State Department Will Approve Keystone XL Pipeline: Report
LOADING ERROR LOADING Department of State officials will recommend an approval for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline as early as Friday,the Associated Press reports. Andrew Burton via Getty Images ”We have no announcements regarding the Keystone XL decision, including timing,” a State Department spokeswoman said in a statement to HuffPost. “Of course, it comes as no surprise that a State Department run by the former CEO of Exxon Mobil and an administration rife with climate deniers who have acted against public health, the environment and the clean energy economy at every turn would make such a misguided decision,” the group said. “These massive fossil fuel infrastructure projects don’t make sense.” An energy expert for the conservative Heritage Foundation said the project is environmentally safe and will not contribute significantly to climate change. “We look forward to the State Department’s approval of Keystone XL which will reestablish some certainty and sanity to a permitting process that was hijacked by political pandering,” Heritage Foundation energy expert Nick Loris wrote.
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