{"id":10960,"date":"2013-08-27T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T08:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2013-08-27T02:35:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:35:00","slug":"keystone-xl-would-increase-carbon-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/27\/keystone-xl-would-increase-carbon-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Keystone XL WOULD Increase Carbon Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama has said that the only way he will approve Keystone XL is if it can be shown that it will not significantly increase atmospheric carbon.  So the State Department, which is, by the way, Hillary’s domain, hired a contractor with ties to TransCanada Corporation, and they produced a bogus report.  Now we have evidence that the Canadian government knows that it’s bogus, because they know Keystone XL will increase carbon pollution.  Here’s why.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"27Keystone\"Ever since President Obama said in June that a litmus test for the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada was whether it would “significantly” worsen global warming, Canadian government officials have insisted it would not.<\/p>\n

They reasoned that because the pipeline would not have any major effect on rate of development of Canada’s oil sands, as a State Department environmental review<\/a> concluded in March, it would not significantly raise the amount of carbon emitted.<\/p>\n

But documents obtained by a Canadian environmental group suggest that the staff at Natural Resources Canada<\/a> viewed Keystone XL as an important tool for expanding oil sands production<\/strong>. The documents were released to the Pembina Institute<\/a>, a group based in Calgary, Alberta, after a request made under Canada’s Access to Information Act.<\/p>\n

Briefing notes prepared for the natural resources minister, Joe Oliver, before a trip to Chicago to promote Keystone XL in March, noted that “in order for crude oil production to grow, the North American pipeline network must be expanded through initiatives, such as the Keystone XL Pipeline project.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

Clare Demerse, director of federal policy for Pembina, said in an interview on Saturday that expanding crude oil production in Canada is synonymous with developing the oil sands. Canada has 168 billion barrels of oil sands<\/a> reserves compared to about 4.1 billion barrels of conventional oil reserves… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <NY Times<\/a>><\/p>\n

Photo credit: Earth Times<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

The bottom line requires no rocket science.  If Keystone XL would cause oil sands production to grow, more crude oil of the dirtiest kind would be refined and used, and that would increase carbon pollution.  QED.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama has said that the only way he will approve Keystone XL is if it can be shown that it will not significantly increase atmospheric carbon.  So the State Department, which is, by the way, Hillary’s domain, hired a contractor with ties to TransCanada Corporation, and they produced a bogus report.  Now we have […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}