AMERICAN PATRIOTS WE MUST STOP TRANSCANADA KEYSTONE PIPELINE NOW. THEY HAVE YET TO HAVE APPROVAL BUT HAVE TAKEN IT UPON THEMSELVES TO START LAYING PIPE ACROSS PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE UNITED STATES. IT IS TIME TO STAND UP TO BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION AND NOT ONE MINUTE LONGER.

By Gaylon Barrow, January 18, 2012, 9:04 P.M.

To all the PATRIOTS OF AMERICA please listen up and read the below words of Americans who are being taken advantage of strictly because someone is offering them money under the guise of employment for the people of the United States. This is a cover up. Another of Obama's schemes to deceive the American people. The TransCanada Keystone  Keystone XL Pipeline is already laying pipe across America and do not have the permission to do so. They intend to pipeline through faulty pipes an environmental hazard in BITUMAN - The $7 billion project would carry bitumen extracted from Alberta's carbon-intensive oilsands to the U.S. Gulf Coast. This product benefits the U.S. absolutely nil, nothing and in no way is meant for the Refineries of Texas. What would they do with it. It is to be picked up by ships bound for China. READ ALL OF THE BELOW COMMENTARY. IT IS IMPERATIVE YOU DO SO.

DO YOU OWN PROPERTY THAT THE TRANSCANADA KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE PROPOSE TO CROSS. UNLESS YOU CAN GATHER STRONG OPPOSITION IT IS A GIVEN THAT IT WILL BE APPROVED. SOMEONE HAS ALREADY GIVEN THEM ENOUGH GREEN LIGHT AS TO START LAYING PIPE. OBAMA, JOHN KERRY  & HILLARY CLINTON ARE THE MAIN PROTAGONIST FOR THIS GREEN LIGHT PRODUCTION. STOP THEM NOW. THEY ARE LAND GRABBERS OF THE FIRST ORDER.

Please read just some of the complaints that have been filed in the courts of Texas and have been swiftly rejected or ruled against. It is a shame that money still calls the shots for our leaders who are in charge. I am terribly disappointed in you the Judges of the State of Texas.

Here is the press release that went out on Monday, it would need to be updated and reiterate the strength of our side vs. yet another TX judge trying to dismiss a valid case

Texas Landowner Not letting TransCanada’s  Attorney Bully Him and End His Case

Contact:  Mike Bishop
936 645 1586 , ambiorefining@aol.com

Chris Wilson
512 261 0182


Monday January 14, 2013, Nacogdoches, TX........Texas Landowner Mike Bishop , who is representing himself Pro Se vs. international conglomerate TransCanada, has just filed
a MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION and OBJECTION TO DEFENDANT’S CLAIM AGAINST THE BOND.  He is NOT fooled by what the Defendant’s attorney is trying to get away with!

TransCanada continues to try and throw around  its power and influence over local Texas courts and Judges and further it’s bullying and intimidation of Texas landowners.  Mr.  Bishop is not going to allow TransCanada to manipulate the courts and intimidate him.  He has faced tougher fights as a U.S. Marine.  TransCanada is trying to end Mr. Bishops case with a sly attempt to manipulate The Court and trick the Judge into ending the case.

County Court at Law Judge Jack Sinz set a hearing for Friday. January 18 @ 1:30 p.m. to address the Plea to Jurisdiction matter the Judge himself brought up on December 19, 2012 hearing.  Parties were ready for a Temporary Injunction hearing on December 19.  At that hearing, Judge Sinz requested the two partied come to chambers prior to the hearing.  The Court raised a question of jurisdiction to the two parties and ordered them to respond to the Plea to Jurisdiction by the end of the first week of January. Plaintiff Michael Bishop filed on December 27,2012 and Defendant, TransCanada filed on January 2, 2012.

Mr.  Bishop is asking The Court to clarify the purpose and the scope of the January 18 hearing.  He is OBJECTING  to the Defendant’s request to The Court to “ dismiss this action for lack of jurisdiction and order the County Clerk of Nacogdoches County to remit the $1,000 bond posted by Plaintiff Michael Bishop.  Mr. Bishop OBJECTS to the Defendant’s “plea”.  The Court ordered both Parties to answer the question of jurisdiction and the wording by the Defendant, equates is essence, to a request for “Summary Judgment” without proper presentation in  the form of a motion, improper, or in this case, no notice  or the necessary time to allow the Plaintiff to properly respond.

Plaintiff Michael Bishop has filed a MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION and requests that The Court CLARIFY the order for a Plea to Jurisdiction hearing on January 18, 2013 and to specify whether or not the hearing will be limited to the scope and context of the original  order by The Court or will it be expanded to the  Defendant’s “plea” filed January 2, 2013.

Mr. Bishop OBJECTS to any “requests” or “pleas” by the Defendant other than the scope and requests originally ordered by The Court.

It is outrageous that The Court would even entertain allowing the Defendant to so blatantly manipulate The Court.  Texas and Oklahoma landowners are aware of this blatant  attempt by TransCanada and they will be out in force at the hearing on Friday, January 18, 2013.  Landowners and their supporters are not fooled by The Courts attempt to move Mr. Bishops case out of its their jurisdiction.  The same  County Court at Law venue  was adequate for the condemnation and writ of possession actions TransCanada forced on Mr. Bishop and other Texas landowners. Now Judge Sinz is trying to get the case moved out of his jurisdiction.

Texas landowners see clearly  that  no Judge in the State of Texas wants this case  and that The Courts are willing to do whatever it takes to pass the case on or end the case so that TransCanada gets its way.  The people of Nacogdoches County will not stand for any of this manipulation.  Its time for a jury to hear this case and prove that TransCanada has represented this diluted bitumen, tar sands,  pipeline fraudulently to Texas landowners.

ANOTHER DISGRACE FROM A FORMER DEFENDER OF OUR COUNTRY FOLLOWS:

On Jan 16, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Ambiorefining@aol.com
>> <mailto:Ambiorefining@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The blockade people wanted to call you.  I am copying them on this
>>> email so they can contact you directly.  You can forward anything I
>>> write to anyone you think can bring this tragedy to light.  Right now
>>> my stomach is in a tight knot in anticipation of Friday's hearing.  I
>>> have to spend the next couple of days preparing for that and typing up
>>> the appeal, which, in my mind, will be thrown back to him and should
>>> embarrass him as a judge and attorney.  We'll see.  The machine is
>>> digging a huge 12 foot trench on both sides of my road and welders are
>>> welding the pipe up now.  My only solace is that in the end, they will
>>> be forced to dig this crap up and restore the property
>>> Semper Fi
>>> Michael 

Three conditions for approval of the TransCanada Keystone XL Pipeline

Introduction:

• This is a seriously big idea from many sources that could solve our dilemmas over Keystone XL and the like…and enlist such pipelines themselves in the fight against our fossil fuel addiction and climate change. I must stress that no part of this idea is my own, but that the parts of this proposal have arisen independently all across the nation, as you’ll recognize below.  Many thanks to Bill McKibben’s Rolling Stone Article for the swift kick in the pants (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719). I finally got the idea below organized into something simple, actionable and attainable. I hope it arrives in time to properly scope the new Keystone XL (http://www.transcanada.com/keystone.html) pipeline SEIS, as contracted to premier environmental firm ERM (http://www.keystonepipeline-xl.state.gov/).  Finally, this communication is in no wise initiated, sponsored or connected with my employment as a professional planner at Harris County, Texas.  I submit it to you with high hopes of avoiding the brewing showdown between big oil and coal interests and the American environmental movement, referenced in the 7 August 2012 letter from the 350 organization as included at the bottom of this post.

This idea is fundamentally tied to the State Department's upcoming National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA of 1969) environmental review of a small segment of the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline.

As intelligent implementations of NEPA require [42 USC § 4332], Hon. Secretary Hillary Clinton should scope the new Keystone XL review to include all logical and functional parts of the proposed project, including at minimum the whole 36" international pipeline extending from the tar sands in Alberta, Canada right down through Cushing, Oklahoma and along the Gulf Coast Pipeline Project into Houston and Port Arthur, Texas plus likely multiples (x2, 3, 4?) after a successful first run within the ROW TransCanada secured. Then because unabated processing of unconventional crude enhanced by the proposed segment likely could cause irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources (a "game over" for global climate, as the most scientific Federal agency with special expertise in climate change, NASA’s GISS effort headed by Dr. Hansen in New York City has termed it, additional equilibrium rise of 0.36°C to 0.59°C  for full exploitation of Canadian tar sands, or perhaps between 10 and 12 ppm incremental direct contribution to global airborne carbon dioxide by XL and later multiple runs over 40 years by my own calculations), I’d humbly request the President of the United States place 3 mitigating conditions on his approval of the KEYSTONE XL (or any equivalent). The 3 conditions to appear as preferred practicable alternatives in any final EIS are:

1. Strengthen all pipe before U. S. installation. I understand that steel piping stockpiled by TransCanada was too poor of quality to survive say, 7 years of bulking diluted bitumen cross-country. I'd suggest wrapping the existing stockpiled pipe with a high-tech multi-layer wrap as developed for Bigelow Aerospace inflatable spacecraft¹ (see for background http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Bigelow_Aerospace).  Such a wrap combines the ballistic protection and isolation envelope truly needed around this huge, hot and high pressure pipeline. It could well contain pipe failure spills and resist most damaging external attacks, even small meteorite strikes.  Sure the stuff is expensive now, but a side benefit would be a massive expansion of Vectran (http://www.warwickmills.com/Vectran.aspx) production and possibly development of thinner and stronger carbon nano-tube fiber matting (http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~rv4/Ajayan/book_springer.pdf).  It may seem at first glance counter intuitive, but we in the environmental movement will embrace President Obama's "all the above" energy strategy, including the XL, when conditions 2 & 3 below LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD for the long term by phasing in charges to cover dirty energy’s true costs. In their seminal paper “Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?” (http://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1126), Dr. James Hansen et. al. estimated the unadjusted current dollar cost of removing CO₂ from the air at 200 per ton carbon ($54.54 per ton CO₂) or possibly less.  The US actually and desperately needs a large north-south² pipeline capacity in its future, not so much for oil as for fresh water transport. Whether this leads us to empty Lake Michigan or (far better) import abundant Greenland melt water, it's too early to tell. But the south and southwest may come to depend on such a set of covered pipelines for continued access to fresh water, and we should have Keystone XL (and of course any that follow) built with that end in mind.

2. Condition construction of strong, long-lasting international pipeline(s) above upon a concomitant trillion dollar oil industry investment in a new Midwest electrical grid spine, possibly a buried high temperature superconducting bar

stretching unbroken from the Canadian Shield to West Texas. This is an ambitious public works project, certainly, but I have heard from oil execs personally frustrated with the lack of solid investment opportunities for their years of record profits. Once big oil commits to such an endeavor I know I will feel much better about the fairly large and expensive amount of gasoline that I will have to burn before moving into a fully electric vehicle, and I’d bet big oil will also.  We should prepare this public energy backbone to collect and transmit the substantial wind energy already being generated especially in Texas, Iowa and Minnesota. Wind energy will become a mainstay crop after Central US dust-bowlification³ takes hold, an unfortunate and likely unavoidable consequence of past greenhouse gas emissions. The energy backbone should also easily accommodate output from large desert solar arrays and link to many hydro storage facilities for pumped water energy storage and night release, overcoming objections to intermittency. Whether solar and geo, or sequestered carbon fueled, or safe breeder fission or fusion reactors, or even a global space solar power system come to supply future base load power, the modern, continental, integrated U.S.-Canada smart grid will already exist to distribute any decentralized power source efficiently. And it will be ideally suited to serve an east and west fireproof and windproof primary grid (all underground), while older grid architecture is currently vulnerable to destruction by wildfire, hurricane or ice. The proposed energy backbone will be anchored at an as-yet unplanned Arctic city near to (and preserving) historic York Factory on Hudson Bay in the north, and headquartered for now near its West Texas south end by Houston, securing its place as a real and diverse energy capital of the world. I foresee eventual extension of a super spine from its south end through Central to South America during a true and lasting Pax Americana.

3. All of 1 & 2 above would prove useless unless the economic playing field for non-fossil-carbon energy sources is leveled, and soon⁴. Thus the third condition is a full phase-in BY the fossil fuel industry of a meaningful and predictable slowly-increasing carbon fee collected at the mine, wellhead or port and expeditiously disbursed in full and in equal measure to all taxpaying citizens as a rebate for their increased fossil fuel costs. Such a fee can be collected efficiently from on the order of 1,000 entities in the carbon fuels space. A carbon fee would net out the average citizen, punish those who will not adapt to the cold realities of a heating planet, and will reward those who make smarter non-carbon energy choices, thus enrolling the entire free market in a virtuous cycle toward conservation and alternatives. Because big oil has already invested in related heavy petroleum processing capacity, super-supertanker design and Panama Canal expansion (in violation of a strict interpretation of NEPA in my opinion), approval of the Keystone XL provides the best opportunity to negotiate the phase-in of such a carbon fee and rebate system in the US. Hillary should concentrate on enacting a parallel system in China concurrently, for all the rest of the world will come in line with a Sino-American Fee and Rebate system. A real benefit to a slowly climbing fee and rebate is that the better it performs its task of moving the markets and public to adapt and mitigate climate change, the faster such a system sunsets or retires itself without regulatory oversight or political intervention.

These three mitigating conditions are a discreet, concrete, interlocking and self-reinforcing system that uses the power of free markets to move us more quickly than we had thought possible back from the brink of self-destruction. I'd love to have the reader’s help vetting and refining the message above, and in succinctly communicating it, ultimately to the President of the United States, U. S. Secretary of State, and the Department’s chosen Keystone XL environmental consultants, premier environmental firm ERM.

THIS IS THE CATCH 22 IN STOPPING KEYSTONE XL.

John Kerry owns stock in Canadian pro-Keystone XL firms

Environmentalists urge Kerry to divest stocks in Sunco, Cenovus Energy

The Canadian Press

Posted: Jan 17, 2013 9:59 PM ET

Last Updated: Jan 17, 2013 10:08 PM ET

U.S. Senator John Kerry, tapped by President Barack Obama to be the next Secretary of State, is known on Capitol Hill for his commitment to climate issues. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press)

John Kerry's expected cakewalk to the U.S. State Department has delighted American environmentalists due to his stance on climate change, but the longtime senator owns stock in two Canadian oil companies that have pushed for approval of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline.
Federal financial disclosure records show Kerry has investments of as much as US$750,000 in Suncor, a Calgary-based energy company whose CEO has urged the U.S. to greenlight TransCanada's controversial project.
The longtime Massachusetts senator, one of the wealthiest lawmakers on Capitol Hill with an estimated net worth of $193 million, also has as much as $31,000 invested in Cenovus Energy, another Calgary firm.
The lawmaker will likely have to divest of those holdings, or put them in blind trust if they aren't already, following an ongoing federal ethics review that is standard procedure for would-be U.S. cabinet secretaries.
But one environmentalist expressed disappointment on Thursday.
"Given what we know about the fossil fuel industry and their apparent desire to cook the planet, it's immoral to have investments in these companies," Daniel Kessler of 350.org, an organization that's started a fossil fuel divestment campaign, said Thursday.
"We look forward to Sen. Kerry as secretary of state given his commitment to climate issues, but he has to divest of these investments."

Kerry a 'strong leader on climate change'

Susan Casey-Lefkowitz of the National Resources Defense Council said she was confident Kerry would remain a staunch environmentalist as secretary of state, regardless of his past investments.
"Sen. Kerry has obviously been a strong leader on climate change and we don't think that's going to change as secretary of state," she said.

'Given what we know about the fossil fuel industry and their apparent desire to cook the planet, it's immoral to have investments in these companies.'—Daniel Kessler, 350.org

"I think we can have faith that he'll do whatever's needed to make sure he has no conflicts of interest on this issue."
Kerry and his wealthy wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry — the heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune — have a large collection of international investments. Some of them would clearly pose conflicts of interest for him as secretary of state.
"As is routine for any Senate-confirmed nominee, Sen. Kerry's financial disclosure form and ethics agreement will be released as part of the nomination and confirmation process," the White House said this week.
Kerry is expected to breeze through his U.S. Senate confirmation hearings next week to become America's next top diplomat, one whose devotion to environmental issues has been making proponents of Keystone XL nervous.
The legislator, after all, has long been one of the most fierce environmentalists on Capitol Hill, leading unsuccessful efforts three years ago to push greenhouse gas legislation through Congress.

State Department to decide fate of Keystone XL

In the coming weeks, the State Department will determine the fate of Keystone XL because it crosses an international border. The $7 billion project would carry bitumen extracted from Alberta's carbon-intensive oilsands to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Kerry has provided no clues about Keystone's prospects since being tapped by the Obama administration as Hillary Clinton's replacement at State.
"I've got confirmation hearings — you'll hear about it," Kerry told reporters recently on Capitol Hill when asked if Keystone would get the greenlight.

President Barack Obama announcing his nomination of Sen. John Kerry as next secretary of state in the the White House on Dec. 21, 2012. Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press

American environmentalists, however, aren't resting on their laurels waiting for Kerry's limousine to pull up to the State Department. A coalition of environmental groups released a pair of reports on Thursday suggesting Keystone's impact on the climate is much worse than previously believed.
The reports claim Keystone XL would play a critical role in tripling oilsands production by 2030, which in turn would result in far more greenhouse gas emissions than originally estimated.
One of Kerry's closest allies on climate issues in Congress — Rep. Henry Waxman of California— issued a stern statement on the findings.
"The new reports show that TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline is the key that will unlock the tarsands," he said.
"If the pipeline is approved, the world will face millions more tons of carbon pollution each year for decades to come. After Hurricane Sandy, devastating drought, unprecedented wildfires, and the warmest year on record in the United States, we know that climate change is happening now, we have to fight it now, and we must say no to this pollution pipeline now."
TransCanada was dismissive of the studies.
"This is the latest attempt by professional activists who oppose Keystone XL to change the discussion — there is nothing new," spokesman Shawn Howard said in a statement.
"The real issue is whether or not the proposed Keystone XL pipeline meets the regulatory standards to be granted a presidential permit for crossing an international border. In our view, it not only meets American standards, it exceeds them."

Saskatchewan premier urges pipeline approval

Pipeline proponents were also busy on Thursday.
Ten Republican governors and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall sent a joint letter to President Barack Obama urging him to approve the pipeline, calling it crucial for energy security and the future economic prosperity of both countries.
"We wanted to work together with our friends in the United States, with these governors, and put forward what we think is a very compelling case for the U.S. administration to approve Keystone," Wall told reporters in Regina.
"Just because all facts on all sides are heard doesn't mean we should stop trying to influence the decision."
Wall added he's "hopeful" Kerry, as secretary of state, would green-light the pipeline.
"We had a chance to meet recently…and we had an excellent discussion about energy and we talked about oil," Wall said.
"It's better for the United States, it's better for Canada, if North America has a greater energy independence. I think Sen. Kerry shares that."
TransCanada officials have put on a brave public face about Kerry, pointing to the recent all-clear Keystone received from Nebraska officials after they proposed an alternate route for the pipeline.
The new route skirts an ecologically fragile area of the state after Obama raised concerns about the pipeline's original path when he rejected TransCanada's application last year.
Kerry's confirmation hearings begin on Thursday with a Q&A session with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — of which he's the chairman. He's expected to easily win confirmation from the committee and, ultimately, the Democratic-controlled Senate.
© The Canadian Press, 2013 

Do you think this Military traitor will even entertain a notion to not approve TransCanada. Do not be naive he has too much interest devoted to the Keystone XL Pipeline. Unless you as a Patriot and a citizen of the United States will do this one small thing we have no hope of stopping these people in their tracks. DO THIS:  CALL OR WRITE YOUR SENATOR, CONGRESSMAN TODAY. BOMBBARD HIM DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN THAT YOU KNOW THIS TO BE ONE OF THE GREATEST ATROCITIES EVER IMPOSED ON THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO GAIN BUT ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS EVERYWHERE. AGAIN WE ARE BEEFING UP THE CHINESE POCKETBOOKS ALL BECAUSE OF THE TRAITOR IN THE WHITE HOUSE. TELL YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND SENATOR TO IMPEACH HIM NOW.

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