“Little present for my friend Girly Russ here!” [Photo by Kevin Lamarque, Reuters, 2017.03.24]
“TransCanada will finally be allowed to complete this long-overdue project with efficiency and with speed,” Trump said in the Oval Office before turning to ask TransCanada Chief Executive Officer Russell Girling when construction would start.”We’ve got some work to do in Nebraska to get our permits there,” Girling replied.”Nebraska?” Trump said. “I’ll call Nebraska” [Jeff Mason and Ethan Liu, “Trump Greenlights Keystone XL Pipeline, But Obstacles Loom,” Reuters, 2017.03.24].
Congresswoman Kristi Noem: “Not only does the Keystone XL Pipeline offer these large-scale benefits for our country, its construction will translate into added revenue for cash-strapped South Dakota counties, relief on our roads and rails, and job opportunities for folks across our state.
Job opportunities for folks across the state? Yeah, sure, those furloughed rail workers can duke it out for the jobs Keystone XL will create—all 35 of them. Heck, we’d create more jobs by expanding Medicaid in South Dakota… although I suppose those are sissy jobs helping people instead of rough-tough manly jobs running a pipeline to help Canada and China.
While the big news over the past few days has been the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, over at the Powers Dump Site has nary a word about it and yet it is full of accolades from Thune, Rounds, Noem, and Daugaard about the approval of Keystone XL.
It just shows that republican loyalty is to foreign oil companies and not to the health of Americans.
I tried to work liberty and freedom into the comment but couldn’t find a way, perhaps Kristi could help me.
Robert McTaggart
Speaking of aquifers….I’ve linked to this one before…
Nothing to see here. Nobody cares about the low levels of natural uranium in water supplies due to everyday agricultural and lawn practices that is worse than whatever nuclear energy could do. Carry on.
Donald Pay
That picture tells the story: white men, divvying up the spoils.
“Jina” did get cut in on the steel jobs, though, and they’ll get most of the oil, and the profits will go to Canada. The spills will go to South Dakota, and the price of gas in the Midwest is about to go up. That is what Trump means by making “Great Deals” and “putting America first,” which is why our country is going downhill at great speed with Trump as President.
Daugaard and Noem were, of course, not allowed into the Oval Office when the great white men were shaking their tiny hands, but the two South Dakota genuflectors were ever willing to praise their “Dear Leader,” pretending this will be some great “job creator.” Well, yeah, there will be jobs created when the “Jinese” pipes leak. It’s just a long and narrow version of Brohm Mining.
Robert McTaggart
If you want to reduce pipelines, give consumers a better option than a fossil-fueled-powered vehicle.
So when and where are the electric cars (or cars fueled by hydrogen from biomass) going to be built in South Dakota? And could that operation be powered by wind and solar alone?
NOem, Thune and the other guy just want you all to forget why they want the pipeline in the first place. The idea is to get you to forget about the massive troop increases in Syria. Yep, that Syria, just like Iraq only deeper sand. NOem, Thune and the other guy are all in on it. So while we plant russian pipe in our ground, try to remember that Syria is a russian ally that they depend on for a port in the Mediterranean. NOem, Thune and the other guy are for fighting a proxy war with American blood and treasure for Putin in Syria while putting the payments in for Putin steel that will be used to leak over South Dakota. Sounds great doesn’t it? Oh, and South Dakota may get 35 jobs out of the deal. Only a really remarkably ignorant governor would cheer that or one that will have his pockets jingling, which may be the case. But what about the Nelson and the PUC, what will their take be?
mike from iowa
Haste and wingnuts make waste. What’s a few polluted aquifers between friends?
mike from iowa
Leave us not forget that tarsands is bitumen, not crude oil, so there is no applicable tax to use to pay for cleanups when this dirty stuff spills.
Robert McTaggart
Are you saying Trump should take his bitumens?
mike from iowa
Yes, Doc. In sufficient quantities to choke an elephant. :)
Roger C, you noticed that gap in Pat’s coverage, too? Imagine that: Pat covers only the happy events that give his sponsors a chance to bleat their slogans and rah-rah their Führer. Wouldn’t a real “War College” be more interested in dissecting the political implications of the failure of a signature piece of legislation than in repeating press releases redundantly, giving each KXL press release a separate post, as if each one was a unique news story, instead of combining them into one post and adding value with analysis?
Clyde
Yes, they are all a pack of liar’s but, hey, we knew that. Where is our great press to tell the uninformed public though. No one I’ve heard was trying to beat in to the Trump voters head that DAPL took oil to a little refinery in Illinois and then hooked into the pipeline that took it to the same place all our oil goes…the gulf for offloading. No one is saying anything about the Keystone XL which had a lawsuit filed with the World Court for the cost of the pipeline and all their projected profits from it. Think about that. What is the incentive for any of these big company’s to fly right when they have the World Court!! The only thing that stopped the XL pipeline was the greedy, arrogant company’s insistence that they had to go through the Nebraska sand hill’s. An area so fragile and so pristine that the residents have never broken it out of native prairie because they know the sand will start drifting again. A place where any drop of water or anything else is transmitted immediately into the Ogalalla aquifer. But hey, they didn’t want to move their pipeline. If they had moved it they would have had it built years ago.
Just think-if voters had ignored all those false rumours and flat out lies about HRC and, instead,paid attention to all of the real criminal history of Drumpf, we would have had a competent, cool, calm and collected first woman Potus who was leadership ready from the first day.
Really-elections have consequences. Thanks for the worst bogus potus ever people.
!["Little present for my friend Girly Russ here!" [Photo by Kevin Lamarque, Reuters, 2017.03.24]](https://dakotafreepress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Screen-Shot-2017-03-25-at-14.28.47.jpg)
While the big news over the past few days has been the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, over at the Powers Dump Site has nary a word about it and yet it is full of accolades from Thune, Rounds, Noem, and Daugaard about the approval of Keystone XL.
It just shows that republican loyalty is to foreign oil companies and not to the health of Americans.
I tried to work liberty and freedom into the comment but couldn’t find a way, perhaps Kristi could help me.
Speaking of aquifers….I’ve linked to this one before…
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/uranium-contamination-aquifers-could-be-linked-nitrate
Nothing to see here. Nobody cares about the low levels of natural uranium in water supplies due to everyday agricultural and lawn practices that is worse than whatever nuclear energy could do. Carry on.
That picture tells the story: white men, divvying up the spoils.
“Jina” did get cut in on the steel jobs, though, and they’ll get most of the oil, and the profits will go to Canada. The spills will go to South Dakota, and the price of gas in the Midwest is about to go up. That is what Trump means by making “Great Deals” and “putting America first,” which is why our country is going downhill at great speed with Trump as President.
Daugaard and Noem were, of course, not allowed into the Oval Office when the great white men were shaking their tiny hands, but the two South Dakota genuflectors were ever willing to praise their “Dear Leader,” pretending this will be some great “job creator.” Well, yeah, there will be jobs created when the “Jinese” pipes leak. It’s just a long and narrow version of Brohm Mining.
If you want to reduce pipelines, give consumers a better option than a fossil-fueled-powered vehicle.
So when and where are the electric cars (or cars fueled by hydrogen from biomass) going to be built in South Dakota? And could that operation be powered by wind and solar alone?
https://a.disquscdn.com/get?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia3.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FmpfMDb6MB6EWQ%2Fgiphy.gif&key=Nhm_i-hI7S-d19OyjRPUZw&w=480&h=252
Need a laff? Drumpf does.
NOem, Thune and the other guy just want you all to forget why they want the pipeline in the first place. The idea is to get you to forget about the massive troop increases in Syria. Yep, that Syria, just like Iraq only deeper sand. NOem, Thune and the other guy are all in on it. So while we plant russian pipe in our ground, try to remember that Syria is a russian ally that they depend on for a port in the Mediterranean. NOem, Thune and the other guy are for fighting a proxy war with American blood and treasure for Putin in Syria while putting the payments in for Putin steel that will be used to leak over South Dakota. Sounds great doesn’t it? Oh, and South Dakota may get 35 jobs out of the deal. Only a really remarkably ignorant governor would cheer that or one that will have his pockets jingling, which may be the case. But what about the Nelson and the PUC, what will their take be?
Haste and wingnuts make waste. What’s a few polluted aquifers between friends?
Leave us not forget that tarsands is bitumen, not crude oil, so there is no applicable tax to use to pay for cleanups when this dirty stuff spills.
Are you saying Trump should take his bitumens?
Yes, Doc. In sufficient quantities to choke an elephant. :)
Roger C, you noticed that gap in Pat’s coverage, too? Imagine that: Pat covers only the happy events that give his sponsors a chance to bleat their slogans and rah-rah their Führer. Wouldn’t a real “War College” be more interested in dissecting the political implications of the failure of a signature piece of legislation than in repeating press releases redundantly, giving each KXL press release a separate post, as if each one was a unique news story, instead of combining them into one post and adding value with analysis?
Yes, they are all a pack of liar’s but, hey, we knew that. Where is our great press to tell the uninformed public though. No one I’ve heard was trying to beat in to the Trump voters head that DAPL took oil to a little refinery in Illinois and then hooked into the pipeline that took it to the same place all our oil goes…the gulf for offloading. No one is saying anything about the Keystone XL which had a lawsuit filed with the World Court for the cost of the pipeline and all their projected profits from it. Think about that. What is the incentive for any of these big company’s to fly right when they have the World Court!! The only thing that stopped the XL pipeline was the greedy, arrogant company’s insistence that they had to go through the Nebraska sand hill’s. An area so fragile and so pristine that the residents have never broken it out of native prairie because they know the sand will start drifting again. A place where any drop of water or anything else is transmitted immediately into the Ogalalla aquifer. But hey, they didn’t want to move their pipeline. If they had moved it they would have had it built years ago.
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Just think-if voters had ignored all those false rumours and flat out lies about HRC and, instead,paid attention to all of the real criminal history of Drumpf, we would have had a competent, cool, calm and collected first woman Potus who was leadership ready from the first day.
Really-elections have consequences. Thanks for the worst bogus potus ever people.