US president rejects oil pipeline from Canada - Al Jazeera →
It is certainly a huge victory that Obama was forced to back down on this pipeline deal due to mass pressure from sustained environmental protests.
However, it’s troubling that Obama made a point of saying that he was only backing off from the pipeline because of ‘time constraints’, not because of anything having to do with its ecological dangers.
“In the months ahead, we will continue to look for new ways to partner with the oil and gas industry to increase our energy security — including the potential development of an oil pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico,” said President Obama.
Very alarming …
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Barack Obama says decision not a judgment on its merits but the arbitrary nature of a deadline set by the Republicans.
Last Modified: 19 Jan 2012 11:15US President Barack Obama has rejected the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada, saying he could not vouch for its safety by a deadline, despite intense election-year pressure.
The rival Republican Party had forced Obama to make a decision on whether to approve the 2,700 km route through the Great Plains to Texas, forcing him to choose between environmentalists and industry.
The Obama administration said on Wednesday that the company TransCanada could resubmit the Keystone XL project, but that officials were not able to assess its plan by a February 21 deadline put into law by Republicans in Congress.
TransCanada has said that it would re-apply.
Canada, we’ve been saved by our neighbour to the south’s ‘benevolence’. This gives us time to regroup and try and crush this thing internally, in addition to focusing on more Canada-centric issues.
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