Barack Obama on Tuesday in apparent hopes a future Republican president would greenlight the project. But the administration signaled it was in no mood to hand off the decision to the winner of the 2016 election.
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