Keystone XL: TransCanada submits new route for review (BBC)

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The Canadian firm trying to build an oil pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast has formally proposed a new route, the US state department says.

The route from the US-Canada border to Steele City, Nebraska is expected to avoid environmentally sensitive land.

The White House previously put the plan on hold, saying it needed more time to assess the environmental impact of the $7bn (£4.3bn) Keystone XL pipeline.

But opponents said it would create jobs and reduce dependence on foreign oil.

The fate of the oil pipeline has been debated as petrol prices have risen - an issue that Republicans are attempting use to attack President Barack Obama during an election year.
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17962625

[Thinkingabout]

1. I wonder why they did not name this pipeline KOCH

This pipeline is of benefit of Koch Industries and to get crude from Canada to their refineries and next will be to the world. This will not end our dependence on middle east oil nut will place the products on the world market and our gas prices will still be high. There are refineries on our states which border Canada but probably don't belong to the Koch brothers.

[FreakinDJ]

3. Motiva (Port Arther Tx) increased it's capacity over 300% to EXPORT petroleum

Joint venture between Shell, (British owned) and Saudi Aramco

You bet that oil is going to by pass oil refineries in the heart land

[FogerRox]

6. Over the last 8-9 yrs PADD III has increased cat crackers by 1MBD-KXL is 900kBD

to handle heavy oil. PADD III produces some of the lightest oil in the US - & doesnt need those Crackers.

And there is Super tanker loading facility proposed in Houston. Making the Houston -Western EU route shorter than Mid EAst to Western EU by 500 miles. Mid East super tankers cant go thru the Suez, they have to go south around the CApe of Good Hope (Africa).

[FogerRox]

4. LOL. Actually the Koch's are a minor player.

[DonCoquixote]

2. Canadian (et Canadien) duers

How much support does this thing actually have in Canada?

[XemaSab]

5. The massive Koch pipe

Pumping in Canada, but spurting all over the US.