Posted on 11/06/2015 9:34:01 AM PST by jazusamo
Ending a review process that lasted nearly seven years, President Obama on Friday rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline, siding firmly with environmental activists and drawing the ire of business and labor groups who say the administration is willfully standing in the way of economic growth, job creation and energy security.
In a speech at the White House, Mr. Obama, flanked by Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joseph R. Biden, formally announced they'll block construction of Keystone.
"The State Department has decided the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interests of the United States. I agree with that decision," the president said, brushing off Keystone's potential impact on the economy and on North American energy security and saying the entire issue has been overblown and has occupied an "inflated role in our political discourse" over the past seven years.
Earlier this week, the company proposing the massive project, TransCanada, asked the State Department to halt its review while legal issues regarding the pipeline's proposed route through Nebraska are sorted out. The administration denied that request, fueling speculation that the president was on the verge of killing Keystone.
TransCanada's move widely was viewed as an attempt to stall a decision on Keystone until after Mr. Obama leaves office, potentially setting up a scenario in which a future president -- perhaps one more supportive of domestic oil-and-gas infrastructure projects -- would be the one to make the final call.
While Friday's announcement seems to eliminate that possibility, leading Republicans vowed to continue to fight for the project on Capitol Hill and said it’s a matter of time until Keystone is built.
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Hang in there — the next President will approve it.
He’s just handed Republicans another issue to help beat the Dhimmicraps, if they’re willing to use it.
WOW! Didn’t see that one comin’. :>}
Not familiar enough with the situation; can someone educate me on why they can’t they resubmit the application when we have a real president?
The US economy is not on Jughead’s priority list.
Hopefully that’ll happen.
This turkey 0bama is so transparent on this decision. He delays the decision for years and rejects it in his last year, he stroked the enviro-nuts and minimized the backlash of the unions.
Since when was Obunghole concerned with the “national interest”?
We need those job-seeking Reagan Democrats to be enraged and motivated.
Leni
Another opportunity for work goes right out the window.
“The State Department has decided the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interests of the United States.
There is something very wrong about this!
Things are out of the peoples control...
The state department has decided that the pipeline won't serve the political interest of the president, and then made a whole lot of assumptions which the state department is absolutely unqualified to make or measure.
But hey, here's another gift to the next president: No need for department of energy, department of commerce, department of labor - it is all able to be handled easily by the gifted state department who can absolutely miss an Egyptian coup, bungle embassy security, reset Russian relations to near cold war levels, etc.
7 years...decisive leadership!
All in all he’s just a....nother slip in the fall.
apologies to Pink Floyd.
KYPD
“All in all he’s just a....nother slip in the fall.
apologies to Pink Floyd.”
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Very clever.
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Amen...Trump will be on this like flies on sugar.
Meanwhile the oil flows on trains which are owned by a good friend of bam bam.
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