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[StephanieVanbryce]

State Department assessment of Keystone XL tar sands pipeline downplays environmental risks

I believe that most of us saw this coming, yes, I know nothings happened yet .. however, I still and have always had the feeling that Obama would o.k. it ... and that was just by listening to what he said over the years.... I sure hope I'm wrong, but I'd bet on being right ... ;) ..I'd bet TWO, two pound boxes of dark chocolate from France ... ;)

AND yet there is this paragraph in the state dept.s report:

Based on information and analysis about the North American crude transport infrastructure (particularly the proven ability of rail to transport substantial quantities of crude oil profitably under current market conditions, and to add capacity relatively rapidly) and the global crude oil market, the draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area.

whatever that means, it sounds to me like it means we don't need the damn dirty stuff in the first place.. !

Go read the whole thing.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/01/1190849/-State-Department-assessment-of-Keystone-XL-eco-impact-statement-downplays-risks

it's not a pretty picture.