2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What is Hillary saying when she announces that she is putting the white house [View all]karynnj
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wanted them to. She created a process and assigned an industry leaning group to evaluate the environmental impact. Their task was DEFINED as assuming that pipeline or no pipeline, the same amount of dirty oil comes out of the earth -- thus that contribution to global warming "doesn't count". Right before she left office, that report came out -- and it -- no surprise - couldn't find an environmental impact! Kerry set up a process to get public opinion - and when a lot came in - extended the process -- again and again. (There was also a Nebraska case that both extended the time and changed the route.)
Clearly, what HRC likely intended to happen was that her successor would, given the SD environmental study, sign off on it - and that Obama (who had approved the construction of the lower piece) would use that as cover. This would have been nearly 3 years before a HRC run - and depending where the public was -- it would then either have been her good work lining up a comprehensive study that enabled this Job (yeah - all 5 of them) program to go forward --- or John Kerry's fault for enabling an environmental nightmare. (After all, unlike the Clintons since Arkansas days, he never thought of the environment.) (If needed - Kerry is a life long environmentalist. )