I agree. Lil Bam will never OK the Keystone pipeline. He will keep stalling until he goes out of office. If he ever does.
However, the Canadians will continue to build their portion in AB and SK. The Obama regime can only stop it from crossing the border. OK and other states can also build their intrastate portions.
Stalling works. They have been doing this with timber sales for 20+ years.
For example, say there is a forest fire somewhere on federal lands. There is about a two year window to get in and harvest the timber before it starts to rot and reduces it salvage value. I mean once the tree is dead, pine will get blue stain in it. If it has blue stain, Anderson and Marvin windows will not take it. This reduces its value to the sawmill because the grade recovery is lower. Eventually bugs and worms get into the standing timber because the bark may be gone. This further lowers its value to the mill. Eventually, its not worth the cost to harvest it. Therefore, by delaying the timber sale for a few years, eventually nobody wants it.
This tactic has also caused horrible forest fires out west in CO. There has been a major infestation the last 10 years in BC, AB, WA, OR , MT , WY and CO of the western Pine Beetle. This insect kills the pine tree. There have been millions of acres of dead timber all over the west. Canada and private land owners in the US have been very aggressive in harvesting this timber. On federal US lands many of the timber sales have been blocked in court. So, the dead standing timber was just left to rot. Eventually, summer lightning strikes and forest fires result. It makes the news when houses burn to the ground and people die as a result. The environmentalists are to blame for these deaths and property damage.