The Keystone XL pipeline has been kind of a baffling issue for the oil industry. It was a perfectly routine de-bottlenecking network expansion. Then the environmental movement seized on it as a proxy for tar sands extraction, and the issue got absurdly politicized out of proportion with its significance. read more
Hurricanes, floods, and droughts are already having a devastating effect on American jobs, and that is nothing compared to what will happen if we throw open the spigot to the tar sands from Canada, considered the dirtiest oil in the world. Here are 5 reasons why building the Keystone pipeline is bad for the economy — and workers. 1. read more
But the State Department said in a 2014 assessment that the Keystone XL pipeline would have no additional impact on greenhouse gas emissions because the oil would be extracted from tar sands in Canada at the same rate anyways, regardless of whether or not the pipeline was built. read more