Canada: After Keystone, We'd Rather Sell Oil to China

Solyndra is no longer the administration's biggest energy blunder. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper appeared a think tank event held in Washington yesterday. During an interview Harper explained that President Obama's rejection of the Keystone pipeline had forced Canada to change course in ways that will permanently affect Canada's approach to its own energy market:
There is no undoing the damage inflicted by the decision to stop the Keystone project. Prime Minister Harper touched on this a couple times during the exchange. The entire thing can be viewed at the Wilson Center website.
Obama could have approved the pipeline, added 30,000 jobs to the economy, and insured the most secure oil source for our future. Instead, he chose to kill the pipeline and the jobs and, in the process, insured that America will pay more for the oil it does buy.
It's hard to imagine a worse decision, especially since it was all so Obama could deny Republicans a win in the run-up to the next election.

yep,Obama,a true Patriot. :spit:

we will probably have to agree to disagree. The canadian Prime Minister has no business telling us what to do while he ships tons of coal to the chinese.

The canadians would be the primary permanent benafactors of that project. A lot of us are not totally sold on the "benefits" to the US.

The last time I looked into this at work , Mr Obama was simply asking more questions (too many apparently)

I agree with him that whenever a project is going to benefit my neighbors more than it will me, but it will impact me primarily, I am skeptical...same with LaRaza to the south, Obama is right to deport because the amnesty projects really have minimal (if any) benefit to the US but will have a huge impact on us.

The US will have to be fully confident that any "benefits" of keystone outweigh the negative environmental impacts and IDK that we have even started that process/study formally yet...

it sounds like Obama is being a bad neighbor at BOTH borders....ah well....sometimes ya gotta :)

But...but...but how could he be bad? He's a Democrat. /sarc