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CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA for being TOUGH against this bullshit pipeline!

PornoJew: You need to stop calling Obama a communist. People who call him that are on par with people who call him a socialist, or a Kenyan, or are a birther, etc. It's just plain ignorant.

The pipeline was bullshit from the beginning. It would not have created jobs. It would have been an ecological disaster. It would wreck the areas around the pipeline, it was too close to too many water masses that Canadians and Americans rely on for fresh drinking and irrigation water. The Canadian Tar Sands are some of the most polluted, most improperly managed and most toxic places on the planet. The companies that extra oil from the Tar Sands do not deserve any more business until they become ALOT more friendly to the environment and clean that shit up, not to mention the OTHER Tar sands eco disasters known as the holding ponds.

Alberta Cancer rates are already way up thanks t0 230 Square Kilometres (!!!) of once pristine land which was converted into an oil reservoir. Cancer rates at nearby areas is also up 30%. Millions of gallons of fresh water are used to steam out the the gas creating not just water pollution in the run-off, but millions of tons of Carbon Dioxide and other poisons from the steam it generates. They are destroying the entire Boreal Forest in Alberta just to get more oil. The Tar Sands are a huge fucking embarrassment to Canadians.

This was a bad deal for everyone except the oil companies. I as a Canadian am thrilled that this bullshit deal was shot down.