Ref #1: Yep, my guess is that pie has been in the oven for quite a spell.| Submit your comments on this article |
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| Biden* Kills Pipeline Deal In America While Promoting One For Taliban… |
| 2021-02-16 |
| [WashingtonExaminer] On his first day in office, President Biden canceled permits for the Keystone XL pipeline. Environmentalists and anti-fossil fuel activists should not have applauded his move. After all, Canada will not stop extracting oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta. Instead, it will simply export oil over existing pipelines or to the Pacific Ocean, where the damage from a potential spill would be harder to address. Biden’s cancellation cost jobs and pushes Canada toward greater economic cooperation with China. It also shakes confidence in U.S. business. Who would invest in the country if any future administration can simply renege on deals with the stroke of a pen? The government has apparently brokered a meeting between the Turkmenistan government and the Taliban for a trans-Afghanistan pipeline to bring Turkmen gas across Afghanistan and Pakistan to India. If this scheme sounds familiar, it should: It was the same deal that now-Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad sought to make with the Taliban in the years before the Sept. 11 terror attacks when he was a consultant for the Unocal Corporation. HT: weaselzippers.us |
| Posted by:Woodrow |
| #6 Not The Bee. But only because I was tipped off. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-02-16 17:49 |
| #5 Reality rears its ugly head at times as we are witnessing with regards to frozen windmills. The Dems are so hide bound, they are unlikely to abandon their unworkable and failed energy policies. Energy is a strategic part of our national defense. They need to do something for America and the American people instead of the globalists. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2021-02-16 17:39 |
| #4 After all, Canada will not stop extracting oil from the tar sands of northern Alberta. Instead, it will simply export oil over existing pipelines or to the Pacific Ocean, where the damage from a potential spill would be harder to address. This statement is misleading. True there will still be tar sands oil produced but much less of it because the transportation cost will go up. Similarly, yes the Trans Mountain Pipeline does go from the Edmonton area to the West Coast but first, the pipeline itself is near capacity and second, the oil export infrastructure on the West Coast would have to be expanded if the pipeline capacity was expanded. Both of these would take time and money. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2021-02-16 16:51 |
| #3 Ref #1: Yep, my guess is that pie has been in the oven for quite a spell. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-02-16 09:12 |
| #2 A quick back-of-the-envelope estimate last night yielded a need for about 11-100 tank car unit trains daily to replace the output the pipeline would have carried. Three derailments in the past three days, at least one blamed on a frozen switch point, tells me the pipeline would be a safer alternative. And I enjoy train watching; not much to see with a pipeline. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2021-02-16 09:07 |
| #1 The XL cancel was a payoff to Buffett who owns the railroads that transport the oil regionally. 'Ol Joe is an old time pol. once he's bought he STAYS bought. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2021-02-16 08:55 |