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Bill Clinton backing Keystone pipeline

 

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Source - The Spec

 

Clinton Former U.S. President Bill Clinton speaks during an awards ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, on Feb. 13. Clinton says he's in favour TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline.

 

WASHINGTON Former U.S. president Bill Clinton says he’s in favour TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline — the controversial project whose ultimate fate is in the hands of his wife.

 

Clinton expressed his support during a speech Wednesday at the Department of Energy’s conference for clean-technology startup companies in Maryland.

But he wondered aloud why TransCanada didn’t originally propose to build the pipeline around an environmentally fragile area of Nebraska.

 

He says the extra cost of rerouting the project around the Nebraska Sand Hills is insignificant compared to the revenue that will be generated over a long period of time.

 

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testifying later Wednesday to the House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee hearings into energy security, was asked about her husband’s remarks.

 

She said to laughter that her husband is “a very smart man,” adding that “unfortunately” the decision is not his to make.

 

The State Department is deciding the fate of the pipeline since it crosses an international border.

 

The pipeline has become a rallying cry for Republican presidential candidates, as well.

 

After narrowly winning the Michigan primary Tuesday, Mitt Romney vowed to keep fighting for Keystone XL, saying if he’s elected president, he’ll get that oil from Canada “that we deserve.”

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Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

After narrowly winning the Michigan primary Tuesday, Mitt Romney vowed to keep fighting for Keystone XL, saying if he’s elected president, he’ll get that oil from Canada “that we deserve.




Bill Clinton backing Keystone pipeline

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Source - The Spec

You really think so??

FM

This Keystone pipeline directly affects Guyana and this is how.  It is being built so that the United States can stop importing oil from Venezuela.  Instead the United States will import oil from Alberta Canada and refine it in the United States.  Thereby creating American jobs while slowly killing off Chavez. 

 

With Venezuela losing the American market for oil there will be a massive economic slow down in the Venezuela economy and Hugo Chavez's socialist reforms. The result will be Venezuela lashing out against Western imperialism.  The only and easy way for them to do this is to invade and take back the land that they "so called" lost to British colonial imperialism.  And that means the invason of Guyana.  They know and the Guyana military knows they (the Venezuelan military)  can over run Guyana's border and other defences within 24 hours (if there is no response from Brazil).

 

At the end of the day Chavez is a politician and as a politician he has to safe guard his interests.  The invasion of Guyana will be a win win situation for Chavez. 1.  He lashed out against Imperialism and took back the land that was stolen from his country by imperialists. 2. It would increase his popularity among his people. 

FM
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