Al Gore Tells Obama: Cancel Keystone XL

[bananas]

http://ecowatch.com/2013/al-gore-tells-obama-cancel-keystone-xl/

Al Gore Tells Obama: Cancel Keystone XL
05-08-2013
By Andy Rowell

Love him or loath him, you can certainly say one thing about Al Gore: he is winding the Canadians up into a right-old rage.

Yesterday, I blogged how he called the tar sands an “open sewer.”

Gore then gave a public interview with The Globe and Mail, saying he wished that President Obama would cancel the controversial Keystone XL pipeline.

He added that he did not know what Obama would do on Keystone XL, but regarding Obama and his climate policies he said, “I still hold out hope that he will be as positively surprising in his policy initiatives this year as he was in his speeches.”

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Gore’s “open sewer” comments have certainly stirred up a hornets’ nest back in Canada. It is worth looking at Gore’s comments in context. He was asked:

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Gore continued:

“It’s a bit more complex than that with Canada, but the resource curse has multiple dimensions and [including] damage to some extremely beautiful landscapes, not to mention the core issue of adding to the reckless spewing of pollution into the Earth’s atmosphere as if it’s an open sewer.

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[FiveGoodMen]

1. I've signed many petitions telling him the exact same thing.

But when he ignores me and lets it move forward, it'll be my fault because I didn't make him listen.

[Doctor_J]

2. no, it will be because you don't understand chess

And because you never liked him. And because you want a pony. And because we don't have 85 dems in the Senate. Get your excuses straight.

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Speaking of ponies...

I seem to recall that meme hitting the streets almost before the first term began.

It was as if someone expected the disappointment that was coming and had their talking point prepared ahead of time.