Supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline have been frustrated if not furious at what they see as unnecessary delays by President Barack Obama in deciding the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline. And by now, it appears, opponents of the pipeline are getting antsy too.

As Bloomberg News reports, this is a bit of a switch for foes, who previously had welcomed the various procedural steps that stalled the project.

The thinking among opponents seems to be that since the project is doomed, why can’t we just make it official already?

“We don’t understand what the White House is waiting for,” says Jane Kleeb, the founder of Bold Nebraska, which has been among the most vocal critics of the Keystone project. “Landowners would like to have the certainty that their land is no longer at risk.”

Bloomberg noted that the project’s prospects weren’t helped this week by the Alberta election victory of the New Democratic Party, whose leader, Rachel Notley, “has pledged to scale back the province’s lobbying for Keystone.”