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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)3/03/2013 3:32:18 pm PST

re: #49 sattv4u2

Speaking of choreographed

[Link: abcnews.go.com…]


The Obama administration today moved one step closer to approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, concluding in a draft environmental impact statement that the project would not accelerate global greenhouse gas emissions or significantly harm the natural habitats along its route.

What they actually found was that if absolutely every regulation was adhered to and none were waived, then there would be minimal environmental impact. That means they can’t ask for any to be waived, and if they’re found in violation of any of them it’s a pre-judged decision that they’re damaging the environment. If all the regulations were actually strictly followed, it wouldn’t have much of an environmental impact.

The question is, as Varek points out, that the company has a bad track record. I’d rather see the government gouge a nice big fund out of them to put in escrow— I doubt that’ll happen.

The pipeline itself is not the problem. The development of the tar sands is the problem. Our lack of government investment in green energy is the problem.

I still think in the end the only way we’ll get significant greening going on in the US is from the military. They’re sadly the most forwarding-thinking group. I say we don’t cut defense spending at all, but we task the US military with solving the largest national security problem: AGW.

This’ll mean less time firing rockets at bad guys.