State Department has approved the #Keystone XL pipeline plan as being environmentally sound

[karynnj]

11. I agree and did challenge the assumption in another post

It seems logical that a higher cost to get it to markets would move the point where additional production (at increasing costs) would become uneconomical. It is hard to believe the difference would be as small as the report indicated.

I think the bigger problem is the Obama/Clinton political concessions that had the company create alternative plans and to be given permission to build part of the pipeline - both things that become worthless if the pipeline is rejected. The problem is that no political courage was expended over the last 3 years - making it harder to now challenge the production of tar sands oil itself.

I wonder if the best way to fight it is to suggest that Canada is using us as third world countries (and economically disadvantaged areas here) are used. Their pipeline would be going through pristine US land with the possibility of having a devastating leak that would destroy the land for at least decades. (Especially true if it is true that Canada would not allow a pipeline to its shore.) This is even more appalling as the oil is not the kind used much in the US. Why is the usually jingoistic right not concerned with this?