President Obama announced Tuesday he would veto a bill approving the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Evidently, Obama opposes any attempt to go around the federal review process of the pipeline, in which the Obama Administration gets to approve or deny the pipeline’s application for construction.

The first application for Keystone’s construction was submitted on Sept. 19, 2008, four months before President Obama took office. Still, the President has now been in office for almost six years, reviewed multiple environmental impact statements on the pipeline, and once asked for a reapplication.