CHART: Big Oil Backers Of Keystone XL Pipeline Gave Big To Senate GOP Allies

[Galraedia]

On Monday, 43 Senate Republicans and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduced legislation to circumvent the Obama administration and approve the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. A ThinkProgress Green analysis reveals at least 35 of the 44 senators backing the proposal have received special interest political action committee contributions from the biggest backers of the pipeline since the start of the 2010 cycle.


$644,400 went to 35 of those senators who have endorsed this measure. Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Rob Portman (R-OH) received the most, with $43,500 each. Manchin received $2,500 and the rest went to Republicans.

The most active companies and trade associations lobbying for the pipeline over the last three months were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ConocoPhillips, the Business Roundtable, Shell Oil, ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, Deere & Company, TransCanada Pipelines, and Devon Energy.

Of those, the PACs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, Deere & Company, and Devon Energy all made contributions to federal candidates over the past three years.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/01/31/414617/chart-big-oil-backers-of-keystone-xl-pipeline-gave-big-to-senate-gop-allies/

[BumRushDaShow]

1. The irony being

that most of the ones pushing for this don't have it going through their states. Would expect the OK & TX ones to push though....

[patrice]

2. Don't you think the jobs numbers are inflated too, for the lifetime of those oil fields, which

would be at least several hundred years, and by including already existing refinery jobs?

So clear how LOW America has sunk: the DIRTIEST - FOREIGN - oil tracked right across our land just like we do the poor neighborhoods here - and sold to other countries.

OH! the SHAME these congressional PIMPS have sold us into!!!!