EPA again questions Keystone XL pipeline

April 22, 2013 @ 8:37 pm

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Environmental Protection Agency again is raising objections to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast.

Despite more than four years of study, the State Department's analysis of the project's environmental impact is "insufficient," the EPA said Monday.

In a letter to the State Department, the EPA urged State to conduct a more thorough analysis of oil spill risks and alternative pipeline routes, as well as greenhouse gas emissions associated with the $7 billion pipeline.

The concerns are similar to objections the EPA raised about the project in 2011. The State Department has authority over the pipeline because it crosses a U.S. border. A draft report in March said the project would not create significant environmental impacts.

The State Department said late Monday that officials have long planned to conduct additional analysis and will incorporate comments from the public and other federal agencies into a final environmental report expected this summer.


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  • SickofSeattleite wrote...
    approve the project!
    January 23, 2013 5:40 am
    Now thats real job growth.
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  • Fuego wrote...
    Bo will find
    January 23, 2013 2:55 pm
    some reason that it shouldn't be done and that we need to redouble our efforts for more affordable....blah, blah, blah.
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  • hnuh wrote...
    02-20-2013 Pipeline would not...
    February 20, 2013 10:53 am
    Whell... since anthropogenic global warming is a leftist chimera(they changed the term to global climate change so that they could make the claim whether it is warmer today or colder tomorrow, sure evidence of the hoax) the company is actually completely correct. The pipeline can't have any effect on something that exists primarily in the fever dreams of statist totalitarian extremists.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Of course they have no objections. They never did.
    March 1, 2013 3:51 pm
    It's Owebama who is bought and sold to the extreme enviro-nazis.
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  • Kosh wrote...
    Anything CH Hates !!!
    March 1, 2013 4:33 pm
    Im all for it, Drill baby drill.
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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    KXL is a budget cut
    March 1, 2013 10:09 pm
    It cuts off Islamic Jihad funding in the Middle East. Therefore he's out to stop it.
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  • Hayduke wrote...
    Oh, how the conservatives raged about the Kelo eminent domain case in Conneticut.
    March 1, 2013 11:20 pm
    But now that a FOREIGN company is being a green light to trample the property rights of Americans for oil, they just LOOOVE the gubmint.
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  • Hayduke wrote...
    Keystone is just one lie on top of another....And class, can you guess who did the so called "study" for the State department?
    March 13, 2013 6:48 pm
    Ding, ding, ding, time's up! THE OIL INDUSTRY. Now what could possibly be wrong with that? it's not like they have a vested interest or anything....

    http://grist.org/article/state-department-keystone-xl-report-actually-written-by-transcanada-contractor/

    http://www.salon.com/2013/03/12/state_dept_report_okaying_keystone_xl_linked_to_oil_industry/

    http://www.eclectablog.com/2013/03/destroying-the-top-two-corporatecorporatist-lies-about-the-keystone-xl-pipeline.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eclectablog%2FkInS+%28Eclectablog%29

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  • 509 wrote...
    So what classes did Obama take in college....
    March 13, 2013 7:40 pm
    it wasn't economics, it wasn't history, he definitely never took a science class. No wonder he refuses to release his transcripts. Can you really get an IVY LEAGUE degree for smoking weed??
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  • wsualumn wrote...
    The Big Winner Is...
    March 13, 2013 9:38 pm
    Koch(Brothers) Industries. They have a lot invested in this project and are going to make a lot of money if this goes through. Ever wonder why Faux News tells its viewers that this is so important for this country. It doesn't make us more oil independent either. The oil is to be exported.
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