House approves Keystone Pipeline....onto the Senate

[njwes]

I'm glad Obama believes this project needs a thorough environmental review, but what is the holdup on getting an answer from the State Dept?

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simply the fact that the administration doesn't want to build the thing in order to placate environmentalists. It's all political. Or 90% political. It's been 6 years and the DoS actually HAS reviewed it quite a bit. I don't think that anyone but the usual Obama idolators actually believes that the "holdup" has been due to some DoS snafu.

[njwes]

Btw, here's a very good New Yorker article from last year on the topic:

The President and the Pipeline