Obama Gives No Ground on Keystone After Harper Meeting

[Purveyor]

By Angela Greiling Keane, Eric Martin and Andrew Mayeda Feb 20, 2014

President Barack Obama gave no ground on the Keystone XL pipeline after meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is pressuring the U.S. to get construction approved.

TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s Keystone project loomed large at yesterday’s summit among Obama, Harper and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. The U.S. and Canada are at loggerheads over the $5.4 billion collaboration, which is under review by U.S. agencies.

“Keystone will proceed along the path that already has been set forth,” Obama said at a joint news conference in Toluca, Mexico. He said he recognized that Harper views the review as “a little too laborious.”

After public remarks and a private meeting with Obama, Harper said his views in favor of the project “are well known.”

Harper said the U.S. and Canada share similar goals on limiting greenhouse gases. He said a U.S. State Department report “was pretty definitive” that the pipeline won’t significantly add to carbon emissions.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-20/obama-gives-no-ground-on-keystone-after-harper-meeting.html

[polichick]

1. Does ANYBODY - one single person here - think Obama will not approve this pipeline?

[Harmony Blue]

2. Could be the defining point of Obama's presidency?

This decision will be huge along with TPP.

[djean111]

3. IMO Keystone will be approved, and, in addition, frackers will freely pollute all of the country

that they can. And FFS, Keystone will not provide many jobs, and the oil will go overseas.