Northwest Indiana Discussion

I wouldn't trust any numbers coming from this worthless lying administration.

Keith Hall is the current Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a unit of the Department of Labor. Hall was nominated by President George W. Bush to become the BLS Commissioner in September 2007 and was confirmed by the Senate in December 2007. Hall has also worked for the Department of Commerce, Department of Treasury, the International Trade Commission, and the Executive Office of the White House.

However that does matter because conservative republican racists believe only what they they want to believe because they're stupid & ignorant.

However that does matter because conservative republican racists believe only what they they want to believe because they're stupid & ignorant.

House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said that the Keystone XL oil pipeline project would only create five to six thousand jobs

100% correct
Fox Still Pushing Discredited Keystone XL Pipeline Jobs Claims

December 08, 2011 1:54 pm ET —

Fox anchor Martha MacCallum is clinging to the discredited claim that the Keystone XL pipeline would create at least 20,000 jobs. In fact, even the pipeline owner acknowledges that the total jobs created by the pipeline would be far fewer, and an independent report has found that the project could actually destroy more jobs than it creates through higher fuel costs and environmental damage.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201112080014

I guess that depends on who you want to believe.

100% correct
Fox Still Pushing Discredited Keystone XL Pipeline Jobs Claims

December 08, 2011 1:54 pm ET —

Fox anchor Martha MacCallum is clinging to the discredited claim that the Keystone XL pipeline would create at least 20,000 jobs. In fact, even the pipeline owner acknowledges that the total jobs created by the pipeline would be far fewer, and an independent report has found that the project could actually destroy more jobs than it creates through higher fuel costs and environmental damage.

http://mediamatters.org/research/201112080014

After considerable review and evaluation, on August 20, 2009, the Department issued a Presidential Permit to Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership for the Alberta Clipper pipeline. In evaluating the Enbridge application, the Department worked in consultation with all relevant agencies and parties and with extensive public and stakeholder participation and outreach.

The Department found that the addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States. These included increasing the diversity of available supplies among the United States’ worldwide crude oil sources in a time of considerable political tension in other major oil producing countries and regions; shortening the transportation pathway for crude oil supplies; and increasing crude oil supplies from a major non-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries producer. Canada is a stable and reliable ally and trading partner of the United States, with which we have free trade agreements which augment the security of this energy supply.

Approval of the permit sends a positive economic signal, in a difficult economic period, about the future reliability and availability of a portion of United States’ energy imports, and in the immediate term, this shovel-ready project will provide construction jobs for workers in the United States.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/aug/128164.htm

Obama is just creating another manufactured crisis for his benefit and the useful idiots continue to lap this sh!t up off his shoes as usual.

DUMBO knows this pipeline is going to happen one way or another and he just wants himself and his cronies to get a piece of this pie when it does. If you think for one second this worthless ass hole is concerned with the environment you are an idiot. He's just jockeying the field to get the biggest piece he can.

He's fooling nobody. well, except edge of course.

Warren Buffett, the Keystone Pipeline and Crony Capitalism

A decades-long crusade by the environmental left to convince us that oil is evil, unsustainable, and destroying our planet has yet to accomplish its goal of eliminating oil as a fuel, but it has succeeded in making oil damned expensive. However, new technologies for the extraction and transport of previously unrecoverable oil promise to reverse that trend.

One such project is the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline, which will transport bitumen from the oil sands of Alberta to the refineries and ports along the Gulf coast. It will also feature a spur that will pick up oil from the vast Bakken oil formation in North Dakota. The benefit to our economy and energy security is obvious.

A year after the election of Obama, Warren Buffett bought a giant railroad, the Burlington Northern Santa Fe. The BNSF has more than 32,000 miles of trackand right-of-way in this nation, running from the west coast and through the agricultural heartland of America. It is also hauls coal from the mines in Montana and Wyoming and is the railroad with the best existing north-south infrastructure. In fact, it's quite well-situated to perform precisely the task for which TransCanada has proposed to build a pipeline.

Should the pipeline fail, the oil will still be extracted, but it will then be transported by rail, and Mr. Buffett, thanks to the efforts of his friend Mr. Holland, will be uniquely situated to derive a fortune from that business, as well as enhance the value of his holdings in Conoco-Phillips petroleum. Is it possible that Warren Buffett's assistance to Obama in both policy and public relations lately may be his way of trying to tip the regulatory scales in his favor? After all, nothing says "I love you" to a Democrat better than a public plea for more taxes.

In any case, the opposition to the pipeline is not only tainted, but intellectually and scientifically bankrupt. BOLD Nebraska are correct when they screech that there is an agenda being served here, but it is not big oil, environmentalism, or even green energy; it appears to be garden-variety crony capitalism, an Obama administration specialty.

Here we go again, mr. grape making up crap & lying as usual....or just being plain stupid & ignorant which of course is nothing new for partisan conservatives.
This might be his biggest steaming pile of crap ever.
The pipeline was put on hold by the people of Nebraska, some of the most conservative republicans in the country.
Imagine that, they're more concerned about their drinking water than billions in profits for the Koch brothers.

Does mr. grape EVER get embarrassed?

nah

Heineman’s Keystone Pipeline Victory Shows His Red State Environmentalism
Many Americans hadn’t heard of Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman until his sparsely populated state blocked a $7 billion Canadian oil pipeline.

“We’ve certainly been getting a lot of national attention we don’t normally get,” said Heineman, a 63-year-old Republican.

In a series of maneuvers, Heineman managed to delay construction of the 1,661-mile (2,673-kilometer) Keystone XL pipeline -- and prompt its owner, Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. (TRP), to reroute the 15 percent that was to cross Nebraska and its environmentally sensitive Sandhills region.

A conservative stronghold that hasn’t been carried by a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, Nebraska joined environmentalists, celebrities and scientists in opposing the pipeline. They expressed concern that an oil leak could foul the Sandhills or the Ogallala Aquifer that runs underneath and provides drinking water to 1.5 million people.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-2 ... alism.html

On Nov. 14, TransCanada announced it supports proposed legislation within the State of Nebraska to move the Keystone XL pipeline project forward. If passed, this legislation, introduced the same day in the State legislature, will ensure a pipeline route will be developed in Nebraska that avoids the Sandhills.