A request to build the Keystone XL pipeline was first sent to the U.S. State Department on September 19, 2008. “Nonetheless, Canadian energy must have access to markets, and I will continue to partner with industry and other orders of government to advocate for other alternatives, of which there remain many viable options”.
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“Paving the way for something like the Keystone Pipeline would be a step backward, and I’m glad to see that President Obama and Secretary Kerry today are rejecting the Keystone permits”, he said. “I believe we must work together to expand the use of renewable energy, to create jobs and reduce American dependence on fossil fuels”, she said in a statement. “The pipeline would give us the opportunity to buy oil from Canada-our neighbor, our ally and one of our greatest trading partners”. And Canada’s new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, says he’s “disappointed” in the decision, but he still plans to pursue a “fresh start” with Obama.
However, according to Perryman, the pipeline was going to make things much more cost effective.
The President argued that the pipeline would not lower energy prices or increase America’s long-term energy security. A tougher decision for Obama came in February, when he vetoed a bipartisan bill speeding the pipeline’s approval.
Obama declared that he had rejected an application to construct the Keystone XL pipeline. He says the USA has become a global leader on that issue – and that the project “would have undercut that global leadership”.
Keystone XL project was proposed to pipe tar sands crude from Canada’s Alberta through the USA states of Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines to carry more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day to refineries along the U.S. Gulf Coast. When announcing its rejection, Obama said that it has taken “an overinflated role in our political discourse”.
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Crookston, who’s a member of the United Steelworkers union, also didn’t like that there was no guarantee American steel or labor would be used to build the Keystone XL pipeline. Spokesperson Catherine Reheis-Boyd for Western States Petroleum told ABC7 News, “Ultimately, decisions about America’s energy future should be based on science and fats”.
