This crazy House GOP provision may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. It forces the Obama administration to decide within 60 days on Keystone XL, which some people believe makes rejecting the project more likely:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/us/payroll-tax-bill-may-stall-keystone-xl-pipeline-officials-say.htm?_r=1



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 From: Jane Clark <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 4:18 PM
Subject: Keystone XL Pipeline
 
    This is from The Wilderness Society today.

If you were going to design an industrial energy project to cause the most
possible environmental damage, you couldn't do better than the Keystone XL
pipeline.

As outrageous as it may seem, certain members of Congress have allowed this
pipeline debate to become so important that they are potentially willing to
let tax cuts expire for 160 million Americans.

If that's not putting Big Oil before the American people, I don't know what
is.

The fate of wilderness should not be determined by a game of "chicken." As
part of The Wilderness Society, you understand this. 

The Keystone XL pipeline is probably the single most environmentally
destructive project in North America threatening millions of trees and
thousands of miles of rivers, lakes and streams as it snakes its way across
the nation's heartland. The fact that the payroll tax cut for American
families has been held hostage by this environmental train wreck is
unbelievable.

If this pipeline is approved, it will foster climate change conditions that
will threaten every aspect of America's wild places. Our national forests,
already threatened by climate-related fire and beetle infestations, will
become dangerously stressed. Iconic places like Glacier National Park will
lose namesake glaciers, and places like Acadia and the Everglades will be
even more threatened by rising seas.


Forwarded by Jane Clark

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