I am curious...Do the Keystone detractors have any clue as to how many pipelines crisscross the US? They act as if this is to be the only one....just look at a pipeline map.
Just for natural gas:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_us_ng_pipelines.gif
When I lived in west Tennessee, there were numerous pipelines from the southwest up to the north. There were never any problems. I bought two radio sites/towers from Mid-valley pipeline that came through my county. They had switched their communications to satellites.
Based on the Keystone opponants, all of the Gulf Coast should be a wasteland.
baraq is blocking the pipeline because it would help the US economy. Plain and simple. He is also hurting union construction workers who would build the pipeline and union refinery operators in Port Arthur, Texas.
Bottom line, if it hurts our country, Obama is for it.