I guess we’ll have to wait for official confirmation, but multiple news outlets are reporting that the Obama administration will announce this morning that they’ve rejected the Keystone XL pipeline project. It was fascinating to watch how they strung this decision out and how external factors keep moving in a direction to make this a less debatable decision.
One thing that’s interesting is that they chose to do this announcement as a typical Friday news dump, which indicates that they’re still not all that excited about the political ramifications of it. It will divide the party, I guess, and if they were more confident in the politics, they’d be trumpeting this news on a Monday.
