Albuquerque Journal Editorial: Delay of Keystone XL is not in U.S. interests Pandering to their environmental activist base, 59 Senate Democrats, including both Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, have again declared war on American jobs and rejected a boost to the U.S. economy and another step toward energy independence by blocking congressional approval of the $5.3 billion Keystone XL pipeline project. The proposed nearly 1,200-mile pipeline would carry up to 850,000 barrels of tar sands crude oil, also known as bitumen, from the forests of western Canada and connect to an existing pipeline that would take the dense oil to Gulf Coast refineries. Some of the petroleum products would be for export. Proponents say the project, which has strong support in polls of the American public, would create some 42,000 “shovel ready” American jobs. The State Department estimates that building Keystone XL would pump about $3.4 billion into the U.S. economy...
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:33:26 +0000
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