Concern by Saudi Arabia that the United States is achieving energy independence may have been a major reason why the Obama administration rejected construction of the Canadian Keystone XL Pipeline through the U.S. after six years of consideration, a former House Intelligence Committee chairman says in an exclusive new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The Keystone XL Pipeline would have brought oil from Canada’s shale reserves in Alberta to Nebraska, creating an estimated 9,000 well-paying construction jobs.
But former Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra told G2 Bulletin that President Obama rejected the project because he needs the help of Riyadh to resolve the four-year Syrian conflict, which has turned into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
In rejecting the pipeline, Obama said it would transport “dirty oil” and wouldn’t make a long-term economic contribution to the U.S. economy.
But Hoekstra, who led the House intel panel from 1993 to 2011, believes there’s another reason.
While Obama is “playing to his green, anti-fossil fuel, climate-change crowd,” he needs Saudi help in Syria, said Hoekstra, who now heads Hoekstra Global Strategies.
“For me,” Hoekstra said, “the bottom line is [Obama] was never going to approve this project.
“His allies never wanted it, and the Saudi argument just gives him one more reason to do what he was going to do anyway,” Hoekstra said.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/the-real-reason-obama-rejected-keystone/
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