Who Shut Down Keystone?
21st February 2012
Some analysts (including myself), when pondering the Obama decision to reject Canada’s application to build a pipeline from Alberta to the Gulf coast, have laid the blame at the feet of the environmental movement and political operatives within the Obama administration. I’ve speculated that the decision was purely political, and I presumed it was driven by the intense urge to shove a thumb in the eye of Congressional Republicans. Turns out, I was wrong.
Now we know that the decision to reject the Keystone pipeline really came down to the desires of one ultra-wealthy person: Susie Tompkins Buell, a leading donor to Democrats….
Democrats: Party of the Rich, although you’re not supposed to know that.