Why Lisa Jackson is Leaving the EPA...The Keystone XL Pipeline

[Oilwellian]

Last edited Sat Dec 29, 2012, 02:00 PM - Edit history (1)

Ruby Cramer at Buzzfeed has the scoop: Top Obama Environmental Official Departs Frustrated over Pipeline, Inaction on Climate:

Jackson "left as a matter of conscience," said Jeff Tittel, the director of New Jersey's Sierra Club chapter and a longtime friend of Jackson's. The EPA Administrator "has too much principle to support [the pipeline], between the climate impacts of it and the water quality impacts of it."

Lisa Jackson has been a bright spot within the Obama administration, fighting for climate and for environmental justice. She's led the administration in battling Republicans for clean air on mercury, soot, and ozone pollution. And, it turns out, she was battling within the administration as well:

A former senior administration official confirmed that disputes over Keystone were central to Jackson's alienation from the White House....

"It was all about Keystone for the last 16 months," said the former senior Obama administration official, who said Jackson's opposition to the project — and her defeat in internal arguments — meant that her colleagues had assumed she would leave after the November election, before she would be forced to work on any element of the implementation of Keystone.

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[Demo_Chris]

1. This is how you build a bubble.

[jimlup]

2. That would mean that Keystone is already a done deal

Which sucks.

[Doctor_J]

3. But not a surprise

Since I live in the Great Lakes, I look forward to when Deepwater Horizon in re-enacted right on the front door steps of Inhofe, Brownback, and the rest of the ghouls who wanted this so badly.

[Oilwellian]

4. No, it's really no surprise

We learned they had already started laying the XL pipe when Daryl Hannah was arrested last year in Texas. I knew then, after the election, the big push in the northern states would begin. And here we are.

The Tar Sands, a symbol of the globalists agenda. Environment be damned.