President Obama called Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper earlier today to advise him of the decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline. During the conversation, Stephen Harper expressed his profound disappointment with the Administrations decision and told Obama that in view of the decision Canada would seek to diversify its oil export.
Mr. Harper’s office said the Prime Minister expressed his “profound disappointment” over the decision, and said Canada will try to diversify its oil exports. President Barack Obama pointed out that he was heeding that advice not because of the merits of the pipeline project, but because “the rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans … prevented a full assessment of the pipeline’s impact, especially (on) the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environment.”
The fact is that the President did not want to approve this project prior to the 2012 election. Environmentalists had protested the pipeline in Washington for weeks. Despite the fact that there were 20,000 good union jobs at stake, Obama is pandering to his political base and this is just more political theater.
Obama has calculated if he would approve
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