WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday rejected the Keystone crude oil pipeline project, a decision welcomed by environmental groups but blasted by the domestic energy industry.
U.S. President Barack Obama said TransCanada's application for the 1,700-mile (2,740-km) pipeline was denied because the State Department did not have enough time to complete the review process.
"This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people," Obama said in a statement.
With environmental groups concerned about carbon emissions from oil sands production, the administration in November delayed a decision on a presidential permit for the project until 2013.
But lawmakers that support the project attached a measure to a tax-cut law passed at the end of last year that set a February deadline for a decision.
(Additional reporting By Timothy Gardner, Jeffrey Jones, Arshad Mohammed; Writing by Ayesha Rascoe;
Editing by David Gregorio and Russell Blinch)
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Michael T. Wayne: And now Canada is talking to China! Our leaders, well, it is obvious how intelligent.
God Bless the United States of America!
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