Environmental Outlook: The Keystone XL Pipeline

Environmental Outlook: The Keystone XL Pipeline

For this month's Environmental Outlook: environmental, economic and political implications of the State Department's upcoming decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline.

For this month's Environmental Outlook: environmental, economic and political implications of the State Department's upcoming decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Guests

Michael Brune

executive director of Sierra Club.

Matthew Koch

vice president of the Institute for 21st Century Energy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Coral Davenport

energy and environment correspondent for National Journal.

Comments

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Regarding the idea that environmental protection and the permitting process will protect us Canadians from harm. Our federal government is dismantling protections as fast as it can so we can have no faith in the protection.

February 6, 2013 - 7:24 pm

The Keystone does present all sorts of complicated problems, but our penchant for game theory eventually has to take a backseat to our climate. Every circumstance in which we compete for resources will offer excuse not to change the tide, but if cooking the Earth isn't a deterrent, what is?

http://22oftheday.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-dl-on-xl-pipeline.html

March 4, 2013 - 9:28 pm

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