{"id":4201,"date":"2015-01-07T14:20:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:20:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T19:20:21","slug":"white-house-confirms-obama-will-veto-transcanadas-keystone-xl-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4201","title":{"rendered":"White House Confirms Obama Will Veto TransCanada&#8217;s Keystone XL Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/01\/06\/white-house-confirms-obama-veto-transcanada-s-keystone-xl-pipeline\" target=\"_blank\">White House Confirms Obama Will Veto TransCanada&#8217;s Keystone XL Pipeline<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The White House confirmed today that President Obama will\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/01\/06\/white-house-obama-would-veto-keystone-bill\/?hpid=z3\" target=\"_blank\">veto<\/a>\u00a0Congressional legislation designed to greenlight construction of the Keystone\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">XL<\/span>pipeline,\u00a0the contentious project first proposed six years ago to carry more than 800,000 barrels per day of Canadian oilsands crude from Alberta to refineries and export facilities along the Gulf of\u00a0Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Despite strong indications of support in Congress,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/01\/06\/white-house-obama-would-veto-keystone-bill\/?hpid=z3\" target=\"_blank\">the Obama Administration has already indicated it will veto the bill<\/a>\u00a0to expedite approval of the $8 billion project if approved. A similar bill was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/democrats-block-keystone-pipeline-but-gop-vows-a-new-fight-when-they-takeover\/2014\/11\/18\/bbcff9ce-6f56-11e4-8808-afaa1e3a33ef_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">blocked by Democrats in the Senate in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dquo\">\u201c<\/span>If this bill passes this Congress the president won\u2019t sign it either,\u201d Josh Earnest, White House press secretary, said. Obama\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/obama-administration-to-reject-keystone-pipeline\/2012\/01\/18\/gIQAPuPF8P_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">rejected TransCanada&#8217;s application to build the pipeline in 2012<\/a>, suggesting congressional Republicans had set a \u201crushed and arbitrary deadline\u201d for the project&#8217;s\u00a0approval.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, proposed by Republican Senator John Hoeven from North Dakota and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, will be debated in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing Wednesday with the panel set to vote on the project\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Confirms Obama Will Veto TransCanada&#8217;s Keystone XL Pipeline The White House confirmed today that President Obama will\u00a0veto\u00a0Congressional legislation designed to greenlight construction of the Keystone\u00a0XLpipeline,\u00a0the contentious project first proposed six years ago to carry more than 800,000 barrels per day of Canadian oilsands crude from Alberta to refineries and export facilities along the [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[1238,1350,2476,877,2475],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-barak-obama","tag-transcanada","tag-veto","tag-white-house","tag-xl-keystone-pipeline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","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=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}