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as a today the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline is fully armed and
operational
oil is now flowing and but this is not by the way the cut more controversial
northern leg of the Keystone
XL pipeline so controversial though and a lot %uh the green groups the green
interest groups are not happy with Brock a llama for allowing a southern leg to
exist
I we've got quotes from the big ones like the Sierra Club on the Sierra
Club's executive director Michael Brune says
today's announcement is a painful example that President Obama's
all-of-the-above energy plan at work
polluted air and water carbon pollution and the ever-present threat poison
drinking water for millions of Texas and Oklahoma families
Bill McKibben up 350 .org says
expediting KXL South was not the market a president who really gets climate
change
said they're not happy with them so certainly slow straight about the story
because the southern have had been
approved a long time ago shows there wasn't I think no chance that it was in
order be functional at some point
and they been fairly happy with President Obama
on a couple recent issues including what they thought was him delaying the
northern pipeline it makes me think that the activists
now have some sort of information that he's gonna prove the northern happily he
has to the track down from a bit
yeah and a in because it I haven't seen them be that harsh years Obama who more
that deserves it ride
in a long time really really hard savings
it but want the one thing he did mention i think is the most salient point though
which they do you think about it you don't have the northern have the whole
point was
the the talking point did republicans and unfortunately some democrats like
President Obama would use his administration when users
do we need oil from Canada and that way we won't be
the you know depending on the Middle East that said right and an oil prices
will be lower here in the United States
but the northern half is not complete we're not getting the oil from Canada
we're taking the world from the pipeline in the US
the southern half it he had how the side or the US
okay the point is to take oil from the Middle gonna bring it down
through texas so you can ship it out so how does that help our
independence if from the Middle East
has it helped bring lower oil prices the US
it does in what it helps is multinational corporation is
Canadian corporations and otherwise and does this really help the american
people at all
and water President Obama do the man who supposed to be a progressive in care
about climate change
he approved with W not well any even when the northern leg
if it ever gets finished that will hit that like the people living along the
pipeline are like me and I got 25 cent gasoline that lowered so it's a global
market still gets old
like it people believe the myth that if we simply drill more than the prices
will go down hill
here well that's not true we're producing more oil domestically than we
ever have before
but prices are two dollars a gallon at what dollar a gallon
its is simply not how it works at the fundamental misunderstanding of how this
thing works and
I apologize if I get the Scandinavian country I believe it's Norway
they actually have a system where when you take the wheel the resources of
Norway out of the ground
they had this %uh this sub I think it all the sovereign cash fund or something
like that where they keep a portion
and the knots but there's been a very small portion of it and it is now a
massive amount of money
like Americans seem to want that they think that's what we're gonna do when we
pull the way let the ground
they want nor what norwegians Tyler Scandinavian style socialism
but instead they're simply pushing for raw capitalism where we put the money on
the ground images distributed around the world
yessir two quick points about that in the way this are filling out her
popularity in alaska
shoes eighty percent popular by the way that's when should be a party reason the
Mackay selected arm
was that she did says who european-style socialism
is on a boil in alaska what she said was I'm now would be
increase the royalties that the oil companies pay to alaska citizen said as
they won their getting
about an extra thousand dollars for every family because they actually kept
more there oil
you know it's in terms of the the money that they came from the oil
that was it turns out very popular here in the US
if you actually do it but we don't do because we'll run by the corporations
were run by the donors were not run by the voters and
I hope for example Iran back in nineteen fifties when
their democratically elected government so they were to keep more their oil
but we would that's right we did a coup to make sure that guy couldn't do that
we replace all the shop
who with and cut deals with britain and US in
get us there were ok but of course not us
not like borrowing cheaper our company use the multinational corporations that
run the British and US governments got the Iranian oil
and they destroyed Iranian democracy in the process they knew it
so when President Obama says that he is for change
it was one big joke look I'll give big activist in this case obtain a credit
because they've slowed the northern have the Keystone pipeline at the
in a way that I was very surprised by
but in the end it appears that they're angry today because they realize
Obama for all this talk is of course he's approve the southern part
and is now operational in a very likely he'll approve the northern part
as he doesn't work for us just like all the other politicians here in the US
he works for the donors yeah