How Obama Shocked Harper as Keystone's Frustrator-in-Chief
On Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper, seated in his Ottawa office across from Parliament Hill, took an urgent call from U.S. President
Barack Obama. Harper’s advisers were listening intently around a muted speakerphone in an adjoining room.
By Edward Greenspon, Andrew Mayeda, Rebecca Penty and Theophilos Argitis
The State Department, Obama said, would be making an announcement later that day putting the Keystone XL pipeline project on hold. There was no choice, according to the president. Nebraska wanted the route changed to protect a key aquifer under millions of acres of prime farmland. This would necessitate a new environmental assessment. He assured Harper the call wasn’t a game changer; neither a yes nor a no, just a delay.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-24/how-obama-shocked-harper-as-keystone-frustrator-in-chief.html
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