Al Gore: Obama ‘Signaled’ He Would Reject Keystone XL

From:  EcoWatch

by Brandon Baker 

In describing why President Barack Obama will carry crates of credibility with him to climate conferences at the United Nations this year and in Paris late next year, Al Gore might have dropped a bomb.

Al Gore provided Rolling Stone an optimistic perspective on our climate crisis.

Ever since the U.S. State Department indefinitely delayed a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, people on both sides of the issue have speculated what the future will hold. However, Gore says Obama has already sent a signal regarding the 1,179-mile pipeline’s fate.

“[Obama] has signaled that he is likely to reject the absurdly reckless Keystone XL-pipeline proposal for the transport of oil from carbon-­intensive tar sands to be taken to market through the United States on its way to China, thus effectively limiting their exploitation,” Gore wrote in a Rolling Stone article scheduled to hit newsstands Friday. 

It’s unclear if Gore meant that Obama had privately signaled a rejection or if he do so through public comments. If Gore meant the latter, it’s obvious that many of us missed it. Otherwise, Neil Young, Daryl Hannah, Jane Kleeb of Bold Nebraska and thousands more would have breathed easy in late April instead of staging the huge, five-day “Reject and Protect” protest in the nation’s capital.  MORE