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Obama rejects Keystone XL project, citing U.S. climate leadership
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson on November 7th, 2015
Washington Post: President Obama announced Friday that his administration will not issue a permit for construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, arguing that approval would undermine the U.S. effort to curb greenhouse gases.
“America’s now a global leader when it comes to taking serious action to fight climate change,” Obama said. “And frankly, approving this project would have undercut that global leadership. And that’s the biggest risk we face -- not acting.”
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Keystone XL pipeline would have little impact on climate change, State Department analysis says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson on March 1st, 2013
Washington Post: The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting that the project would have little impact on climate change. Canada’s oil sands will be developed even if President Obama denies a permit to the pipeline connecting the region to Gulf Coast refineries, the analysis said. Such a move also would not alter U.S. oil consumption, the report added. The lengthy assessment did not give environmentalists the answer they had...
As State Department nears completion of Keystone XL review, both sides dig in
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson on January 18th, 2013
Washington Post: The State Department is close to completing a draft of an environmental review that will help determine whether President Obama approves the Keystone XL pipeline, as environmental and energy industry groups sought to bolster their position with new information.
Pipeline opponent Oil Change International released a report Thursday saying that estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from oil sands development have failed to include the full emissions from a byproduct of refining oil sands crude --...
Obama administration rejects Keystone pipeline
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson on January 18th, 2012
Washington Post: President Obama, denouncing a "rushed and arbitrary deadline' set by congressional Republicans, announced Wednesday that he was rejecting a Canadian firm's application for a permit to build and operate the Keystone XL pipeline, a massive project that would have stretched from Canada's oil sands to refineries in Texas.
Obama said that a Feb. 21 deadline set by Congress as part of the two-month payroll tax cut extension had made it impossible to do an adequate review of the project proposed by TransCanada,...
Keystone Pipeline debate heats up
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson on November 6th, 2011
Washington Post: Canadian ambassador Gary Doer has a straightforward analysis of whether TransCanada will win the Obama administration’s approval to build and operate an enormous pipeline to transport oil from Alberta to the Texas coast.
“If it’s made on merit, we’re confident,” Doer said in an interview. “If it’s made on noise, it’s unpredictable.”
Foes of the project — which has become a test of how President Obama balances environmental considerations against economic and energy supply concerns — will try...
Keystone pipeline lobbyist works all the angles with former colleagues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson on September 22nd, 2011
Washington Post: In lobbying for a presidential permit to construct a massive oil pipeline stretching from Canada to the Gulf Coast, TransCanada’s Paul Elliott has tried nearly every angle.
Elliott — who served as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s national deputy campaign manager in 2008 — sought to broker multiple meetings between senior State Department officials and TransCanada executives. He offered to enlist TransCanada officials’ aid in helping State officials forge an international climate agreement....