Given that the Republicans in Congress are intent of forcing a 60 day decision on the pipeline and there are no environmental impact statements done on the alternate route, it simply means that the State Department will have to deny the permit. Then Canada will sell to to China and we'll go on our merry way as we currently are. Perhaps not ideal but also not a huge giant deal either.
Judah On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Me, I'm just recognizing the reality. Harper said they will sell to > the Chinese if the US doesn't get off its collective rear end. The oil > will be sold, it just depends on who is the buyer. If the Chinese then > it will go through the TransCanada pipeline to BC and then to China. > > I'd rather see it go to the US. If TransCan is willing to reroute the > pipeline to address environmental concerns then no problem. The issue > is that most environmental groups hate oil sands extraction (for good > reason). Instead of blocking the sale to the US they should try and > figure out ways to mitigate the associated environmental effects of > the Tar Sands. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:344842 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
