Obvious: State Department finds Keystone Pipeline will not harm environment...

Barack Obama and his tree hugger supporters hardest hit...

Via Washington Examiner:

TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline will not harm the environment, the State Department — in a blow to environmentalists who want to block the project — wrote in a newly-drafted report on the latest proposed route.

“[T]he draft Supplemental EIS concludes that approval or denial of the proposed Project is unlikely to have a substantial impact on the rate of development in the oil sands, or on the amount of heavy crude oil refined in the Gulf Coast area,” the State Department draft report says, as Think Progress noted.

The report comes to the dismay of environmental activists. “We’re mystified as to how the State Department can acknowledge the negative effects of the Earth’s dirtiest oil on our climate, but at the same time claim that the proposed pipeline will ‘not likely result in significant adverse environmental effects,’” Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune said in a statement. “Whether this failure was willful or accidental, this report is nothing short of malpractice.  President Obama said that he’s committed to fighting the climate crisis.  If that is true, he should throw the State Department’s report away and reject the dirty and dangerous Keystone XL pipeline.”

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