A new State Department (click here) report on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline finds that
the project would have a minimal impact on the environment, an
assessment likely to increase pressure on the White House to approve it.
But the report sets no deadline for doing so....
The first sentences of the report is completely wrong. It is NOT crude oil.
How much did this cost to prepare because it isn't done competently. For real, this is NOT crude oil.
ES.1.0 (click here)
OVERVIEW OF REVIEW PROCESS
The Keystone XL Pipeline (the proposed Project) is aproposed 875-mile pipeline project that would extendfrom Morgan, Montana, to Steele City, Nebraska. Thepipeline would allow delivery of up to 830,000 barrelsper day (bpd) of crude oil...
I demand an investigation to the evasive agenda of this report.
...from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB)...
The USGS has it correct. Why is it that the Canadian Sedimentary Basin is smoothed over as a crude oil source. It is not.
...The assessment was based on geoscience elements (click here) that define a total petroleum system (TPS) and associated assessment unit(s)....
The geoscience elements that define this sedimentary basin is a PETROLEUM SYSTEM with very high energy costs resulting in high CO2 outputs resulting in it's extraction. It is NOT crude oil!!!!!!!!!!!
The assessment is COMPLETE TRASH !
...These elements include petroleum source rocks (geochemical properties and petroleum generation, migration, and accumulation), reservoir description (reservoir presence, type, and quality), and petroleum traps (trap and seal types, and timing of trap and seal formation relative to petroleum migration)....
IT IS SAND. The geological formation IS the problem. The oil is not freely coming from a well with high quality properties that require very little energy to refine it. The geological formation is a SOURCE ROCK in the way of sand. The petroleum SUBSTANCE has to be extracted.
Can no one get this right?
Does this look like crude oil?
No.
This report is fraudulent from the first words in it's executive summary!
...The Resource (click here)
The terms ‘oil sands’, ‘tar sands’, and ‘bituminous sands’ are used interchangeably. Though 'bituminous sands' is the most technically accurate, all three terms describe geological formations in which thick, highly viscous bitumen—a form of petroleum that is semi-solid at room temperature—is suspended in a mixture of sand, clay, water, and other trace materials. In-situ oil sands look like black, sticky sand.
Once extracted, bitumen itself is a thick, black fluid of extremely high viscosity (hence the shorthand 'tar'). It is typically used to make asphalt or processed into synthetic oil, which can be used interchangeably with conventional crude oil....
...The Consequences
The extraction of bitumen from oil sands faces two major environmental constraints: the principal extraction techniques tax local water resources, and both extraction and use of oil from oil sands create significant carbon emissions....
This is NOT a false reality and this report from it's beginning words treats this entire assessment as if the ACTUAL characteristics of the oil sands doesn't matter. This is pure corruption.
It is stated this monstrosity will create all of 50 jobs. This is about money. That is all this is. Greed.
...But the report says (click here) once the pipeline enters service, it will support only 50 U.S. jobs—35 permanent employees and 15 temporary contractors. Here’s the relevant passage:...
The construction jobs are not a sustainable recovery to any economy.
Under Executive Order 11423,(click here) as amended, the Secretary of State has the authority to receive applications for and to issue Presidential permits for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance of certain facilities at the borders of the United States with Canada and Mexico. Permits are required for the full range of facilities at the border, including land crossings, bridges, pipelines, tunnels, conveyor belts, and tramways. This authority applies to all new border crossings and to all substantial modifications of existing crossings at the international border....
The first sentences of the report is completely wrong. It is NOT crude oil.
How much did this cost to prepare because it isn't done competently. For real, this is NOT crude oil.
ES.1.0 (click here)
OVERVIEW OF REVIEW PROCESS
The Keystone XL Pipeline (the proposed Project) is aproposed 875-mile pipeline project that would extendfrom Morgan, Montana, to Steele City, Nebraska. Thepipeline would allow delivery of up to 830,000 barrelsper day (bpd) of crude oil...
I demand an investigation to the evasive agenda of this report.
...from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB)...
The USGS has it correct. Why is it that the Canadian Sedimentary Basin is smoothed over as a crude oil source. It is not.
...The assessment was based on geoscience elements (click here) that define a total petroleum system (TPS) and associated assessment unit(s)....
The geoscience elements that define this sedimentary basin is a PETROLEUM SYSTEM with very high energy costs resulting in high CO2 outputs resulting in it's extraction. It is NOT crude oil!!!!!!!!!!!
The assessment is COMPLETE TRASH !
...These elements include petroleum source rocks (geochemical properties and petroleum generation, migration, and accumulation), reservoir description (reservoir presence, type, and quality), and petroleum traps (trap and seal types, and timing of trap and seal formation relative to petroleum migration)....
IT IS SAND. The geological formation IS the problem. The oil is not freely coming from a well with high quality properties that require very little energy to refine it. The geological formation is a SOURCE ROCK in the way of sand. The petroleum SUBSTANCE has to be extracted.
Does this look like crude oil?
No.
This report is fraudulent from the first words in it's executive summary!
...The Resource (click here)
The terms ‘oil sands’, ‘tar sands’, and ‘bituminous sands’ are used interchangeably. Though 'bituminous sands' is the most technically accurate, all three terms describe geological formations in which thick, highly viscous bitumen—a form of petroleum that is semi-solid at room temperature—is suspended in a mixture of sand, clay, water, and other trace materials. In-situ oil sands look like black, sticky sand.
Once extracted, bitumen itself is a thick, black fluid of extremely high viscosity (hence the shorthand 'tar'). It is typically used to make asphalt or processed into synthetic oil, which can be used interchangeably with conventional crude oil....
...The Consequences
The extraction of bitumen from oil sands faces two major environmental constraints: the principal extraction techniques tax local water resources, and both extraction and use of oil from oil sands create significant carbon emissions....
This is NOT a false reality and this report from it's beginning words treats this entire assessment as if the ACTUAL characteristics of the oil sands doesn't matter. This is pure corruption.
It is stated this monstrosity will create all of 50 jobs. This is about money. That is all this is. Greed.
...But the report says (click here) once the pipeline enters service, it will support only 50 U.S. jobs—35 permanent employees and 15 temporary contractors. Here’s the relevant passage:...
The construction jobs are not a sustainable recovery to any economy.
Under Executive Order 11423,(click here) as amended, the Secretary of State has the authority to receive applications for and to issue Presidential permits for the construction, connection, operation, or maintenance of certain facilities at the borders of the United States with Canada and Mexico. Permits are required for the full range of facilities at the border, including land crossings, bridges, pipelines, tunnels, conveyor belts, and tramways. This authority applies to all new border crossings and to all substantial modifications of existing crossings at the international border....
Executive Order 11423 on Pipelines (click here)
August 16, 1968
The science is different today.
This Executive Order is incompetent for the year 2014. There is no demand for assessment by the EPA.
(b) With respect to applications received pursuant to subsection (a)(i) above, the Secretary of State shall request the views of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning. \1\ (FOOTNOTE) With respect to applications received pursuant to subsection (a)(ii) above, the Secretary of State shall request the views of the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Interior. With respect to applications received pursuant to subsection (a)(iii) or (iv) above, the Secretary of State shall request the views of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Transportation.
There is a provision for the EPA to participate. It also PERMITS the Secretary of State to accept consultation from the public in regard to the dangers of this project. It doesn't allow public comment, that would have to be a result from a lawsuit, but, there are methods for 'STAKEHOLDERS' to have access and contributions. I would strongly suggest all the local and tribal governments with environmental objections write to the Secretary of State for inclusion in the review.
(c) The Secretary of State may also consult with such other department and agency heads and with such state and local government officials as he deems appropriate with respect to each application. All federal government officials consulted by the Secretary of State pursuant to this section shall provide such information and render such assistance as he may request, consistent with their competence and authority.
The PURPOSE of Executive Orders when it comes to border issues aren't suppose to be political, they are suppose to be based in national security. There is no shortage of petroleum products in the USA that rises to a national security issue.
The Secretary of State can allow Public Comment as well. The USA is not a dictatorship. Public Comment can include anyone, including scientists and energy experts of alternative sources than fossil fuels.
(b) The Secretary of State is authorized to issue such further rules and regulations, and to prescribe such further procedures, as he may from time to time deem necessary or desirable for the exercise of the authority conferred upon him by this order.
The science is different today.
This Executive Order is incompetent for the year 2014. There is no demand for assessment by the EPA.
(b) With respect to applications received pursuant to subsection (a)(i) above, the Secretary of State shall request the views of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Transportation, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the Director of the Office of Emergency Planning. \1\ (FOOTNOTE) With respect to applications received pursuant to subsection (a)(ii) above, the Secretary of State shall request the views of the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Interior. With respect to applications received pursuant to subsection (a)(iii) or (iv) above, the Secretary of State shall request the views of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Defense, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of Transportation.
There is a provision for the EPA to participate. It also PERMITS the Secretary of State to accept consultation from the public in regard to the dangers of this project. It doesn't allow public comment, that would have to be a result from a lawsuit, but, there are methods for 'STAKEHOLDERS' to have access and contributions. I would strongly suggest all the local and tribal governments with environmental objections write to the Secretary of State for inclusion in the review.
(c) The Secretary of State may also consult with such other department and agency heads and with such state and local government officials as he deems appropriate with respect to each application. All federal government officials consulted by the Secretary of State pursuant to this section shall provide such information and render such assistance as he may request, consistent with their competence and authority.
The PURPOSE of Executive Orders when it comes to border issues aren't suppose to be political, they are suppose to be based in national security. There is no shortage of petroleum products in the USA that rises to a national security issue.
The Secretary of State can allow Public Comment as well. The USA is not a dictatorship. Public Comment can include anyone, including scientists and energy experts of alternative sources than fossil fuels.
(b) The Secretary of State is authorized to issue such further rules and regulations, and to prescribe such further procedures, as he may from time to time deem necessary or desirable for the exercise of the authority conferred upon him by this order.
