Is the Keystone pipeline irrelevant?

For years, environmentalists have wailed about the Keystone XL pipeline—so much so that its potential destruction of fragile ecosystems and the global climate felt almost inevitable. read more

The Canadian pipeline company Enbridge, a rival of TransCanada, seems to have outsmarted TransCanada in the race to expand the amount of tar sands crude crossing the border by pipeline, coming up with a clever way to circumvent the State Department permitting process that has stalled construction of the Keystone XL. read more

The Keystone Pipeline only matters in the political realm as it is irrelevant in the economic realm. The Keystone Pipeline matters first and foremost to the politicians and voting citizens of Alberta Canada. read more

The Keystone XL pipeline is irrelevant The Keystone XL pipeline will make no measurable contribution one way or another to global climate change, Rapier writes. The arguments against it convey a false impression of the most important drivers of global carbon emissions. read more