Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire: Keystone XL Likely Dead

Keystone XL Likely Dead

by dg@oilprice.com (Daniel J. Graeber)

Critics of U.S. domestic energy policy are trying to maneuver the Keystone XL oil pipeline past the Oval Office, trumpeting the project as the 21st century version of the New Deal. The project has come to represent growing divisions in domestic energy policy during the presidential campaign cycle in the United States. In the long shadow of the project, however, are a series of domestic oil pipelines that could make Keystone XL redundant by the time it goes into service in 2015. Republican lawmakers may try to force the administrations hands…Read more...