







Although “the most critical part of the pipeline still can’t be built,” Bill McKibben writes, “the sense grows that Obama may be setting us up for a bitter disappointment — that his real allegiance is to the carbon barons.” (photo: Christine Irvine / Tar Sands Action) Noah Greenwald of the Center for Biological Diversity said today, “Keystone XL may be a boon to Big Oil companies in the exporting business but those profits will come at a stiff price for our land, water, wildlife and climate.” “Building Keystone XL in pieces doesn’t make it any less dangerous.”
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CNN: Obama to fast track southern half of Keystone XL Pipeline
President Barack Obama plans to announce in Cushing, Oklahoma Thursday that his administration will expedite the permit for the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, a source familiar with the president’s announcement tells CNN.
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The Texas Tribune: Obama to talk about Keystone XL pipeline in Oklahoma this week
A White House official confirmed Tuesday that the president on Thursday will “reiterate his administration’s commitment to expediting the construction of a pipeline from Cushing, Okla., to the Gulf of Mexico, relieving a bottleneck of oil and bringing domestic resources to market.”