From pipelines to bridges, local politics trump national interests
November 7, 2011
The following is excerpted from the 7 November 2011 edition of The Globe and Mail.
Embracing the old adage that all politics is local, Barack Obama is putting the people of Nebraska front and centre in the bitter Keystone XL pipeline debate.
“Folks in Nebraska, like all across the country, aren’t going to say to themselves, ‘We’ll take a few thousand jobs if it means our kids are potentially drinking water that would damage their health,’” the U.S. President said last week...
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