I have little tolerance for Fareed Zakaria and his pseudo-academics but the lies on the Keystone were coming Fast and Furious today.
The three whoppers
1) The State Department approved it -Yeah a flawed study driven by oil company consultants. h/t DWG and Lisa Song http://insideclimatenews.org/...
EnSys Energy has worked with ExxonMobil, BP and Koch Industries, which own oil sands production facilities and refineries in the Midwest that process heavy Canadian crude oil. Imperial Oil, one of Canada's largest oil sands producers, is a subsidiary of Exxon.
ICF International works with pipeline and oil companies but doesn't list specific clients on its website. It declined to comment on the Keystone, referring questions to the State Department.
2) It's clean when compared to -Nope that whopper comes courtesy of the consultants. In reality
http://www.tarsandsaction.org/...
The State Department Environmental Impact Statement fails to adequately analyze lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by the pipeline. Extraction and refinement of oil sands are more GHG-intensive compared to conventional oil. The EIS estimates that the additional annual GHG emissions from the proposed pipeline could range from an additional “12-23 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent… (roughly the equivalent of annual emissions from 2 to 4 coal-fired power plants)” over conventional crude oil from the Middle East. [8] The EPA believes that the methodology used by the State Department is inaccurate and could underestimate GHG emissions by as much as 20 percent.[9] Given that the expected lifetime of the Keystone XL pipeline is fifty years, the EPA notes that the project could yield an extra 1.15 billion tons of GHGs using the quantitative estimates in the EIS.[10]
3) They'll find another way to get it here - Nope if they can't get it south they can't get it west either because that's British Colombia and the First Nations
http://thegreenpages.ca/...