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Smokey I think everyone knows by now you do not care for Obama, since this is the second thread in which you have made your opinions known. Can you offer any other viewpoints on the delay?
Thanks for the fair point and also fair question.
I'm not with anymore information than most everyone else on this matter.
However, I was not trying to beat a dead horse on the point but to shed light that it's a bad assumption to assume that someone who doesn't like Mr. Obama's performance as President is necessarily against Democrats or is Pro-Republican.
I will say that I have enjoyed all of the dicussions I've taken part in and for whatever it's worth I intend to retract from anymore political debates/arguments/rock throwing etc etc. on this blog. I'm mainly interested in helping to answer questions and concerns about Williston and working in the oil field. This is something that I can help many people with and have extensive experience in as well. Very soon I'll probably be back in the Williston area as we're looking at the real estate for sales ad's this morning. Housing isn't so much the problem as affording it.
What I don't get is there are so many jobs all over the country and outside of the U.S.,(looking on rig zone), for oil and gas, why are so many people just looking at North Dakota? Is it because they pay more?
I'm not with anymore information than most everyone else on this matter.
However, I was not trying to beat a dead horse on the point but to shed light that it's a bad assumption to assume that someone who doesn't like Mr. Obama's performance as President is necessarily against Democrats or is Pro-Republican.
I will say that I have enjoyed all of the dicussions I've taken part in and for whatever it's worth I intend to retract from anymore political debates/arguments/rock throwing etc etc. on this blog. I'm mainly interested in helping to answer questions and concerns about Williston and working in the oil field. This is something that I can help many people with and have extensive experience in as well. Very soon I'll probably be back in the Williston area as we're looking at the real estate for sales ad's this morning. Housing isn't so much the problem as affording it.
Perhaps it would be best to post political comments on forums that are designated for that.
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What most people don't understand is that a lot of the line was going to be on already existing ROW. Keystone is of no more danger than the already hundreds of lines running through the communities already... Personally, I think people are just mad, mad at everything, so they are just looking for something to complain about. Keystone just happened to be their flavor of the month. Now, they'll turn their attention to some other "cause" till they screw that up too....
Never let facts interfere with a strongly held opinion.
Even if the pipeline was approved tomorrow, there would be years of court battles, vast amounts of project planning and financing needed to construct it.
Regardless of who was in the White House (BTW, the US government isn't financing the pipeline; private industry is) it would still be years before the project ever got underway.
Location: Just transplanted to FL from the N GA mountains
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Originally Posted by jmx66
Even if the pipeline was approved tomorrow, there would be years of court battles, vast amounts of project planning and financing needed to construct it.
Actually, they have already been racking pipe, the contractors have been let, and construction could be started by Spring of 2012 had Obama not stepped in at the LAST minute. Which tells me that most of the R-O-W had already been secured or at least was in the last phase of such. Trans-Canada wouldn't have outlayed the cash to get to this point with the world-wide pipe shortage had they forseen this coming.....
The map shown is for natural gas pipelines, not for oil or oil products pipelines.
Crude oil and refined oil products have an entirely different system.
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