WASHINGTON--(ENEWSPF)--November 14, 2014 – The House vote today forcing approval of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline came with a silver lining: There are more than enough lawmakers to sustain a well-deserved presidential veto of the ill-considered legislation.
The following is a statement by Danielle Droitsch, Canada Project Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council:
“The House-passed bill is wrong for our country. It would short-circuit the deliberative approval process that President Obama has said should run its due course. And it turns Congress into a permitting agency; even worse . . .