Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline

From Fox News:

President Obama announced Friday that he has rejected Canadian energy giant TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, saying that the pipeline was not in the U.S. national interest.

“The State Department has decided the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the interests of the United States. I agree with that decision,” Obama said at a White House press conference.

The announcement caps a 7-year saga that has become one of the biggest environmental flashpoints of Obama’s presidency. It comes just days after the State Department refused to agree to TransCanada’s request to suspend the review process on the controversial project, which has seen enormous opposition from environmental groups.

Read it all here as it develops.

4 thoughts on “Obama Rejects Keystone Pipeline”

  1. Who is the bigger fool? The one who is making these decisions or the ones who voted for him once or twice?

    Thanks to all who voted for this idiot! You harmed the country again, and I hope you’re all proud of yourselves.

  2. Just one more example of our present dictatorship. Just why does one lone person get to make such a decision when study after study has shown no environmental impact? It is SO past time that this incompetent leader leaves.

    1. Study after study? Which studies? Have you read them? Oh, you probably did your own, right there in that wet brown paper bag that you’re lost in.

      1. In 2013, the State Department once again found the pipeline would not contribute to climate change…

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