A controversy in this country. You not say that the diversion of that resource to china, japan, korea, etc. , wouldnt that solve the problem of keeping the russians and the chinese from getting together too much . The short answer there is no. Deal isese russian oil further along, because oil is not priced globally. You can fix the price for oil. In fact the russians just tripled their perspective supplies. Those are large volumes, it will be about one Million Barrels per day going into china. The Keystone Pipeline has gone into a lot of environmental opposition. It has had plenty of opposition going towards British Columbia as well. This idea that the alberta tar sands can automatically go to china does not work quite that way. His oil. Oil is a fungible market. China can buy oil, that is not a problem. Host we appreciate you joining us to talk about your story today. That will do it for todays washington journal. We are taking you live now to the American Enterprise institute for a t
Assaulted, in his view, by British Security services. He said it was an attack on free speech and the freedom of the press. But he was carrying stolen documents. Is there any difference between that and, say, a drug smuggler stopped at heathrow or diamond smuggler stopped at heathrow . Or some other illegal activity, although it is more serious . It was the smugness, the arrogance of it. This toxic combination of arrogance and incompetence has been one of the hallmarks of all of this. Of course, greenwald said you arrested my partner, therefore i am going to be much more aggressive in my reporting. I know lots of things about the english spy system that i am going to reveal. If you have the audacity to stop my partner at heathrow, i am going to purposely damage your National Security as a consequence. What sort of world do we live in when that gets a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service . Lets talk about that. My newspaper was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for that Public Service. The g
It would move more than 700,000 barrels of oil from canada to gulf coast refineries. But first, your reaction on this decision about the keystone xl pipeline. Here is how you can call in and give your thoughts. The numbers are on the screen. If you want to give your thoughts on our social media a couple of different writeups on this decision made by the white house yesterday this in the Washington Post this morning. Riding that the 90 day time frame for comments was supposed to end on may 7, but the state department extended that deadline, citing uncertainty created by a nebraska ruling that could lead to changes in the pipeline route. This story is also picked up in the pages of the wall street journal this morning. Amy harper and janet hook writing, adding this also, it gives reaction from canadian officials on this project as well. Here is a little bit of that. You see a map there, the red section of keystone that is already existing. The blue line that you see is the proposed route
Federal Aviation Administration drone head sites to talk about current research. Are asking our viewers to call in and tell us what you think about domestic drone use. You support or oppose it . Give us a call and tell us why. If you are outside the u. S. , you can catch up with us on social media pages on twitter, facebook or email. A good friday morning to you. We will be keeping our phones yourthis morning as we get thoughts on this question. Domestic drones. Tell us why. Ew the meantime, this p Research Project finding came out. It notes that the legal and Regulatory Framework for operating nonmilitary drones is currently the subject of debate. Part of the topic we are talking about today on the washington journal heard to help us discuss and get this topic going, we are bringing in brian fong of the Washington Post heard he is a Technology Writer there. Start us off by talking about what the rules are for commercial drone use. The faa is working on more clear rules about drones. T
Missions . What is the cumulative impact . What is this water we are using . Is it some of this up wastewater we are injecting causing earthquakes . I think one of the mistake that was made is we were so far into the bone before we started asking questions. The good news is, when you start looking, there are answers. There are solutions. There are ways to do this better and do it right. The good andld on bad of fracking. Atpan coverage begins today 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Slavery and the war in virginia. Edward and later, our april selection, ring west. Former British Defense minister liam fox. Is also a member of the british house of commons. He spoke at the American Enterprise institute for about an hour. Good morning. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. I am a fellow here, and we are liam least to welcome dr. Fox. He is a member of the british parliament. He has been there for 18 years. He was the Shadow Health secretary, shadow defense secretary, and when David Cameron came i