This is ridiculous. The State Dept. does a study of the Keystone XL pipeline and finds that there will be no significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, yet the radical EPA attacks the study claiming the State Dept. has done an ‘insufficient’ review. Wanna bet which one Obama eventually sides with? State Dept. doesn’t stand a chance:
WASHINGTON TIMES – Of the tens of thousands of comments blasting the State Department’s study of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, at least one came from within the Obama administration itself.
The Environmental Protection Agency is criticizing the State Department for an “insufficient” review of the massive Canada-to-Texas oil sands project, saying that the Obama administration must take a deeper environmental look at Keystone before making a final decision.
The EPA filing is a big win for environmentalists, who had dreaded that President Obama was poised to approve the pipeline. A State Department environmental review released last month found that, among other positive determinations, there would be no significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of the project.
The EPA disputed that claim, among others, and said it has “environmental objections” based on “insufficient information” and that more research is needed before an informed decision can be made.
“The EPA has got it exactly right — the State Department’s draft environmental review of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is inadequate,” said Anthony Swift, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an opponent of the project. “The EPA determined that the Keystone XL would have significant negative environmental impacts.”