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Friday, May 2, 2014

Keystone XL, Obama, and the Politics of Indecision


May 02, 2014 02:00 am | Robert W. Murray, Christopher Sands
Days before a self-imposed deadline, the Obama Administration again delayed its decision on the future of the Keystone XL pipeline last week. It was a delay like previous delays, with the now-routine explanations that more study was needed and that others (a Nebraska court) must decide first.
Yet this time, the delay offered something more: a glimpse of an administration that is losing control and, subsequently, relevance.
The Keystone XL pipeline project is nothing revolutionary in the context of moving crude oil. It would extend 1,897 km from Hardisty, Alberta to Steele City, Nebraska, where other existing pipelines or other means of oil transportation would then be capable of moving crude oil to the Gulf Coast area or elsewhere in the U.S. Midwest. There has been no evidence to suggest that the Keystone XL project would increase carbon emissions, negatively impact the environment, or is somehow unsafe; conclusions reached by the State Department’s own Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement report.
read morehttp://nationalinterest.org/commentary/keystone-xl-obama-the-politics-indecision-10375

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