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January 9th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Republicans pushed a bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline though a key Senate committee, but President Barack Obama’s promise to veto, along with a Nebraska court ruling, could delay its construction for months – if not indefinitely.
A bill approving the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline
passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee by a
13-9 vote, marking the bill for a floor vote as soon as next
week. A lone Democrat on the committee, Joe Manchin (D- W. Va.),
supported the measure, while the others voted against it.
Following the committee vote, Democrats blocked plans for
immediate debate in the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that taking
up the pipeline bill will be the chamber’s first order of
business this year, now that it is controlled by Republicans.
Democrats may have delayed a floor vote on Thursday after the
bill passed the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, but there
will be a test vote held early next week.
The House of Representatives, meanwhile, will vote on its version
of the bill on Friday. The legislation is likely to pass the
Senate next week, as Republicans likely have enough support to
overcome a filibuster, with 54 Republicans and six Democrats.
However, they don’t have enough support to override a veto,
should President Obama carry out that threat as promised.
The House is planning to vote Friday to approve the Keystone XL
pipeline. http://t.co/dwAtRMPKuM pic.twitter.com/byKpQhKMUw
— Capital Journal (@WSJPolitics) January
6, 2015
Yet even if they bypassed the president’s objections,
construction could potentially be held up for years to come if
Nebraska delays approval of the project.
The state has yet to sign off on the pipeline’s route in a case
that is before the Nebraska Supreme Court. The court is
considering whether the Nebraska Public Service Commission must
review the pipeline before it can cross the state. The state’s
governor, Dave Heineman, gave the project the green light in 2013
without involving the panel.
READ MORE: ‘Death warrant to our environment & people’:
Native Americans say no to Keystone XL
The $8 billion pipeline would carry oil from Canada through
Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska, where it would connect with
existing pipelines to carry more than 800,000 barrels of crude
oil a day to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast – a distance
of 1,179 miles.
Six years ago, there was little opposition to the plan, but a
massive oil spoil in the Gulf of Mexico happened in 2010,
followed by another spill in the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.
Those events rattled landowners and lawmakers, particularly in
Nebraska, who grew concerned over what a spill could do to the
local Ogallala aquifer, which supplies drinking water to about
two million people in eight states, and supports irrigation.
Nebraska justices have not indicated when they would make a
decision, but court rulings are handed down on Fridays.
Regardless, months or years could pass before construction could
begin in the state.
The project will still require a permit from the president for
the pipeline to cross into the US from Canada. And there are
still other objections to the project; a federal lawsuit has been
filed on behalf of Native American tribes in Nebraska and South
Dakota over the possible disruption of sacred lands that would
occur during construction.
There are also environmental concerns over oil spills and threats
to watersheds, but economic benefits have also been projected to
be small. The pipeline has been touted as generating jobs, but
according to a report issued by the State Department, at most
there would be 42,000 direct and indirect jobs created during the
span of its construction, estimated to last two years. Of those,
only 3,900 would be construction jobs in the first year, and that
would go down to 1,950 in the second. Long-term, only 50 jobs
would be available during normal operation: 35 permanent and 15
temporary.
READ MORE: Obama ‘not to sign’ Keystone XL pipeline bill, Senate
set for Friday vote
President Obama has stated his opinion several times about the
project, saying it would “not even have a nominal
benefit” to American consumers.
“We’re going to let the process play itself out,” he
told reporters at a December conference. “And the
determination will be made in the first instance by the Secretary
of State. But I won’t hide my opinion about this, which is that
one major determinant of whether we should approve a pipeline
shipping Canadian oil to world markets, not to the United States,
is: does it contribute to the greenhouse gases that are causing
climate change?”
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/221011-keystone-pipeline-senate-vote/
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