Why is Obama Delaying the Keystone Oil Pipeline Until After the 2012 Elections?

Here is the PDF file of the Cornell study used for info in that article.

http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/globallaborinstitute/research/upload/GLI_KeystoneXL_Reportpdf.pdf

Here is another article on the pipeline... http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-keystone-pipeline-really-dead-20111123

From the article...

Even more shocking, as The New York Times reported, the State Department's environmental impact statement had actually been written by Cardno Entrix, a Houston-based consulting firm selected by none other than TransCanada. Cardno Entrix lists the pipeline developer as a "major client," and the two companies have a direct financial relationship. Such outsourcing of government responsibility is as unusual as it is inappropriate. "This violates not only the intent but the very language of the law," says Oliver Houck, a professor at Tulane University who specializes in environmental and criminal law. A month after the Times article appeared, the State Department's inspector general announced that he was conducting a special investigation into the handling of the pipeline permit.

Even before it rigged the State Department assessment in Washington, TransCanada dispatched representatives throughout the Midwest to buy right-of-way easements along the pipeline route in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. In 2007, a TransCanada rep contacted Randy Thompson, a 64-year-old cattle rancher and proud Republican, and asked to meet him at his 400-acre spread in southern Nebraska. As it turned out, messing with Thompson was a huge mistake.

When the rep arrived, he told Thompson that TransCanada was going to run the pipeline across his land, and offered to pay him $9,000 for a 100-year easement. Thompson was alarmed when he saw that the pipeline would be sunk four feet deep – directly in the water table. "They would be burying the pipeline right in my water supply," he says. "Even a small spill or leak would ruin my land."

TransCanada warned Thompson that if he didn't sell them the right of way, the company would seize his land under eminent domain. "I told them to take a hike," Thompson says. But the scare tactic worked on other ranchers, who signed away their property for the pipeline. The move pissed Thompson off: In Nebraska, foreign corporations are not allowed to seize property until they have a federal permit in hand. "These deals were made under false pretenses," says David Domina, a Nebraska attorney representing ranchers against TransCanada. "They will not stand up in court, which would find them invalid."

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If you bother to read the entire article, you'll see a rigged process in permitting this project. Is this really the process you want to see to create a few jobs?

If it's really a good project, it should stand up to honest scrutiny and shouldn't run roughshod over property rights. Did you see the amount they wanted to pay the guy?.....$9,000 for a 100 year easement. That's $7.50 a month! How could he turn down such a deal? He must be crazy.

 

Nice, considering I allready posted the link to the study. Not to mention the objectives of the people who made it.

 

Why not try reading the other article I linked and see how this project has been handled by our bureaucrats. Somehow I don't quite believe it's the process most of us would like to see.

And what about the rancher (a Republican) that was offered the lordly sum of $7.50 a month to allow a pipeline over his water? I suppose you approve of that? And the threat of eminent domain by a foreign company? Does that sit well with you?

And about those jobs...Here's a comment from a reader of the article you linked.

Mike Irwin · Top Commenter · Decatur, Illinois
"I live in Illinois, where Rep. John Shimkus claims we will benefit from the pipeline with 14,600 jobs. I'd like to know how that would be possible, since the pipeline wouldn't come within 800 miles of Illinois. I realize that Shimkus is an absolute tool, but, this is too outrageous, even for him."

 

Not if they decide to sell that oil to someone else instead of waiting for us to make up our minds.

 

I guess Obama hates the Middle Class and Poor People........and especially the unemployed.
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Because it takes longer then a year to study Alternatives in the NEPA process. (NATIONAL Embalmed Quality Act). He asked for Alternatives Analysis for the section through the aquifer.