Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline (washingtonpost.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The Keystone XL pipeline controversy is finally coming to a close. On Friday, President Obama denied a construction permit for the pipeline, ending a seven-year political fight. Obama said, "America's now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change. And frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. And that's the biggest risk we face — not acting." Secretary of State John Kerry added, "The reality is that this decision could not be made solely on the numbers — jobs that would be created, dirty fuel that would be transported here, or carbon pollution that would ultimately be unleashed. The United States cannot ask other nations to make tough choices to address climate change if we are unwilling to make them ourselves." The decision comes as no surprise to the oil industry, and they've been busily working on other ways to transport the oil. "U.S. imports of oil from Canada hit a record high of 3.4 million barrels a day in August, up from just under 2 million barrels a day in 2008, the year the pipeline was proposed."

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The dems have ZERO innovation anymore

[WindBourne]

It is bad enough that the far right are liars and simply choose to ignore what is happening with climate change, but the far left is just plain stupid.
Will this stop the digging? Nope. It will continue. It is just that it will be sent to be processed via trucks and rail, which is even more pollution.
worse yet, if a neo-con gets control of the White House, then they will simply pass it through. Far better is to stop the CO2 emissions via economics.
The dems should be cutting a deal with the GOP in which the pipeline is allowed. BUT in return, limited time subsidies are created for more EVs with bigger batteries, along with some for moving Commercial vehicles to nat Gas and Nat Gas series hybrids. With this approach, it will drop America's imports of oil to the point of ending them, and lowering the price of oil, which will stop the tar sands, and finally, leading to a whole new robust industry based on Electricity and methane, rather than gas/diesel. Electricity comes from many sources, and methane can as well.