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Nebraska regulators approved an alternative route Monday for the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. It was the last major regulatory hurdle facing project operator TransCanada Corp., though opponents say another round of federal approval may now be needed.
The Nebraska Public Service Commission's ruling was on the Nebraska route TransCanada has proposed to complete the $8 billion, 1,179-mile (1,897-kilometer) pipeline to deliver oil from Alberta, Canada, to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The proposed Keystone XL route would cross parts of Montana, South Dakota and most of Nebraska to Steele City, Nebraska.
The long-delayed project was rejected by President Barack Obama in 2015, citing concerns about carbon pollution. President Donald Trump revived it in March, approving a permit.
[...] The five-member Nebraska Public Service Commission was forbidden by law from factoring pipeline safety or the risk of spills into its decision because pipeline safety is a federal responsibility. So, it couldn't take into account a spill of 210,000 gallons (790,000 liters) of oil on the existing Keystone pipeline in South Dakota announced on Thursday.
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(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 21 2017, @06:54PM (2 children)
All of which doesn't matter, because both of the major political parties in the US have made it abundantly clear they will stomp on environmentalists and punch as many hippies as necessary to give the oil companies exactly what they want.
Your false equivalency gets so tiring.
One party blocked this very pipeline. The other allowed it.
That's not the same. In fact, most people would consider it to be the exact opposite.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday November 21 2017, @09:29PM
You look at the countries with the biggest oil production, the big three are Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United States 🇺🇸. And in the United States, look at the states with the biggest production, the big three are Texas, North Dakota and California. That's right, California, a blue state (we're working on that) and supposedly very green, has a HUGE oil industry. They drill in their cities, they do fracking, which they've been doing for a long time. Before anybody heard of it. They do what it takes to get that oil out. They have Crazy Jerry Brown, he's not so crazy. He knows the oil must flow. He goes to Bonn, he was just in Bonn holding a rally. So he's giving his speech and some alt-left protester, some so-called Indian or Native American, tries to shout him down, "keep it in the ground," this LOSER shouts. Meaning the oil. And Jerry Brown comes back with, "let's put you in the ground." I call him Crazy Jerry because he's crazy in a lot of ways. But he had a great answer, that was a very strong answer. I think maybe there's a little bit of Hitler in him. He's no Hitler but I think there's a little bit of the Hitler spirit in him. What is it about Germany and great speeches? Ivanka gave an amazing speech in Berlin. And everybody loves me in Warsaw. Which isn't in Germany, but it used to be.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Wednesday November 22 2017, @12:06AM
My experience is that the Republicans just do things like this, while the Democrats are generally two-faced about it. As in, the pattern from Democrats is talking up a great game while their actions show something very different.
For instance, with regards to the DAPL, the Obama administration did absolutely nothing. It's not like they didn't know that the police department and private security guards were unlawfully turning dogs on journalists and shooting at them with rubber bullets and firehoses - that stuff was first on Youtube and later on CNN. It's not like they couldn't have been saying something about it in their daily news briefings. It's not like they couldn't have sent US Marshals in to protect the protesters. It's not like they couldn't have sent medical aid to the protesters who were getting hit with flash grenades. And instead they were unwilling to actually do anything until the (illegal as it turns out) pipeline was fait accompli and acted like "Oh well, there was nothing we could do."
They aren't exactly equivalent, but the results aren't all that different either.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.