{"id":148920,"date":"2011-12-13T02:19:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T08:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=148920"},"modified":"2011-12-14T02:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T08:28:15","slug":"state-department-says-gop-bill-could-kill-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=148920","title":{"rendered":"State Department Says GOP Bill Could Kill Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=148921\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-148921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2011\/12\/Keystone-Pipeline-map21-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Keystone Pipeline map2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-148921\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Obama administration says a Republican bill to fast-track approval of an oil pipeline from Canada could lead to the project&#8217;s demise. In a statement Monday, the State Department warned that congressional interference with the Keystone XL pipeline could backfire. The State Department has authority over the project because it crosses an international border.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said that if Congress imposes an arbitrary deadline for a permit decision, it could prevent the administration from meeting environmental laws that govern the approval process. In that case, officials say the department would be unable to make a determination to issue a permit.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>GOP lawmakers back a bill to require approval of the pipeline within 60 days. They say the Canada-to-Texas pipeline will help create jobs without taxpayer money. The proposed route of the pipeline takes it through eastern Smith County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Obama administration says a Republican bill to fast-track approval of an oil pipeline from Canada could lead to the project&#8217;s demise. In a statement Monday, the State Department warned that congressional interference with the Keystone XL pipeline could backfire. The State Department has authority over the project because it crosses an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=148920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">State Department Says GOP Bill Could Kill Pipeline<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 01:32:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148920"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149219,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148920\/revisions\/149219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}