Sent_en: 2zh This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of a deadline that prevented the State Department from gathering the information necessary to approve the project and protect the American people, said President Barack Obama in January.
Sent_yy: 美国总统巴拉克·奥巴马今年1月表示：“这一宣布并不是对输油管道是非曲直的判断，但是最后期限的裁定，阻止了国务院收集批准该项目和保护美国人民所需的信息。”