{"id":182051,"date":"2016-01-07T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/07\/transcanada-calm-down-and-have-a-piping-hot-cup-of-shut-the-f-up\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:50:00","slug":"transcanada-calm-down-and-have-a-piping-hot-cup-of-shut-the-f-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/07\/transcanada-calm-down-and-have-a-piping-hot-cup-of-shut-the-f-up\/","title":{"rendered":"TransCanada, Calm Down and Have a Piping Hot Cup of Shut the F%$# Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s favorite oil <strike>spill<\/strike> pipeline company is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/07\/business\/international\/transcanada-to-sue-us-for-blocking-keystone-xl-pipeline.html\">suing the United States for stopping the pipeline<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">TransCanada said on Wednesday that it would seek $15 billion in damages over the Obama administration\u2019s decision to cancel the company\u2019s Keystone XL pipeline project.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The company is taking the unusual step of suing through the North American Free Trade Agreement, calling the decision \u201carbitrary and unjustified.\u201d The Canadian business also filed a lawsuit in Houston asking that the decision be overturned.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cTransCanada has been unjustly deprived of the value of its multibillion-dollar investment by the U.S. administration\u2019s action,\u201d the company said in a statement. \u201cRather, the denial was a symbolic gesture based on speculation about the (false) perceptions of the international community regarding the administration\u2019s leadership on climate change.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, just stop whining.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s favorite oil spill pipeline company is suing the United States for stopping the pipeline: TransCanada said on Wednesday that it would seek $15 billion in damages over the Obama administration\u2019s decision to cancel the company\u2019s Keystone XL pipeline project.The company is taking the unusual step of suing through the North American Free Trade Agreement, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054,1135,1079,972,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropogenic-climate-change","category-energy","category-environment","category-justice","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}