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A new article on KXL from yesterday. It is a report from the UK that points out how the US State department rigged the latest EIS. (Nothing like telegraphing your decision, eh?)
A short excerpt:
“…under ALL the Keystone-generated-emissions scenarios THAT WERE CONSIDERED in the State Department’s report, the U.S. would fail to meet the target of cutting emissions by 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, the goal the U.S. has established in the context of international climate negotiations. The emissions estimates are also not consistent with the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius, which world leaders agreed to at the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen.
Other groups, like the U.S.-based environmental group Oil Change International, have argued that none of the scenarios for future energy use used in the FEIS would put the U.S. on a path to meeting those stated climate coals. “The State Department is assuming failure in meeting our climate goals,”.
Here’s the report: http://www.carbontracker.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Kxl-The-Significance-Trap_FINAL_03_03_2014.pdf