Breaking: Rolling Stone, MSNBC report Obama to REJECT the Keystone XL

Late on April 23, Rolling Stone and MSNBC reported that "it's no longer if but when" Obama will reject the permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Even if Obama sits on this and waits until November to stake the vampire for good, this report will drive off investors and make it far more difficult for anyone to reverse course. Hopefully it will send TrandCanada's stock down and punish those who have been trying to ram this pipeline down our throats for the past five years.

Those who live near the tar pits in Canada have been suffering for years. It was First Nations resistance that began the campaign against what was a routine permit request by TransCanada for what was presented as nothing more than one more pipeline but which was not.
It was daily civil disobediance in August and September 2011 that turned this pipeline from a done deal to a national controversy. It was unyielding Native American and small farmer/rancher resistance that forced them to fight for every inch of pipe in the Texas/Oklahoma Phase III segment. It was the same that made it clear that any attempt to build the leg connecting to the Canadian tar pits would trigger the great grandmother of all battles as people the length of the route fought for their land. Now tipis are pitched on the Mall, and MSNBC and Rolling stone claim Obama has decided the heat is too hot and he has decided to get out of the kitchen by rejecting the permit.

MSNBC posted this link to a video, but it cannot be opened with my ad and tracking blocking browsers.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/watch/report-president-obama-will-rejec...

When it is clear that the Keystone XL is dead, all those burned investors are going to do one of two things: some will swear off tar sands forever, but others will sink their funds into the Enbridge and TransCanada's "Energy East" tar sands pipe with a vengeance. Fracking projects and the international trade in coal and gas (LNG) will continue to mushroom. Now, however, we have a template for what it takes to strangle the infrastructure without which tar sands mining, gas fracking, and mountaintop removal coal mining cannot exist.