Keystone XL Pipeline Rejected
President Obama says transporting crude oil from Canada won't help the economy, lower gas prices, or increase the United States'
​energy security

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By Zoe Loftus Farren
 
In a huge win for environmentalists, on November 6, President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline proposal. Had transport company TransCanada's proposal been approved, the pipeline would have transected six states, carrying crude oil 1,700 miles from Canada’s Alberta tar stands to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
 
In a White House press briefing Obama said that the pipeline “would not serve the national interest of the United States.” The President cited three main reasons for rejecting the project — it wasn’t going to help the economy in any meaningful way, it wouldn’t lower gas prices for US-ers, and it wouldn’t increase the country’s energy security.
 
Echoing what many pipeline opponents have been saying, and acknowledging the impact the project would have had on climate change, he added: “Ultimately, if we’re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we’re going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky.”
 
The announcement was major victory for environmental advocates, who had been campaigning against the project for years based on its climate impact as well as the precedent it would set for American energy policy.
 
“This is a big win,” May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, said in a statement.

​“President Obama’s decision to reject Keystone XL because of its impact on the climate is nothing short of historic — and sets an important precedent that should send shockwaves through the fossil fuel industry.” May said Obama’s decision affirmed “the power of social movements” to change politics. “We’re looking to build on this victory, and show that if it’s wrong to build Keystone XL because of its impact on our climate, it’s wrong to build any new fossil fuel infrastructure, period,” she said.
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Content from Earth Island Journal
Posted March 2016
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