TransCanada Pipeline: Presidential Tease

Bell’s Brewery, which bills itself as the oldest and largest brewery in Michigan, has just filed a lawsuit against the company Enbridge and if that name doesn’t ring a bell, think back to July 26, 2010 when an Enbridge pipeline broke and spilled an estimated 843,00 gallons of Line 6B oil into the Kalamazoo River, making it the largest tar sands oil spill in US history. [...] The Enbridge cleanup is not nearly complete after three full years, and EPA has all but admitted that up to 168,000 gallons of oil will remain in the Kalamazoo River indefinitely.

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Barack Obama has given the strongest indication to date that he holds reservations about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, saying the project would not create many jobs and could raise gasoline prices.

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Oh, don’t get your hopes up.

Obama said – as he did in his climate change address last month – that his decision on the pipeline would be based on the pipeline’s effects on climate change.

“I’m going to evaluate this based on whether or not this is going to significantly contribute to carbon in our atmosphere. And there is no doubt that Canada at the source in those tar sands could potentially be doing more to mitigate carbon release.”

You see how that works? Talk like you’re leaning against the project and lay the responsibility on Canada for doing something that will “allow” you to support it. Go ahead, Canada. Pretend you’re doing something “more” to prove this won't "significantly" contribute to atmospheric carbon.