House passes bill to speed Keystone Xl oil pipeline

摘要

Washington—The US House of Representa-tives has approved legislation that wouldforce the Obama administration to approve ordeny TransCanada’s Keystone XL oil pipelineby November 1. ”I want to get off OPEC oil,” said Repre-sentative Lee Terry, Republican-Nebraska,the bill’s sponsor. “Receiving as much as700,000 barrels of oil from our northernneighbor of Canada makes us more energysecure, more energy independent.”