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U.S. rejects the Keystone XL pipeline plan

WASHINGTON, DC — The Obama administration has announced that it is rejecting TransCanada’a $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline project.

The U.S. administration, however, will allow TransCanada to reapply after it develops an alternate route through the sensitive habitat of Nebraska’s Sandhills, it was announced Jan 18.

The decision was a blow to the Harper government who telegraphed that they will now look for other markets overseas, including China, to sell Canadian oil.

“Our focus is, as you know, on diversifying our markets,” said Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver. “We currently have one customer for our energy exports. That customer has said that it doesn’t want to expand at the moment. So it certainly intensifies the broad strategic objective of the government to diversify to Asia.”

Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson has condemned the Obama Administration’s decision to reject the Keystone pipeline that would have transported oil from Alberta to the United States.

“Obama’s decision to say no to the Keystone pipeline is simply devastating to the nation’s economic recovery,” said Wilson.

“The White House is more concerned with giving taxpayer-guaranteed loans to bankrupt ‘green’ energy firms that neither produce energy nor create jobs than with securing natural resources for the American people at a cheaper price and creating tens of thousands of jobs. Obama is officially a jobs killer.”