It seems from outside the problem is not the process itself took long. People take advantages of some procedure loop-holes to effectively delay this forever for

It seems from outside the problem is not the process itself took long. People take advantages of some procedure loop-holes to effectively delay this forever for NIMBY reasons (there are some limitations on how long it should take, but there are loop-holes such that the EIS didn't kick off entirely, bypassing the time limit requirements).