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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 929054" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>State Department <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/aug/128164.htm" target="_blank">approved and advocated for the nearly identical Canadian-American pipeline in 2009</a>, arguing: <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>… the addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States. These included increasing the diversity of available supplies among the United States’ worldwide crude oil sources in a time of considerable political tension in other major oil producing countries and regions; shortening the transportation pathway for crude oil supplies; and increasing crude oil supplies from a major non-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries producer.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Canada is a stable and reliable ally and trading partner of the United States, with which we have free trade agreements which augment the security of this energy supply. Approval of the permit sends a positive economic signal, in a difficult economic period, about the future reliability and availability of a portion of United States’ energy imports, and in the immediate term, this shovel-ready project will provide construction jobs for workers in the United States.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 929054, member: 12952"] State Department [URL="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2009/aug/128164.htm"]approved and advocated for the nearly identical Canadian-American pipeline in 2009[/URL], arguing: [INDENT][I]… the addition of crude oil pipeline capacity between Canada and the United States will advance a number of strategic interests of the United States. These included increasing the diversity of available supplies among the United States’ worldwide crude oil sources in a time of considerable political tension in other major oil producing countries and regions; shortening the transportation pathway for crude oil supplies; and increasing crude oil supplies from a major non-Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries producer.[/I] [/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Canada is a stable and reliable ally and trading partner of the United States, with which we have free trade agreements which augment the security of this energy supply. Approval of the permit sends a positive economic signal, in a difficult economic period, about the future reliability and availability of a portion of United States’ energy imports, and in the immediate term, this shovel-ready project will provide construction jobs for workers in the United States.[/I] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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