But I was all over this from the git’go – YO! ‘Bama, Just Say No.
“No Tar Sands Pipeline. How’s that for an expedited decision? No.”
President Obama rejected the Keystone crude oil pipeline project yesterday, a decision welcomed by environmental groups but blasted by the domestic energy industry.
Obama said the application for the 1,700-mile pipeline was denied because the State Department did not have enough time to complete the review process.
“This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people,” Obama said in a statement.
With environmental groups concerned about carbon emissions from oil sands production, Obama delayed a decision on a presidential permit for the project until 2013.
But lawmakers that support the project rushed the process by attaching a measure to a tax-cut law passed at the end of last year that set a February deadline for a decision.
