Judge halts Keystone XL pipeline, citing ‘Trump's complete disregard’ for climate

A year and a half after President Donald Trump reversed an Obama administration decision to block TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, a federal district judge in Montana has halted the project again, citing an insufficient review of the project's environmental impact.

In his ruling, Judge Brian Morris said “the Trump administration completely disregarded the climate effects of building the Keystone pipeline,” according to Vermont law professor Pat Parenteau.

“The Trump administration dismissed, with barely a paragraph in the decision document they issued, the whole idea that the pipeline would be contributing to climate change and the judge said that's not good enough,” Parenteau explains. “[He said], ‘You really do have to take into account the growing body of science that we all know and you have to explain why it makes sense, given that, to authorize yet another major piece of fossil fuel infrastructure that will take 40 years to pay off.’”

Morris is a former justice on the Montana Supreme Court and is considered a “very moderate judge,” Parenteau adds. “He’s hardly a radical environmentalist. There are some judges on the federal bench who are more pro-environment …, but Judge Morris isn’t in that same category.”

The oil market has changed drastically since TransCanada first proposed Keystone XL, so, in some respects, Parenteau notes, the ruling could provide the company with a reason to put off the project or cancel it completely.

Related: The Keystone XL pipeline gets a victory, but with a question mark

“If it's true that the market for this oil has gotten really weak, you kind of wonder if maybe they aren't doing TransCanada a favor by giving them a chance to rethink whether it makes sense to continue with this, at least at this point in time,” Parenteau says. “It’s interesting that we haven't heard a huge outcry yet.”

During the pipeline's initial review process, the US State Department, which made the final decision on the pipeline, concluded that with oil prices so high, approval of the pipeline would not affect climate change one way or the other because the crude oil would have reached the market with or without it.

Now that oil prices have declined significantly and don’t seem to be rebounding, some oil marketers and economists believe that, without the pipeline, the heavy crude from Canada won’t reach the markets — which means that approval of the pipeline would now contribute to climate change.

Along with changing economics and the project's effect on climate change, the plaintiffs and the judge cited other issues, such as the risk of spills and damage to cultural resources.

“The Indigenous Rights Network is concerned because these pipelines run through a lot of what we call ‘Indian country,’ where native people have a large number of burial sites, archaeological resources and cultural resources,” Parenteau explains. “And, as with the Dakota Access Pipeline case, the tribes are insisting on greater respect, a higher level of security, and a higher level of maintenance and monitoring on these pipelines. … They’re pushing hard for much tighter regulation of the pipelines than we've seen, historically.”

Related: Native American tribes unite to fight the Keystone pipeline and government 'disrespect'

A supplemental Environmental Impact Statement typically takes about a year, including time for public comment, Parenteau notes. If he had to make a guess, he would say that the project ultimately will not go forward.

“We've been dealing with this issue for eight years or more and it feels to me — and it’s just a feeling — that history is against this pipeline,” he says. “It feels to me like this is a turning point. We'll see.”

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The Aryan pipeline is kore important than the FEMA wall

In few days the 8pol mongoloids, kikes and gchq anglos will scream that Trump is a Saudi tool.

When you put it like that, I want to ask, what the fuck happened to chans?

Bad news for Albertans

Go back to your civnat discord servers.

Montana Judge’s Keystone XL Ruling Triggers New State Department Review

The U.S. State Department is undertaking a new review of the Keystone XL pipeline, virtually dashing TransCanada Corporation’s hopes of beginning construction on the US$8-billion megaproject in February.

“The analysis, formally known as a supplemental environmental impact statement, will look at potential effects on greenhouse gas emissions, crude spills, cultural resources, and the overall market—issues a federal judge cited when he declared the original assessment inadequate earlier this month,” Bloomberg reports.


n a November 8 ruling described by InsideClimate News as a “striking victory for environmental advocates”, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris concluded the previous assessment of the project “fell short of a ‘hard look’ at the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions and the impact on Native American land resources,” Reuters states.

On Thursday, Morris gave TransCanada permission to continue with some pre-construction work that had been blocked by his previous ruling, “including project development work and stakeholder meetings,” the news agency notes, citing company spokesperson Terry Cunha. “It is not allowed to resume physical field work like moving pipe and equipment, preparing work camp sites, or undertaking road upgrades at this time.”

When Morris first issued his decision, environmental advocates “called it a major setback—if not a permanent defeat—for the long-contested crude oil pipeline. The Obama administration had determined that the pipeline was not in the national interest, and President Barack Obama had cited its potential climate impact in rejecting it.”

“This decision vindicates what we have been saying all along: Trump’s approval of this pipeline was illegal, violated environmental laws, and was based upon fake facts,” Indigenous Environmental Network Executive Director Tom Goldtooth said at the time.

With the latest developments, “it is too soon to say what the injunction will mean to the timeline of the Keystone XL pipeline, but we remain confident the project will be built,” Cunha told Reuters.

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What a piece of shit fucking traitor judge how much pedophile blackmail do they have on him?

every fucking time

Judge's job is to interpret the law. He doesn't get to be Captain Planet.

That makes zero sense. A pipeline has less impact on the environment then fleets of trucks and trains delivering the fucking shit

OY VEY GOYIM, PAY ME MONEY TO MAKE SOME BULLSHIT, THAT I PAY SCIENTISTS TO SAY, WILL GO AWAY.

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Judges have been making their own laws for decades now. It's why illegal beaners get benefits and anchor babies get citizenship: judges deciding shit arbitrarily. This isn't even interpreting law, because >Muh climate isn't a law. It's literally just this asswipe of a (((judge))) using his power to stop what he doesn't like since the redskins already got BTFO.

This has nothing to to with the environment. As a unit, the US and Canada are net energy exporters. That means that if the entire rest of the world went to hell tomorrow morning, the US and Canada would be able to sustain our internal energy needs just fine. Shutting down the pipeline is just another futile attempt to keep the US dependent on foreign (Saudi) oil, and to keep us drawn into global politics. This is the same kind of shit they tried to pull with shale, which almost singlehandedly made us independent of OPEC's influence, except of course that they continue to buy off our politicians and judges.

For fucks sake, it's 50% geoengineering and 50% ignoring the Sun's activity cycles. Get ready for a long winter.

bots

Potato nigger here. A few days ago the Irish news announced that Ireland was the worst country in Europe for "combating climate change". We topped the list of 28 nations. Apparently our politicians couldn't really be bothered.
I was glad to get some good news for Christmas.

anyone here remember Obama? Obama cucked the pipeline, but the oil still came down. see, he was bought out by this billionaire named Jimmy Buffett, and Jimmy owns some railroads, so over a few margaritas, Jimmy and Barry agree to ship the oil down via rail and let the pipeline people eat shit. and now, pipeline people will never work in this business again, all because Jimmy had a cheeseburger with some judge.

Can anyone even begin to calculate what the recent fires in the west released as far as GHG?
I have a feeling it makes all the cars and trucks in the states look insignificant in comparison.

Are you OK?

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Judicial abuse once again. Is anyone in a position of influence going to talk about how the judicial part of our government is being abused by the left?

Some complete and Borneo-digestible redbulls on climate change being a complete hoax would be appreciated. Repost, link, collate and create, I will help.

*normie-digestible

carbon dioxide is the gas of life

No, because they all enable and are complicit in it. Something Zig Forumsacks seem to have a hard time letting go of is the idea that the right in this country want to win. They don't. They easily could. They have the law (as written), the majority of the population (for a few decades at least), and the overwhelming majority of the law enforcement and military members on their side. If they wanted to stop this they could. If Trump had any desire to end this he could have legally and effectively done it the first hour of his first day. He is not doing it and has no plans to do it.

VIRTUALLY EVERY armed person in this country supports the right wing, be it a professionally or unprofessionally armed person. It isn't some fringe ideology, it's the generally supported ideology for better or for worse of everyone that practically matters having support of a bunch of effeminate homosexuals and disarmed cuckolds is of no importance on a practical scale. Yet the right does nothing. They have no desire to do anything because they have no desire to win anything. The game is (((played))) so that they'll lose, that's the idea.

Why would Ireland ever handicap themselves by adhering to crazy climate regulations? They are a tiny island. Potato niggers have 0 impact on climate even if everyone was converted into pure wind energy.

i slipped on a poptart, but i'll be fine

Good. Fuck jews and fuck their oil scam.

That's because Ireland is a corporate fief, not a nation.

THIS. (But also some grumpy rambling about vril and Tesla and shit. In a white world we wouldn't need oil for much.)

ALL jEWS IN SUPPORT OF THE PIPELINE ARE NIGGER FAGGOT MONKEYS
Climate change is natural, as we head into another Ice Age, but this pipeline is for the benefit of jews in leafland and will leak into the land of the whitest people in the nation because they have actual poos and chinks working as engineers on these things. If the pipeline went through Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San diego, then suport would be in order.

Ireland is a nation of the Great Celtic people of Europa. It is one of the last to preserve its culture. Only a jew would make such a slimy comment.

There is no point for almost any "western" nation to do so if India and China keep at it.

They just voted democratically for anal sex and abortions a few months ago dude. They voted for some Hindu shitskin. They sold their nation out to become a third world tax shelter like caymen islands.

Dig into the judge. If we can find a juicy scandal and regulatory violations, it's possible that every single case he's ruled on in recent history, will be overturned as a result.

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How does crude oil flowing through a pipe cause climate change?

Its not about climate change its about preventing american economic growth and industrial development

It's really shitty tar-sands crude. The kind of stuff that burns really dirty. But, yeah, it's just another form of dino-squeezins.

Interesting coincidence that Trump has such a hard-on for the sort of shitty crude that is required fuel for a russian aircraft carrier….

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America is like clown USSR at this point

Hi, paid shill.

Hi, other paid shill.

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haha i failed

not even real. someone needs to shoot judge brian morris in the head

Is there some law that says that pipelines must be certified Climate Change Free?

He's going to see his decision overturned by a higher court but since this hurts Canada I'll allow it to stand for now.

Hi FBI.

Well, I wish I could halt International Finance citing "jew's complete disregard" for the endangered White Hominid species.

>>>/suicide/

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No one believes a word you say.

Good.
Besides initial construction, this provides practically zero benefits for the American people but we get to hold the bag if it leaks. The shills claim the pipeline is passing through unused lands, as if this is a barren Fallout-tier wasteland. But it's passing through heartland America, where we grow all of our fucking food. What happens to these lands and our food supply when the water table becomes oil saturated after a
leak? All so maplecucks can send their shitty tarsand oil to a port that won't charge them taxes as they sell the oil to foreign interests(Port Arthur, TX).

You're really concerned and worried about the fact that people can post over Tor and this makes them harder to monitor. It's funny.

No my point is, we get one of you fags in every thread advocating violence. Everybody knows why, too.


It is literally passing through Fallout-tier wastelands though, have you ever been to the parts of North Dakota that it will pass through? The most notable feature of the landscape is sagebrush which isn't even native to North America.

Canada sucks so this isn't a big deal to me but if the thing leaks literally nobody will even notice let alone care.

That's a good thing. America is an anti-White Jewish empire.

MUH CLIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE

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Kill yourself kike.

What’s funny is that you’re a paid jewish shill.

Kek, a few years back I was given a gun lube and cleaning liquid selection at a gun show by some leaf who was there promoting their product line. I talked him into giving me all their stuff for free, lube, copper remover, cleaner, and 'heavy lube' which was supposed to replace grease in those rare applications. The oil separated into a clear volatile liquid that evaporated away, and a heavy dark yellow liquid that dried into a shellac. The cleaning liquid worked OK, but the heavy lube separated in the same way the oil did but into a non-drying oil layer, a drying oil layer like with the non-heavy lube, and the volatile liquid.

This is the power of the domestic Canadian refining and petroleum products industry.

He can't be, he's too busy being a jewish tool. Maybe they'll loan him to the house of Saud when they're done.

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