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Privatization CP SolvencyPrivate companies can build Keystone bestOberg 12 (Ted, Eyewitness News Reporter, “Liberty Co. resident battles over proposed Keystone Pipeline land grab”, http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/in_focus&id=8557072 feb 24 2012 AB) The proposed Keystone Pipeline XL would carry oil from Canada to refineries here in Houston and Port Arthur. And while its future right now is uncertain, oil companies aren't waiting for politicians to battle it out ¶ All this may seem a little premature since the president said Keystone can't build this pipeline. But over the last several years, the Canadian company behind it has been buying land all over the state and what they can't buy, they're taking -- and it's all legal. ¶ This is the spot where controversy meets the country just off State Highway 326 in Liberty County. ¶ From Canada, it's a speck on a map underneath a line drawn to plot a pipeline. But to Raymond Hill, it's far more. ¶ Hill owns 135 acres of this east Texas land; his family's had it more than 100 years. ¶ "You can't see the boundaries and you can't feel the presence of neighbors," Hill said. ¶ And while he'll get to keep most of it, the Canadian company behind the controversial Keystone pipeline wants three acres of it. They came to Hill two years ago and still can't make a deal. ¶ When we asked Hill why he's standing in their way, he replied, "I don't think I am. I've been willing to make a deal with a reasonable person, they just haven't shown me that person yet." ¶ So the pipeline company took it and the county set a price -- all before Hill said yes, just as Texas law allows. ¶ Once pipeline companies pick their route through Texas they have to buy rights to use the land. But if they can't reach a deal, Texas law allows pipeline companies to seize it using eminent domain. It isn't the government doing it -- they don't even need government permission -- it's a private company seizing someone else's private land to make private profits. ¶ Private companies can do keystone best now, create over 10,000 jobs, not spend a single dollar of the governments money, and strengthen the economyHouse of Energy and Commerce 11, “Waiting for the Keystone XL Pipeline” December 23 2011 AB) The privately-financed Keystone XL pipeline project is projected to create tens of thousands of U.S. jobs in construction and manufacturing, and without one single dollar of government assistance. There is also an economic multiplier effect associated with this project, as the economic impact spreads to other industries where demand and expenditures for goods and services within and around the vicinity of the pipeline's construction are expected to increase significantly. …¶ In total, the Keystone XL pipeline project has been subjected to tremendous amounts of scrutiny through the National Environmental Policy Act, which includes review by ten federal agencies, as well as numerous state and local agency reviews. The State Department [Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement] has concluded that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline would have "limited adverse environmental impact during construction and operation" and that it would significantly strengthen U.S. economic security.¶ But most importantly, it is America's workers who are clamoring for the expedited approval of this important project.¶ As President Obama has rightfully declared when it comes to the creation of jobs, "WE CAN'T WAIT."¶ The urgent calls for action are nothing new. An October 2010 letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the General Presidents of four international unions made the case for approval of the project more than a year before the Obama administration announced its plans to delay a final decision until after the next election:¶ Each week that goes by in the State Department’s permitting process of the Keystone XL, a process that has gone on for more than two years, is lost ground for thousands of workers who are sitting on the sidelines of our ailing national economy.¶ All four of our International Unions - the United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters, the International Union of Operating Engineers, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Laborers’ International Union of North America - have executed a project labor agreement to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. We are committed to making Keystone XL a reality for our nation and we are prepared to begin work as soon as the Presidential Permit for the $7 billion privately funded Keystone XL pipeline is approved. PoliticsPolitically controversialSarah O. Ladislaw; senior fellow with the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; January 19th, 2012 “Keystone XL Pipeline blown way out of proportion” NCHO In November 2011, coming into the final phases of the Presidential Permit process and ostensibly on the cusp of making a decision, the Obama administration extended its timeline for considering the permit application until 2013, when questions arose about the environmental integrity of the pipeline through the environmentally sensitive region of the Nebraska Sand Hills, causing the Nebraska state legislature and governor to insist on an alternative pipeline route.¶ The Obama administration announcement to delay its decision was construed at least partially as politically motivated given the intense opposition to the pipeline from environmental groups. In response, congressional Republicans sought and passed legislative measures (then signed into law in December as part of the payroll tax cut extension) to force the administration to make a decision in 60 days’ time, in an effort to move the pipeline project forward or risk the political backlash from pro-pipeline labor unions of denying the project.¶ True to its word, yesterday the administration denied the permit based on the assertion that the 60-day deadline did not provide enough time to adequately review the project. In response to the decision, congressional Republicans accused the administration of killing tens if not thousands of U.S. jobs and sending secure Canadian oil to China (a presumed alternate market destination for oil sands). TransCanada pledged to resubmit an application for the pipeline and keep the production schedule on track, citing the hope for an expedited permit process on the next application. Environmental groups applauded the administration’s decision, while sounding a cautionary note of opposition to any future efforts to resurrect the pipeline project. Keystone popular- surveys proveDuclos 12 (Susan, wake up America writer, “Surveys Show Americans Support Keystone Pipeline Rejected by Obama by 40+ Point Margins” AB) Two new surveys out this week show that – with gas prices rising higher and faster than ever – Americans continue to overwhelmingly support the Keystone XL pipeline President Obama rejected last month. The Keystone pipeline would not only create 20,000 new American jobs, but would bring an additional 830,000 barrels of oil per day to U.S. refineries. With gas prices threatening the already-struggling economic recovery and making it harder to create jobs, Americans’ support for the Keystone pipeline is as strong as ever: ¶ According to a Pew Research Center survey released today, 66% of Americans “say the government should approve the pipeline, while just 23% say it should not.” ¶ A Quinnipiac survey released earlier this week found that voters support the Keystone pipeline by a margin of 64-23 percent. ¶ In an effort to “deflect blame” for surging gas prices, President Obama is falsely claiming credit for an increase in American energy production that has occurred despite his harmful policies, not because of them. In fact, gas prices have doubled on President Obama’s watch because he has chosen – time and again – to thwart more American energy while steering taxpayer dollars to failed enterprises, like Solyndra, that he deemed worthwhile. Now Americans are paying for the president’s disastrous policies every time they fill up. ¶ President Obama is out of excuses when it comes to blocking the Keystone pipeline and the thousands of jobs that come with it. The pipeline is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans, as well as labor unions, governors, and even members of the president’s own party. The House has passed bipartisan legislation requiring the project to move forward - just one of several steps House Republicans have taken under the American Energy Initiative to help address rising gas prices. It is time for President Obama to stop putting politics ahead of struggling families and small businesses and approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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