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Originally Posted by oilyfan
He can't touch coal because so many American jobs are at stake in that industry. Pipelines carrying "dirty" oil from Canada? Fair game...
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The EPA enacted tough Carbon emissions standards on power plants last June which for the most part focused on Coal power and far eclipse the rules that we have here.
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Originally Posted by Azure
You do realize that under Obama oil production in the US has gone up like crazy? And now suddenly he doesn't support an oil pipeline.
Talking out of both sides of his mouth is what he is doing. Like a true politician.
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Keystone XL isn't just any ordinary pipeline, it's rightly or wrongly the symbol of climate change. Approving it is will cost him a tremendous amount of political capital for a minor economic benefit. Yet neither our provincial or federal governments have done anything but parrot the same arguments over and over again.