Why are environmentalists not crying out about the canal project proposed for Nicaragua?

Instapundit: Why is the International Environmental Community Silent About the Nicaragua Canal?

I think you probably know why…

This project is being ramrodded without any environmental concerns…

I am not being hypocritical myself. Nicaraguans are entitled to make decisions to develop their country. I think it is possible to build a canal without trashing the wild areas of Nicaragua or spoiling Lake Nicaragua, but not the way this project is being done. But what I find especially contemptible is the silence from those celebrities who lecture us on ANWR and Barack Obama (who had no problem vetoing Keystone Pipeline today but has been strangely silent on this project).

Mary Landrieu looks for a new career on Lifetime or the Hallmark Channel...

When your fellow Democrats treat you like you are already dead, there is always Cable TV...

Sorry Mary, Democrats are all about choice...you got the short straw

Sorry Mary, the Democrats in the Senate have bigger things to deal with than you.  

Wombat : Lame duck Democrats kill Keystone

Landrieu Fail

EBL: Mary loves pipeline and too little too late.
Instapundit: Democrat Senate Death Panels have spoken on Mary Landrieu…
Hot Air: Cassidy up 11 over Landrieu

Obama Doubling Down On Keystone: Mary Landrieu abandoned by Democrats

Instapundit: Hasn't learned a thing. Then again, what does he have to lose?  

The Democrat Death Panel has spoken: Poor Mary Landrieu, no tingles for you girl!

All those years in the Senate and now Mary tells us she loves her some pipeline?

Some issues are more important to Obama than others.

No "evolving" on this one.
Obama and the Progressive Dem Wing going with the McGovern Model 2016
Oil prices drop, no thanks to Obama…

Keystone Pipeline: Mary Landrieu: Too Little, Too Late

Bill Cassidy has a bill in the House to get Keystone passed.  Let's see what Landrieu's Democrats and her buddy President Obama do in response.

Instapundit: Democrat panic (boy Dems spent a lot of money trying to block Keystone too)

Hot Air: Guess who is sucking it in the polls…
Legal Insurrection: Cassidy for the win…
RRG: Miss Mary needs a Pipeline!

Speaker Boehner fired up over the Keystone Pipeline (and criticizing the President)

Good. Keep it up.  

Black Boxes in your automobile? The Senate passed a bill authorizing that! Update: There is a Keystone Pipeline component to this that Republican may roll over on too...

Republicans, what is wrong with you for voting for this?  Bi-Partisan efforts like this are bad.  Call your House representative now before it is too late and say you are against MAP 21 "event data recorders."

As I noted last month:  This is a very bad idea!

Update:

Congress at work!  

I missed this part of the proposed legislation.  Republicans are trying to tie Keystone Pipeline approval to this overall highway legislation (although Redstate notes they may be weak kneed).  Tying Keystone approval in is a good idea (in principle) but not if they are intending to give MAP-21 black box nonsense to the Democrats in exchange.  Especially if the balance of this legislation is mostly...ahem...pork (it is a highway bill) to bring home to the respective states.  Redstate notes that there are a lot of problems with this highway bill.  Tying in Keystone approval and eliminating MAP-21 are both critical.  Otherwise this bill should die.

Talking about bad acts in the Senate:  This turd just floated up again.  

Barack Obama faces defeat on Keystone Pipeline: Democrats jumping to the GOP side...

What me worry?  My followers are so dumb I can take credit for the good stuff Cheney did...

Democrats are abandoning Obama.  Despite Harry Reid trying to block a vote in the Senate, an increasingly bi-partisan congress is reviving the Keystone Pipeline project, leaving President Obama irrelevant.

The latest action happened Wednesday, when the House passed a measure to move the pipeline forward. Before the vote, Obama issued a veto threat. The House approved the pipeline anyway -- by a veto-proof majority, 293 to 127. Sixty-nine Democrats abandoned the president to vote with Republicans. That's a lot of defections.When the House voted on the pipeline in July of last year, 47 Democrats broke with the president. Now that it's an election year and the number is up to 69, look for Republicans to hold more pipeline votes before November. GOP leaders expect even more Democrats to join them.
Then there is the Senate. Democrats are using the filibuster to stop the pipeline, which means 60 votes are required to pass it. (Some Democrats who bitterly opposed the filibuster when Republicans used it against Obama initiatives are notably silent these days.) In a vote last month, 11 Senate Democrats stood up against Obama to vote in favor of the pipeline. Add those 11 to the Republicans' 47 votes, and the pro-pipeline forces are just a couple of votes away from breaking Harry Reid's filibuster.
"We're right around the corner from actually passing it," says a well-informed Senate source. "Two-hundred-ninety-three votes in the House is a gigantic number. People want this thing."

Canada is also upset with Barack Obama opposition to the pipeline. 

Finally a smart move by the GOP: Republicans try to save it, but Democrats defeat Keystone again...

Democrats block GOP efforts to pass Keystone Pipeline legislation
Yes, you should blame the Democrats and President Obama for high gasoline prices.
Prior EBL Posts:
Romney needs to get mean against Obama
Mr. Obama:  Who run Barter Town?
Killing Keystone: it is good to be a friend of the Obamas
Update:
Finally!  Mitt putting some blame on Obama for higher gasoline!

Gasoline prices spike: President Obama offers algae as an alternative fuel? Meanwhile Mahmoud Ahmedinejad asks, "Who run barter town?"

The above video clip is provided as a parody of Mahmoud "Master Blaster" Ahmadinejad making such a demand...  You think that little clown is a trouble maker now, wait till he has some nuclear weapons to hide behind.   The U.S. is pressuring Israel not to act in Iran.  But hey, the Obama administration want to negotiate.  Of course the current Iranian leadership is reasonable...they just sentenced an Iranian Christian convert to death by stoning.  Hey, maybe the left admires the way those Iranians deal with those Christianists!  

If only there were an alternative substance that the Obama Administration had in abundance that produces gas....hmmmm

The White House denied it killed the Keystone Pipeline, even though it absolutely did.  And Obama friends benefited from that.  President Obama then offered that our future is oil made from algae.  Algae fuel costs about $33 a gallon.  Wouldn't it be smarter to use our own native oil and natural gas until the algae fuel is affordable?  It has been the goal of the Obama Administration to have gasoline prices as high as they are in Europe.  And maybe some other "Friends of Obama" will get the algae fuel gig!  There is plenty of money to be made in green energy.  Yet the Obama Administration has made it its goal to restrict domestic energy development.  


Meanwhile, the U.S. Army burns Korans that were desecrated by Muslim detainees.  The Taliban are encouraging rioting and killing U.S. Soliders, and President Obama is apologizing for that?  The Taliban when in power in Afghanistan regularly executed homosexuals, mutilated women, destroyed and desecrated cultural heritage, and murdered children.   Newt Gingrich rightly calls that apology an outrage.  


Update:  

• Flashback 2005:  Debbie Wasserman Shultz blames gas prices going up on GOP
• Obama mocks those calling for more drilling
• Taliban behead 70 year old baker accused of spying
• Obama thinks you are stupid
• Obama touts his "miracle" fuel
• Six ways Obama could lower gasoline prices  (approve Keystone, more exploration, add flexibility to regional "boutique" gas requirements, end ethanol mandate, end low carbon specs, do not impose new oil taxes)
• Guess what triggers recessions?
• Campaign Spot  Flashback 2008:  Obama blaming Republicans
• JWF:  Five biggest whoppers in Obama's Oil Speech
• JWF:  Pelosi in 2008:  Blame Bush, Pelosi in 2012:  Blame Wall Street 
• A beautiful letter to Blotivator Bill O'Reilly about economics and oil
• Hot Air:  Democratic conspiracy theory about rapacious Canadians

Crony Capitalism: It is good to be a friend of the Obamas!

Warren "The Sage of Omaha" Buffett

George "Creepy Dude" Soros

Instapundit reports:  

Soros May Benefit From White House’s Natural Gas Proposal. And we already know that Warren Buffett benefited from the Keystone decision. It’s a billionaire-crony-capitalism-fest! 

 And those Buffett rail lines can then move that oil all over the country!

I make over $200,000 a year and I support Obama too!
She is almost Rich!  I wonder how much Berkshire Hathaway stock shares she owns?

All those lost construction jobs: Why did Obama block Keystone?

Meanwhile Obama Green Companies:  Not doing so well...
Opps!  Media Matters emails the wrong folks...


Update:   
Buffett Tax Rule does not apply to Warren Buffett!
High Gasoline Prices? How about algae?