There is no good reason for this except hatred of fossil fuels.
(Reuters)
– The Obama administration’s decision on the Keystone XL oil pipeline
will not be made until at least June, a U.S. official said, which would
delay the project for months and frustrate backers of Canada’s oil
sands.
“We’re talking the beginning of summer at the earliest,” said the
source, who did not want to be identified due to the sensitive nature of
the TransCanada Corp project, which has been pending for more than four
and a half years. “It’s not weeks until the final decision. It’s
months.”
A series of steps still have to be taken by the State Department,
where the decision will be made because the 830,000 barrels per day
crude oil pipeline crosses the national border. The pipeline will link
Alberta’s oil sands and North Dakota’s Bakken shale fields to refineries
and ports in Texas.
The State Department did not comment for this story, but last week a
spokeswoman said it did not anticipate making the decision before the
end of March. Previously, the department had hinted the decision could
come in the middle of the first quarter.
The administration may be delaying because the pipeline has become a
symbol for both opponents and supporters of development of Canada’s vast
oil sands.
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