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Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline, leaving it in limbo

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(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday, as promised, swiftly vetoed a Republican bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline, leaving the long-debated project in limbo for another indefinite period.

The U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, after receiving Obama's veto message, immediately countered by announcing the Republican-led chamber would attempt to override it by March 3.

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Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline, leaving it in limbo | Reuters

So despite the public by ober 2 to 1 margin wanting the pipeline, Obamas got his pen.
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Keystone-pipeline-oil-Senate/2015/01/15/id/618742/
 
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Republican's Godfather the Koch brothers must be disappointed. So are the Canadians.
 
I'm not particularly concerned.
 
Republican's Godfather the Koch brothers must be disappointed. So are the Canadians.

Interesting that Obama hosted Qatar today, the day of his veto. Wants to prove to the gulf states that he could care less if they use their oil money to support terrorism. He values them over our friends in Canada.

Can't make this s*** up.
 
Republican's Godfather the Koch brothers must be disappointed. So are the Canadians.

Not this Canadian.

By stopping the Keystone they make the Northern Gateway much more attractive. Northern gateway will only employ Canadians and unlike Keystone thew profits from the sale of the crude will stay in Canada. The project will clear the provincial process and with Harper's Conservatives in power there is no way in hell the eco nuts will stop it. By linking with the existing network Canada can ship anything it wants to west coast ports, including what we now sell to the US for below market rates.

What Americans don't get is that Keystone was part of the North American energy self sufficiency program dating back to Cater and supported by every president until Obama. We agreed to a minimum supply for oil and gas at below market rates in exchange for access to world markets. Obama is signalling an end to that thinking and what many Canadians are saying is "fine, China pays better" so how about we return to market rates?
 
The American people are also disappointed. Thats fine, the left really knows how to pick its wedge issues before a Presidential election.

It is Republicans that made this an "issue". Doing international projects like this are not part of Congress's job. What did the GOP offer Obama in exchange for XL? Nothing. That is how important it really is to them.
 
It is Republicans that made this an "issue". Doing international projects like this are not part of Congress's job. What did the GOP offer Obama in exchange for XL? Nothing. That is how important it really is to them.

What did obama offer the gop the last 6 or so years? oh... nothing.
 
Not this Canadian.

By stopping the Keystone they make the Northern Gateway much more attractive. Northern gateway will only employ Canadians and unlike Keystone thew profits from the sale of the crude will stay in Canada. The project will clear the provincial process and with Harper's Conservatives in power there is no way in hell the eco nuts will stop it. By linking with the existing network Canada can ship anything it wants to west coast ports, including what we now sell to the US for below market rates.

What Americans don't get is that Keystone was part of the North American energy self sufficiency program dating back to Cater and supported by every president until Obama. We agreed to a minimum supply for oil and gas at below market rates in exchange for access to world markets. Obama is signalling an end to that thinking and what many Canadians are saying is "fine, China pays better" so how about we return to market rates?

Good for you. It is about time Canada stood on it own 2 feet. Use your Russian steel (made in Canada) on your own land, when it leaks you can pay the price.
 
Good for you. It is about time Canada stood on it own 2 feet. Use your Russian steel (made in Canada) on your own land, when it leaks you can pay the price.


Ours don't leak. That's the point.

Hope you like paying more for heat and light.

And if your comments reflect the general attitude of our "best friend" I'm all for pulling the plug now, not only on our oil and gas, but the **** we let YOU pipe though OUR land to the lower 48.
 
Not this Canadian.

By stopping the Keystone they make the Northern Gateway much more attractive. Northern gateway will only employ Canadians and unlike Keystone thew profits from the sale of the crude will stay in Canada. The project will clear the provincial process and with Harper's Conservatives in power there is no way in hell the eco nuts will stop it. By linking with the existing network Canada can ship anything it wants to west coast ports, including what we now sell to the US for below market rates.

What Americans don't get is that Keystone was part of the North American energy self sufficiency program dating back to Cater and supported by every president until Obama. We agreed to a minimum supply for oil and gas at below market rates in exchange for access to world markets. Obama is signalling an end to that thinking and what many Canadians are saying is "fine, China pays better" so how about we return to market rates?

What I don't understand is why Canada has waited so patiently for America to act. It is my understanding that a pipeline that goes to the Western coast will have problems going over some Indian land, is that correct?
 
What did obama offer the gop the last 6 or so years? oh... nothing.

I don't want to go in to all the times Obama offered to make a deal and was refused. If the GOP really wanted the pipeline they could have offered a deal but the only thing they want is to make Obama look weak and are failing as usual. They will get nothing they want as long as they won't offer anything in return.
 
It is Republicans that made this an "issue". Doing international projects like this are not part of Congress's job. What did the GOP offer Obama in exchange for XL? Nothing. That is how important it really is to them.

Why should they offer anything? That is what is wrong with the political scene today. How about projects and funding for the project stand on its own merits.
 
Ours don't leak. That's the point.

Hope you like paying more for heat and light.

And if your comments reflect the general attitude of our "best friend" I'm all for pulling the plug now, not only on our oil and gas, but the **** we let YOU pipe though OUR land to the lower 48.

So they only leak when you build them here? Yet another reason to say no.
 
I don't want to go in to all the times Obama offered to make a deal and was refused. If the GOP really wanted the pipeline they could have offered a deal but the only thing they want is to make Obama look weak and are failing as usual. They will get nothing they want as long as they won't offer anything in return.

You mean when he said he wanted to deal and then in the very next breath demeans and insults the Republicans he just claimed he wanted to work with? Yeah, I can't count the times and wouldn't want to go into all of them either.
 
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday, as promised, swiftly vetoed a Republican bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline, leaving the long-debated project in limbo for another indefinite period.

The U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, after receiving Obama's veto message, immediately countered by announcing the Republican-led chamber would attempt to override it by March 3.

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Obama vetoes Keystone XL pipeline, leaving it in limbo | Reuters

So despite the public by ober 2 to 1 margin wanting the pipeline, Obamas got his pen.
CNN/ORC Poll: Most Americans Want Keystone Pipeline Built

Awesome.
 
Not this Canadian.

By stopping the Keystone they make the Northern Gateway much more attractive. Northern gateway will only employ Canadians and unlike Keystone thew profits from the sale of the crude will stay in Canada. The project will clear the provincial process and with Harper's Conservatives in power there is no way in hell the eco nuts will stop it. By linking with the existing network Canada can ship anything it wants to west coast ports, including what we now sell to the US for below market rates.

What Americans don't get is that Keystone was part of the North American energy self sufficiency program dating back to Cater and supported by every president until Obama. We agreed to a minimum supply for oil and gas at below market rates in exchange for access to world markets. Obama is signalling an end to that thinking and what many Canadians are saying is "fine, China pays better" so how about we return to market rates?
You're right but I'm a Continentalist, to perhaps coin a word, and would like to see prosperity throughout the North American continent with resource sharing here first. This decision is so short-sighted, not to say irrational, that it cannot be easily explained using ordinary common sense. Certainly excuses were made but it seems BHO is actually working against an energy independent America..
 
What I don't understand is why Canada has waited so patiently for America to act. It is my understanding that a pipeline that goes to the Western coast will have problems going over some Indian land, is that correct?

there is no "Indian land" in Canada. India is a half a world away. LOL We have a higher "Indian" population than we do native in many areas

It is part of the process. Since land claims are still unsettled, First Nations have lain claim to 3.7 times the land mass of this province, with overlap. because of that you can't build anything without attracting drums, chants and protests, always settled with nice fat leases.

The problem is the ecos, or was. The last election here the NDP leader, similar to a Democrat there, said he would veto a pipeline that hadn't been officially proposed yet. Let's play Obamagod!
He forgot that much of his base were unionized truckers, machinists, roughnecks and so forth who stood to make upward of $150,000 a year would object to not having jobs. That leader has since [one year] disappeared from the universe as we know it and the NDP is, well, meeting as we speak in a phone booth.

But they can delay things, hearings etc., which have already started, the first phase is done.....

As to the first part, Canada is one tenth the size of the US. Where you have might, Canada must use tact and patience and something you yanks never hear about: "linking". You want to talk about salmon rights etc., let's talk water usage. You want to talk about guaranteed supply? Let's talk about Keystone.

Also, we have no idea what Obama has been telling Harper. You must remember reports here when Obama was running the first time, him telling Ohio and Michigan audiences he would rip up NAFTA, then telling the Foreign Office that it was campaign rhetoric. So we have no idea whether the dog is barking or whining.

Also, until the 08 melt down the US represented up to 80% of our trade, which leaves us vulnerable; today it is about 40% or less and most of that is "must have" Like Auto Trade Pact, resources, power etc. So we have less and less to lose, which I don't think Obama has figured out yet.
 
It is Republicans that made this an "issue". Doing international projects like this are not part of Congress's job. What did the GOP offer Obama in exchange for XL? Nothing. That is how important it really is to them.

As already mentioned, this wasn't started under a "republican", it was aimed at decreasing our oil independence. Obama is not an emperor, nor does he get to hold things as "hostage" for a cut.

Its no worry, this will only serve as another political wedge issue for 2016 (where its quite popular with Americans), and thats only if the veto isn't overturned next month. Either way, the dems take a hit.
 
You're right but I'm a Continentalist, to perhaps coin a word, and would like to see prosperity throughout the North American continent with resource sharing here first. This decision is so short-sighted, not to say irrational, that it cannot be easily explained using ordinary common sense. Certainly excuses were made but it seems BHO is actually working against an energy independent America..

yeah, that kind of sums it up. You can hardly come hat in hand to Ottawa and say "please can we have more oil" when you just cost the industry billions and went back on your word. Neighbors can be neighbors or they can be neighbors and friends. Obama does not see us a friends, but then again neither did Bush who would be tarred and fathered here, perhaps the most hated president since Nixon who was attacked by a knife wielding Canadian on his one and only visit here.
 
there is no "Indian land" in Canada. India is a half a world away. LOL We have a higher "Indian" population than we do native in many areas

It is part of the process. Since land claims are still unsettled, First Nations have lain claim to 3.7 times the land mass of this province, with overlap. because of that you can't build anything without attracting drums, chants and protests, always settled with nice fat leases.

The problem is the ecos, or was. The last election here the NDP leader, similar to a Democrat there, said he would veto a pipeline that hadn't been officially proposed yet. Let's play Obamagod!
He forgot that much of his base were unionized truckers, machinists, roughnecks and so forth who stood to make upward of $150,000 a year would object to not having jobs. That leader has since [one year] disappeared from the universe as we know it and the NDP is, well, meeting as we speak in a phone booth.

But they can delay things, hearings etc., which have already started, the first phase is done.....

As to the first part, Canada is one tenth the size of the US. Where you have might, Canada must use tact and patience and something you yanks never hear about: "linking". You want to talk about salmon rights etc., let's talk water usage. You want to talk about guaranteed supply? Let's talk about Keystone.

Also, we have no idea what Obama has been telling Harper. You must remember reports here when Obama was running the first time, him telling Ohio and Michigan audiences he would rip up NAFTA, then telling the Foreign Office that it was campaign rhetoric. So we have no idea whether the dog is barking or whining.

Also, until the 08 melt down the US represented up to 80% of our trade, which leaves us vulnerable; today it is about 40% or less and most of that is "must have" Like Auto Trade Pact, resources, power etc. So we have less and less to lose, which I don't think Obama has figured out yet.
At one time Canada relied on over 90% of its trade with the US but it was recognized a couple of decades ago that this dependence was potentially harmful for Canada and this latest deal demonstrates what can happen when ideology trumps common sense.

Canada's Free Trade Agreements

Certainly Canada will sell its oil elsewhere but I would have preferred it go to our long time neighbors.
 
there is no "Indian land" in Canada. India is a half a world away. LOL We have a higher "Indian" population than we do native in many areas

It is part of the process. Since land claims are still unsettled, First Nations have lain claim to 3.7 times the land mass of this province, with overlap. because of that you can't build anything without attracting drums, chants and protests, always settled with nice fat leases.

The problem is the ecos, or was. The last election here the NDP leader, similar to a Democrat there, said he would veto a pipeline that hadn't been officially proposed yet. Let's play Obamagod!
He forgot that much of his base were unionized truckers, machinists, roughnecks and so forth who stood to make upward of $150,000 a year would object to not having jobs. That leader has since [one year] disappeared from the universe as we know it and the NDP is, well, meeting as we speak in a phone booth.

But they can delay things, hearings etc., which have already started, the first phase is done.....

As to the first part, Canada is one tenth the size of the US. Where you have might, Canada must use tact and patience and something you yanks never hear about: "linking". You want to talk about salmon rights etc., let's talk water usage. You want to talk about guaranteed supply? Let's talk about Keystone.

Also, we have no idea what Obama has been telling Harper. You must remember reports here when Obama was running the first time, him telling Ohio and Michigan audiences he would rip up NAFTA, then telling the Foreign Office that it was campaign rhetoric. So we have no idea whether the dog is barking or whining.

Also, until the 08 melt down the US represented up to 80% of our trade, which leaves us vulnerable; today it is about 40% or less and most of that is "must have" Like Auto Trade Pact, resources, power etc. So we have less and less to lose, which I don't think Obama has figured out yet.

Thanks for the great, informative response.
 
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