WASHINGTON -- The US State Department is expected to announce that it will not approve the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project, FOX News Channel reported, citing an industry source.
Sources told Politico the announcement will be made Wednesday afternoon by the State Department, which has the final say in the pipeline's approval because it crosses international borders.
| So Bambi can point to Hilde, and Hilde can utter some stoopid BS since she's not running for another office, and the pipeline dies. Then progressive environmentalists in the US will meddle sufficiently in Canadian politics to kill the proposed pipeline to their west coast, which will leave Canada no way to export the oil from the Alberta oil sands. This will cause operations there to shut down and put thousands of Canadians out of work. Since everyone knows that oil is ucky it's okay to shut down all these projects in the US and in Canada, since when oil and gas cost more it's the little people who pay, and they'll be grateful even as their moral and intellectual betters get along with their MacBook Airs and iPads. We can always buy oil from Venezuela, Brazil, Nigeria and Iran, after all. |
The pipeline, which would run from Canada to Texas, was a major sticking point in the debate in Congress last month over the extension of the payroll tax holiday. The ultimate agreement on the extension included a provision forcing the Obama administration to make a quicker decision on whether to approve the pipeline. The administration had until Feb. 21 to make its decision.
| Wonder why they made it early? That's so unlike Bambi... |
Amid protests from environmental groups, President Barack Obama initially said he would not issue a final verdict on the project until after the 2012 elections.
Republicans argued the pipeline would create thousands of US jobs and correctly said Obama was delaying the decision for purely political reasons. |