President Obama said Friday his administration will reject the controversial TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline project, saying it “would not serve the national interests of the United States.”
Obama said the pipeline took an “overinflated role” in the political discourse during a nearly 7-year battle, saying the pipeline is neither a “silver bullet” for the economy nor an “express lane to climate disaster.”
The President also said Secretary of State John Kerry informed him the plans would not serve U.S. “national interests,” and he agreed.
He delivered the news in an address at the White House after a meeting with Kerry.
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I don’t think so, either.
Thank you, Mr. President.
But you needed to have done this YEARS ago.
Koch bro’s haz a sad.
He doesn’t get much from me on this. The companies interested in doing this have already requested that the whole thing be tabled. So agreeing to do so isn’t really a moment in courage to me.
This man can make the case for or against an issue so thoroughly, what’s left for a dimwit opponent to say in response. I like how he said “Thank you”, walked out, and left the press corpse hollering questions.