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As Saskatchewan's premier and 10 U.S. governors urge Pres. Obama to approve the Keystone (TRP)...
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Friday, January 18, 10:34 AM ETAs Saskatchewan's premier and 10 U.S. governors urge Pres. Obama to approve the Keystone (TRP) pipeline, environmental groups release a study that says refining the oil sands would create 5B tons of petcoke, perhaps accelerating global warming. The report says 15%-30% of a barrel of oil sands bitumen can end up as petcoke, whereas a lighter crude would have less than 2%.
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it's c-c-c-cold there! they could use a little more global warming.
who cares about miami beach, let it flood. plenty of room for them in our regina (an old joke, but a good one)
The global-warming scam has been played out like an Oklahoma oil field. It's time for "environmental groups" (those greedy and self-interested fat-cat political pressure gangs) to come up with a new angle.
I suggest another attempt at the "China Syndrome" gag (I know Matt Damon has screwed up the first attempt, but when did anyone call him a great film-maker?): Cast Jane Fonda as an aging "Andrea Mitchell-type" crusading reporter with Michael Douglas as a down-and-out aging videographer. Have the two unearth the "reality" that fracking can cause the planet to bust in two. Rush Yoko Ono to North Dakota to lay in bed for a week surrounded by children chanting "We Are the World."
Call the project "The Big Fracking Deal," throw in a few greedy fatcat millionaires and billionaires and you've got the perfect vehicle for the Age of Obama.
(Yeah, I know, you'll have to work in a few youngsters--how about Lady Gaga "in her first major role"?)
Investors?
Know what coke is? It is the ultimate carbon capture. The oil is 'boiled' to remove elemental carbon in a drum. This coke is then removed from the drum as a solid. The heat comes from process gas and is hydrogen based. There is some stack pollution after scrubbing, that is why the report says "perhaps".
These folks have solid publicists, a smooth message, and weak facts. The thing they do best is name calling.
Now that I know what the frack is going on - I can handle it!