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(38,893 posts) Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:10 PM Feb 2013

Guess what? The southern leg of Keystone is already half done

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Guess what? The southern leg of #Keystone is already half done http://huff.to/13zRiay

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/02/23/keystone-pipeline-southern-leg-half-done_n_2750451.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

OKLAHOMA CITY -- While the debate continues over whether the United States will approve a proposed oil conduit from Canada to the Gulf Coast, the segment from Cushing, Okla., to the Texas Gulf Coast is halfway toward completion and could be transporting oil by the end of the year.

President Barack Obama travelled to Oklahoma nearly a year ago to tout construction of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline from the Cushing oil hub to Houston-area refineries. A decision on whether to allow the longer pipeline awaits the results of a U.S. State Department review that is necessary because the oil would be carried across an international border.

Nearly 4,000 workers in Oklahoma and Texas are aligning and welding a 485-mile section, TransCanada spokesman David Dodson told The Associated Press.

"We're right at peak right now,'' he said. "We hope to have it in operation by the end of this year.''

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Guess what? The southern leg of Keystone is already half done (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 OP

ROTFLMAO Autumn Feb 2013 #1

And like most of the keystone projects, the pipes have welding problems. PDJane Feb 2013 #2

There will be spills and water destroyed Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #3

Guess what sabbat hunter Feb 2013 #4

Mostly the Koch Brothers. PDJane Feb 2013 #5

Now we can have as many jobs dismantling it as in building it. Festivito Feb 2013 #6

Autumn

(46,295 posts)

1. ROTFLMAO

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:12 PM

Feb 2013

Rec

PDJane

(10,103 posts)

2. And like most of the keystone projects, the pipes have welding problems.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:12 PM

Feb 2013

http://action.sumofus.org/a/kxl-hole/?sub=tafhttp%3A%2F%2Faction.sumofus.org%2Fa%2Fkxl-hole%2F127%2F%3Fsub%3Dtaf

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)

3. There will be spills and water destroyed

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:13 PM

Feb 2013

and no one will take the blame

sabbat hunter

(6,893 posts)

4. Guess what

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:30 PM

Feb 2013

we already get oil from Keystone.

The new pipeline would go to the gulf coast so it can be refined there instead of the midwest and then exported overseas instead of used here in the US.

That is the real reason why oil companies want to build the new keystone pipeline, so that they can use our refineries which can actual work with the sand oil that comes from keystone (and many refineries aren't capable of that) and then export it. Only one who benefits is the oil companies. What a shock

PDJane

(10,103 posts)

5. Mostly the Koch Brothers.

Reply to sabbat hunter (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 23, 2013, 10:33 PM

Feb 2013

Yes, keystone is already in place. However, this is putting a toxic product through a very, very, fragile ecology. At least trying to stop it would be a good thing.

Festivito

(13,549 posts)

6. Now we can have as many jobs dismantling it as in building it.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Sun Feb 24, 2013, 12:13 AM

Feb 2013

None of the dangers. And, the free resource will end up refined up north creating real jobs and then having to pay taxes on the flow commensurate with the risk of damages that it could cause as it travels south to port out of our countries.

Well, we wouldn't want to use it here! How would shippers hide the oil in order to raise its price by making it scarce by parking their boats.

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