{"id":4284,"date":"2015-01-09T07:02:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T12:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2015-01-09T07:02:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T12:02:06","slug":"experts-say-that-battle-on-keystone-pipeline-is-over-politics-not-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4284","title":{"rendered":"Experts Say That Battle on Keystone Pipeline Is Over Politics, Not Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/09\/us\/senate-panel-approves-keystone-pipeline-bill.html?hpw&amp;rref=politics&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=well-region&amp;region=bottom-well&amp;WT.nav=bottom-well&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Experts Say That Battle on Keystone Pipeline Is Over Politics, Not Facts<\/a><\/h3>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"296\" data-total-count=\"296\">WASHINGTON \u2014 In 2009, the Obama administration approved a 986-mile pipeline to bring 400,000 barrels of\u00a0<a class=\"meta-classifier\" title=\"More articles about oil sands.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/o\/oil_petroleum_and_gasoline\/oil_sands\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">oil sands<\/a>\u00a0petroleum a day from western Canada to the United States. Almost no one paid attention. Construction on the pipeline, called the Alberta Clipper, was quietly completed last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"287\" data-total-count=\"583\">In that same period, the administration considered construction of a similar project, the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-classifier\" title=\"More articles about the Keystone XL pipeline.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/k\/keystone_pipeline\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Keystone XL<\/a>. So far only in the blueprint stage, this pipeline has become an explosive political issue that Republicans are seizing as their first challenge to\u00a0<a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">President Obama<\/a>\u00a0in the new Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"371\" data-total-count=\"954\">The Republican-controlled House is set to pass a bill to force approval of Keystone on Friday and the Senate is expected to pass the measure in coming weeks. Republicans say the pipeline will create jobs and spur the economy while environmentalists and some Democrats say it will destroy pristine forests and create carbon pollution. Mr. Obama has vowed to veto the bill.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"marginalia related-coverage-marginalia nocontent robots-nocontent\" data-marginalia-type=\"sprinkled\">\n<div class=\"nocontent robots-nocontent\">But most energy and policy experts say the battle over Keystone overshadows the importance of the project as an environmental threat or an engine of the economy. The pipeline will have little effect, they say, on<a class=\"meta-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival news about global warming.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/globalwarming\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">climate change<\/a>, production of the Canadian oil sands, gasoline prices and the overall job market in the United States. At the same time, Mr. Obama\u2019s promised veto will not necessarily kill the pipeline because the president will retain the authority to make a final decision about its fate.<\/div>\n<div class=\"nocontent robots-nocontent\">\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts Say That Battle on Keystone Pipeline Is Over Politics, Not Facts WASHINGTON \u2014 In 2009, the Obama administration approved a 986-mile pipeline to bring 400,000 barrels of\u00a0oil sands\u00a0petroleum a day from western Canada to the United States. Almost no one paid attention. Construction on the pipeline, called the Alberta Clipper, was quietly completed last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[980,271,1030,584,637,979],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-democrat","tag-environment-2","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-republican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4285,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284\/revisions\/4285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}