As another excellent story from Neela Banerjee in the Los Angeles Times makes clear, w the Department of Interior thinks the State Department is just ignoring its concerns on wildlife issues on the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project.
Reading only slightly between the lines, Interior looked at State's "it's not going to be a problem" report on Keystone XL and, like the EPA six months ago, calls bullshit.
In a letter, the Department of the Interior what State can do with its report, to improve it:
Likewise, we recommend that sections 4.1 through 4.6.3.5 be revised and reorganized to address the direct and indirect impacts for individual major scientific taxa, and subdivisions of taxa. For example, provide separate sections that discuss environmental consequences of the project on invertebrates, birds, reptiles and amphibians, and large and small mammals. For birds, distinct subcategories might include waterfowl, waterbirds, passerines, raptors, etc. Explain the mitigation measures for each respective taxa, and for the subdivisions of taxa.
Telling the State Department to explain itself, as if it were a child! How often does that happen?
Interior sent State this letter back in April, as part of the public comments process. For some crazy reason State didn't post it until yesterday.
Kit Stolz 