As thousands protested Keystone XL pipeline in frigid DC, Obama played golf with wealthy pipeline director at Florida Yacht Club

Mens locker room at the Floridian Golf and Yacht Club in
Palm City, Florida. Photo by Jeremiah Wilson.

While about 35,000 people from all over the US converged on a frigid Washington D.C. to urge President Obama to nix the Keystone XL pipeline, the president was playing golf at a secluded, exclusive yacht and golf club on Florida's Treasure Coast in a foursome which included Jim Crane and Tiger Woods.
     Crane, a Democratic donor, owns the Floridian Golf and Yacht Club, in Palm City, Fla., which hosted the presidential round of golf.
     He was described by the Washington Post in a story Sunday about the Forward On Climate rally, as a "Houston businessman who owns the Houston Astros."
     What WaPo did not mention is that Crane, according to Morningstar, (via Forbes) owned, in 2012, 675,936 shares of Western Gas Partners and received 2011 Total Compensation of $157,014 as a director.

Obama in Hawaii, 2008

     The White House prohibited media coverage of Obama's golf outing.

     According to Western Gas Partners, LP, Crane "has served as a director of our general partner and as a member of the special and audit committees of the board of directors since April 2008."
     Western Gas Partners, LP (NYSE: WES), describes itself as:

...a growth-oriented Delaware master limited partnership formed by Anadarko to own, operate, acquire and develop midstream energy assets. WES’s assets are located in East, West and South Texas, the Rocky Mountains (Colorado, Utah and Wyoming) and the Mid-Continent (Kansas and Oklahoma), and WES is engaged in the business of gathering, processing, compressing, treating and transporting natural gas, condensate, natural gas liquids and crude oil for Anadarko, as well as third-party producers and customers.