By Dan Bacher
After rejecting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline proposal in January, President Barack Obama on Thursday announced his plan to fast- track the construction of the pipeline’s southern end at a speech in Cushing, Oklahoma.
As Native American activists protested the pipeline on the motorcade route miles from the President’s pro-oil event, Obama explained that the TransCanada company has applied to build a new pipeline to “speed more oil” from Cushing to state-of-the-art refineries down on the Gulf Coast.