Don't Allow Keystone XL Kops to Threaten U.S. Energy Independence

May 9, 2013

Roll Call

The Keystone Kops, fictional incompetent policemen featured in silent film in the early 20th century, are back in less comedic and all too real form with a new mission to block development of the Keystone XL pipeline and trip up efforts to obtain the requisite government approvals that will enable the United States to enhance its energy independence.

Today’s Keystone Kops, a self-appointed collection of environmental and land use groups, hope that repeated reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Mineral Leasing Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of 1899 can be made to resemble a slapstick comedy in which nothing ultimately gets done, which for them would spell victory.

After nearly five years of regulatory wrestling over the development of the transcontinental pipeline, the case to move forward with Keystone XL is too compelling to warrant further delay.

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