Robert Redford on the Keystone XL Pipeline

[limpyhobbler]

Another Looming Cliff of Grave Consequence

The wake up call that Hurricane Sandy gave us was but one of many just in the last year. We can see that climate change is happening all around the country after the wildfires, droughts, floods and violent storms of 2012. So when President Obama said it was time to deal with global warming in his victory speech, that made perfect sense.

Why then would one of the first decisions after the election be to ignore the climate impacts of one of the dirtiest energy projects out there? That doesn't make any sense.

The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is winding its way through a State Department environmental review process. The State Department messed up last time around. They didn't include climate and a lot of other concerns that people along the pipeline path have. After the President rejected this pipeline earlier this year and TransCanada reapplied for a presidential permit for the northern section, the State Department got another chance to get it right.

It begs the question then, why does it look like they are going to get it wrong?
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more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-redford/keystone-xl-pipeline_b_2408504.html

[progressoid]

1. Keep fighting Robert but

I think it's already been decided to pass. The previous delays were political theater.