The Keystone XL Pipeline and Barack Obama

Barack Obama: U.S. President Barack Obama spent five minutes disparaging the potential benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline Friday. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. At a wide-ranging year-end news conference Friday, Obama maintained his recent pattern of expressed skepticism about the project: He played down its job potential, said it wouldn't lower gas prices for Americans and, employing the language of pipeline opponents, said it would merely help Canadian "tar sands" companies export their product overseas. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington, Friday, Dec. 19, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama spent five minutes today disparaging the potential benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline project. He then kept it alive with five words. "I'll see what they do." AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster He then kept it alive with five words. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.