“Absolutely unacceptable,” says Governor Mark Dayton after the Republican-controlled House voted to take the decision on the controversial Enbridge pipeline away from the State Public Utilities Commission and move ahead on the project. Dayton says, “For a couple legislators to want to hijack that and think that they, whatever their political motives, can make a better decision on something of that magnitude is just crazy.” House Speaker Kurt Daudt responds, “We put that provision in the bill because we haven’t believed the words that the governor used in the past… when he says he supports Sandpiper Pipeline,… he killed Sandpiper Pipeline — and what Minnesotans lost was two thousand jobs.” Daudt says the state also lost millions of dollars in tax revenue and he doesn’t want it to happen again.