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A disappointing but long-awaited decision on the Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: AT LEAST its over. President Obama rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Friday, ending an unseemly political dispute marked by activist hysteria, GOP hyperbole, presidential weakness and a general incapability of various sides to see the policy question for what it was: a mundane infrastructure approval that didnt pose a high threat to the environment but also didnt promise much economic development. The politicization of this regulatory decision, and the consequent warping of the issue...
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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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TransCanada Corp vows to find a way to get Keystone XL built, remains absolutely committed'
2015-11-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Edmonton Journal: TransCanada Corp., the company that has been trying for seven years to build the Keystone XL pipeline, says it is not ready yet to throw in the towel on the massive energy project despite its formal rejection Friday by U.S. President Barack Obama. Today, misplaced symbolism was chosen over merit and science rhetoric won out over reason, TransCanada Corp. president and CEO Russ Girling said in a statement issued shortly after Obamas White House news conference to announce his decision on the...
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Oil-Town Dependents React To To The Keystone XL Rejection
2015-11-07 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The Keystone XL pipeline would have transported a large portion of Canada's oil to U.S. refineries. Residents of Alberta, many whom depend on the oil boom, are trying to figure out what's next.
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