The Fight Over Keystone XL Heats Up

The U. S.  Senate voted down legislation to rapidly begin construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The president has put the project on hold. The cost of the infrastructure would be well over $7 billion, and would almost certainly add tens of thousands of jobs in the area where the pipeline will but constructed between central Canada and Texas. Environmentalists say the pipeline poses a risk to wildlife. The Republicans will use the rejection of the project as an example of the President’s unwillingness to add new energy sources and projects that will create jobs. The Democrats can raise the specters of Deepwater Horizon and the Exxon Valdez.