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Obama Heading To Oklahoma To Fast-Track Southern Leg Of Keystone XL | “President Obama plans to announce in Cushing, Oklahoma Thursday that his administration will expedite the permit process for the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, a source familiar with the president’s announcement tells CNN.” Obama foreshadowed this decision in his January announcement to deny the international permit for the Canada-to-Texas tar sands pipeline, when he said he supported “the potential development of an oil pipeline from Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico.”