Saturday, November 12, 2011

Keystone Pipeline Victory: President Puts Disastrous Pipeline on Hold -- May Effectively Kill the Project


The American people spoke loudly about climate change and the president responded.
November 10, 2011

Um, we won. You won.

Not completely. The president didn’t outright reject the pipeline permit. My particular fantasy--that he would invite the 1253 people arrested on his doorstep in August inside the gates for a victory picnic by the vegetable garden--didn’t materialize.

But yesterday the president sent the pipeline back to the State Department for a thorough re-review, which most analysts are saying will effectively kill the project.
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