President Obama would send the world an strong signal of his seriousness on climate change if he rejects the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, Europe?s top climate change official, Connie Hedegaard of Denmark, said Thursday.
Meeting with reporters during a two-day visit to Washington, Ms. Hedegaard, the European Union commissioner for climate action, said that Europeans and others concerned about addressing climate change were watching the pending decision on the pipeline closely.
?If you had a U.S. administration that would avoid doing something that they could do, with the argument that in the time we are living in and with climate change we are faced with, we should not do everything we can do, then it would be a very, very interesting global signal,? she said.
Although the State Department technically bears responsibility for deciding whether the 1,700-mile pipeline from oil sands formations in Alberta to Gulf Coast refineries, Mr. Obama has indicated that he intends to make the final decision.
The president faces intense pressure to kill the project from environmental advocates, who argue that development of the carbon-intensive tar sands will be a catastrophe for the global climate. Advocates of the pipeline, including governors along the route, oil interests, some labor unions and the Canadian government, are applying similar pressure on him to approve it.
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