Environmental activists praised the decision.
President Barack Obama on Friday rejected TransCanada’s application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported oil across the United States-Canada border.
After seven years of reviewing the project, Obama announced his final decision from the Roosevelt Room in the White House.
“The State Department has decided the Keystone XL pipeline would not serve the national interest of the United States — I agree with that decision.”
His rejection came after meeting earlier Friday with Secretary of State John Kerry, whose department oversaw the review.
Taking a jab at the politicization of the pipeline, Obama said it had become “overinflated” in public discourse.
“Shipping dirtier crude oil into our country would not increase America’s energy security,” Obama said.
Tensions over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline have been high for years, with Obama’s environmental base pressuring him to reject the project and…
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