Canada delivering Keystone XL pipes to U.S.

[alp227]

Source: CBC

As the U.S. State Department proceeds with a special review of the Obama administration's handling of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline proposal, pipes for the project are already being delivered south of the border.

Truckloads of pipe from Canada are arriving daily in Gascoyne, N.D., where they are being stockpiled, Radio-Canada reporter Marc Godbout reported Monday.

A Radio-Canada video shows trucks carrying pipeline sections . Gascoyne is just across the state line from Baker, Mon., one of six states through which the 2,736-kilometre pipeline would run.

Radio-Canada attempted to speak with the Canadian supplier of the pipeline sections and with TransCanada. Both firms declined the request for on-camera interviews.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/08/pol-keystone-pipeline-sections.html

[Autumn]

1. Jumping the gun there.

Unless some one knows something we Americans don't know.I hope they are out the money on the shipping

[progressoid]

3. Starting to look like it's a done deal. n/t

[Autumn]

4. Somebody better come out and say something

I can't imagine a company doing this without some kind of an agreement. I'm thinking we might just be getting played.

[progressoid]

6. Getting played...

I'm afraid you might be right. That's a lot of pipe to transport just on the hopes of getting it passed.

[MedicalAdmin]

14. Not really.

I used to work (decades ago) in Alberta on the pipeline and in the oil field. That is not even a large amount of pipe and often the companies will do projects like this in order to keep crews busy rather than idle. Given the unemployment numbers up there, if they don't keep the crews busy and earning they will have another job with another company in about a hot 5 minutes flat.

This picture I am seeing is not even a large supply of pipe given the proposed size of the project. This isn't even enough to get out of the county.

So let's keep the pressure on. Weather Albertans know it or not this is a bad project for them. It takes the money out of their pockets and hands it to the Texans. They would be better off working out the carbon sink problems and doing their own refining.

[indepat]

5. Like the fix was in from the git-go

:patriot:

[freshwest]

2. Are we sure we still have a sitting government in either country? Or are they just for show?

[Amonester]

9. Send the question to:

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Please include your e-mail address

Phone Numbers
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: [phone]


Looks like it is just for show. :(

[tex-wyo-dem]

10. Pretty much for show, but more to...

Grease the skids for the corporate oligarchy.

Pretty good kabuki theatre on the whole XL pipeline issue, wouldn't you say?

[Omaha Steve]

7. They will approve the pipeline, it is the route that we hope to change and this too...

They say the pipeline will help with jobs for US citizens. How does an American get a job if the pipes aren't made here?

[Sadie5]

8. Best reply I have seen all day

Making the pipes could keep a factory with decent wages going forever. Instead the pipes are manufactured out of the country and hauled across the border. Next we will hear that the Canadians will be laying the pipes and we should be ashamed of ourselves for complaining.

[CanSocDem]

13. Not to worry....

Our provincial premier is on record favoring the pipeline because the 'American jobs it will create will be good for the American economy', and this he suggests, will be good for everybody.

That we have a pipe-making mill (IPSCO) close to the action and a government that will bend over for any corporate interest, means that the pipe is probably manufactured and delivered at a bargain basement price.

Our 'enlightened' citizenry likes this so much they have just returned these enemies of the state to 4 more years of government.

Who gets the jobs seems like a small problem.


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[Hotler]

11. This proves that the Whitehouse (Obama) has signed off.

The pipeline will go through. I have no hope. I see no future.

[Autumn]

12. Would be kind of chicken shit to do that and hide it.

There has been no announcement and we all know this is the most transparent administration in the history of administrations. :sarcasm: But yeah I think Obama has signed off on it.:(

[MedicalAdmin]

15. This proves nothing other than there is a stack of pipe in a field.

Calm down and then make some more calls. This is NOT the end game.

solidarity.