Special Interests Against the Keystone XL Pipeline: A Selection

It’s official – the Obama Administration is
refusing to allow the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline from
Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast to proceed. As the State Department
press release states: 

Today, the Department of State recommended to President Obama
that the presidential permit for the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline
be denied and, that at this time, the TransCanada Keystone XL
Pipeline be determined not to serve the national
interest. 

And a bevy of special interests are flooding my inbox with
congratulatory emails. Below is a selection of comments from
them: 

Friends of the Earth: We Won on Keystone XL! 

I wish I could jump out of your computer screen and give you a
giant hug right now. 

I can’t do that – but I do hope you will join me in giving
President Obama the giant collective hug of thanks that he deserves
for saying no to the Keystone XL and to more dirty,
climate-wrecking tar sands oil. 

The press release is signed “in Soldarity” by Kim Hyunh, who is
chief FOE anti-Keystone XL campaigner. 

Credo Mobile: Keystone Project Dead, But Not Buried

“It’s a victory that the pressure of activists forced the
president to stand up and reject naked political threats from the
oil industry,” said Michael Kieschnick, CEO of CREDO
Mobile. 

Energy Action Coalition Executive Director, Maura
Cowley: 

“President Obama’s decision to stand up to Big Oil and reject
the Keystone XL pipeline, despite the bullying of Big Oil, shows a
strong commitment to stand with young people fighting for a clean
and just energy future.”

President of American Rivers, Wm. Robert Irvin: 

“I applaud the President’s decision to reject the permit for the
Keystone XL Pipeline.  Big Oil and their allies in Congress
were pushing to force approval of the pipeline without adequate
scientific review and for political gain.  We should never put
politics ahead of clean water for Americans.”

Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy
Program: 

“Fortunately, the president has taken a stand against the oil
industry and its paid campaign of lies about jobs and energy
security. This is the president’s opportunity to start to end theYou can read the rest of this article at: http://reason.com/blog/2012/01/18/special-interests-against-the-keystone-x

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