Seeing yesterday's posts about mounting progressive efforts to try and block an environmentally questionable pipeline to transport tar-sands generated petroleum from Canada to the U.S., I was tempted to post a contrarian comment voicing my belief that such efforts were delusional. My reasoning....the economic and political forces behind a project of this magnitude are simply too large to halt and as with so many things, a timid Obama administration would not/could not risk handing the GOP blather machine another weapon with the Presidential campaign starting to ramp up.
My fears appear to have been proved true. The New York Times reports minutes ago that the U.S. State Department has given its OK to the project.
The Obama administration gave a crucial green light on Friday to a proposed 1,711-mile pipeline that would carry heavy oil from Canada across the Great Plains to terminals in Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, saying the project would provide a secure source of energy without significant damage to the environment.