Happy Birthday: The Keystone XL Pipeline Battle Turns Six
Photo Credit: Daily Caller Capitol Hill lawmakers are celebrating the Keystone XL pipeline’s sixth birthday this year by (once again) urging the White House to speedily approve the pipeline.
On Thursday night the House passed a slew of energy-related legislation aimed at boosting oil and natural gas production as well as approving Keystone. This came after a bipartisan group of 45 senators sent a letter to President Obama to make a decision on the pipeline after more than six years of delays…
Six years ago today, the Canadian pipeline company TransCanada applied for a Presidential Permit to build a massive pipeline that would eventually carry 830,000 barrels of oil sands per day from remote areas of Alberta, Canada to refineries on the U.S. Gulf coast.
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