{"id":40298,"date":"2018-11-09T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40298"},"modified":"2018-11-09T07:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:30:21","slug":"in-major-defeat-for-trump-judge-blocks-construction-of-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=40298","title":{"rendered":"In Major Defeat For Trump, Judge Blocks Construction Of Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Major Defeat For Trump, Judge Blocks Construction Of Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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In a setback for the Trump administration, a federal judge in Montana temporarily halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline late on Thursday on the grounds that the U.S. government did not complete a full analysis of the environmental impact of the TransCanada Corp project and failed to justify its decision granting a permit for the 1,200-mile long project designed to connect Canada\u2019s tar sands crude oil with refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. The ruling came in a lawsuit that several environmental groups filed against the U.S. government in 2017, soon after President Donald Trump announced a presidential permit for the project.<\/p>\n

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The judge, Brian Morris of the U.S. District Court in Montana, said President Trump\u2019s State Department ignored crucial issues of climate change in order to further the president\u2019s goal of letting the pipeline be built<\/strong>. In doing so, the administration ran afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires \u201creasoned\u201d explanations for government decisions, particularly when they represent reversals of well-studied actions.<\/p>\n

Morris wrote that a U.S. State Department environmental analysis \u201cfell short of a \u2018hard look\u2019\u201d at the cumulative effects of greenhouse gas emissions and the impact on Native American land resources.\u00a0 He also ruled the analysis failed to fully review the effects of the current oil price on the pipeline\u2019s viability and did not fully model potential oil spills and offer mitigations measures.<\/p>\n

However, the decision does not permanently block a pipeline permit. It requires the administration to conduct a more thorough review of potential adverse impacts related to climate change, cultural resources and endangered species. The court essentially ordered a do-over.<\/p>\n

Morris, a former clerk to the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, was appointed to the bench by President Obama.<\/p>\n

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In Major Defeat For Trump, Judge Blocks Construction Of Keystone XL Pipeline\u00a0 In a setback for the Trump administration, a federal judge in Montana temporarily halted construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline late on Thursday on the grounds that the U.S. government did not complete a full analysis of the environmental impact of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1082,103,141,7844,1030,2747,590,3540,1350,2344,4318],"class_list":["post-40298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-climate-change","tag-donald-trump","tag-keystone-xl-pipeline","tag-montana","tag-oil-pipeline","tag-oilsands","tag-transcanada","tag-us-state-department","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40299,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40298\/revisions\/40299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}