{"id":1497,"date":"2011-11-10T11:34:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2011-11-10T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T17:50:16","slug":"has-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-decision-been-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/10\/has-the-keystone-xl-pipeline-decision-been-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Has the Keystone XL Pipeline Decision Been Delayed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1506\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1506\" title=\"President Obama Holds News Conference In The East Room Of The White House\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/128296821-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/128296821-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/128296821-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/128296821-60x60.jpg 60w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/128296821-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Alex Wong\/Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barack Obama speaks at the White House on October 6, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reuters is reporting that the rumors we&#8217;ve been hearing about this week &#8212; a delay on a decision for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/11\/10\/us-usa-pipeline-idUSTRE7A64O920111110\"> may be true<\/a>.\u00a0The Obama administration may announce that they&#8217;ll explore a different route for the pipeline, &#8220;delaying a final approval beyond the 2012 U.S. election.&#8221; More from Reuters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The decision would be a victory for environmentalists, many of whom oppose the pipeline, and a setback for TransCanada Corp, whose $7 billion Keystone XL project is seen as the most important North American oil pipeline plan for decades.<\/p>\n<p>One source familiar with the matter said that studying a new route for the pipeline would likely take 12-18 months, putting a final decision after President Barack Obama&#8217;s bid for re-election on November 6, 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An announcement is expected later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is reporting that the rumors we&#8217;ve been hearing about this week &#8212; a delay on a decision for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline &#8212; may be true.\u00a0The Obama administration may announce that they&#8217;ll explore a different route for the pipeline, &#8220;delaying a final approval beyond the 2012 U.S. election.&#8221; More from Reuters: The decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":1506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[73,21],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}