From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   Alberta's oil industry continues to blacken Canada's reputation . . .  this   
   time for money as well as damage to our environment.   
      
   They're actually going to try to challenge Obama for "exceeding his   
   constitutional powers".  Then they're going to try NAFTA to challenge his   
   right to restrict their pipeline into his country.  May they lose - big time -   
   and suffer enough costs from any    
   counter-suit to shut them up forever.   
      
   Time to lose NAFTA - we've lost more times being sued by the U.S. than I can   
   count.   
   It's one thing to open doors to trade voluntarily, but when countries start   
   invoking clauses that *force* goods or services on each other or screw them   
   over for charging less to their own citizens than the other country does, it's   
   time to call a halt to    
   these 'free trade' deals.  The TPP is simply NAFTA on steroids.  It must never   
   by ratified in Canada.   
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   CBC News Posted: Jan 06, 2016   
      
   Keystone XL rejection leads TransCanada to sue Obama administration   
   Calgary-based company alleges U.S. president exceeded his constitutional powers   
      
   TransCanada has filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration and plans to   
   file a claim under the North American Free Trade Agreement over the U.S.   
   government's rejection of the company's proposed Keystone XL pipeline.   
      
   The company said Wednesday it has filed a notice of intent to initiate the   
   NAFTA claim on the basis that the denial was not justified.   
      
   "TransCanada has been unjustly deprived of the value of its mult   
   billion-dollar investment by the U.S. administration's action," said the   
   company in a release.   
      
   The firm says it will be looking to recover $15 billion US in costs and   
   damages as a result of what it says is a breach of obligations under Chapter   
   11 of NAFTA.   
      
   "TransCanada asserts the U.S. administration's decision to deny a presidential   
   permit for the Keystone XL pipeline was arbitrary and unjustified," the   
   company said.   
   Obama exceeded his power, says company   
      
   TransCanada says it has also filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Federal Court in   
   Texas asserting that President Barack Obama's decision to deny construction of   
   Keystone XL exceeded his power under the U.S. Constitution.   
      
   Obama rejected the proposal in early November, stating it would not serve the   
   national interests of the United States, even though the U.S. State Department   
   concluded the pipeline would not have "significant impacts to the environment"   
   and would benefit    
   local communities with tax revenue and tens of thousands of jobs.   
      
   The 1,900-kilometre pipeline has been in limbo for more than seven years, and   
   at times has been an irritant in U.S.-Canadian relations.   
      
   The project, which also became a focal point of environmental protests, would   
   have shipped bitumen from Alberta's oilsands through a pipeline hub in the   
   Hardisty area to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries.   
      
   TransCanada says it had every reason to expect the pipeline would be approved   
   since it met the same criteria as previous pipelines that were sanctioned.   
      
   "The denial reflected an unprecedented exercise of presidential power and   
   intruded on Congress's power under the constitution to regulate interstate and   
   international commerce," TransCanada said.   
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   See the lawsuit documents that TransCanada filed here.   
      
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