Government over Business Enterprise

Government over Business Enterprise

Introduction

After months of growing public opposition to Keystone XL, a controversial pipeline to tar sands oil ("tar sands" in English), the State Department of the United States announced its decision to carry out a further study to examine alternative routes and concerns on environmental impacts of construction. This new study will not be completed until early 2013, and represents a victory for the millions of citizens in Canada and the United States that - out loud and united-pointed to the severe risks involved in this pipeline to public health, water resources and farmland. The State Department's decision also demonstrates leadership and courage by President Obama who - upon hearing the voice of the people above the interests of large energy companies, highlighted the importance of an independent environmental assessment and space participation.

The Keystone XL pipeline project, which still must be approved by the U.S. administration and that would transport crude oil derived from the tar sands of Alberta (Canada) to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, has generated significant opposition from U.S. environmental sectors by their environmental impact (Samuel, 2013).

Obama has already rejected an initial proposal by TransCanada to build the pipeline in January 2012, when he argued that Congress had not given enough time to properly evaluate the project, after which the Canadian company turned to deliver a proposal. However, a recent report by the U.S. Government technical suggests that the climate impact of its construction, costing valued at 7,000 million dollars and providing it began operations in 2016 and 2017, there would be serious for the environment. Canada, meanwhile, is pushing U.S. for approval to use the threat of China to vent their unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs.

History of the Keystone XL project

Demonstration against the Keystone project before the Ronald Reagan Building October 7, 2011. In 2011, three extensions, one called Keystone-Cushing Extension and the other two Keystone XL, proposed by the operator for the purpose of transporting oil of U.S. origin from Baker, Montana and Cushing, Oklahoma . But that same year, the expansion of oléduc is strongly contested by both Canadian and U.S. environmental groups. On behalf of the national interest, the State Department of the United States in 2013 pushed his approval to extend the project. According to Michael Geist , approval of the U.S. Department strongly depends on the enforcement of Canadian law on copyright (Nebraska, 2012).

November 6, 2011, 12,000 demonstrators go to the White House to protest against the pipeline project. On 10 November 2011, the State Department of the United States ordered an immediate review of the Keystone XL route so that it avoids the sensitive area of Sandhills (Nebraska) (en) in Nebraska, an environmentally sensitive wetland could be threatened by an oil spill.

In January 2012, Obama signed the rejection of the Keystone XL project, due to the arbitrary schedule and precipitated imposed by Republicans in the Congress. February 27, 2012, the Company announced the Keystone split the project into two parts, one part of the pipeline ...