"Backing this project would be wholly incompatible with the president’s climate action plan." Hmm... Seems rather compatible with offering 150 million acres of the offshore GOM for lease including off the west coast of Florida for the first time in more than 25 years, signing more DW GOM drilling permits than any other POTUS, establishing guidelines to permit seismic surveys in the Atlantic and including Atlantic lease sales in the next five-year leasing plan, promised $10 billions in loans from his gov't to Brazil’s state-owned oil company to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field, ordering his depts do everything possible to expedite the completion of the southern leg of the Keystone XL Pipeline (600,000 bopd capacity) which began delivering Canadian oil sands production directly to Texas refineries last January, allowed his Commerce Dept in just the last 14 months to issue 120 exception to the ban on exporting US oil, ordering his Treasury Dept to issue licenses giving special permission for oil investment in Burma for the first time in 15 years, appointing Susan Rice (who holds significant investments in more than a dozen Canadian oil companies that would benefit from the Keystone XL pipeline) as his national security advisor, has increased US coal exports by a bit more than 100% during his term with most coming from gov't lands, had his EPA grant the final Clean Air Permit that would allow the construction of the White Stallion coal-fired power plant in Texas...already the largest coal burning state in the country and recently allowing BP (the operator of the greatest oil spill in the history of the US) to begin operating again in US waters.
Oh sure, there were some inconsistent verbal points tossed out but overall rather consistent IMHO.
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