BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
>
> On 1/31/2012 10:19 PM, RichTravsky wrote:
> > BeamMeUpScotty wrote:
> >>
> >> On 1/28/2012 7:22 PM, RichTravsky wrote:
> >>> "C...@PrayForMe.com" wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Gingrich: Nebraskan Opposition To Keystone XL Is 'Utterly Irrational'
> >>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73DDzu64UQ&feature=related
> >>>
> >>> Ah so you admit the Nebraskans don't want the pipeline and that they
> >>> have no say so in the matter.
> >>
> >> All you have to do with Nebraska is Bribe them like Obama did to get
> >> ObamaCare passed....
> >
> > Tell it to the GOP.
> >
> >> Apparently Nebraska is just a bunch of whores that will sell you out at
> >> the drop of a hat.
> >
> > Curse them for caring about their drinking water...
>
> Bullshit.... they don't care about bankrupting the Nation, why would
> they care about water. They can move to Washington D.C. and get all the
> benefits they need. But then you think they would sell out the rest of
> us but just NOT sell out themselves, and I have to say that is possible.
Drat those Nebraskans.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20111227/NEWS01/712279929
Published Tuesday December 27, 2011
Most lawmakers, lobbyists and State Capitol watchers didn't just scoff,
they outright laughed when it was suggested earlier this year that state
senators should hold a special session to reroute the controversial $7
billion Keystone XL pipeline.
Only a handful of senators cared enough to support the idea.
"I had people laughing," said Ken Winston, the lobbyist for the Nebraska
Sierra Club, who was in favor of a special session. "Hardly anyone
thought a special session was going to happen. And if it did, nothing of
substance would be coming out."
Gov. Dave Heineman said over and over that such a session would be a
$10,000-a-day waste of time and money.
And, hey, wasn't the pipeline a federal issue, anyway?
Fast forward to this fall.
Heineman, prompted by an outcry over a potential threat to the Ogallala
Aquifer beneath the state's unspoiled Sand Hills, made an abrupt
about-face and called lawmakers back to Lincoln.
After a series of fortuitous developments, including a federal delay in
reviewing the project, Nebraska lawmakers passed two bills regulating
crude-oil pipelines. The state also got what most people wanted: an
agreement to reroute the 36-inch, 29 million-gallon-a-day crude-oil
pipeline around the Sand Hills.
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