The whole story on the Keystone pipeline

By Juliet Eilperin , Updated: October 16, 2012

In his remarks, Gov. Mitt Romney implied that President Obama has blocked the Keystone XL pipeline extension from being built. But it’s a bit more complicated than that.

Referring to the project which aims to ship heavy crude extracted from Alberta’s oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast, Romney said, “Why the president said no to this pipeline, I will never know.”

In January, Obama did reject a presidential permit which would have allowed the pipeline to cross the U.S-Canada border, arguing his administration could not do the sufficient environmental and regulatory review in order to meet a congressionally-mandated Feb. 22 deadline.

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