Expect to see a lot of attacks about Obama being a job destroyer.

he basically destroyed ANY right-wing "argument". Here is his best line, verbatim:

"So while our politics have been consumed by a debate over whether or not this pipeline would create jobs and lower gas prices, we’ve gone ahead and created jobs and lowered gas prices."

XL would create just a few perm. jobs.

I for one am very grateful for this!

The oil companies also have a little-discussed and largely unknown pipeline ( actually, maybe six running parallel to each other ) that runs from Dakota through Minnesota and through Wisconsin, down somewhere near Chicago.

The oil companies have quietly been testing those pipes for strength, and are planning to increase the amount of tar sludge running through them.

Maybe while everyone concentrates their ire on the Keystone line, it has been used as a diversion for what's REALLY going on through the Upper Midwest?

I can't say Keystone was just a distraction.
We are talking thousands of miles of completed (and already filled) pipeline.
They aren't going to throw those Millions and Millions away.

It is already a Done Deal....I'm just waiting for the "Gotcha" from the Obama Administration
sometime after the pipeline is actually in use.

sky-rocket again, but they are not done. No way.

Anyway, what's to stop the new administration from approving it anyway?

This is political theater.

I thought that because of the price of oil, several projects had been shelved. I'm glad it's been stopped but I thought it had more to do with market conditions than anything else.

Because the TPP just burned holes in my eyes.

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goes to clean energy future again!

GOP are going to be livid.

But technology is the future, coal and oil are the past and present.

You gotta say, Obama keeps policy making around progressive themes and
it will be a long hard unwinding in most instances if the GOP even gets the chance.

And maybe ringing that liberal liberty bell will move us a hair left for a change.

after which it probably won't be up to the US President or Congress whether it gets built.

are needed to connect pre built pipes and weld them together. No it's 50 jobs and they'll be going down the line connecting the dots. Be a major waste of money to have almost 5000 people just standing around watching

Always has been. Hell, a huge pipeline already exists. Now, there will just be more sent in railcars. Whoop dee do. I try to look for "victories" that actually mean something

The liberals are now in charge in Canada.

is, by that criteria alone, the right thing to do. That is how absolutely screwed up their world view currently is.

This is nothing but political theatre.