President Obama has until the end of the year to provide his approval or make some other decision regarding the Keystone XL Pipeline. Regardless of the outcome, this process has further highlighted the environmental movement and some of the more powerful expressions of NIMBY (Not in My Back Yard) and BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything) in our history. The fact the energy in its variety of forms is so integral to our progress and our current day to day operations makes big step changes very difficult to accept and digest. In time we will be forced in certain directions by a variety of drivers - one of my favorite sayings that came from my own personal challenges - sometime you are forced in a direction you must go.
My view is that if margins are truly that low that a new refinery in on our own soil is not worth considering, then maybe we need to look up and down the supply chain and make some different choices to make such value creation worthy of domestic consideration - there is ALWAYS another perspective. Simply put, I do not agree that we allow value creation to leave our control, but I also do not know why we can't come up with some other approach that allows us to claim the value generation in refining on our own soil.
There is a cohort of the public that believes it is better to source their energy needs from unfriendly and/or distant supplies where the consequences of those energy developments and the results of a full life cycle analysis might be a little less understood nor reported upon than that experienced by the oilsands.
Can we do a better job with oilsands development? Yes. Can we improve inefficiencies in overall energy use? Yes. Are these good reasons to halt an important energy development at this time? I'm not convinced it is. Watching and Learning. Trading on.
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There is a cohort of the public that believes it is better to source their energy needs from unfriendly and/or distant supplies where the consequences of those energy developments and the results of a full life cycle analysis might be a little less understood nor reported upon than that experienced by the oilsands.
Can we do a better job with oilsands development? Yes. Can we improve inefficiencies in overall energy use? Yes. Are these good reasons to halt an important energy development at this time? I'm not convinced it is. Watching and Learning. Trading on.
Andy Revkin and I Talk About ... - Blogs - Council on Foreign Relations
blogs.cfr.org › ... › Michael Levi: Energy, Security, and Climate - Cached
21 hours ago – Levi examines the science and foreign policy surrounding climate change, energy, and nuclear security.Danielle Droitsch Guest Blog: Council on Foreign Relations Blog ... |
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blogs.cfr.org › ... › Michael Levi: Energy, Security, and Climate - Cached
2 days ago – Levi examines the science and foreign policy surrounding climate change, energy, and nuclear security.U of A prof expects Keystone Pipeline to get approval |
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