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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...-ll-oversee-keystone-xl-pipeline-review-.html

A project that has been reviewed for years, now gets to be reviewed again by future sec state Kerry.

They should just build the pipeline up to the border and then have Kerry 'review' the quarter mile of pipeline that actually crosses the border.

Canada is going to produce this oil. The pipeline has been re-routed. What exactly is the environmentalists goals here? To get China to build another pipeline for Canada? To make sure that China/Canada are responsible for the environmental aspects of the pipeline rather than have the US responsible?
 
Superfreak said:
I will assume that you are joking given there is no way the above could have been typed with a straight face.
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I was thinking about more immediate environmental impacts on our lands with spills and all. But yeah, rape of Canadian lands could very well send us on the same route as the dinosaurs.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...keystone-xl-pipeline-impact-on-global-warming
Physicist Myles Allen of the University of Oxford in England and colleagues estimated that the world could afford to put one trillion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere by 2050 to have any chance of restraining global warming below 2 degrees C. To date, fossil fuel burning, deforestation and other actions have put nearly 570 billion metric tons of carbon in the atmosphere—and Allen estimates the trillionth metric ton of carbon will be emitted around the summer of 2041 at present rates. "Tons of carbon is fundamental," adds Hansen, who has argued that burning all available fossil fuels would result in global warming of more than 10 degrees C. "It does not matter much how fast you burn it."

Alberta's oil sands represent a significant tonnage of carbon. With today's technology there are roughly 170 billion barrels of oil to be recovered in the tar sands, and an additional 1.63 trillion barrels worth underground if every last bit of bitumen could be separated from sand. "The amount of CO2 locked up in Alberta tar sands is enormous," notes mechanical engineer John Abraham of the University of Saint Thomas in Minnesota, another signer of the Keystone protest letter from scientists. "If we burn all the tar sand oil, the temperature rise, just from burning that tar sand, will be half of what we've already seen"—an estimated additional nearly 0.4 degree C from Alberta alone.

As it stands, the oil sands industry has greenhouse gas emissions greater than New Zealand and Kenya—combined. If all the bitumen in those sands could be burned, another 240 billion metric tons of carbon would be added to the atmosphere and, even if just the oil sands recoverable with today's technology get burned, 22 billion metric tons of carbon would reach the sky. And reserves usually expand over time as technology develops, otherwise the world would have run out of recoverable oil long ago.
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No wonder even the Canadians don't want it.
 
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