An alternative comment venue for the multitudes currently blocked by dcdirect. His position is that the Keystone pipeline almost defeated. Obama's position is that, well, he's taking no position. Leading from behind again. --cd3


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On the evening of November 9, President Obama spoke at the Connecticut
Ave Hilton to the Women's National Lawyer's Center. Outside, opponents
of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline held an emergency protest to
remind the President that he needs to finish off the Keystone XL
pipeline once and for all with a flat refusal of the permits.



It was announced the next day that Obama has sent the Keystone XL
project back to the Dept of State for a "re-review" of the pipeline,
it's routing, and environmental impact to include global climate change.
There was talk of this by Wednesday night's protest, but it appeared in
Thursday's mainstream papers and email stories confirming this did not
appear until the evening of November 10. Bill McKibbons has declared
victory, saying that "most analysts" believe this will kill the project
outright.



There are those, however, who fear another meaning of this delay, as
expressed in Wednesday night's protest: that Obama is trying to put off
the decision until after the election. Although no construction can now
take place for the next year, this means that if the State Department
review fails to kill the Keystone XL project all the way, Obama will
have re-election impunity, having either won or lost the 2012 election
prior to making this decision.



Any way you cut it,though, the Keystone XL pipeline is in serious
trouble. Hopefuly this is the end of it, but I would NOT advise ending
the campaign, because as I saw with the Inter-County Connector, these
kinds of projects do have the habit of rising from the grave. The
President needs to kill the Keystone XL all the way dead and drive a
stake through it's heart before this one can be called over.