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Originally Posted by Tinordi
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Watching this and seeing the words a second time, I think Obama's statements appear to be much more saying a whole lot of nothing and gave himself the wiggle room to make the decision later more than anything else. As directly quoted:
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Allowing the Keystone pipeline to be built requires a finding that doing so would be in our nation's interest, and our national interest will be served only if this project does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution. The net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward.
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Significantly is subjective and could mean anything. The interpretation tends to be zero tolerance, but the terminology used to define it seems to be very hazy at best I think.
Granted, at this point, I'm sure Obama has reports from every group to on the exacerbation that, whatever his decision, he'll have a study to back it up.